An investigation by Vice has revealed the market in stolen data counts government agencies as customers, as they seek to bypass data privacy laws. The Vice report starts with the revelation that a company called SpyCloud is unapologetic about dealing in stolen data. “We’re turning the criminals’ data against them, or at least we’re empowering
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Boat ProGear B20 smart band, the company’s first attempt in the wearables space, has been launched. It boasts of features like real-time heart rate monitoring, activity tracking, and notification alerts, along with other typical smart band features. The Boat ProGear B20 comes in three colour options and is IP68 water resistant. Boat claims a standby
In evidence presented to the UK Science and Technology Committee, BT and Vodafone execs said completely removing Huawei by 2023 would cause major disruptions, even digital blackouts. The two telecoms operators, both of which are long-standing customers of Huawei, have warned politicians against hasty decisions. It does appear Huawei is living on borrowed time in
The PC segment has been slowly declining quarter-on-quarter for years, but COVID-19 has seemingly offered a surge in interest, albeit a short-lived one. While it appears it is the laptop or notebook products which are single-handedly saving this sub-sector, the glory might be short-lived. All three of the analyst firms suggest the dramatic shift to
Samsung is expected to bring two flagship tablets this year. The Galaxy Tab S7 and Galaxy Tab S7+ are reportedly expected to be launched at the online Galaxy Unpacked event on August 5. Several specifications have surfaced around the Galaxy Tab S7+ that suggest that the device may be powered by the recently unveiled Snapdragon
The new Nokia Service Router Linux Network Operating System and Fabric Service Platform are designed to help with data centre scalability. Nokia seems to be targeting internet giants with all this data centre networking goodness and says it was developed with their collaboration. The signature early customer for this kit is Apple, from whom Nokia
Privacy authorities in the UK and Australia have announced a joint investigation into Clearview AI, a US firm which provides facial recognition technologies. In what might be seen as an ironic sequence of events, as the US acts the international cheerleader to combat the Chinese threat to cybersecurity and privacy, two of its allies launch
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