The chip manufacturer Qualcomm and the Californian Apple group have been in a bitter patent dispute for months.This is now tightening again, as Qualcomm calls for a US import stop for the current models iPhone 8 and iPhone X.Apple is in total infringing 16 patents of the semiconductor company.
Microsoft Teams, the Slack competitor of Microsoft, should still get a full-fledged guest access through a Microsoft account this year.But now Microsoft had to announce that this possibility is delayed by several months.
Apple is contemplating a new affordable 9.7-inch iPad priced which will be priced at USD 259 for 2018, as per reliable sources from upstream suppliers. The affordable iPad will be able to attract demand from price-oriented consumers and will let Apple maintain its current 10 million-unit tablet shipments per quarter.
The Facebook-owned instant messaging service WhatsApp is currently experiencing a failure again.At present, other social networking platforms are receiving massive numbers of users saying that their beloved messenger has not been usable for some time.An official statement of the developers is currently pending.
The search engine company Google is already considered a particularly diligent collector of user data.And now it emerges that the company might also have resorted to illegal methods to get more information – from iPhone users.And they want to drag Google now in court to account.
A serious gap kept the MacOS world in suspense this week, even though in practice it has hardly caused any serious damage.But it mainly harmed the image of the Californian group, they meekly had to admit that it will revise the development processes.This is also urgently needed, as shown by the fix provided.
Recently, it was revealed that HP has installed a kind of spyware on the computers, at least that was the charge.Among other things, the software that collects telemetry data should be responsible for high system load.The manufacturer has now commented on this and has denied the allegations.
The recent, rather embarrassing bug in Apple’s operating system MacOS could now at least lead to the fact that the group finally puts its processes in the software sector to the test.This is at least apparent from a statement provided by the company in conjunction with a patch intended to remedy the recently disclosed error.