Author: Kennedy Knight

The mobile market, like so many others that depend on the production of semiconductors, is not advancing as manufacturers would like it to. The reason is that we are immersed in a global processor manufacturing crisis and other components that hit almost everyone the same and that has dragged on since last year, from the confinements as a result of the pandemic. The perfect storm that caused the monumental traffic jam in the manufacture of semiconductors does not attend to reasons and everything indicates that we will have it on us also next year. But Samsung has gone further and…

Facebook has updated one of its most popular streaming games: Pac-Man. The classic “comecocos” receives a facelift while two novelties of great depth are included: multiplayer with up to three friends and a level creator; that can be shared and played with other Facebook contacts. Facebook Gaming is the entertainment area within the social network, there are space from streaming games included in the platform itself to videos about any game developed, also communities around them. Given that Gaming is at a disadvantage compared to platforms for more popular “gamers”, such as Twitch or Discord, Facebook is determined to strengthen…

With the growing concern about privacy, and the realization that the use of certain social networks does not represent any benefit for young people, Instagram has just included various tools with which to protect minors. More parental controls, adjustments within the reach of adolescents themselves and the impossibility that users who do not follow them can tag or mention them. Instagram is the social network of appearance, that space in which the windows are not always as real as they seem. And, under this aura of superficiality and perfection, it is adolescents who suffer the most from the constant bombardment…

Reach every corner of Spain with an optical fiber that offers at least 100Mbps It is the main objective of the 2025 plan of the Government of Spain, and for this it relies on the pace of deployment of operators facilitating investments with European and national funds. However, it seems that Vodafone already has enough with its current portfolio, adding both its FTTH fiber lines and its HFC coaxial lines inherited from the ONO purchase. The information is extracted from a CNMC resolution published last October, a report in which the activity of the telecommunications sector between 2015 and 2020…

You may have heard of Life360 on occasion or have even used the platform. In the latter case it is perhaps in which you have to be a bit more concerned, because now it has been known that after recently buying Tile, the company has sold the location data of its users. For those who do not know it, Life360 is a family location service which is presented as one of the alternatives to other applications on the market. A tool that has an application for Android and iOS and allows us to see the location of our friends and…

The telecommunications market has long tended to low cost. This is demonstrated by the data from the CNMC, which indicates that users prefer to opt for simpler and cheaper solutions; This is also demonstrated by the operators, who have ended up entering a price war that was unthinkable not so long ago. The consequences? The most obvious is that users can pay much less for the same or better services. But Telefónica, Vodafone and Orange are entering less, so to adapt to the new competitive environment and reduce costs, they are adjusting their workforce, simplifying their structures, and containing their…

Last May, the news broke that two of the telecommunications giants in Spain were negotiating a possible merger of their mobile networks in order to reduce costs. Both operators already had an agreement since 2019 and the idea was to extend it to large cities. The agreement would go beyond the main brands as a 50% owned subsidiary would even be created to bring together the employees of both companies. Now, according to BFM TV (through Reuters), a well-known French media outlet, both companies were negotiating a full merger. Apparently, the talks were underway from mid-2020 to early 2021 but…

A long, long time ago, so much so that it almost seems like a story told from grandparents to grandchildren, to talk to a person from a distance you had to call them at home. Whether it was to talk with who you liked and you had to risk having someone in your family answer, or to talk to a friend, what was used was the landline. AND the landline was in the house and it was the same for all family members. But mobile phones changed that and we started to carry our own phone number in our pocket,…

WhatsApp continues to take steps towards become a more secure and private service. It did so with the arrival of end-to-end encryption, later with the encryption of backup copies and, of course, with the arrival of ephemeral messages that disappear after the time that each user decides is appropriate. And the time counts from when the message is sent, it does not depend on whether it is read or not. Now WhatsApp is moving a little further along that path with new changes to its ephemeral messages, temporary messages as the company officially calls them. Now users can decide that…