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The government on Friday refuted a viral message claiming that the Ministry of Electronics & IT (Meity) had put restrictions on several “Chinese applications” in India. The message has been doing rounds of the Internet, claiming that the National Informatics Centre (NIC) that comes under the Meity, has asked Apple and Google to restrict Chinese-origin

Gadget giant Apple has caused a controversy by rejecting a premium email app unless it charges for subscriptions through the App Store, thus giving Apple a 30% piece of the action. The precise origins of this story are somewhat convoluted, so we direct you to Protocol and The Verge for comprehensive background. The long and

Brazilian converged telco Oi has said it will be moving forward with the sale of its mobile business unit, listening to offers which exceed 15 billion Brazilian Real ($2.8 billion). Although Brazil has traditionally been one of the potentially lucrative BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India and China), it is a very difficult market for the

Many government websites have this PDF file size restriction, that doesn’t allow you to upload a PDF with a file size more than a certain limit. That leaves a person with only one option, i.e. to compress the PDF and reduce its file size; but how do you do that? In this guide, we take

Nobody outside of the government and NHSX thought it was a good idea for the UK to develop its own contact tracing app when Google and Apple had already done the heavy lifting for them. It has been two months since bitter rivals Google and Apple announced an unprecedented collaboration in the name of beating

Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Boris Maurer, Communications & Media Industry Lead for Europe at Accenture, urges communications service providers to seize the smart home opportunity. Homes all over the world are becoming increasingly connected. Now you can turn off the

Jio Platforms will receive an investment of Rs. 11,367 crores from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund Public Investment Fund (PIF) for an equity stake of 2.32 percent, Reliance Industries announced on Thursday. With the latest investment, Jio Platform has raised a total of Rs. 1,15,693.95 crores in nine weeks. The recent investors include Facebook, Silver

Well that was quick. No sooner does Google censor the comments sections of two independent news sites than the US legislative machine moves to remove its own protections. Axios has been all over this, reporting that the US Justice Department is urging Congress to limit the legal protections enjoyed by online platforms. Its urgings didn’t

On June 16th, Light Reading organized a webinar endorsed by IPv6 Forum, ETSI and EANTC, on “IPv6 Enhanced Innovation: Embracing the IP Future in 5G & Cloud Era”. More than 200 experts from standards organization, operators, vendors, government, university and research institutions registered and attended the webinar. Speakers shared experience in deploying IPv6 in Europe,

iQoo 3 was launched in India in February with quad rear cameras and Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 SoC. A tipster is now claiming that the phone has sibling, namely iQoo 3 Pro that will likely come in three storage variants. The Pro variant of iQoo 3 will pack a larger 4,500mAh battery and 6.56-inch screen, the

Otherwise known as Margrethe Vestager, the European Commissioner for Competition has been making life uncomfortable for Silicon Valley residents, and now its Apple’s turn. As of June 16, Apple will find itself at the centre of two European Commission antitrust investigations. While the iGiant is no stranger to regulatory and legal scrutiny, these competition probes

Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 support pages recently went live online, hinting at the smartwatch’s launch soon. Previous reports have suggested that the smartwatch by the South Korean tech giant will have both LTE and non-LTE (Wi-Fi) variants. A report has now claimed that the Galaxy Watch 3 will also feature a heart rate monitor and

The GSMA, which runs the Mobile World Congress trade shows, has decided not to wait any longer to cancel its main Q4 event. MWC Los Angeles was scheduled to run 28-30 October, over four months away, but the mobile industry trade association that runs it has concluded the global environment still won’t support major events

Social media giant Facebook has made the first tentative steps towards the digital payment environment with its WhatsApp messaging platform in Brazil. When Facebook acquired WhatsApp in 2014 for a monstrous $19 billion eyebrows were certainly raised. Not only was this a contraction in the growing OTT segment, which some critics still question today, but

SoftBank Group-owned chip technology firm ARM said on Wednesday the chief executive officer of its China joint venture, Allen Wu, has stepped down and been replaced. ARM said ARM China’s board of directors has appointed Ken Phua and Phil Tang as ARM China’s interim co-CEOs to replace Wu, who headed the joint venture as chairman

New research from strategic communications consultancy Kekst CNC reveals that the UK is one of the countries with the fewest worries about the health implications of 5G. That comes as something of a surprise, given the vigour with which our nutters set about telecoms gear in April. But it looks like that spasm of vandalism

The 5G shakeup has already started in many markets. Service providers are actively considering how they can evolve from being primarily consumer – oriented providers of voice, text and data to become much more business – and enterprise-focussed, enabling a more diverse range of B2B2x services. This paper discusses network slicing, partner ecosystems, enterprise marketplaces

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