Chinese mobile-phone and device maker Transsion will list in an IPO on Shanghai’s STAR Market, Transsion confirmed to TechCrunch. The company—which has a robust Africa sales network—could raise up to 3 billion yuan (or $426 million). “The company’s listing-related work is running smoothly. The registration application and issuance process is still underway, with the specific […]
Daily Archives: August 7, 2019
Hyp3r, an apparently trusted marketing partner of Facebook and Instagram, has been secretly collecting and storing location and other data on millions of users, against the policies of the social networks. It's hard to see how it could do this for years without intervention by the platforms except if the latter were either ignorant or complicit.
Instagram ad partner secretly sucked up and tracked millions of ...
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Samsung’s New Phones, a Dangerous Boeing 787 Flaw, and More ...
The new Note’s 3D scanning feature got what may well have been the loudest applause line of today’s big Samsung event. It’s an impressive feature for sure, but it’s the kind with little real world value at the moment — and it’s only available on the pricier Note 10+. Understandable on the latter, at least. […]
The Note’s most impressive new feature is only available on ...
The first Note was a spectacle. It wasn’t just the reintroduction of the stylus. In 2011, the idea of a 5.3 inch phone was laughable. Around the same time, Steve Jobs famously mocked a push toward 4-inch-plus phones, telling a press conference, “no one’s going to buy that.” With the average phone size hovering about […]
Samsung’s Galaxy Note gets even larger (and smaller)
Eight years later, the Galaxy Note is undeniable. The original device, unveiled at IFA 2011, seemed unfathomably massive for a handset — all 5.3 inches of it. Nearly a decade and hundreds of millions of handsets later, the line has transformed the way we think about mobile devices. Sure the stylus hasn’t become a mainstream […]
This is Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10 and 10+
The 5G iPhone isn’t expected until roughly this time next year. But when it comes to the next-gen cellular technology, Samsung has already been there and done that. Back in February, the company announced an everything-and-the-kitchen-sink version of the Galaxy S10, sporting 5G — its first device to do so. The model was finally made […]
There’s a 5G version of Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10+ headed ...
The big phablet Note is now joined by a smaller, regular-size version of the Note handset. And there's a 5G version on the way too.
Samsung Galaxy Note10 and Note10+: Price, Specs, Release Date
The Trump administration has banned U.S. federal agencies from buying equipment and obtaining services from Huawei and two other companies as part of the government’s latest crackdown on Chinese technology amid national security fears. Jacob Wood, a spokesperson for the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, was quoted as saying that the administration will […]
Trump administration bans federal agencies from buying Huawei, ZTE tech
Twitter has disclosed more bugs related to how it uses personal data for ad targeting that means it may have shared users data with advertising partners even when a user had expressly told it not to. Back in May the social network disclosed a bug that in certain conditions resulted in an account’s location data […]