Day: April 24, 2019

5G is Chinese firms’ foot in the door to Europe as Oppo launches flagship Reno mobe in Zurich

Huawei was just the beginning While some governments obsess about Huawei, the impending launch of 5G is giving lesser-known Chinese upstarts a hope of cracking elusive Western smartphone markets – as Oppo demonstrated today in Zurich.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Apple ‘plotted’ to hurt Qualcomm years before it sued the company – CNET

The iPhone maker detailed some of its plans in documents shown during Qualcomm’s opening arguments in court. …read more Source:: CNet


Mark Zuckerberg has a podcast no one asked for – CNET

So far there are two episodes of Tech & Society with Mark Zuckerberg. …read more Source:: CNet


Every new movie and show on Netflix: May 2019 – CNET

Wine Country, The Rain, Easy and The Matrix all coming to Netflix! …read more Source:: CNet


Radio Piracy on the High Seas: Commercial Demand for Taboo Music

The true story of pirate radio is a complicated fight over the airwaves. Maybe you have a picture in your mind of some kid in his mom’s basement playing records, but the pirate stations we are thinking about — Radio Caroline and Radio Northsea International — were major business operations. They were perfectly ordinary radio…


Adware-Ridden Apps in Google Play Infect 30 Million Android Users

Google Play has removed up to 50 apps that once downloaded plagued systems with full-screen ads. …read more Source:: Threatpost


First ‘Marsquake’ Detected on Red Planet

There are earthquakes and moonquakes, and now a NASA spacecraft has detected what’s believed to be a “marsquake” on the Red Planet. From a report: The spacecraft picked up the faint trembling of Mars’s surface on 6 April, 128 days after landing on the planet last November. The quake is the first to be detected…


Behold, the insides of Samsung’s Galaxy Fold: The phone that tears down all on its own

Mind the gap You’d think a forensic teardown of the first commercially available foldable smartphone – the Samsung Galaxy Fold – may be less challenging than most, given the device’s propensity to do it itself.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Twitter will let people report tweets that aim to mislead voters – CNET

The tools are only available in India and the European Union for now. …read more Source:: CNet


‘We’re not omnipotent,’ trills National Cyber Security Centre in open-armed pitch to UK biz

If we all chip in, we can help secure old Blighty Cyber UK 2019 “We’re talking about how to design telecoms systems properly for the long term,” National Cyber Security Centre CEO Ciaran Martin told press at UK.gov’s infosec event in Glasgow today. “That is a bigger and sometimes different issue from the Chinese.”… …read…