Huawei, despite “malicious incidents” from US the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Japan who raised security concerns about supplier, has posted 21 per cent increase in revenues to $109bn for 2018. Guo Ping, Huawei’s current rotating Chairman said the Chinese telecoms equipment maker had secured 26 5G contracts this year said ” We must not…
“Flash sales” publicising Xiaomi, the Chinese smartphone company’s UK launch have sparked a backlash on social media. Xiaomi advertised two of its new handsets for £1 each last week as part of a “ crazy deals” promotion and after two or three Mi 8 Lite phone sales the website said “ Sold Out”, as soon…
Millions of older iPhones and iPads are at risk from a serious flaw which allows Wi-Fi attackers to send a “ping of death” to remotely paralyse machines, according to a security researcher. The attack only works when the hacker is on the same Wi-Fi network as a victim – so users are warned to avoid…
Apple has been granted a second patent for its fold-able design for the iPhone, with screen folded inside it and another where the display wraps around the outside of the device like a book and double-hinged design which can carry both. Apple received its first patent back in 2016 for a fold-able phone. The…
Regulator Ofcom said “an auction of frequencies, for the next generation of mobile phone networks has raised £1.36bn with Vodafone, EE, O2 and Three all winning the bandwidth needed for the future 5G mobile internet services and faster connections which is expected to be launched in 2020. Ofcom auctioned two spectrum bands 3.4 GHz, which…
Qualcomm reveals world’s first millimeter Wave antenna and for 5G and sun-6Ghz smartphones. Qualcomm is debuting two critically important new “modem-to-antenna” components the world’s first fully integrated mobile device-ready 5G millimeter wave (mmWave) antenna modules and sub-6 GHz RF modules. These parts will enable even smartphones to connect to upcoming 5GmmWave networks, an…
According to Catherine Price, a science journalist and author and her essays have appeared in The Best American Science Writing, The New York Times and Popular Science, we have fallen headlong into our relationship with phones without taking time to think about our behaviour. So before doing ourselves more damage, we should follow a 30-day…
Vodafone, one of the world’s largest mobile operators, is in talks to buy large parts of John Malone’s European cable group Liberty Global in a €14bn £12.32bn deal. Billionaire “cable Cowboy” Mr. John Carl Malone, during the past two decades, snapped up cable assets across the region. Vodafone shares, rise as much as 4.4…
Smartphone shipments in India crossed over 40 million for the first time in Q3 2017, a 23 per cent annual growth, compared to China’s shipment of 110 million per quarter. India has overtaken US on sales with only China ahead of it. India’s population is 1.3 billion while the US is 320 million. Earlier this year,…
The Pew Research Center released its annual State of the News Media reports dominated by Facebook, Snapchat and other social platforms by way of conversations around journalism over the past year, and examines these trends and shows that digital technology continues to upend the news industry. Half of all American adults now get news from…