Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella is defending himself after a group of employees published an open letter calling on the company to ditch a multimillion dollar contract HoloLens contract with the US Army. Nadella told CNN Business in an interview Monday that the contract was not merely about supplying the military with HoloLens headsets, which overlay computer images …
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Nokia 9 PureView has 5 rear cameras: *yawn*
The Nokia 9 PureView has five rear cameras and that doesn’t even seem like that big of a deal. The anticipated Nokia 9 PureView is HMD Global’s newest and boldest flagship phone under the Nokia brand the Finnish startup acquired several years ago. A word of warning: HMD says this phone is a “limited edition,” being offered in a limited …
Read More »World’s fastest 1TB microSD card, revealed at MWC, will cost $450
Western Digital had a tiny offering for Mobile World Congress, but it sure can hold a lot of data. The 1TB SanDisk Extreme UHS-I microSDXC card is the world’s fastest flash memory option, the company said in a release. It has read speeds of up to 160MB/s and write speeds of up to 90MB/s, much like the 400GB one Western …
Read More »Huawei sides with Trump on 5G: ‘US is lagging behind’
Huawei Chairman Guo Ping says President Donald Trump is right about the US limping toward 5G. “I have noticed the president’s Twitter, he said that US needs faster and smarter 5G, or even 6G in the future, and he has realized that the US is lagging behind in this respect, and I think his message is clear and correct,” Guo …
Read More »Google looks to leave passwords behind for a billion Android devices
Your Android passwords could one day go the way of the floppy disk. Google and the Fast Identity Online Alliance said Monday that Android is now FIDO2-certified, meaning its devices can use fingerprints and security keys for logging in to accounts instead of passwords. The certification was unveiled at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The change will only affect …
Read More »Facebook and partners collaborate to bring 5G wireless internet to California homes
At the world’s biggest mobile show, the world’s biggest social network has an important mission: To spread the word about its vision to connect the world. Facebook is a familiar face at Mobile World Congress. It puts in an appearance at the Barcelona trade show every February. On Monday show the company shared a number of updates from its connectivity …
Read More »ZTE unveils Axon 10 Pro 5G flagship and Blade V10 with a 32
Hot on the heels of LG, Huawei and others announcing their first 5G-enabled phones at MWC 2019, ZTE announced its own 5G phone on Monday too. The Axon 10 Pro 5G is the newest device from the Chinese phone-maker, which will be able to connect to the next-gen network of high-speed mobile data. The Axon 10 Pro is equipped with …
Read More »Why OnePlus won’t be leaping into the foldable phone craze
Foldables might be the future of smartphones, but not all companies are jumping on the bandwagon. Chinese handset maker OnePlus won’t be developing a foldable phone anytime soon, CEO Pete Lau said Monday in an interview with CNET at MWC in Barcelona. That’s largely because of price. The first foldables unveiled from Samsung and Huawei cost about double — or …
Read More »Crypto phone maker Sikur wants you to bank through your mobile carrier
The mobile banking revolution might be underway, but the trustworthiness of mobile banking applications still has a question mark hanging over it for many phone owners. Maker of security-focused phones Sikur launched its own mobile banking platform on Tuesday at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that it hopes will change all that. The platform is designed to combine all the …
Read More »5G in PCs? That’s Lenovo’s plan for early 2020 with Qualcomm’s new chips
Move over, 5G phones. The ultrafast connectivity is also coming to PCs. Qualcomm on Monday at MWC here in Barcelona said it has paired its second-generation 5G modem, the X55, with its 8cx processor for computers that it unveiled in December. The new Snapdragon 8cx 5G compute platform will let computer-makers release devices later this year and early next year that connect …
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