The Vsmart phones will be made at a factory in Vietnam’s capital, Hanoi, and will be sold in the EU and European markets from April 2020. On Friday, Vietnam’s biggest-listed firm by market value, Vingroup JSC stated it had signed a deal with Qualcomm and with a unit of Japan’s Fujitsu Ltd, to produce 5G…
Medtronic’s is not aware of any confirmed reports of patients coming to harm because of the cybersecurity risks. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned, certain insulin pumps made by Medtronic Plc, are being recalled due to their potential risk of being hacked. The FDA said, as of now, they are not aware…
Elon Musk, SpaceX’s CEO, described the launch as one of the most challenging in the company’s history. On Tuesday, in a significant development which Elon Musk described as one of the most difficult in the company’s history, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket lifted-off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying 24 experimental satellites. The text-book…
The effort by Futurewei Technologies Inc appears to be aimed at obfuscating its link with its Chinese parent Huawei Technologies Co Ltd. It continues to be owned and funded by its Chinese parent. According to two sources familiar with the matter at hand, the U.S.-based research arm of China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, Futurewei Technologies…
The Trump administration is exploring rules that will require all 5G cellular equipment destined for the United States to be designed and manufactured outside of China. According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, U.S. President Donald Trump is looking to require next-generation 5G cellular equipment used in the United States to be designed…
Senator Marco Rubio files legislation which prevents certain companies from seeking damages in U.S. patent courts. In a significant development, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio has filed legislation aimed at preventing Huawei Technologies Co Ltd from seeking damages in U.S. patent courts. The move comes after the Chinese company demanded that Verizon Communications Inc pay $1…
The new wave of tariffs which could go into effect from August 1, is likely to cover consumer electronics, including smartphones and tablets. With U.S. President Donald Trump deliberating whether to make good on his threat to impose tariffs on the remaining un-tariffed Chinese exports to the United States, Trump met Apple’s CEO Tim Cook…
While market share and profits are key factors in growth, maintaining business relations with the U.S. ie equally if not more important. In a significant development, the world’s third biggest supplier of semiconductor manufacturing equipment, Japan’s Tokyo Electron, stated it will stop supplying its Chinese clients that have been blacklisted by Washington. China is locked…
Clearly U.S. sanctions against the company are having their intended effect. On Tuesday, Huawei Technologies Co Ltd stated its goal of becoming the world’s biggest smartphone maker by the end of 2019’s fourth quarter will take some more time to achieve. “We would have become the largest in the fourth quarter (of this year) but…
Given that 5G is a core technology which will lay the foundation for a smarter, more advanced economy, the costs in delaying the rollout of a Chinese 5G is cheap in comparison to the absolute loss of privacy, freedom and freewill to a totalitarian regime. According to sources familiar with the matter at hand, many…
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