Category: Tech

NEW YORK (AP): Retailers and carriers are preparing for an online holiday shopping surge that could tax shipping networks and lead to delivery delays. FedEx and UPS are ramping up their holiday hiring while expanding their weekend operations and asking retailers to use their shipping network when there is more slack. And stores are pushing… Continue reading Online shopping surge could lead to holiday delivery delays

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters): Apple Inc AAPL.O on Tuesday introduced a MacBook Air notebook and other machines with its first central processor designed in-house for Macs, a move that will tie its computers and iPhones closer together technologically. The new chip, called the M1, marks a shift away from Intel Corp INTC.O technology that has driven… Continue reading Apple launches MacBook laptops powered by its own computing chips

(Reuters): Apple Inc AAPL.O on Tuesday is expected to introduce Mac computers with its own processor chips, marking the start of its move away from Intel Corp’s INTC.O chips.Apple said in June that it would begin outfitting Macs with its own chips, which will build on its decade-long history of designing processors for its iPhones,… Continue reading Apple to unveil Macs with their own processors, widening its app ecosystem

(BBC): China has successfully launched what has been described as “the world’s first 6G satellite” into space to test the technology. It went into orbit along with 12 other satellites from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the Shanxi Province. The telecoms industry is still several years away from agreeing on 6G’s specifications, so it… Continue reading China sends ‘world’s first 6G’ test satellite into orbit

Beijing (IDC): According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, 84.8 million smartphones were shipped in China in the third quarter of 2020, down 14.3 percent year-on-year (YoY). This was the result of multiple factors: soft demand; Huawei’s supply constraints; and delayed flagship launches from both Huawei and Apple.According to the… Continue reading China’s smartphone market drop 14.3 pc in Q3 2020 under soft demand and delayed product availability; IDC Reports

Kathmandu: Viber has launched a new chatbot payment, a key feature of existing messaging systems, to mark a decade of service launch. Viber has announced that it is now expanding its services to Fintech.Viber users will now be able to use the platform to purchase goods and pay for services, using Google Payments or a… Continue reading Viber is moving towards financial technology, introducing payments through chatbots

NEW DELHI (Reuters): Samsung Electronics Co is seeing a big surge in consumer appliance sales during India’s festive season, a senior company executive said, helped by pent-up demand following a nationwide lockdown to battle the coronavirus pandemic.A slew of new launches across categories like televisions, refrigerators, and washing machines as well as financing schemes have… Continue reading Samsung consumer electronics sales boosted by India’s festive season

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters): Twitter Inc TWTR.N and Facebook Inc FB.O on Tuesday suspended several recently created and mostly right-leaning news accounts posting information about voting in the hotly contested U.S. election for violating their policies.One of those suspended, SVNewsAlerts, had more than 78,000 Twitter followers, after adding more than 10,000 in the past week.The account… Continue reading Twitter, Facebook suspend some accounts as U.S. election misinformation spreads online