“The fact is as much as 5G is going to be tremendous, and it’s going to bring an amazing architectural shift to our economy and to our markets and economy, it’s still not here,” says Skyworks Solutions CEO Liam Griffin.…
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T-Mobile Launching T-Mobile Connect Budget Plan Early
T-Mobile has announced it is launching its T-Mobile Connect plan March 25, rather than waiting till after the Sprint merger is complete. As more and more Americans are impacted financially by the coronavirus pandemic, T-Mobile hopes its Connect plan will…
France Will Not Ban Huawei From Networks
Despite U.S. pressure, France has decided to allow Huawei equipment in its 5G networks. According to sources who spoke exclusively to Reuters, French cybersecurity agency ANSSI will tell wireless providers to what degree they can use Huawei’s equipment. “They don’t…
Brazil Sides With Apple In iPhone Throttling Case
Brazilian courts have sided with Apple against accusations the company improperly throttled the performance of iPhones with weak batteries. Apple has faced worldwide criticism for an iOS update that slowed down iPhone performance if the phone’s battery was below a…
Google patent application reveals hints to E-A-T and categorizing health sites
Google recently published a new patent application that was originally filed by Google back on August 10, 2018. The patent is named Website Representation Vector to Generate Search Results and Classify Website. Bill Slawski was the first to cover this…
Sophos Warns Of ‘Fleeceware’ Apps On The Google Play Store With 600 Million Downloads
Security firm Sophos has once again warned of the dangers of “fleeceware” on the Google Play Store. Fleeceware is a term for apps “where users could be charged excessive amounts of money for apps if they don’t cancel a ‘subscription’ before the…
5G Dramatically Accelerates Industrial Digitization, Says Qualcomm CEO
“The total amount of economic impact of 5G in 2035 is going to be $13.2 trillion,” says Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf. “You can think of (the growth of 5G) in two phases. One is a handset phase and the second one is…
Intel Acquires Pivot’s Smart Edge Platform: Eyes 5G Edge Computing Leadership
Intel announced it has acquired the Smart Edge platform from Pivot Technology Solutions, Inc., a “cloud-native, scalable and secure platform for multi-access edge computing (MEC).” Edge computing allows data collected by Internet of Things (IoT) devices to be processed and analyzed closer…
5G Will Be the Fabric of Connectivity Around the World, Says Affirmed CEO
5G is really going to become the fabric of connectivity around the world, says Affirmed Networks CEO Hassan Ahmed. “The whole world is getting smarter,” he noted. “5G really brings blazingly fast internet access, new entertainment like virtual reality, and massive…
Mobile Is Finally Coming To the Enterprise, Says ServiceNow CEO
“Mobile is coming to the enterprise, finally,” says ServiceNow CEO John Donahoe. “It’s been a long time coming. Our release in Q3 will have native out of the box consumer-grade mobile capability. So now any ServiceNow customer can have a brilliant mobile onboarding…