Apple vs. Qualcomm… again!
It seems as if Qualcomm tries to squeeze out
money from Apple wherever possible. Their
newest lawsuit case is about 31 million US$
for three patent infringements.
It seems as if Qualcomm tries to squeeze out
money from Apple wherever possible. Their
newest lawsuit case is about 31 million US$
for three patent infringements.
No good time for Boeing at the moment. Another
plane of the just recently released Boeing 737 Max 8
has crashed in Ethopia. Few months before the same
type crashed in Indonesia. What’s wrong, Boeing?
Google Chrome is one of the browsers that have a wide spread
and are commonly used. While Google highlights it’s privacy
features, doubters see a massive violation of one’s privacy as the
browser seems to reveal much more about it’s user than expected!
USB4 is already far in progress when it comes to definition of it’s
specifications. All specification details shall be manifested in the
second half of 2019 so that devices and cables can be released in
2020. Compatibility downwards to USB2.0 will be guranteed.
They’re majestic, gigantic and they look like nothing could shake
them at any rate. However it seems that they are weak against
strong winds. A cruise ship has been hit by strong winds close to
New York, USA. The cruise ship was en route to Florida
With the “Vision 2020” concept, Volvo is planning to reduce
the Vmax (maximum velocity) of their cars to 180 kmph.
Volvo states that reducing the maximum velocity can save
lifes in traffic. Most models of Volvo speed up to 250 kmph.
The international Motor show in Geneva is just
few days ahead. On thursday the motor show
is opening it’s doors to the public and all major
motor brands are presenting their latest cars.
Things you hate about Windows…
You know it well. You fire up your box and you expect it
to run as intended. And while you wait for Windows to
boot up and show you the desktop, you do other stuff.
We must admit it. The Dash buttons from Amazon were some
sort of useful gadget: You run out of some everyday use material
and with the click of a button you get the material restocked.
What sounds practical at first had an odd side taste however!
Energizer is a brand most people know for batteries.
However in the past they brought out some proto-
types of smartphones with a big battery. The newest
“invention” is their Energizer Power Max P18K Pop.
Bigger is better… if it’s from the view of most
companies selling products or releasing new ones.
So it isn’t surprising that SanDisk and Micron have
shown their 1TB microSDXC cards.
The MWC has just begun and Nokia is the brand
in focus with their expected flagship, the Nokia 9
PureView. HMD Global Foundries has acquired
Nokia from Microsoft after it’s takedown.
Everything’s 5G. That’s the motto for this years’ MWC
in Barcelona. LTE Next Gen is THE standard when it
comes to high-bandwidth data throughput for mobiles.
So it’s not a big surprise that every major brand goes 5G.
Well, till now the iPhone XS Max was considered the most
expensive smartphone to date. Samsung took the step to
overtake Apple here and just announced the Galaxy Fold.
The special design is probably the reason for the price.
It is already well-known that the Apple Watch 4th Generation
has a well-functioning ECG component inside. Although it’s
quite reliable function, the ECG function is still not available to
all customers outside USA. And still no date visible when it will!
As you might have noticed, this post intended for Feb. 21th,
was not released, so it has been posted today on Feb. 22th.
We updated to WordPress 5.1 and had to iron out some kinks
so that nothing will interfere with your user experience here.
Big blackout in Berlin-Köpenick. It seems as if a construction
company has hit an important electric link at the Salvador-
Allende-Bridge. Not only has the drilling into the powerline
ceased electrical delivery to Köpenick but also the reserve line.
Seagate just released an information about upcoming
16TB HDDs but already aims for higher capacities according
to several sources. Not only is the capacity increased but also
the read and write speeds are increased using 2 actuator units.
Tough times for Airbus! It seems the interest of the must luxorious
large airplane has fallen since Emirates has reduced their number
of orders from 162 to 123 planes of this type. A significant reason
for Airbus to cancel the production of the A380, the biggest airplane!
The Fight between Apple and Qualcomm is still ongoing but
Apple found a way to circomvent the sale prohibition spoken
in favor to Qualcomm in December 2018. Now you can get the
“old” series iphones again using Qualcomm modems.
Apple is known for it’s policy about new products being held
secretly until the publication on their events. With the long
awaited AirPower charge station, there was also a teaser for
new AirPods to be released as well.
Sorry for the lack of posts since friday. With the update of
some plugins the creation and publishing of posts have
become impossible as we were faced with a lot of PHP errors
in the past 3 days. But after some bug bounty, we’re back!
It seems as if the new A13 boinic chip for the upcoming iPhone
models will again be manufactured by TSMC. This, because TSMC
is the only chip foundry that can produce reliably using the 7nm
process where other foundries still aren’t able to yield 10nm stable!
Micron has just announced their success to produce
Octa-NAND memory chips. With this, even bigger SSDs
might become possible. The current technology for
SSDs is QLC (Quad Level Cell) allowing 4 bits per cell.

LTE Advanced (5G) is proceeding fast. Today Switzerland has
finished the auction-sale of the frequency bands used for 5G
to the three major mobile providers (Swisscom, Salt, Sunrise).
But as always there are doubters who think, 5G is bad for us!
If you recently updated your firefox, you might have experienced
problems with HTTPS sites. Main problem for the ominous
SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_USER problem are certificates from a
handful of virus scanners. Among them are Kaspersky and Avast.
If you do so, then you’d better consider upgrading your browser.
There are several HTML5-based security holes that can be used
to allow malicious code being executed on your machine. The
main source are MITM attacks. Fixes are already available.
The fight “Qualcomm vs. Apple” goes to the next round.
As FTC yesterday stated, the evidence against Qualcomm
is overwhelming yet hasty conclusions are not to be made!
The case to be fully analyzed will definitely take some time!
This is actually a serious bug that forced Apple to take down
the GroupChat function in FaceTime until further notice. But
what has happened? It seems as if you can spy on your call
partner using GroupChat without him noticing it!
When it comes to Apple, cencept wivdeos and teasers are
not far away. This new teaser video shows the successor of
the iPhone Xs in a version that looks similar to the new iPad
lineup. also the triple-camera follows the common design.
Samsung is quite active when it comes to releases of new hardware.
Just with the announcement of the Samsung Galaxy S10 series, they
also announce the Isocell Slim 3T2 20MP image sensor that could lift
the image quality of smartphones to a new level.
The Samsung Galaxy S10 is the successor to the current
top line model of Samsung. Now the prices for EMEA
have leaked and it seems as if Samsung is trying to have
the most expensive smartphone in their portfolio.