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PC Demand Slump: HP Inc. to slashes up to 4,000 jobs

HP Inc. will cut about 3,000 to 4,000 jobs over three years to help bring costs in line with slumping demand in the market for computers and printers. According to Bloomberg, the company will eliminate positions across the board, Chief Executive Officer Dion Weisler said. The comments came Thursday during HP’s analyst meeting in New […]

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Apple, Samsung clash in top US court patent battle

The epic patent clash between Apple and Samsung went before the US Supreme Court on Tuesday, as the smartphone giants debated the value of design in a case with major implications for the technology sector. The eight justices on the top court appeared divided on how to resolve the complex dispute over damages the South […]

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Yahoo disables automatic email forwarding feature: AP

Yahoo Inc disabled automatic email forwarding at the beginning of the month, the Associated Press reported, citing several users. While those who have set up forwarding in the past are unaffected, users who would want to leave following recent hacking and surveillance revelations are struggling to shift to rival services, the AP reported on Monday. […]

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Production of Galaxy Note 7 phone comes to standstill after battery fires – reports

Samsung’s smartphone recall crisis has deepened after South Korean media said the tech giant had suspended production of its troubled Galaxy Note 7 model amid reports that replacement devices had caught fire. Citing an unnamed source at a Samsung supplier, the news agency Yonhap said the company on Monday decided to halt production of the […]

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Etisalat lands its 4G LTE network in Nigeria

Etisalat has also joined the 4G LTE family. This is coming just few days after Glo launched theirs. So now, out of the big four telecom operators, MTN, Glo and Etisalat now supports 4G LTE network which leaves only Airtel in the GSM 3G network category. Mtn was actually the first of the big four […]

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Nigeria’s Glo launches 4G LTE service nationwide

Telecom operator, Globacom, has switched on the mobile 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) network nationwide. The operator said its subscribers in several parts of Nigeria can immediately connect to Glo 4G LTE network. Among the cities where the service is already live are Lagos, Port Harcourt in Rivers State, Abuja in the Federal Capital City, […]

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Samsung buys AI firm founded by Siri creators

Samsung said Thursday it was buying a prominent US artificial intelligence (AI) start-up founded by the creators of Siri — the voice-based digital assistant used on the iPhones of arch-rival Apple. The South Korean giant said the acquisition of California-based Viv Labs would bolster voice-based services across the full range of its electronics products that […]

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Messenger: Facebook roll out ‘Secret Conversations’ mode

Facebook has finished rolling out a “Secret Conversations” feature in its Messenger app. The new mode ensures only the two people involved in a chat can see the text. In fact, even the government or Facebook itself won’t have access to conversations in secret mode, according to the social network. The social network’s 1 billion […]

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Google unveil inside and out smartphone ‘Pixel’ and VR headset

Looking to drum up consumer excitement, the tech company hosted an event in San Francisco on Tuesday to unveil a series of products, including two new phones, a virtual reality headset and the Chromecast Ultra, CNNMoney report. The flagship announcement was the introduction of Pixel, the first Google phone to carry exclusively Google branding. The […]

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Report: Yahoo secretly hand customer emails to intelligence

Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter. The company complied with a classified U.S. government demand, scanning hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the behest of the […]

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Google launches offline YouTube app and Wi-Fi expansion in India

Google. Inc has laid out its plans on Tuesday at an event in New Dehli to help people save data and get online. To start, the tech giant is adapting its apps to handle slower mobile connections and is looking to add more Wi-Fi hotspots across the country, report according to CNNMoney. “While most of today’s launches focus […]

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EU threatens to fine Google over anti-competitive Android practices

Eurpean Unioun antitrust regulators plan to order Alphabet’s Google to stop paying financial incentives to smartphone makers to pre-install Google Search exclusively on their devices and warned the company of a large fine, an EU document showed. The document, running to more than 150 pages, was sent to complainants last week for feedback. Google received […]

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