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Following US sanctions against Huawei and updated technical advice from our cyber experts, the government has decided it necessary to ban Huawei from our 5G networks, , said Oliver Dowden, UK Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. (Photo | AP)

Huawei banned by UK, its 5G infrastructure to be phased out by 2027

In the lead up to the removal of all Huawei kit from UK networks, there will be a total ban on purchasing 5G kits after...

14 July 2020 7:07 PM IST

The Amazon Dash Cart is a step up on Amazon Go, a store that uses cameras and sensors to detect items that a shopper grabs off shelves and automatically charges a shoppers Amazon account, that was opened to the general public in Seattle in 2018. (Photo | Wikipedia - Sounder Bruce)

A smart shopping cart at Amazon stores in the US lets you skip the...

The cart, which Amazon unveiled on Tuesday, uses cameras, sensors and a scale to automatically detect what shoppers drop...

14 July 2020 6:10 PM IST

Google, Facebook, Microsoft and other tech companies say the US Immigration rule requiring international college students whose classes have gone online to leave the country will disrupt their recruiting plans.

Google, Microsoft, Facebook join lawsuit against US visa rule forcing...

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement rule bars international students from staying in the country if their classes...

14 July 2020 4:38 PM IST

The BBC on Monday reported that the government could stop installing Huawei equipment after 2021, and could possibly try to remove all of the companys 5G kit by 2025. (Photo | Wikimedia Commons - Lao Men Faei)

Huawei so entrenched in UK telecom infra it can't be removed within...

Britain could suffer outages and potential security risks if forced to stop dealing with the Chinese firm, he warned.

13 July 2020 9:35 PM IST

Trump last week had said he is considering banning the wildly popular TikTok app as a way to punish China over the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo | Pixabay - Motion Stock)

User data being sent to China's servers, TikTok will face 'strong...

China dismissed the comments as ridiculous and narrow-minded , and slammed the US as the world's real hacker empire .

13 July 2020 4:35 PM IST

Indias nascent EV industry needs to import components and tech from China as it works out cheaper, but some companies hope to become self reliant in the next five to six years. (Photo | FotonPMI.com)

Geopolitics prompts electric bus maker to start work on own tech to...

PMI Electro Mobility Solutions is also starting a battery assembling plant in Haryana to localise components.

12 July 2020 9:30 PM IST

Vietnam-based startups made up 18 percentor $741 millionof the capital invested in Southeast Asia in 2019, up from four percent in 2018, according to a report by Cento Ventures.

Vietnam's huge pool of software engineers makes Ho Chi Minh City a...

Vietnamese e-commerce and e-payment companies have been flooded with private equity in the past couple of years.

12 July 2020 8:48 PM IST

One Chinese companys loss maybe anothers gain as Times Groups Gaana, backed by Tencent, looks to mop up users left behind when ByteDances TikTok was forced to exit the Indian market. (Photo | Gaana.com)

Despite competition from Chingari, Roposo, Gaana hopes to get TikTok's...

Hotshots by Gaana gives Indian users tools to create and share short viral videos and stories like on TikTok.

12 July 2020 7:22 PM IST

Unless companies are willing to invest in continuous development, and selling of such applications across borders, many may not go beyond infancy and not see the light of the day, an industry expert says.

User engagement essential for desi apps to beat the banned Chinese...

An app is only as good as its active user base, so it's not downloads but active users that make it a hit.

12 July 2020 6:33 PM IST

Global giants Ericsson, Nokia and Samsung, as well as Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE are the large players in the Indian telecom market where rapid digitisation and massive data needs are driving network scale-up.

Ericsson India hopes to fill Telecom space that might not be open to...

Apart from 4G infrastructure, telecom firms are keenly interested in being a part of 5G trials and mega 5G networks...

12 July 2020 5:37 PM IST

There is a strong tendency within the Government to view data as a national asset, akin to say, the Indian Railways. This has been an inherent line of reasoning in multiple draft and actual policies. (Photo | Pixabay - Gerd Altmann)

Tech This Week | Data is not national wealth, must not be regulated in...

Value is derived from data is because it is shared. That's a key reason why technology evolved into a multi-trillion...

11 July 2020 9:33 PM IST

In addition to the porn, the police said the youths also exchanged gore videos from the dark web. (Photo | Pixabay - Gerd Altmann)

WhatsApp, Telegram used to share child porn, suicide videos among...

Police said they were tipped off to the images by the mother of a 15-year-old boy who found them on her son's phone.

11 July 2020 9:07 PM IST