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In the middle of the ‘Russiagate’ debacle, the Trump administration reportedly forced Apple to provide data from the accounts of Democrat politicians. According to the New York Times, in 2017 ‘prosecutors subpoenaed Apple for data from the accounts of at least two Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, aides and family members. One was a

It has been reported that French telecoms conglomerate Altice wants to raise a few euros by selling what’s left of the Portuguese business it acquired in 2014. The goss comes courtesy of Reuters, whose moles presumably combined their investigations with an early summer holiday. In between Pastéis de Nata washed down with chilled port, they

A South Korean industrial designer has come up with a satirical solution for “smartphone zombies” who can’t take their eyes away from their screen long enough to stop themselves walking into a wall or other obstacle. Paeng Min-wook, 28, has developed a robotic eyeball he has dubbed “The Third Eye”, which obsessive mobile phone users

The beginning of summer brings with it the start of a major international football tournament and that can mean only one thing: a telco-backed survey on the TV viewing habits of UK fans. This year it was the turn of MVNO Sky Mobile, which published the results of some fairly straightforward research carried out earlier

AT&T has completed a call on its recently acquired C-band spectrum, a further sign of the intense competition between the US telcos as they push on with 5G rollout. The news came from Nokia, which which is supplying radio equipment for AT&T’s 5G rollout over C-band. In fact, the companies passed this particular milestone a

Internal company data leaked during a February security breach is now being circulated on the Internet, Polish video games maker CD Projekt said in a statement published on Thursday. The attack, which compromised some of its internal systems including the source code to its much-hyped game Cyberpunk 2077, dealt another blow to the Warsaw-based business

UK communications regulator Ofcom has moved to beef up its digital economy expertise with the appointment of Amazon veteran Sachin Jogia as Chief Technology Officer. Jogia has spent the past nine years at Amazon, where he’s currently General Manager for Alexa Smart Home International. That means he should be clued up on the broader role

The collective 6G efforts of Finland and Japan have vowed to help each other out in a bid to move the nascent standard along. You can tell they’re serious because they signed one of those memoranda of understanding, so there’s no turning back now. They published it at the Nikkei Global Digital Summit, which noted

Pan-Arab satellite network Al Jazeera said it was subjected to continual hacking attempts over recent days but the cyber attack on Qatar’s flagship broadcaster had been fended off. Al Jazeera’s websites and platforms experienced “continued electronic attacks aimed at accessing, disrupting and controlling some of the news platforms” from last Saturday to Tuesday, the network

UK adults spent as much as an hour longer per day online than our peers in other major European markets in 2020, according to the latest research from Ofcom. Given that information, one cannot help but wonder what we were doing for that extra time…or rather, what our European neighbours were up to offline that

Millimetre wave might not be so rubbish after all, with a group of intrepid telecoms boffins managing to set a new range record. Using UScellular’s network, Nokia supplied the 5G base station kit and Qualcomm the 5G CPE. For the time being at least, this sort of thing is being described as ‘extended-range mmWave’, but

Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S was launched in November last year and the new console comes with a new controller as well. The Xbox Series S/ X controller not only works with the current generation of Microsoft consoles, but also with the previous generation, among other devices. The new controller is more of

TIM is pushing further into the OpenRAN arena, this time with the launch of a new R&D centre in Turin. More specifically, the Italian incumbent has opened an OTIC – or Open Test and Integration Centre – Lab, which it will use to test new solutions and, it claims, accelerate the deployment of OpenRAN technology

News of new asset sales from Telefonica seems to break pretty regularly and this week is no exception. On Tuesday Swedish audio and e-book subscription service Nextory announced that it has acquired Spanish e-book service Nubico, which – prior to the takeover – was a 50:50 joint venture between Telefonica Espana and media outfit Grupo

WWDC 2021 is kicking off later today, June 7. Just like last year, this year’s edition of Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference will be held virtually — owing to the coronavirus pandemic. The Cupertino, California-based giant showcases its new software developments at this developer-focussed event. The same trend is expected continued this time with new versions

UK operator group Vodafone won’t be running a physical stand at Mobile World congress later this month but hopes people will visit its virtual one. Spanish media reported the matter as if it was something new, however we understand the GSMA, which runs MWC, has been aware of Vodafone’s position for some time. The reason,

UK operator group BT has apparently just realised there are a lot of very small businesses in the UK and has created a new business unit on the back of that revelation. The approved abbreviation for that market is SoHo, which stands for ‘small office, home office’ and seems to cover companies with a headcount

WhatsApp is reportedly developing a Flash Call feature that helps users to log into their accounts quickly. When a user tries to log in to WhatsApp, a 6-digit code is sent on their phone for verification. A new alternate method is reportedly being developed, wherein WhatsApp will make a flash call to the user for