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Oppo is believed to be working on two foldable smartphones, which might debut later this year. One of these is said to sport a clamshell folding design — Oppo Find N Flip. Past rumours have hinted that these two rumoured smartphones could be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC. A notable tipster

The UK Competition and Markets Authority has reaffirmed its demand that US internet giant Meta undo its 2020 acquisition of GIF search engine Giphy. This marks the completion of a protracted appeals process following the first CMA ruling almost a year ago. The company formerly known as Facebook inevitably appealed the ruling, which a UK

The worldwide smartphone market has declined for the third consecutive quarter, falling 9% year-on-year, according to analyst firm Canalys, which marks the worst Q3 since 2014. Canalys attributes the decline in sales to – unsurprisingly – the general economic gloominess and expects this to continue to have a dampening effect on sales for the next

Apple’s mixed reality headset has been in the news for quite some time now. The latest report now suggests that the rumoured mixed reality (MR) headset will use iris scanning for signing in and making payments. This would work like Apple’s fingerprint feature or Face ID authentication and could allow multiple people to use one

An ostracised superstar has decided to buy an even more ostracised social media platform. What could go wrong? The artist formerly known as Kanye West (pictured) who, in his dispensation with superfluous syllables now abbreviates his name to ‘Ye’, has decided to buy social media company Parler. Why should we care? Good question. If we

UK operator Three is pitching a ‘plug and play’ 5G alternative to fixed line broadband for business customers, promising next day installation. The ‘plug and play’ solution is called Business Broadband, straightforwardly enough, and is being offered for £14.17 per month. Download speeds in excess of 100Mbps are promised, and the router can be plugged

Apple is working on a dock for the iPad that would allow the device to function as a smart display and speaker according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The company reportedly plans to introduce the capability as soon as next year, converting the iPad into a device that resembles a smart display, that you can set atop a counter

A report by analyst firm Omdia claims revenues from mobile and fixed broadband services will grow 14% between 2022 and 2027, however monthly Average Revenue Per User will fall by 4.2%. Revenue for total global telecoms services is expected to be around €1.2 trillion by 2027 according to the report, but monthly Average Revenue Per

Hyperscaler Amazon has opted to use a different rocket company for the launch of its first Project Kuiper satellites. The change, from ABL Space Systems’ RS1 rocket to United Launch Alliance (ULA)’s new Vulcan Centaur rocket, has led to the lift-off date for Amazon’s long-awaited Starlink competitor being pushed back until early next year. The

TSMC shares jumped more than 4 percent on Friday morning, outperforming the broader market, after the Taiwanese chipmaker announced a forecast-beating third-quarter profit, though it struck a more cautious note on upcoming demand. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), a major Apple supplier and the world’s largest contract chipmaker, posted on Thursday an 80 percent on-year surge in profit for

Orange is playing its cards pretty close to its chest on the future of its banking business, but new rumours coming out of France suggest it could be looking to sell up. The operator group set tongues a-wagging this week with its reluctance to deny a French press report that it is working with investment

Streaming stalwart Netflix will introduce the ‘Basic with Ads’ plan in November, which will be cheaper than the core product and subsidised with ads. According to Netflix’s pricing page, the Basic with Ads option will be £4.99 a month in the UK when it launches, and it will also be available in Australia, Brazil, Canada,

More than five billion of the estimated 16 billion mobile phones possessed worldwide will likely be discarded or stashed away in 2022, experts said Thursday, calling for more recycling of the often hazardous materials they contain.  Stacked flat on top of each other, that many disused phones would rise 50,000 kilometres, more than a hundred

Broadband firm Giganet, alongside its recently purchased consumer facing brand Cuckoo, will hire 250 people to run a series of new customer service hubs across the UK. As well as the customer service hubs, the raft of new hires will go towards bolstering the firms’ technology, marketing, ‘talent’, HR and finance divisions. It’s not clear

As the debate around ‘fair contribution’ – which asserts big tech firms like Netflix and Google should chip in for the costs of telecoms infrastructure – rolls on, we spoke to Maria Lema, co-founder of Weaver Labs, who told us why she thinks it’s a bad idea. Maria Lema is a PhD in Telecoms and

Spider-Man: Miles Morales is coming to PC next month, and with that, Sony has unveiled the new features and system requirements for the same. Developers Insomniac Games and Nixxes Software have partnered once again to bring the PlayStation-exclusive title to PC, on November 18, 2022. Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales on PC comes with Nvidia’s DLSS

Consumer electronic giant Samsung and big tech leviathan Google are nailing down some of the promises made through Matter, the IoT connectivity standard backed by tech’s heavy hitters. Samsung and Google have entered into an ‘extended partnership’ on smart home interoperability, which generally means their various gadgets should work together better, and more specifically means

The most notable aspect of a reshuffle of UK operator group BT’s top technical team is the departure of Chief Architect Neil McRae. There was no sign of this seismic shift among the BT boffinry when we hung out with McRae (pictured) and CTO Howard Watson just a month ago. At the root of the