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Apple will start producing the ARM-based MacBook Air as early as the fourth quarter 2020 according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. He predicted that the Cupertino giant would be able to reduce the starting price of its next-generation MacBook Air model by leveraging its in-house silicon over an Intel processor. The company announced its switch

AWS has been banging on about SiteWise, a platform designed to help businesses collect and process IoT data, for a couple of years. Now companies everywhere have the opportunity to obsess over their every bit of kit, because AWS has polished its IoT managed service such that they think it’s ready for general consumption. As

Italian operator TIM has invited nearly everyone except Huawei do bid for work on its 5G core networks according to a report. Reuters has been chatting to those handy ‘people familiar with the matter’ and they say that TIM has excluded Huawei from bidding for 5G core network business at its operations in Italy and

Olympus has launched a software to turn the brand’s mirrorless cameras into webcams, for people who are working from home. The OM-D Webcam Beta software is free-to-use and works on only a select range of Olympus’ mirrorless models. The software doesn’t use the audio output from the camera itself, so the user can place the

The latest data from App Annie reveals some of the effects the coronavirus lockdown had on patterns of mobile app use. The headline stat shows global mobile app use, as measured by average time spent on them per month, increased 40% year-on-year in Q2 2020. As you can see from the chart below, this datapoint

What’s the only thing better than the Snapdragon 865 5G Mobile Platform? The Snapdragon 865 5G Plus Mobile Platform, of course. A mere eight months after launching the Snapdragon 865, which was positioned as the ultimate answer to all your 2020 5G smartphone needs, Qualcomm has only gone and made an even better one. As

Microsoft has reportedly asked all game developers not to charge players when they upgrade a title from its Xbox One version to Xbox Series X. Studios are asked to offer all next-gen upgrades for free, either as part of their Smart Delivery scheme, or through any of their own policies. Through Smart Delivery, Xbox players

With Huawei’s fate looking increasingly fragile as the US attempts to chop and chip at its supply chain, the vendor has stated it has the stockpile and capacity to meet all existing commercial contracts. The US has attempted to inhibit Huawei’s ability to source key components for telecoms and consumer products, and it does appear

The on-going tension between the US and China is having a material impact on the telecoms industry, though the next stage of the battle plan might be to inhibit the Chinese app economy. The importance of the developing App Economy should not be understated. Some in society might undervalue how much influence apps are having

Pokémon Go, the uber-popular augmented reality mobile game from Niantic, has grossed a lifetime collection of $3.6 billion (roughly Rs. 26,940.7 crores) since its launch on July 6, 2016, according to mobile intelligence firm Sensor Tower. The game pushes players to go out and look for virtual Pokémons in their surrounding locales. However, during the

Versatile Video Coding (VVC) could revolutionise the video streaming and telecoms industry by massively reducing the file size of encoded video. Once more we have German firm Fraunhofer to thank for this cleverness, which is the successor to its High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard. According to the Fraunhofer announcement VVC reduces data requirements by

WhatsApp and Telegram are reportedly refusing any requests for user data from the Hong Kong authorities because they can’t be confident they won’t be misused. Now that China has passed a law allowing it to impose the same level of Orwellian supervision over HK as they do the rest of the country, there’s every reason

TikTok and 58 other apps were banned by the government and at the time of writing, Tiktok is also no longer available on app stores in India. The app is still accessible for people who have it installed but this could also change. In case you’re worried about losing all the videos you uploaded, there

The UK’s Business Secretary Alok Sharma has confirmed a Government lifeline of $500 million for OneWeb, the ambitious satellite firm which recently filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. Alongside Bharti Global, the UK Government will become a ‘significant’ equity shareholder in OneWeb, posting $500 million to save the company from financial distress. While Bharti Global will

Netflix and chill might have defined streaming trends for years, but it is video voyeurism which is capturing the attention of the youth nowadays. With every new generation, there is a new technology or activity which baffles those from yesteryear. The Millennials embraced social media, must to the distain of Generation X, and now it

Mi TV Stick was recently spotted on a Geekbench listing and on the Google Play Console, hinting at an imminent launch of Xiaomi’s streaming device. We’ve been hearing constant rumours about it over the past month and recently a retail unit was also spotted on AliExpress. Xiaomi has not yet made it official, but with

The Dutch data protection authority, Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, has said it will recommend against a Bill currently working its way through Parliament to use telecoms data in the COVID-19 fight. This proclamation from the Chairman of the Dutch watchdog, Aleid Wolfsen, is a condemnation against the work being done, a warning against walking the wrong path,

Being first doesn’t necessarily give too much away about the winner, but it is an indicator of progress. Vodafone UK has said it is the first telecoms operator in the country to launch a Standalone (SA) 5G network on the Coventry University campus. The launch of this network will allow the telco to trial new