US, China Lay Down Outline to Settle ZTE Ban Last month, the US Department of Commercebanned ZTEfrom selling its products in the country and prohibited US companies from selling to ZTE, alleging that the company violated sanctions against trade with Iran and North Korea. While the company tried to get the ban lifted by firstthreatening to take legal actionand thensending a request to the US government, it received no respite....

DigiGaon Brings Internet Access at Rs 5 to New ‘Digital Village’ in UP The Dhanauri Kalan village in Uttar Pradesh’s Gautam Buddha Nagar district is the sixth village in the country to benefit from the Ministry of Electronics and IT’s DigiGaon initiative. Minister of Electronics and IT, Ravi Shankar Prasad, recently inaugurated a WiFi choupal in the village, which will offer access to internet for as low as Rs. 5....

Facebook, Qualcomm Partner to Develop Terragraph WiFi Service In a bid to provide high-speed wireless services in crowded cities, Facebook has partnered with chipmaker Qualcomm to develop its Terragraph WiFi technology. The technology, which wasfirst unveiled back in 2016, is a millimeter-wavelength, 60GHz wireless system which can transmit internet through buildings in urban areas. According to a recentreportfromEngadget, Qualcomm will be incorporating the technology in its upcoming chipsets, which will allow manufacturers to build 60GHz broadcast equipment....

Moto G6, G6 Play Coming to India on June 4 as an Amazon Exclusive Last week, Motorola Indiastarted teasingthe launch of the Moto G6 series in the country. The devices werefirst launched in Brazillast month and are finally headed to the Indian market. While the company hadn’t officially revealed any launch details, anAmazon India listinghas now confirmed that the devices will be launched on June 4, exclusively on Amazon. While the listing only mentions the Moto G6, theofficial website for the G6 seriesconfirms that the company will only be launching the Moto G6 and the Moto G6 Play in the Indian market, leaving out the premium Moto G6 Plus, which is rather disappointing....

Samsung Summer Fest to Offer Attractive Discounts on TVs, Phones & Accessories From May 22-28 The upcomingSamsung Summer Fest, which will be hosted on the company’s own online platform between May 22 and May 28, will offer attractive deals on a variety of Samsung products, including smartphones, smartwatches, accessories, speakers, headphones, etc. According to a recent report fromGadgets 360, the company has partnered with Citibank for the duration of the sale to offer 10 percent additional cashback to all debit/credit card users....

TeenSafe Monitoring App Leaks Apple IDs of Several Young Users TeenSafe is a monitoring app onAndroidand iOS which allows parents to keep a track of their kids in order to keep them ‘safe’. Ironically, the app itself isn’t really safe to begin with. According to a recentreportfromZDNet, TeenSafe has been hosting users’ Apple IDs and passwords on open servers which are not even protected by a password. The controversial app allows parents to monitor their child’s text messages, location, call logs, and web browsing history....

Zuckerberg’s Meeting with the European Parliament Tomorrow Will Be Livestreamed Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently agreed to testify before the European parliament, with the President of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani, announcing thatZuckerberg would attend a closed-door meetingwith the representatives. I will not attend the meeting with Mr Zuckerberg if it’s held behind closed doors. It must be a public hearing – why not a Facebook Live? I strongly regret that the@EPPGrouphas colluded with extreme right to keep everything behind closed doors....