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Nokia sells 51% stake in TD Tech company with Huawei

04/13/202304/12/2023 L. Green

The buyer for the shares was announced as New Oriental Advanced Materials, a Chinese company. Nokia has announced that it has sold its 51 percent stake in the China-based company TD Tech that it founded with Huawei in Beijing in 2005. The company makes a number of products for wireless carriers such as China Mobile. TD Tech has a number of research and development centers and a highly educated workforce focused on studying wireless communication technologies. It also produces a number of wireless products for customers including China Mobile where…

Huawei mobile technology patents extension granted to Nokia

01/13/202301/12/2023 Stephanie Beck

Even with US sanctions in place, the Chinee company is continuing to hold a lead position in networking tech. Huawei Technologies Co. has managed to land a mobile technology patent licensing deal extension with Nokia Oyj, indicating that the Chinese tech giant is managing to hold onto its leadership position in networking tech in the face of strong US sanctions. The deal also demonstrates the continuing interest in access to Huawei’s next gen telecom patents. The US has accused Huawei of posing a national security threat, but the international interest…

Apple snags the top spot back in China’s smartphone market in Q4 2021

01/27/202201/26/2022 L. Green

The iPhone maker has returned in the country with a vengeance, taking on its largest ever share. Apple Inc. took its largest ever share of the smartphone market in China in the fourth quarter last year, when it took the top spot in the country for the first time in six years. This ranking was published by research firm Counterpoint Research and was released yesterday. This achievement arrived at the same as the launch of the iPhone 13, and within a smartphone market environment where demand has been essentially stagnant.…

Smartphone privacy called into question as Android phones track owners that opted-out

10/15/202110/13/2021 Stephanie Beck

Smartphone privacy - Mobile data privacy

According to a new paper from Trinity College in Dublin, data sharing habits aren’t what they claim to be. A new report is calling smartphone privacy into question as researchers from Trinity College in Dublin showed that even when users opt out of tracking, devices are still riddled with unwanted trackers. Even savvy users who have avoided sketchy apps and have followed privacy guides aren’t immune. The smartphone privacy paper examined the data sharing habits of some of the popular app versions on Android, including those developed by Samsung, Huawei…

Huawei sanctions generate heavy criticism from the Chinese tech giant

05/20/202005/19/2020 Sam Lambert

The company says this ruling will impact its own business as well as US firms and the electronics industry. The US has imposed new Huawei sanctions that would require American chip manufacturers to apply for licenses to sell to their products to the Chinese company. These new restrictions have been slammed by the tech giant as well as by the government of China. The Chinese company and government are calling the new rules a malicious act of suppression. The Huawei sanctions are being called an act of suppression from the…