The Federal Trade Commission is asking Nvidia to submit more documents as part of its preparation for the competition investigation into the chipmaker’s $40 billion takeover of Arm. First reported by The Telegraph (paywall in place), the Federal Trade Commission, America’s competition watchdog, has sent out a so-called “second request” to Nvidia, asking the latter
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Alphabet’s Google this year moved to tighten control over its scientists’ papers by launching a “sensitive topics” review, and in at least three cases requested authors refrain from casting its technology in a negative light, according to internal communications and interviews with researchers involved in the work. Google’s new review procedure asks that researchers consult
Observers and practitioners take it on the chin to predict what the telecoms industry may look like in the coming year. A piece of witticism goes something like this: It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. There are slightly different ways to put across the idea, which has been variably attributed to
Italy’s antitrust authorities are keen to ensure that the planned creation of a new wholesale fibre network won’t harm competition. To that end, the Competition and Market Guarantor Authority (AGCM) has launched an investigation into all those entities currently involved in the FiberCop joint venture, including Telecom Italia, Fastweb, Tiscali and KKR. The EU has
Vi (Vodafone Idea) is the third largest operator in India with a nationwide presence. Vi offers cellular network services in 2G, 3G, and 4G VoLTE. The operator also provides value-added services including a weekend data rollover offer to let customers carry forward their unused data to the weekend. Similarly, there is a range of prepaid
SMIC has been formally added to the Entity List by the US Commerce Department, hitting the Chinese chipmaker’s access to American technology and equipment. The Commerce Department announced that it had added 77 new names to the Entity List. Sixty-one of the new additions were from China, the rest from Bulgaria, France, Germany, Hong Kong,
Satellite broadband services took a step forward in recent days with Germany handing over frequencies to SpaceX and rival player OneWeb launching three dozen new satellites. German telecoms regulator the Bundesnetzagentur on Friday announced it has issued spectrum usage rights to SpaceX for its Starlink satellite system. The Elon Musk-owned company plans to provide satellite
Xiaomi has been in the television game in India for nearly three years now, and it’s been quite a ride. The company’s focus on affordability, with a range of competitively priced entry-level smart LED TVs has led to rapid growth, and according to Xiaomi itself, it has become the number one smart TV brand in
The European Commission has approved Google’s plan to acquire Fitbit after deeming the search giant’s commitments have satisfied competition and consumer protection requirements. In November 2019 Google announced that it intended to buy Fitbit, the San Francisco-based health and wearable company, for $2.1 billion. The deal needs to be approved by a number of regulators
Italy has taken another step towards realising its dream of having a single, nationwide fibre network. Utility giant Enel late on Thursday gave the go-ahead to sell up to its entire 50 percent stake in FTTP unit Open Fiber to Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA) for €2.65 billion. Enel is prepared to part with
Instagram appears to be down for many users around the world. The issue appears to be unevenly distributed, with it working for some users, and not for others. The week of downtime continues with one more high-profile outage, with Instagram users turning to Twitter and other social platforms to complain about outages. The hashtag #Instagramdown
BT’s infrastructure unit Openreach will recruit thousands of engineers next year as it ramps up its full fibre rollout. It has also revealed that it intends to replace its entire vehicle fleet with electric vehicles (EVs) by 2030. Under its current plan, the UK incumbent aims to connect 20 million homes and businesses to its
The two tech giants are collaborating to develop new edge computing, cloud, and private 5G solutions targeted at the enterprise market. Samsung and IBM announced that they have entered a new collaboration to explore opportunities to supply business customers with a range of offerings riding on the technology advancement in 5G, edge computing, as well
Apple supplier Wistron’s factory in Karnataka’s Kolar district, about 50 km from Bengaluru, could not cope up with the rapid scaling up of manpower and breached several laws, a government inspection has revealed following violence at the site last weekend. Several thousand contract workers at Wistron angered over alleged non-payment of wages destroyed property, factory
Singapore is closer to getting proper, next stage 5G services after Singtel picked Ericsson for its standalone 5G deployment. Under the deal, Ericsson will supply the telco with RAN products and a dual-mode 5G core network. The network will run on Singtel’s 3.5-GHz and 28-GHz networks, which provide coverage both indoors and outdoors. Singtel is
Russian intelligence service is suspected to be behind a sustained cyber campaign against multiple U.S. government agencies by compromising a piece of software from SolarWinds. SolarWinds, the Texas-based, NYSE-listed company that provides the widely used network monitoring software Orion Platform, filed a Form 8-K at the SEC, admitting that “a cyberattack that inserted a vulnerability
Samsung Galaxy S20 FE smartphones have started receiving the Android 11-based One UI 3.0 update, as per a report. The update reportedly brings with it a tweaked UI design, along with other One UI 3.0 features and the December 2020 Android security patch. The One UI 3.0 update is currently rolling out to the Galaxy
TalkTalk has agreed to a £1.1 billion takeover bid from a pair of investment firms that will see it delisted from the stock exchange. The announcement comes two months after the UK broadband provider first disclosed an approach from hedge fund Toscafund Asset Management, already its second-largest shareholder, and alongside the publication of its half-yearly