
Huawei outsells Apple
US ban fails to help Apple out
Fruity cargo cult Apple has fallen from being a number two to a disappointing number three on the smartphone league tables after getting a good kicking from a firm that the US government has done its best to make extinct.

AI will tell you who to snog, marry, avoid
Romance disappears into servers
In five years from now you can abandon dating sites – if you want a squeeze - because artificial intelligence will even prompt you with chat-up lines and find the right person for you.

Huawei dismisses German newspaper's spy claims
Fake news still no actual evidence
Huawei has denied a newspaper report that alleged the German government was in possession of evidence that it had cooperated with Chinese intelligence.

AMD powers Huawei notebook refresh
Ryzen fall
Huawei introduced two notebook PCs which use AMD chips and come with an interesting way to couple your smartphone to the machines.Sticking your smartphone on the PC lets you share information from phone to laptop without any dongles or USB copulation.

Banning Huawei would have set UK back years
1812 overture
The UK government has given the green light for telecoms firms to use Huawei technology in “non-core” parts of the country’s 5G networks, reports leading data and analytics company GlobalData.

Johnson fudges Huawei strategy
Where there's a will, there's Huawei
The prime minister of the United Kingdom, Dominic Cummings Boris Johnson will give Chinese firm Huawei a limited licence to sell its kit in the country.

Pentagon vetoes anti-Huawei moves
Ban could mean the US loses its technical edge
The US Commerce Departments moves to shut down Huawei on security grounds are being stalled by the Pentagon – ironically the outfit which should be worried about US security.

TomTom closes deal with Huawei
Going Dutch to bypass America's Google
Dutch navigation and digital mapping company TomTom said on Friday it had closed a deal with China's Huawei Technologies for the use of its maps and services in smartphone apps.

Huawei sold 240 million smartphones in 2019
6.9 million 5G devices
Huawei had a pretty good year, and despite the trade wars between China and the US, the company not only rolled some of the best smartphones on the market but also managed to move 240 million smartphones and over 6.9 million 5G smartphones in 2019.

Merkel aims to heal party split on Huawei
Social Democrats want to surrender to the US
Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet senior conservative lawmakers on Thursday to resolve a dispute in her own party over whether to bar China’s Huawei from the country’s 5G network rollout, party sources said.