Tech

Fossil Gen 6 wearables now have access to Amazon Alexa for Smartwatches app. The wearable will also now come preloaded with the Amazon Alexa virtual assistant. Fossil Gen 6 users will be able to pair their smartwatches with handsets running on the latest Android version, except for the Go edition and smartphones without Google Play.

What would make a mobile operator jitter the most when it decides to roll out 5G services? In all likelihood it would be the cost. When answering a recent Telecoms.com industry survey on 5G, 60% of all the respondents cited gear and deployment cost as the biggest impediment to 5G rollout. Something worth noting is

Finish kit vendor Nokia and Japanese MNO Rakuten have demonstrated a live 1Tbps per channel transmission, which they claim represents a speed increase of 500% on Rakuten’s existing fibre network. The trial connected data centres 135 km apart in the Japan’s Kanto region and was supposed to demonstrate the ability to scale network capacity over

Apple recently hosted the ‘Peek Performance’ event where it unveiled products including the iPhone SE 2022, Mac Studio, and iPad Air (XX generation). The next-generation iPad Pro was also expected to be released during this event but was missing from the event lineup. Now, it is being speculated that the iPad Pro 2022 could arrive

Dyson, the UK manufacturer made famous by selling upmarket vacuums based on jet engines or something like that, has unveiled a set of headphones that also blow purified air into your mouth. The Dyson Zone is a ‘wearable air purifier’ designed to protect the wearer from city pollution including gas, allergens and particulate matter while

The part of the EU’s Digital Marketing Act concerning messaging interoperability is getting some heat from the tech world – but the bigger question is how would such a thing curb big tech dominance? The EU’s Digital Marketing Act is attracting some criticism from the tech world for the potential damage to security that would

The US has proposed forging a semiconductor industry alliance between the United States, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan in a move to prevent China from gaining dominance over the strategic sector. However, South Korea is not fully on board with the idea proposed by America, Taiwan News reported citing Business Korea. “Cooperation with the United

ISP Zen Internet has signed a deal to extend its services to 285 cities, towns and villages across full fibre infrastructure firm CityFibre’s UK network. Zen Internet committed to four initial locations with CityFibre in 2020, a number which has since expanded to 31. This deal represents a commitment to extend that further to 285

Belgium will become the newest member of the independent towerco crowd after Telenet struck a deal to offload its passive infrastructure. The buyer is US-based real estate investment trust (REIT) DigitalBridge. It has agreed to pay $820 million for Telenet’s footprint of 3,322 sites, which includes 2,158 owned sites and 1,164 third-party sites. The deal

Godrej is among the most established names in the business of home security in India, with a wide range of products including door locks, personal lockers, video door phones, alarm systems, and CCTV camera systems. Among the company’s more recent launches is the Spotlight range of home security cameras, which is a foray into the

The Telecoms.com Podcast: Russia, T-Mobile US and nothing – Telecoms.com https://telecoms.com/wp-content/themes/telecoms.com/assets/images/dummy/tcoms-logo.png The Telecoms.com Podcast: Russia, T-Mobile US and nothing Iain was knackered after a half marathon when we recorded this pod as was Pierre’s audio mixer, which gave up an hour or so into the recording. Nonetheless the lads manage to open with another look

Enrico Salvatori, Qualcomm, delves deeper into both the evolution and future of 5G, and highlights the connected intelligent edge as a key component for success – Telecoms.com https://telecoms.com/wp-content/themes/telecoms.com/assets/images/dummy/tcoms-logo.png Enrico Salvatori, Qualcomm, delves deeper into both the evolution and future of 5G, and highlights the connected intelligent edge as a key component for success As Qualcomm

New State Mobile (formerly PUBG New State) recently released its March update for Android and iOS that brought the McLaren 765LT supercar to the game. This update also introduced a new location to the Erangel 2051 map. To celebrate this change, Krafton has launched the Play Erangel 2051 event. The event adds two limited-time challenges

Farmers in Australia’s south-eastern state of Victoria are getting a helping hand from a vast IoT network. Deployed by Australian IoT operator National Narrowband Network Company (NNNCo), and funded by the Victorian government’s On-Farm IoT Trial, it uses the non-cellular LoRaWAN standard to connect a broad array of sensors. Various agriculture technology (AgTech) use cases

Nokia has bagged a significant deal involving Vodafone’s 143 million European fixed broadband customers. Under the agreement, Voda will conduct proof-of-concept (PoC) trials of Nokia’s Altiplano SDN manager and controller (SDN-M&C) services for multi-access fixed networks. If all goes well, the two companies will begin a broader rollout later this year. “The last few years

iQoo U5x has been launched in China. The new budget 4G smartphone from iQoo is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 chipset and features a 5,000mAh battery that supports 10W charging. iQoo U5x boots Android 11-based Origin OS out-of-the-box and sports a dual camera setup on the back. The new handset from the Chinese company

China Mobile ended last year with more than 200 million customers using its 5G network, an increase of almost 50 million in a single quarter. The Chinese telco’s full-year financial report, published this week, shows that 5G network customers numbered 207 million as of 31 December. It did not provide a comparative figure for the

The EU bureaucracy has unveiled its latest initiative designed to curb the power of US internet giants, called the Digital Markets Act. As ever with the EU, it has taken it ages to get to this point and this announcement still only concerns the provisional agreement of the text of the bill. Its core aim