Samsung Galaxy Fold ‘ready for launch’ after screen fix July 25, 2019 Samsung today said its foldable smartphone will be ready for launch from September after problems with the device’s screen caused its release date to be delayed. Read more: Samsung cuts output at its last Chinese smartphone factory The Galaxy Fold, which is the firm’s first foldable phone, was due to be released in April, but [...]
Onecom bags £100m in funding as it eyes up future acquisitions July 22, 2019 UK telecoms firm Onecom has secured £100m to help fund future acquisitions as it looks to beef up its presence across the country. The independent business telecoms provider said it has raised the funds from private equity firm LDC and credit funds managed by an affiliate of US asset manager Ares. Read more: Vodafone taps [...]
Why enterprises are making the switch to public blockchains June 12, 2019 Online stock trading and electronic marketplaces shook Wall Street’s dominance up in the nineties. Two decades later, blockchain technology threatens to do the same through its removal of third party intermediaries. A couple of years ago when ‘blockchain’ started to turn heads, the idea of a completely public, free-for-all system secured by cryptoeconomics (proof of [...]
Ban on Chinese telecoms vendors would add $62bn to Europe’s 5G bill June 7, 2019 A ban on buying telecoms equipment from Chinese vendors would add $62bn (£48bn) to the cost of 5G networks in Europe, according to an industry analysis. The Trump administration blacklisted purchases Huawei in May as part of a long-running dispute with the company. The United States alleges that Huawei is too close to the Chinese [...]
Samsung cuts output at its last Chinese smartphone factory June 5, 2019 Samsung will cut production at its last remaining smartphone factory in China, as its loses ground on domestic rivals. Read more: Trump: US and UK will reach an agreement on Huawei The reduction comes just six months after the South Korean firm announced the closure of its factory in Tianjin. Another factory in Shenzhen closed [...]
Words, psychology, and marketing – why Verbalisation founder Sven Hughes wants to know how you talk June 3, 2019 I’ve never been psychoanalysed before. But upon entering the conference room with Sven Hughes, founder of strategic communications consultancy Verbalisation, he presents me with a handful of my recent articles, points out how all the introductions share similar traits, and explains what this supposedly says about me. For instance, early in each intro, I use [...]
Welcome to the future: EE 5G lands in London and five other UK cities May 30, 2019 EE’s 5G network went live in six cities today, bringing the new technology to the UK for the first time. Read more: EE and Vodafone ditch Huawei devices from summer 5G rollout London, Birmingham, Manchester, Cardiff and Belfast are the first locations to benefit from the new mobile network, which will offer users data speeds [...]
Prosecutors look to arrest Samsung Biologics chief executive amid accounting probe May 22, 2019 Prosecutors in South Korea have asked a court to grant an arrest warrant against the chief executive of Samsung Biologics after an accounting scandal shook the business, Korean news agency Yonhap has reported. Prosecutors suspect that chief executive Kim Tae-han ordered employees to destroy evidence around accounting fraud at the company, Yonhap reported, citing the Seoul Central [...]
Chipmaker Infineon suspends shipments to Huawei May 20, 2019 German chipmaker Infineon has reportedly suspended shipments to Huawei, becoming the latest firm to cut ties with the Chinese telecoms giant. Infineon’s decision to stop deliveries comes after the Trump administration blacklisted Huawei, which is the world’s second largest smartphone maker after Samsung, and Google restricted the company from some updates to the Android operating [...]
OnePlus 7 Pro review: OnePlus went all out on its first super-premium phone, and created something incredible May 15, 2019 OnePlus takes the war on bezels very seriously. Having valiantly whittled down the notch of last year’s OnePlus 6T to a single-lens nipple-nubbin, zealous OnePlus engineers have obliterated it completely in the newly launched OnePlus 7 Pro. Announced this week, the company’s very first premium, no-holds-barred flagship is nothin’ but screen – top to bottom, [...]