After a lengthy court battle that lasted nearly 4 years, a US appeals court this week finally ruled in favour of Qualcomm against the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over a case of unfair patent licensing practices. As a result, Qualcomm would no longer be forced to renegotiate their old deals with customers.
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Apple is reportedly working on launching a series of bundles that combine their various digital services, so that customers will have a lower monthly price. These bundles may launch in October and will help Apple generate more recurring revenue as they incentivise more customers to use multiple services like Apple Music, Apple TV, Apple Arcade and more.
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Google has finally announced a new version of WearOS that is based on Android 11, upgrading from the current version that is based on Android 9. With it, Google is bringing multiple improvements focused around performance and power along with simplified pairing and support for Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon Wear 4100 and 4100+ platforms.
Epic Games’ Battle Royale game Fortnite has been removed from both the App Store and the Play Store over issues that both Google and Apple claim to violate their Store policies. The violation was caused due to a new payment solution introduced by Fortnite called Epic Direct Payment, and now Epic Games is suing Apple and Google for anti-competitive restrictions in their app marketplace.
Lenovo has announced the launch of their new Yoga Slim 7i laptop in India. It features Intel’s newest 10th Gen mobile processors that’s based on the 10nm process, up to an NVIDIA GeForce MX350 GPU, long battery life, support for Windows Hello facial recognition, and more.
Paytm Money, a subsidiary of One97 Communications, is expanding their online investment & wealth management platform with the launch of Stock Trading. The service is currently tested with Cash (free) and intraday trading (as low as Rs.10) introduced in beta mode, with more options expected to be added later.
It looks like ByteDance is talks with a lot of companies these days, trying to sell their popular TikTok app before it gets completely banned from major markets. Earlier this month, Microsoft was reportedly in talks with ByteDance to purchase TikTok’s global operations, and now, Reliance is also in talks to invest in TikTok’s India operations.
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About a month ago, Apple released iOS 13.6 which brought multiple updates like support for Digital car keys and added features in the Apple News app. Now, Apple is rolling out a minor update to iOS and iPadOS, bringing the version count to 13.6.1. The update primarily contains fixes relating to low storage issues, green tint issues with screen mainly faced by iPhone 11 and more.
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Over the past few months, Google has been working towards adding features to their video conferencing tool, Meet, and their education tool, Classroom. Today they announced a lot of new updates coming to these two platforms that is releasing over the next few months including Attendance tracking, improved plagiarism check, better controls for moderators and more.
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Daiwa, an Indian consumer electronics brand, has announced the launch of two new smart TVs for the Indian market – a 49-inch D50BT162 and a 55-inch D55BT162. These 4K TVs feature the BIGWALL UI powered by Android 9.0, HDR10 support, dbx-tv audio support and more.
HDM Global, the makers of Nokia smartphones, has announced that they have secured $230 million (Rs. 1715 crore approx.) in a funding round from their global partners including Google, Qualcomm and Nokia Technologies. This marks one of the largest funding raised by HMD Global in Europe in 2020 and it will be used towards realising HMD Global’s vision in smartphone space.
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The Lookout app for Android is an app developed by Google that uses computer vision to help blind or low-vision people get information about their surroundings. Google has announced a new update to the app, adding two new modes, improved app navigation for better accessibility and also expanded the list of compatible devices.
OnePlus has announced that the Android 11 Developer Preview 3 is now available for download on the OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro. Along with the regular bug fixes and updates, users who install the new Developer Preview 3 can get an early look OnePlus design refresh and features that’s coming in OxygenOS 11.
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Dell has launched a new 14-inch premium ChromeOS powered laptop that is aimed at businesses and enterprises, called the Latitude 7410 Chromebook Enterprise. It features up to a 4K panel with Low Blue Light display technology, up to 10th Gen Intel Core i7 processors, Wi-Fi 6 support, long battery life and more.
With Google’s Knowledge Graph and Google Search cards, it is quite easy to find information about famous individuals. However, that is not the case with less famous people and to change that Google has created the ability for people to individually create their online presence with their own virtual visiting card, called People Cards.
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