Apple left nearly 1 million apps off the App Store during 2020 In its fight against cybercrime, Apple was able to protect its mobile users from fraudulent operations worth more than 1.5 billion dollars last year. During 2020 it left out of the App Store about 1 million applications dangerous. This has been communicated by the North American company, which is implementing new more mechanisms to address […]
Microsoft says goodbye to its Azure Blockchain service The Azure Blockchain service from Microsoft will not go ahead . The US giant has announced that it will withdraw it in a few months, on September 10 . Then neither new members nor existing implementations , which will no longer support this managed blockchain service. Therefore, Microsoft is asking users to migrate their data […]
Telefónica Tech and Microsoft integrate their 5G connectivity and edge computing capabilities Telefónica, through Telefónica Tech , has reached a collaboration agreement with the American company Microsoft regarding Azure Private Edge Zone. Together they will deliver private 5G connectivity and local edge computing to the industrial sector . Telefónica Tech will join its private 5G connectivity capabilities with Microsoft’s edge computing at customer sites , in such […]
Microsoft, the first large technology company to start storing personal data on servers located in the EU In July 2020 the Court of Justice of the European Union declared void the privacy shield called Privacy Shield, an agreement between the United States and the European Union that allowed large technology companies to store personal data of their users on servers located in the United States. This consequence of the entry into force […]
Apple invests 410 million dollars in a company specialized in laser Apple has announced an investment of 410 million dollars from its Fund for Advanced Manufacturing in Finisar , the company based in Pennsylvania, specialized in laser technology and responsible for the technology behind Face ID o of the LIDAR system present in some iPhone and iPad models. Finisar was acquired in 2018 by the company […]
They discover a vulnerability in the Qualcomm MSM modem present in millions of phones The technology for mobile phones developed by the semiconductor manufacturer Qualcomm is back in the spotlight. Check Point Research has discovered a vulnerability in their mobile station modem (MSM) , present, according to their calculations, in about 40% of the terminals that exist worldwide. These are phones with Android operating system, including high-end models from […]
Amazon earns more than 1.5 million euros every two minutes Jeff Bezos tops the list of richest people in the world. And his great creation, Amazon , continues to grow over the years. During the last quarter increased its sales by 44% net. Amazon has gone from 75.5 billion at the beginning of 2020 to 108.5 billion today. {{ 1}} And it’s not the only […]
Google to build Vodafone Cloud data platform During the next six years Google will provide Vodafone with a data platform in the Cloud that will offer service to the employees of the telephone operator in the 26 countries where it maintains a presence. {{ 1}} In addition to providing new services and serving for the global management of the company’s data, (Vodafone) […]
Alberto Granados will be the new president of Microsoft Spain Pilar López will cease to be the president of Microsoft Spain after six years of leadership to become vice president of Sales, Marketing and Operations of the company in the Western European region .
European Commission finds Apple guilty of abuse of dominant position over other music streaming platforms In June 2020 the European Commission launched an investigation into Apple’s practices around the music streaming business which has now concluded with the decision to find it guilty of favoring Apple Music over Spotify and the rest of music streaming platforms . So The Vice-President of the European Commission, Margrethe Vestager, has communicated through her […]
Google Introduces Self-Adjusting Desktop Prototype for Shared Offices The moment is only a prototype, but Google has already shown what we could begin to see in many offices that, after confinement due to the pandemic and a gradual return to work, find a hybrid model of operation in workspaces shared: a self-adjusting desk, which adapts to the preferences of each employee who is […]
Microsoft exceeds 12,780 million net profit during the first quarter of 2021 Microsoft has released its results for the first quarter of 2021, which has resulted in a significant increase in profits compared to the same period last year. Specifically between January and March In 2021, Microsoft’s net profit has been 12,781 million dollars, representing 43.7% compared to the figures in the same period of 2020. In […]
Detachable tablet shipments grew nearly 30% during the fourth quarter While the coronavirus pandemic has affected the commercialization of mobile phones has boosted other markets for technological devices such as tablets. This is how certifies an analysis of the IDC consultancy, which estimates that during the fourth quarter of 2020, 52.2 million tablets were distributed worldwide , which represents a year-on-year increase of 19.5% . […]
Gartner believes the ‘smartphone’ market will revive in 2021 Many categories of services and technological devices have been favored by the coronavirus pandemic. And, specifically, by the obligation to stay at home and the need to transform businesses digitally. smartphones , however, are not included among the beneficiaries. Global smartphone sales fell 10.5% in 2020 , affected by the impact of the health crisis. […]