Samsung Sees Smartphone and Tech Devices Demand Recovering in 2024 After Record Chip Loss

Samsung Sees Smartphone and Tech Devices Demand Recovering in 2024 After Record Chip Loss

Samsung Electronics flagged a continued recovery in memory chips and tech demand in 2024, after reporting a 34 percent drop in fourth-quarter profit despite a memory price rebound as consumer demand remained weak in many businesses. The world’s biggest maker of memory chips said it expected mobile and PC makers…

Google Has Created Digital Data Hegemony, CCI Alleges Before NCLAT

Google Has Created Digital Data Hegemony, CCI Alleges Before NCLAT

Fair trade regulator CCI on Thursday alleged that Google has created a digital data hegemony and called for a market space with “free, fair and open competition”. Concluding the arguments of the Competition Commission of India (CCI) before the appellate tribunal NCLAT in the Google matter, Additional Solicitor General N…

Delhi Police Seized 348 Mobile Phones in Jails in Last 2.5 Months

Delhi Police Seized 348 Mobile Phones in Jails in Last 2.5 Months

More than 340 mobile phones have been found in different jails in Delhi in the last two-and-a-half months, official data showed on Thursday. Director General (Prisons) Sanjay Baniwal told reporters that the jail authorities found 348 mobile phones in two-and-a-half months. “On Wednesday, the jail authorities conducted a raid in…

Smartphone Waste to Constitute Over 30 Percent of World’s Total Mobiles in 2022: Report

Smartphone Waste to Constitute Over 30 Percent of World’s Total Mobiles in 2022: Report

More than five billion of the estimated 16 billion mobile phones possessed worldwide will likely be discarded or stashed away in 2022, experts said Thursday, calling for more recycling of the often hazardous materials they contain.  Stacked flat on top of each other, that many disused phones would rise 50,000…

Government Mandates Registration of IMEI Number of All Mobile Phones Before Sale in India Starting 2023

Government Mandates Registration of IMEI Number of All Mobile Phones Before Sale in India Starting 2023

The government has made the registration of IMEI number of all mobile phones mandatory before their sale in India on its anti-counterfeit and lost handset blocking portal from January 1, 2023. According to a notification dated September 26, all mobile phones, whether made locally or imported, will need to be…

iPhone-Sized Beam-Steering Device to Take Mobile Communications Beyond 5G: Study

iPhone-Sized Beam-Steering Device to Take Mobile Communications Beyond 5G: Study

In a step that may help achieve better network connectivity in the near future, scientists have developed a beam-steering antenna that enhances data transmission beyond 5G standards. This will give access to a range of frequencies for mobile communications that were earlier out of reach. With the size of an…