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Huawei CEO Warns Company May Go Bankrupt by 2025!
It’s not exactly a secret that Huawei has had more than a few challenges over the last 5 years. The biggest factor in this has undoubtedly resulted from the fact that despite various countries rolling out deployment for technologies such as fibre internet and 5G connectivity, many have chosen to…
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UK Expected To Announce Huawei Ban Decision In March
Huawei The last 6 months has proven to be a very difficult period for Chinese communications giant Huawei. Specifically, because many concerns have been raised internationally over the security of their service and products. The concerns are, in their bluntest terms, that the manufacturer may be using some potentially state-sponsored back…
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Twitter Says Despite More Characters Messages Are Shorter
Twitter Says Despite More Characters Messages Are Getting Shorter You may recall that around a year ago, Twitter decided to increase the number of characters a user could post in a message. The increase, from 140 to 280 did raise concerns that the ‘short/snappy’ nature of the social media site…
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Microsoft Announce Skype Classic Will Be Killed In November
Microsoft Announce Skype Classic Will Be Killed In November Microsoft has been quite keen to push their latest version of Skype. The system, which on PCs has largely been incorporated into the operating system has, however, an older version which is formed in the more traditional download/install manner. Skype version…
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Gmail Sees First Overhaul In Nearly 5 Years
Google announced first Gmail overhaul in nearly 5 years I think it’s pretty safe to say that the vast majority of us have some form of a free e-mail account. With the major service providers these days, it will most likely either be Googles Gmail or Microsoft Hotmail. In recent…
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Brain Tumour Charity Urges Caution over Mobile Phone Court Ruling
The Brain Tumour Charity has urged caution following a court ruling in Italy which has compensated a man for having a brain tumour which was linked to his mobile phone usage. The court in Italy was persuaded that the claimant, Roman Romero’s, tumour was linked to his 3-4 daily business use…
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Skype Live Translation Feature Expands to Mobile and Landline Calls
Microsoft has introduced Skype’s real-time live translation feature back in December 2014, initially able to only handle Spanish and English but has since expanded to include French, German, Chinese (Mandarin), Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Arabic, and Russian languages. It has now expanded even further by allowing users to use the live…
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Smart Doorbell Bug Left An Owner Watching Someones Elses Door
The internet of things is the idea that because we have the internet, we can connect our lives and everything we use it to create a single unified experience for everything. With the idea that we can connect multiple devices together, comes the risk that someone might abuse this to gain…
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Verizon’s Network Damaged During Strike Action
Verizon is currently in a bad place, with recent news that they were going to stop supporting and repairing people on copper cables in favour of upgrading to fiber networks being poorly received by those that see it as “no support or pay us more” and with the company only…
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Terrorists Used Burner Phones Not Encryption To Evade Detection
In light of the recent discussions regarding privacy vs security, such as those being discussed by Apple and the FBI in congress, the discussion often comes back to the encryption and whether groups or government agencies should be able to break it when it comes to security. It could perhaps…
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This Emoji Keyboard Will Set You Back $100!
Emojis have quickly become the latest method for many people to communicate online and express emotion. Previously, people opted for text-based solutions which resembled a number of human responses. Up to this point, Emojis required a mobile touch interface to implement various icons during conversations on social media. This makes…
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Mozilla Releases Firefox 41 Containing Integrated IM Functionality
Mozilla has officially unveiled the latest version of Firefox which incorporates an intriguing messaging service called, ‘Hello Beta’. According to Mozilla, this is the world’s first communication tool embedded into a browser which allows users to send and receive messages during a video call. The company said about this latest…
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Skype Plagued by Network Connectivity Issues
The Skype client is currently experiencing a whole range of connection issues and sporadically showing contacts as offline. Skype has released a statement surrounding the network hiccups and clarified: “We have detected an issue that is affecting Skype in a number of ways. If you’re signed in to Skype, you will…
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Facebook Reaches Over a Billion Users in One Day
Facebook has reached another unbelievable milestone and recorded over one billion users within a single day. The announcement was made via Mark Zuckerbeg’s official Facebook account and the data indicates 1 in 7 people throughout the world used Facebook on Monday. It’s impossible to quantify how momentous this achievement is…
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Facebook Research Reveals “LOL” is in Decline
Facebook has conducted a research paper on the communication behaviour of its users and language used to express laughter. The data was collected during the last week of May and analyzed any prominent string of characters matching laughter. Interestingly, “haha” was the most popular response with 51.4%, followed by an…
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