Mobility

Apple Shares Reach All-Time High On AI Optimism

Apple shares surge after Morgan Stanley rates company 'top pick' over AI plans and says it could sell nearly 500…

4 months ago

Smartphone Market Recovery Heading For ‘Slow, Steady Growth’

Global smartphone market shows growth for third consecutive quarter as it recovers from weakest year in a decade, Counterpoint finds

4 months ago

Huawei Completes Massive $1.4bn R&D Campus With ‘100 Cafes’

Huawei Technologies completes work on massive centralised R&D campus as it seeks to develop domestic chip technologies

4 months ago

India Regulator Finds Apple App Store Breaches Competition Law

India competition regulator finds Apple App Store in breach of law over lack of third-party payment options

4 months ago

Honor Launches ‘World’s Slimmest’ Foldable AI Smartphone

Huawei spin-off Honor looks to compete with Samsung, Huawei, Apple with slim Magic V3 foldable handset that includes on-device AI

4 months ago

AT&T Admits Data Breach Impacted “Nearly All” Customers

American telecommunications giant AT&T admits that “nearly all” customer accounts were compromised in 2022 breach

4 months ago

Elon Musk’s X Breached DSA Rules, EU Finds

X's Blue checks 'used to mean trustworthy sources of information. Now our preliminary view is that they deceive users', says…

4 months ago

Samsung AI-Upgraded Bixby Voice Assistant Coming This Year

Samsung reportedly confirms it will launch the upgraded voice assistant Bixby this year, that will feature its own AI models

4 months ago

EU Accepts Apple’s Legal Commitments To Open NFC Access

Legal commitment over Apple's NFC-based mobile payments system, which is to be opened to rival payment operators

4 months ago

Germany Agrees Deal To Phase Out Huawei, Chinese 5G Kit – Report

German government reaches deal with mobile operators to phase out 5G equipment from Chinese firms, including Huawei

4 months ago

Musk Defeats $500m Mass Twitter Layoff Lawsuit

Elon Musk gains dismissal of lawsuit claiming he refused to pay $500m severance to thousands of fired Twitter staff

4 months ago

Samsung Galaxy Unpacked: New Foldable, Flip Phones, Wearables And AI

New foldable smartphones, wearables, enhanced AI, and health monitoring announced by Samsung at Paris launch

4 months ago

PC Recovery Continues As Shipments Grow, Says IDC

Global shipments of PCs rose by 3 percent in Q2, IDC finds, as recovery in the personal computer market continues

4 months ago

Samsung Workers To Extend Action To Strike ‘Indefinitely’

Worker unrest in South Korea, as unionised workers at Samsung Electronics declare an indefinite strike at tech giant

4 months ago

Vodafone, Virgin Media O2 Extend Network Sharing Deal

Current network sharing deal between Vodafone and Virgin Media O2 extended to mid 2030s, including some spectrum sale

4 months ago

Threads Hits 175 Million Users, One Year After Launch

Threads, Meta's answer to Elon Musk's X (formerly Twitter), racks up impressive number of monthly active users

4 months ago

Bluesky Offers Starter Packs For Friends, Feeds To Follow

To encourage uptake, X/Twitter rival Bluesky is offering starter packs - personalised invites for friends as well as suggested feeds

5 months ago

Supreme Court Backs Biden In Social Media Misinformation Case

US Supreme Court sides with Biden after Republican-led states challenged federal halt of misinformation posts on social media

5 months ago

Microsoft At Risk Of EU Antitrust Charge Over Teams Bundling With Office

Unfair advantage says EU regulator, as Microsoft faces antitrust charge for bundling its Teams video app with Office suite

5 months ago

China Memory Chip Maker YMTC Sues Tech Consultancy For Libel

Chinese memory chip maker YMTC sues Danish tech consultancy Strand Consult for libel in California amidst geopolitical hostilities

5 months ago

EU Finds Apple In Breach Of DMA Competition Rules

European Commission finds Apple in breach of DMA competition rules in first decision under new competition law targeting tech 'gatekeepers'

5 months ago

Apple Delays AI Features In EU Over DMA Rules

Apple to delay launch of AI and two other new features in EU, arguing new competition rules pose privacy and…

5 months ago

Amazon Mulls $5 Monthly Charge For AI Alexa – Report

“Desperate attempt” to monetise service. AI upgrade of Amazon's Alexa voice assistant will entail a monthly $5 or even $10…

5 months ago

Kaspersky Denies It Is Security Risk, After US Sales Banned By Biden

Biden Administration bans sales of Kaspersky software in the US due to links to Russia, but Moscow-based firm says it…

5 months ago

McDonald’s Ends Its AI Drive-Through Assistant Experiment

Test by MacDonald’s to replace human servers with AI-based voice assistants for its drive-through (or drive-thru) is to end

5 months ago

Anthropic Launches Newest AI Model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Just three months after launching its Claude 3 model family, startup Anthropic launches an updated AI model

5 months ago

Elon Musk Appeals To Advertisers, Backtracks Over Notorious Outburst

Wooing advertisers back? Elon Musk says his remark telling advertisers to “go f--- yourself” did not refer to the wider…

5 months ago

Nvidia Overtakes Microsoft As Most Valuable Tech Firm

Nvidia dethrones Microsoft as world's most valuable tech firm, in ongoing market capitalisation battle of the big three

5 months ago

Apple Drops ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Service

Apple sunsets its buy now, pay later service known as 'Apple Pay Later', and will rely on established third-party players

5 months ago

Silicon In Focus Podcast: Feeding the Machine

Learn how your business can meet the challenges associated with managing data across multiple platforms and systems, and how does…

5 months ago