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SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP)–Facebook on Wednesday set out to make money from WhatsApp with a scheme to connect businesses with customers via the smartphone messaging service. Facebook said it has been testing a “WhatsApp Business” tool for months with more than 90 companies including Uber and Singapore Airlines. “We’re introducing a solution for businesses that require more powerful tools to chat on WhatsApp and a new way for people to quickly start a […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) – China-based Huawei took the second-place spot from Apple in a tightening global smartphone during the second quarter of this year, according to figures released Tuesday by International Data Corporation. South Korean consumer electronics titan Samsung remained the top smartphone maker, shipping 71.5 million handsets, but Huawei moved into second position with shipments of 54.2 million, according to IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. Silicon Valley-based Apple shipped 41.3 million […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP)–Nokia will help T-Mobile deploy a superfast “5G” mobile internet network across the United States in a $3.5-billion deal, the companies announced Monday. Finland-based Nokia will provide T-Mobile its suite of 5G technology, and help build the telecommunications firm’s new-generation nationwide wireless network, the companies said. “We are all in on 5G,” T-Mobile chief technology officer Neville Ray said in a release. “And together with Sprint, we’ll be able to do […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) – Samsung Electronics on Tuesday reported a 0.1 percent dip in its second quarter net profit from a year earlier, blaming slower sales of smartphones and display panels for the drop. Net profit for the April to June period came in at 11.04 trillion won ($9.9 billion), slightly lower than the 11.05 trillion won in the same period in 2017, the company said in a regulatory filing. Operating profit was 14.87 […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Australia’s dominant telecommunications company Telstra Wednesday announced plans to axe 8,000 jobs as part of a drastic new strategy to simplify the business and stay competitive in a rapidly changing industry. The decision by Telstra, one of Australia’s largest employers, is part of a shake-up targeting an extra Aus$1 billion (US$750 million) in cost-cutting by 2022, on top of Aus$1.5 billion previously announced. “We are creating a new Telstra that is […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The US Senate defied President Donald Trump by voting Monday to overrule his administration’s deal with Chinese telecom firm ZTE and reimpose a ban on high-tech chip sales to the company. Senators added an amendment targeting ZTE into a sweeping, must-pass national defense spending bill that cleared the chamber on an 85-10 vote. The company has been on life support ever since Washington said it had banned US companies from selling […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Snapchat messaging service on Thursday set out to spread its reach, and panache, to other smartphone apps with a software kit that promised to share little data about users. Parent company Snap said people will be able to use Snapchat credentials to sign into apps the way they might do using Facebook or Google credentials, while strictly limiting access to personal data or activity tracking. The software kit […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — International Data Corporation forecast Wednesday that global smartphone sales would cool this year before heating up with help from new 5G networks and India’s vibrant market. An IDC Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker expected smartphone sales to slip two-tenths of a percent this year to total 1.462 billion in a second straight year of slight decline. But IDC predicted that the smartphone market would reignite next year, growing about 3 percent […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Iminungkahi ni Senadora Grace Poe na magsagawa ng pagdinig sa mabagal na internet sa bansa. Kasunod ito ng inilabas na report ng open signal na kanilang isinagawa noong last quarter ng 2017, kung kailan, nasa ika-85 pwesto ang bansa sa bilis ng 4-G LTE. Sa inihaing resolusyon ni Senador Poe, nais niyang matalakay kung bakit nahuhuli ang bansa pagdating sa bilis ng internet connection sa buong Southeast Asian Region. Nakatakda […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russia’s space agency on Tuesday blamed a failed satellite launch from its new cosmodrome on a programming error, prompting an angry response from the deputy prime minister in charge of space. On November 28 Russia lost contact with its Meteor-M weather satellite after its launch from the new Vostochny cosmodrome — only the second such launch since the facility opened in the country’s far east last year. The failure “exposed a […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — The global smartphone market has momentum going into the year-end holiday shopping season, according to preliminary figures released Thursday by International Data Corporation (IDC). An estimated 373.1 million smartphones were shipped worldwide during the third quarter of this year in a 2.7 percent rise from the same period in 2016, IDC said in a statement. While IDC analysts considered the growth low, they saw it as a sign “the industry still has […]
