2018 was a dark year for tech, says Vestager

2018 was a bad year for tech, EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager told Martha Lane-Fox in a BBC interview. Vestager instanced “forced misuse of data, manipulation, supervision, no respect of the citizen, no respect of individual” as examples of abuse and stated “there is an increasing awareness of the fact that we really need to ...

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BeiDou becomes fully operational

Yesterday, China’s BeiDou satellite positioning system BDS became fully operational. “This signifies that BDS has officially entered the global era as the BDS expands from a regional system to a global navigation system,” said BeiDou’s Ran Chenqi at the launch event, “from now on, no matter where you go, BDS will always be with you.”  ...

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Qualcomm business practices up before a judge

Next week the legality of the most notorious business model in the tech industry’s history will come under the scrutiny of a judge. The judge is Lucy Koh who has shown a very independent streak in judgments affecting big companies who have used bully-boy tactics. The case is the US Federal Trade Commission  v Qualcomm. ...

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BT network drops Huawei

The Emergency Services Network (ESN), which is being built by BT to provide priority access to mobile phone services for the emergency services, will be delayed as plans to use Huawei switchgear are being dropped. The ESN was to have been in place next year. The new date for completion of an Huawei-free ESN is ...

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