Lee Bell
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Huawei P40 Pro Plus review: Possibly the world’s best smartphone...with a catch
By Lee Bell last updated
Reviews The Chinese phone maker delivers its best handset yet, but is it worth it for the lack of Google services?

Oppo Find X3 Pro review: An exceptional device
By Lee Bell published
Reviews The Chinese phone maker strikes again with its best flagship yet

UK startups fly to Australia to boost trade links
By Lee Bell published
News Innovate UK's tech delegation identifies three key smart city obstacles Australia and the UK share

Kaspersky: North Korea framed for Winter Olympics malware
By Dale Walker, Lee Bell published
News Source code analysis reveals similar tactics used by Russian-speaking Sofacy group

Former YouTube employee sues Google
By Lee Bell published
News Arne Wilberg was allegedly fired for pushing back against Google in its diverse workforce hiring practices in 2017

Dropbox teams with Google Cloud to integrate G-Suite
By Lee Bell published
News Will connect Dropbox and G Suite cloud productivity tools over Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Hangouts

Microsoft still won’t hand over private email data to the US
By Lee Bell published
News Redmond stands its ground in a court case with the US government that has been going on since 2013

Researchers find bug enabling hackers bypass login
By Lee Bell published
News Found by Duo security in a third-party library in its own authentication gateway

Security expert dismisses RedDrop Android malware
By Lee Bell published
News Researchers claim it extracts a 'devastating' amount of data, but victims would need to grant many permissions to let it

Colt: Vendors have a moral duty to run green data centres
By Lee Bell published
News Nine of Colt's 17 European facilities now run on 100% renewable energy

Microsoft adds Mac and Linux support to quantum kit
By Clare Hopping, Lee Bell published
News Slew of updates include additional open source libraries and interoperability with Python

Apple battery slowdown lawsuits to be heard in one court cas
By Lee Bell, IT Pro published
News Dozens of cases to be heard at once during a hearing scheduled for next month

Apple confirms iCloud is now a customer of Google Cloud
By Lee Bell published
News Apple's iCloud security guide suggests GCP replaced Microsoft Azure

Intel didn’t warn US-CERT of Meltdown and Spectre
By Lee Bell published
News Letters to lawmakers say Intel took six months to tell the US government about the exploits

Samsung breaks ground in extreme ultraviolet processor tech
By Lee Bell published
News Believes it will help it aid in its focus in state-of-the-art semiconductors

HPE revenues rise fulled by server and network sales
By Lee Bell published
News Revenues surged to $7.67 billion, well above the $7.07 billion expected

Intel will launch 5G-powered laptops in 2019
By Lee Bell published
News The chip maker is working with some of the industry’s biggest tech brands, such as Dell, HP, Lenovo and Microsoft

Cyber crooks are using SWIFT to launch new attacks
By Lee Bell published
News Disguised malware is entering multiple enterprises’ networks via email phishing campaigns

WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton is pouring $50m into Signal
By Lee Bell published
News The move will also see him serve as executive chairman of the firm’s new Signal Foundation

Qualcomm unveils VR reference design based on Snapdragon 845
By Lee Bell published
News Will use the firm’s latest mobile chip to power new features like foveated rendering and room-scale tracking

A quarter of UK councils 'have been hacked'
By Lee Bell published
News Local authorities experience 19 million cyber attacks every year, finds report

Google’s Project Zero team discloses Edge browser bug
By Lee Bell published
News Microsoft didn't make the 90-day patch window, so Project Zero shared details with the world

25% of customer service operations will use chatbots by 2020
By Lee Bell published
News Growth in virtual customer assistants will rocket after low adoption in 2017, research firm predicts
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