Huawei has partnered with not only Malaysia’s Maxis Bhd, the country’s second largest mobile network operator by subscriber, but has also signed preliminary 5G agreements with Maxis rivals such as Axiata Group Bhd’s Celcom, as an added pressure. In a significant development, Malaysia’s Maxis Bhd stated, it has signed an agreement with China’s Huawei Technologies…
In recent years, Huawei has shot up surprising fast into the global smartphone business. A U.S. ban citing theft of intellectual property and being a threat to U.S. national security has however crippled its sales outside China. On September 18 Huawei Technologies plans to launch its new Mate 30 line of smartphones in Munich, said…
Tech companies are coming under increasing scrutiny over data privacy issues revolving around their voice assistants. According to a report from Bloomberg which cites sources familiar with the matter at hand, Facebook Inc has been paying outside contractors to transcribe audio clips from subscribers of its services. In a statement, Facebook confirmed that it had…
Last week, before going on a shooting spree which ended in the death of 51 people, the shooter, later identified as Patrick Crusius, had posted a four-page message on the forum terming the would be attack “a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas”. On Monday, Cloudflare, a U.S. cyber security firm stated it will…
The agreement potentially also includes tweaking game titles for U.S. laptops powered by Qualcomm’s processors which will connect to the internet vide 5G rather than use Wi-Fi. Qualcomm Inc, the largest supplier of mobile phone chips stated, it will collaborate with China’s Tencent Holdings Ltd on projects that could include making Tencent’s video games run…
The results of the tender will be declared by the end of this year with a launch in 2020 continuing through 2023. Israel has launched a tender for 5G cellular services in the country. Israel is expecting three groups to bid for 5G cellular frequencies, in a bidding that is expected to be fierce, the…
IBM has proposed changes to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA 230). If its proposals are incorporated into law, they will materially impact social media companies including Facebook, Facebook’s WhatsApp and Instagram as well as Alphabet Inc’s YouTube, to name a few. In a significant development, International Business Machines (IBM) Corp has proposed…
The development is significant since it marks an acceleration in the banding of automakers in an industry which is placing growing emphasis on offering vehicle services rather than selling cars to individual drivers. On Friday, five Japanese automakers including Mazda Motor Corp and Suzuki Motor Corp, stated they would be investing 2% of their revenues…
SoftBank’s service will power a range of machineries including autonomous farm equipment to buses and drones. In a statement, Japan’s SoftBank Corp stated it will be launching a service in 2019 that will use satellite navigation data and the telco’s mobile base stations to help power self-driving buses, drones and farm machinery. SoftBank’s service will…
Amazon is embracing this new model based on the feedback from earlier trials which showed that adding Counter to a store’s retail offer helped to increase customer footfall. In a strategic move, Amazon has entered into a collaboration with British clothing chain Next in order to tap its network of stores from which Amazon’s UK…
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