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Spanish telecoms group Telefónica officially switched on its 5G signal today and promised three quarters of the population will have access by the end of the year. That’s quite a lofty claim when you consider how rubbish many other developed economies are at 5G. It should be stressed that it’s easier to get high population

Netflix is offering limited free access to several original series and movies, including Stranger Things, Murder Mystery, Élite, Boss Baby: Back in Business, Bird Box, When They See Us, Love Is Blind, The Two Popes, Our Planet, and Grace and Frankie. If you are undecided on whether Netflix is worth the monthly subscription, well, the

Bouygues Telecom has published a solid set of numbers for the first half of the year and claims its customer growth has accelerated in the wake of the COVID-19 lockdown. The French telco followed in the footsteps of many of its peers by bigging up the reliability of its network amidst increased demand during the

Internet giant Amazon has entered the digital health market with products that, among other things, want to make you sound more positive. Amazon’s new health and wellness offering is called Halo. It consists of a screen-free fitness band and ‘a suite of AI-powered health tools’. This suite is comprised of five categories: activity, sleep, body,

Action camera maker GoPro said on Thursday its premium subscribers can now live stream their treks, rides and swims directly on to its website. Earlier, users with high-end GoPro action cameras could only live stream content via third-party services such as Amazon.com’s Twitch, Alphabet’s YouTube and Facebook. GoPro’s premium service, GoPro Plus, lets users upload

Despite raising $41 billion already this year, Softbank reckons it needs a bunch more cash to protect itself from the effects of a COVID-19 resurgence. In a ‘secondary offering of shares in subsidiary SoftBank Corp, SoftBank group is hoping to raise another $12 billion or so to keep down the back of the sofa in

Facebook is up in arms over Apple’s plan to let users opt out of sharing their Web-usage data with the social network. It warned in a blog post this week that the resulting curtailment of personalised ads by Apple’s upcoming iOS 14 operating system could lead to a 50 percent drop in publisher revenue on

Apple said Friday it has followed through on its decision to block the maker of Fortnite from developer tools needed to update games on its mobile devices. The move to suspend Epic Games from the iOS developers program came just days after a US court rejected its bid to have Fortnite reinstated on the App

Taiwanese chip-maker Mediatek reportedly thinks it can supply Huawei without getting put on the US naughty step, but is double-checking just to make sure. The report comes courtesy of Reuters, which says Mediatek has applied for permission from the US to keep supplying Huawei with chips. “MediaTek reiterates its respect for following relevant orders and

TIM. The Italian incumbent will get its wish to control the country’s proposed single high-speed network, if it agrees to a plan the government is about to present to its board. The Italian press is awash with reports that the government has approved a plan hammered out by state-owned investment bank Cassa Depositi e Prestiti

Huawei Enjoy 20 Plus is the Chinese company’s next rumoured smartphone, and its live images as well as full specifications have now been leaked. Images of another phone, the Huawei Enjoy 20 that allegedly belongs to the same smartphone series, have also been spotted on the Internet. In fact, a leaked image shows both phones

Apple’s increasingly inflexible and suffocating attitude towards its App Store partners means it’s rapidly running out of friends. The simple fact of the Apple App Store is that if you want to sell your apps and services to the affluent iOS installed base, you have to play by Apple’s rules, which include its pound of

French telco magnate Xavier Niel is mulling legal action to block UPC Switzerland’s acquisition of Sunrise. His Swiss unit, Salt Mobile, alleged this week that the proposed merger violates an exclusive agreement with Sunrise to jointly deploy fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) to 1.5 million premises. In a statement, Salt said it has brought in law firm Quinn

WhatsApp, one of the most popular messaging apps in the world, isn’t just popular for texting or voice calling. WhatsApp users also have the option to make video calls. The video calling feature is free on WhatsApp and to get started all you’ll need is a working internet connection. The best thing is that WhatsApp

This report focuses on connectivity as the foundation of Industry 4.0 and hones in on return on investment (ROI) and cost of inaction(COI) for Industry 4.0 implementation in factories and warehouses. It also helps to provide more depth on five specific use cases for manufacturing: mobile robots, condition-based monitoring, asset tracking, augmented reality, and provisioning

Cellcom has completed the acquisition of smaller rival Golan Telecom in a deal that will help it to build some scale but is unlikely to address competition issues in the Israeli market. Israel’s largest mobile operator announced it has closed the deal it has been working on for the past six months, ultimately paying 545

Flipkart has launched the Nokia Media Streamer, a new Android-based streaming device for televisions, priced at Rs. 3,499. Part of Flipkart’s branding partnership with Nokia that also includes smart televisions, the Nokia Media Streamer runs on Android 9, has a dedicated remote, and supports up to full-HD resolution streaming. Like other popular streaming devices such

Some long-running litigation between Huawei and a couple of patent holders has reached its conclusion, thus setting a global precedent. The cases of Unwired Planet v Huawei and Conversant Wireless v Huawei & ZTE were taken to the UK Supreme Court for appeal after a lower court ruled against the Chinese vendors in 2017. It’s