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Security flaws in Huawei equipment found by Vodafone resolved
Telecoms group Vodafone found security flaws in Huawei equipment supplied to its Italian business in 2011/12, but both incidents had been resolved quickly. Read more…
Month: April 2019
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6G will be all about collaborative AI, probably
Researchers in Germany believe that the big advancement in 6G won’t just be faster speeds – it could also be collaborative AI capabilities. Read more…
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Time for a retail purge – be reborn or be dead!
We have talked about digitization for decades but only now do we witness a real purge of retail brick and mortar stores with many closing around the world. Read more…
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Malware detections in APAC on the rise – report
In the first quarter of 2019, the APAC region has seen business malware detections on the rise, a trend that is observed globally – Malwarebytes report. Read more…
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ZTE profit rebounds after US sanctions lifted
China’s ZTE Corp reported a first-quarter profit of 862.6 million yuan ($128.2 million), as it recovered from last year’s US sanctions. Read more…
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Alibaba to settle US lawsuit over ability to stop counterfeiting
Alibaba Group said it will pay $250 million to settle a US lawsuit faulting it for concealing a regulatory warning about its ability to stop counterfeiting. Read more…
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Virtualization is moving to the edge for Red Hat and Cisco
Virtualization is moving to the edge and the Red Hat / Cisco partnership has its first full scale operator going with this model. Read more…
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Payments: would you pay for goods with your car, or fridge?
New payments technology is seeping into many aspects of our lives. NFC divided the payments debate ignoring the convenience and focusing on speed. Read more…
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RFCx using recycled phones to guard the rainforest
RFCx is working to help protect the rainforest by creating solar-powered audio monitoring systems using recycled Huawei phones as the heart of their system. Read more…
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Early performance of 5G is clearly inferior to 4G
Early performance of 5G is clearly inferior to 4G on speed, latency and jitter now Verizon has a nasty chicken and egg situation. Read more…
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Chinese brands dominate Indian smartphone market
Chinese brands control a record 66% of Indian smartphone market with volumes rising 20% on the back of popularity for brands like Vivo, RealMe and Oppo. Read more…
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US adds another Chinese e-commerce site to ‘notorious’ blacklist
US has added China’s third-largest e-commerce platform to its list of “notorious markets” for violations of intellectual property rights Read more…
Features
Friday Futures: UFO reporting, cooking with cannabis, DNA
This week: Navy guys to look for UFO craft; cooking with cannabis; rewriting DNA; table top nuclear fusion. Read more…
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Facebook gets called out at TED for breaking democracy
At TED 2019, journalist Carole Cadwalladr called out the heads of Facebook, Google and Twitter for breaking UK democracy. She got a standing ovation. Read more…
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Nokia shares drop on disappointing 5G equipment news
Finland’s Nokia plunged to a surprise quarterly loss after it failed to supply 5G telecoms equipment in time. Read more…
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Spotify loses one of India’s oldest record labels
Music streaming service Spotify Technology SA said it will remove all songs belonging to one of India’s oldest record labels Read more…
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Microsoft tops $1 trillion, looks to the cloud
Microsoft Corp on Wednesday briefly topped $1 trillion in value for the first time after executives predicted continued growth for its cloud Read more…
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LG Electronics to stop producing smartphones in South Korea
LG Electronics Inc said on Thursday it would stop producing smartphones in South Korea Read more…
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Nintendo dampens Switch enthusiasm in China
Japan’s Nintendo Co Ltd cautioned it will take time for the launch of its Switch console in China Read more…
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Can our security woes be solved by the healthcare industry?
Talking of security, which we were very recently, it is extraordinary how healthcare innovations are throwing off a very useful by-product. Read more…