30 Jan

Weekly Tech News Headlines – Jan 20 2021

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 Ban on Huawei strengthens in USAAccording to sources from Reuters, the Trump administration in its last few days of office has decided to revoke the licenses of companies that supply materials to the Chinese Telecommunication giant, Huawei. Companies like Intel and Japanese chip maker Kioxia Corp were informed that they would no longer be able to sell to Huawei. The administration plans to revoke several dozen more such licenses. US President Donald Trump has long considered Huawei’s dominance in the telecommunications world to be a threat to their national security. Huawei in May 2019, is put on an "entity list,"…
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10 Sep

Huawei HarmonyOS 2.0 to be launched for all smart devices by Oct 2021

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 Huawei is continuously facing severe sanctions and lacks important access to US-developed software systems and hardware since 2019. This includes restrictions for not using any Google services in their smartphones and other Android platform devices. The lack of essential Google services such as Google Play Store, Google Maps in an Android device, is creating the distance between consumers and Huawei.Huawei in response has already started working on its own operating system named HarmonyOS to tackle this challenge. During the company's annual developer’s conference it is announced that HarmonyOS will be open source in a similar manner to that of AOSP…
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14 Jul

5G Network: UK bans Huawei from future expansion in country

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The UK government on Tuesday announced the removal of existing equipment of Chinese Huawei by 2027 and a ban on buying new equipment from the company from December 31 2020.The decision comes following new advice produced by the National Cyber Security Center (NCSE), chaired by UK PM Boris Johnson, on the impact of US sanctions against the telecommunications vendor.Technical experts at the NCSC reviewed the consequences of the sanctions and concluded the company will need to do a major reconfiguration of its supply chain as it will no longer have access to the technology on which it currently relies.They found…
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