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Past articles by Robbie:

China's Tencent to order ONE MILLION SERVERS as part of $70bn digital infrastructure splurge

Buying all the buzzwords: AI, 5G and Blockchain implementations promised → Read More

IBM Sametime could rise again as HCL makes shortlist for India's home-grown Zoom clone

A dozen daring firms will duke it out for the right to get India talking and take on the world! → Read More

Uber plans to ride out of stable Singapore and move APAC HQ to high-tension Hong Kong

Ride-sharing monster doesn't operate in current home, is illegal in special administrative region → Read More

Galaxy S20 security is already old-hat as Samsung launches new safety silicon

Passport-grade chippery to help mobile devices prove their identity → Read More

Alibaba to serve up Kentucky Fried smart speaker, with a $1.4bn side of e-commerce integration

Hey Tmall Genie, spike my cholesterol, then coalesce my web empire with voice commands → Read More

New Zealand releases Bluetooth-free COVID-19 tracing app

"Digital dairy" with QR-code check-ins for now, wireless-capable upgrade in the works → Read More

New Zealand releases Bluetooth-free COVID-19 tracing app

'Digital diary' with QR-code check-ins for now, wireless-capable upgrade in the works → Read More

Fancy watching 'Bake Off' together with mates and alone at the same time? The BBC's built a tool to do that

Media Player add-on lets you and your mates watch shows in sync → Read More

Alibaba's Jack Ma bails from SoftBank's board

Japanese Uber-investor refreshing board as Ma heads off to do good works → Read More

NASA launches guide to Lunar etiquette now that private operators will share the Moon with governments

Old treaties don't mention space mining and a new one could take forever the sign off. Enter the new 'Artemis Accords' → Read More

TSMC to build new 5nm chip factory in Arizona with US government backing

Ticks plenty of diplomatic and supply chain security boxes with build in State tipped to be less MAGA-happy in 2020 → Read More

Philippines government to its agencies: you're not seriously going to do post-pandemic online services with that old stuff, are you?

Mass upgrades all-but ordered at all levels of government, even at unis → Read More

Aussie money-manager MyBudget goes down for five days

Bills going unpaid by service that exists to pay bills → Read More

HPE loses second key exec in as many weeks

CTO Mark Potter to depart as re-shuffle connects boss Neri to product peeps → Read More

India releases data-use protocols for its contact-tracing app... after five weeks and 100 million downloads

Cart, meet horse, and you can both worry about 180-day data retention → Read More

South Korea announces tech New Deal to stoke post-corona economy

Robots! 5G! AI! Stimulus cash to float all the tech buzzwords → Read More

Samsung to launch debit card and financial-health-as-a-service service

There's revenue to be had with being a participant in the payments web, and the Apple experience to measure up against → Read More

Dad to kids: I've decided you don't get to take over the family business. Kids to Dad: Who wants to run Samsung anyway?

Lee Jae-yong ends dynastic control and will even let staff join a union → Read More

China successfully launches its biggest-ever space truck to fire up its space station ambitions

Capsule tested atop Long March 5B can also get China to the Moon → Read More

Pew pew WooHoo! Hong Kong re-opens video arcades

Other fun places also get to let people in again, just don't read the economic data before you go because that's no fun at all → Read More