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Apple told to yank chat apps
Published in News


Making its Walled Garden even less attractive

The Chinese government has ordered Jobs' Mob to remove several top chat apps from its App Store in China, marking the latest in a series of censorship demands on the tech giant in its second-largest market.

Google sacks workers involved in anti-Israel protest
Published in News


So they have been arrested and are now jobless

Search outfit Google has listened to the 28 workers who protested against a deal the technology giant has with the Israeli government and has decided to open a series of rational talks about the matter – no, not really it has fired the lot of them as a warning to other staff who get in the way of it making millions on the back of military contracts.

Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptops pictured
Published in Mobiles


Could be officially unveiled on April 20

Some Lenovo laptops with the Qualcomm Snapdragon Elite X SoC have been spotted online, including the Yoga Slim 7 14 and Thinkpad T14s. According to Qualcomm, these could be unveiled at the Lenovo Tech World '24 keynote on April 20th.

Samsung and Qualcomm team up on 3GPP Release 17
Published in Network


Claim to increase downlink speeds by 20 per cent

Samsung Networks and Qualcomm have used advanced modulation, as outlined in 3GPP Release 17, to increase downlink speeds by approximately 20 per cent compared to 256 QAM.

Stop seeing Nvidia as a chip company
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Wall Street analyst says it is much bigger than that

Nvidia would be more valuable if its investors stopped seeing it as a chip company,  Evercore's Mark Lipacis claims.