After three successful joint projects, South Korean tech company LG Electronics allegedly confirmed that it will no longer make the next generation of Google Nexus smartphone. This will give other companies a chance to work with the software giant.
Apple won a big case on February 29, Monday when a New York judge ruled the company was not required to unlock an iPhone 5s running iOS 7. The case involves the seized smartphone of a drug dealer who has pleaded guilty and is older than the current battle with the feds over the iPhone 5c of a dead terrorist in the San Bernardino shooting last December.
A Google self-driving car recently hit a public bus while it was in autonomous mode on a road in Mountain View, California. The minor accident happened on Valentine's Day and the Alphabet company has submitted a report to California's Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). This was not the first time a driverless car has been in an accident but it was the first time it caused one.
Nokia announces its plan of selling new range of smartphones at the recent Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2016.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg topped the list of a recent poll of most liked tech CEOs by earning a 48 percent favorability rating. Apple's chief executive Tim Cook earned the No. 2 spot with 39 percent, which could have been affected by the tech giant's battle with the FBI about user privacy involving iPhones and iPads. Amazon's Jeff Bezos was just 1 percentage point behind, while Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey got 21 percent as he tries to turn around the microblogging service.
Microsoft's Lumia 640 smartphone has been discounted to about $30 at Walmart and Best Buy as an AT&T GoPhone pre-paid package. The cheap phone will include a price cut of about 50 percent from both retail giants, and already be upgraded to Windows 10 Mobile
Tech giant Apple is stepping up its legal battle against the United States government in what is cited by many analysts would be a significant legal debate regarding the future of data security. The Cupertino based tech giant, in a new court paper, claims that a federal judge overstepped her judicial authority when she issued an order to hack the iPhone owned by the perpetrator of the bloody San Bernardino attack.
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently expressed his dismay about incidents wherein Facebook employees crossed out “Black Lives Matter” and replaced it with “All Lives Matter” on the walls of the company headquarters located in Menlo Park, California.
Sprint has resurrected its two-year contracts for smartphones after ending them early last month, which makes it the only major nationwide carrier in the United States to offer the payment plan. Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T have not brought the option back for new mobile devices. The telecom giant Sprint stated that it took the action after receiving feedback from customers that they wanted to have the 24-month option.
Sony has filed a patent application for a virtual reality glove controller that could provide precise VR hand-tracking without holding the device. This gadget could offer more functionality than PlayStation Move controllers released in for PS3 due to various sensors that would be an upgrade of the handheld wand.
