While Xiaomi was struggling just to meet the low-end of its sales goals for last year, Huawei was blowing past its own sales goals to become the largest smartphone manufacturer in China, and the third-largest in the world behind Apple and Samsung. From the reports we late last year, this outcome was
China’s latest attempt to control what’s said on the Internet comes in the form of an amendment to the government’s criminal law, which makes it illegal to circulate false stories on the Internet. As always, China is claiming that these new rules are there to protect civilians, but
It looks like you can add Samsung to the ever-growing list of companies that want to create their own network of satellites that would bring affordable Internet access to billions of people. Internet data usage is growing at a rapid pace, especially on mobile devices, which is going to put massive s
We’ve been hearing a lot about using satellites to provide Internet access across the globe over the past year or so. While companies like Facebook and Google recently abandoned such plans, Elon Musk still intends to have SpaceX develop its own system of Internet-beaming satellites. OneWeb may
When Mozilla first introduced its Bug Bounty Program a few years ago, you could earn as much as $3,000 for finding any bugs in the company’s software that was rated high or critical. That was already a pretty sweet reward, but now the company is taking things even further by making $3,000 the
America’s dominance over the mobile market, at least in terms of the operating systems that power our mobile devices, has never really sat well with Russia, and recent fears over government spying have only served to add fire to the flames of discontent. That’s why Russia wants to create
These past few years has seen the number of large-scale hacks increase by a significant amount, with a significant chunk of them originating from China or Russia, and a large portion of these being state-funded. With this in mind, it’s a bit unsettling that the two nations have entered into a
Intel’s hardware powers the vast majority of PCs out there, as it always has, but the company wasn’t able to bring this dominance over to the mobile market when smartphones started to become popular. Rather than using its near complete market dominance to stifle the competition, as Intel
Apple and Samsung have pretty much solidified their position atop the American mobile market for life, but the number three spot is transitory. While that third-place spot is currently occupied by LG, that may change in the near future if Huawei has its way. The company has been developing a solid r
Few of us in the West have heard about Baidu, but down in China, there are few who haven’t. The technology giant has the same presence there that companies like Facebook and Google have here, and it wants to use this to cash in on the wearable market. Yesterday, the company launched a website
Lizard Squad, a hacker group, has been pretty busy over Christmas. First it knocked down PlayStation Network and Xbox Live, bringing online gaming on PlayStation and Xbox consoles to a standstill, and then set its sights on an anonymity network called Tor. Lizard Squad shifted its focus over the wee
Prepare your wallets, folks. Amazon about to unleash eight days of killer deals on the world. Amazon announced that it will launch its full Black Friday sale push today. For 10 days the company will unleash new deals every day, and will even have some time periods where new deals go up every 10 minu