Tech

As antagonism between China and the West becomes entrenched, Foxconn and Pegatron are apparently thinking of opening branches in Mexico. The rumour comes courtesy of Reuters, which has been chatting to insiders at the Taiwanese firms. Between them they account for a lot of the manufacturing outsourced by big tech firms, including Apple, and have

Facebook hopes to benefit from the COVID-fuelled growth in home working by adding several major collaboration apps to its Portal video-calling service. From September, housebound middle-managers and their lucky subordinates will be able to use Portal to arrange virtual get-togethers over BlueJeans, GoToMeeting, Webex or Zoom. They can of course also use Facebook’s own collaboration

Vivo Y20 and Vivo Y20i alleged specifications have leaked through marketing material, shared by a known tipster on Twitter. The two phones seem to be powered by the Snapdragon 460 SoC and carry mostly the same specifications, except for the RAM, colour options, and charging speed. Recently, a Vivo phone with model number V2027 was

A partnership autonomous vehicle maker Aurrigo will see Vodafone help golfers get around at the Wales Open without having to interact with potentially pestilent drivers. This will apparently be the first major sporting event to use driverless technology and Vodafone is doing its best to derive some social distancing virtue from the move. It will

CityFibre has revealed that Swindon and Slough will be the next stops on its full-fibre rollout. The network provider, which is on a mission to offer a credible alternative to Openreach in major metros, will spend £40 million deploying a wholesale fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) network to nearly every home and business in Swindon, and £24 million

Bharti Airtel has expanded Disney+ Hotstar VIP subscription for its users by bringing the benefit to the Rs. 448, Rs. 499, Rs. 599, and the Rs. 2,698 prepaid recharge plans. As a result of the new update, Airtel customers recharging with any of the four prepaid plans get one year of free Disney+ Hotstar VIP

UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has published its latest numbers on which providers have been moaned about most and EE put in a solid performance. The data is subdivided into mobile, broadband and landline. It’s not clear how many people still use landlines, let alone care about the service enough to complain when it falls short

IoT asset tracking device shipments are expected to surge 51 percent year-on-year through to 2024. This is according to ABI Research, which asserts that expanding LPWAN coverage and technological maturity are lowering the barriers to adoption for smaller companies, and growing the volume and variety of stuff that can be tracked. “Hardware devices for the

Google Pixel 5 has already been confirmed to launch in the autumn alongside the Pixel 4a 5G model. In the Pixel 4a launch blog post, the tech giant had shared a slight glimpse of the side of the phone, showing off the edges and the button placement, but apart from this, nothing else is known

The Italian government wants TIM to get involved in a national broadband monopoly but not control it. Tim’s not so keen. This saga has been going on for a while, pushed by an Italian government that owns broadband provider Open Fiber and apparently doesn’t like ISPs having the option of using a network it doesn’t

Verizon has partnered with game-streaming behemoth Twitch to see whether 5G can unlock any new and compelling experiences for those who like to watch competitive videogaming. The US telco is now the official 5G and 4G LTE network partner of Twitch Rivals North America, an esports tournament for, you guessed it, Twitch streamers. Normally when

Realme has announced the onset of its Realme Youth Days sale starting August 24 i.e., next week. The sale will be held for five days and will end on August 28. The company says there will be up to 60 percent off on smartphones, earphones, and wearables. The sale will see flash deals at 12

Concerns about a ‘new normal’ in working out from home are abating as people around the world start to realise it’s OK to sit around again. According to new data from app marketing platform Adjust, the start of the coronavirus lockdown prompted an alarming spike in downloads of health and fitness apps. Even more concerning

In apparent response to the latest escalation of measures against Huawei by the US, a Chinese government spokesperson has accused the US of hypocrisy. The comments come courtesy of Chinese government spokesperson Zhao Lijian, who had translated excepts of a recent speech he made posted on Twitter. The comments seems to have been in response

Samsung has promised three generations of Android OS updates for close to 40 devices in its portfolio. Earlier, Samsung had confirmed only Galaxy S and Galaxy Note devices as eligible for this new policy, but has now shared an extensive list of phones eligible for the updates. Besides the devices on the list, this policy

Taiwanese chip-maker MediaTek has claimed a world first by connecting an NB-IoT device with an Inmarsat satellite 35,000 kilometres above the earth. The press release frames this as a 5G technology, but NB-IoT was around a long time before 5G came along. Nonetheless the result of this field trial will be contributed to the 3GPP’s

Consumers in major global media markets are willing to subscribe to between two and four additional video streaming services, which translates to a possible 3 billion more SVoD contracts. That’s good news for SVoD providers, for whom competition is intense as consumers choose which content matters to them most, and potentially bad news for pay-TV

Canada has released as much information as it legally can about the arrest of Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou, the government’s lawyers said on Monday, as she sought more confidential documents relating to her 2018 detention. Meng, 48, was arrested in December 2018 at Vancouver International Airport on a US warrant charging her with bank