Apple has reportedly hit a snag in their plans to use their in-house 5G modem chips for future iPhone models. Originally, the company would have used their own chip in the iPhone 15 series, however now it looks like they will continue to use Qualcomm’s 5G modem chips for one more year.
Back in May 2019, the US Government blacklisted HUAWEI from doing business with US Technology companies, including Google. The Silicon Valley giant also suspended its business operations with HUAWEI which included a ban on using Google Services and Play Store, and those that required the transfer of hardware products, software products, and technical services. This … Continue reading “HONOR 50 Review — A solid comeback”
HUAWEI today announced HarmonyOS 2.0 at its event earlier today bringing the company’s own OS to smartphones, tablets and smartwatch after the beta release last year, and this is reportedly a forked Android, but HUAWEI says that it is based on open source project OpenHarmony 2.0. It has a tag line “One As All, All … Continue reading “HarmonyOS arrives for smartphones — New features and list of devices that will get the update”
The battle between social media giants and the Government of India is heating up significantly, with the latest one being about the new IT rules. Twitter has come out with a statement alleging that the Government’s new rules infringes on the rights to freedom of speech, with dangerous levels of overreach. In response, Government of … Continue reading “Twitter claims Free Speech in India is threatened; Government strikes back with claims that Twitter seeks to undermine India’s legal system”
During their 2021 Analyst Day presentation, the developers of Twitter revealed that they are working on a new feature for the platform called Safety Mode. There aren’t a lot of details about the feature but from the presentation, it can be inferred that this mode is designed to detect and remove abusive tweets.
Facebook has introduced a new tool called the Rights Manager for content creators on Facebook and Instagram and Facebook. With it, creators on either platform have access to admin and workflow tools to manage and protect their own content.
Micromax today unveiled its new sub brand — ‘in’ and announced its comeback in the smartphone segment. This comes after the PLI approvals sanctioned by the Government of India, moving a step closer to realising the vision of Atmanirbhar Bharat, said the company.
Seeing Chinese knock-offs of many popular products is very common these days. However, seeing an exact copy of an AAA-video game title like Ubisoft’s popular game “Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege” is rare and that is exactly what developers at Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd.’s Ejoy.com have created, called “Area F2”. For obvious reasons, Ubisoft has … Continue reading “Ubisoft sues Google and Apple over Rainbow 6:Siege clone”
Apple has agreed to settle a $18 million lawsuit that was filed over 3 years ago over its handling of FaceTime with users having an iPhone 4 or an iPhone 4s. The claimants argued that the company had disabled FaceTime in the older iPhone models as a cost saving measure in 2014.
LG has filed lawsuits against Chinese handset manufacturer TCL in Germany for infringing its LTE technology patents. Three lawsuits include, minimizing the loss of packet transmission, control timers for uplink synchronization and interference reduction in the uplink synchronizing process. The suits against TCL were filed only after numerous attempts were made by LG to remedy … Continue reading “LG sues TCL over LTE patents in Germany”
Earlier this week, Telecare Network filed a complaint at the Delhi High Court against ASUS for infringing on an existing trademark for the word Zen. Following the complaint, today, ASUS issued an official response regarding the recent High Court verdict.
After two-year long battle, Qualcomm and Apple in a surprise move have announced an agreement to dismiss all litigation between the two companies worldwide. Qualcomm also said that worldwide litigation will be dismissed and withdrawn, including claims involving Apple’s contract manufacturers. The settlement includes a one-time payment from Apple to Qualcomm, but the amount was … Continue reading “Qualcomm and Apple settle all worldwide litigation, sign multi-year chipset supply agreement”
CNIL has issued a penalty of $57 million against Google for violating Europe’s strict new data privacy laws. The agency accuses Google of not fully disclosing to users how their personal data is collected nor how the data is eventually used. It further accuses Google of not properly obtaining user consent for showing them personalized ads.
Qualcomm has announced that the District Court of Munich found that Apple is infringing Qualcomm’s intellectual property for power savings in smartphones and granted Qualcomm’s request for a permanent injunction, ordering Apple to cease the sale, offer for sale and importation for sale in Germany.
Apple today has released the iOS 12.1.2 update two weeks after pushing out the 12.1.1 update and one week after Apple seeded the first iOS 12.1.2 beta to developers. Unlike the previous update, the iOS 12.1.2 is only available to iPhones and not iPads.
