Daily Tech Headlines – April 30, 2018
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| Daily Tech Headlines – April 30, 2018 | |
| Number | 491 |
| Broadcast Date | APRIL 30, 2018 |
| Episode Length | 3:40 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt |
T-Mobile and Sprint want to merge, AMD has a 7-nanometer chip, and the fight over France.com.
Headlines
- T-Mobile USA and Sprint announced an agreement to merge. They are the third and fourth largest carriers in the US. Deutsche Telekom, which owns T-Mobile would have 42% of the combined company while Softbank which owns Sprint would own 27%. T-Mobile CEO John Legere would serve as CEO of the combined company which would operate under the name T-Mobile. The companies say they will be able to roll out 5G faster as a combined unit. Pending regulatory approval the merger is expected to finalize in the first half of 2019.
- AMD says it is sampling 7-nanometer Zen 2 processors with plans to launch in 2019. AMD is also testing a 7-nanometer Radeon Instinct machine learning graphics card to be manufactured by TSMC.
- In the 1990s, Jean-Noël Frydman bought France.com and set up a website for people in the US who were interested in French culture. He even cooperated with French agencies on its development. In 2015 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sued for control of the domain. In September last year a Paris Court of Appeals ruled that the site infringed France's trademark, and on March 12, the registrar transferred the domain to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Frydman filed suit April 19 in Virginia federal court accusing France of cybersquatting and reverse domain-name hijacking.
- China Times reports analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has left KGI Securities for another firm where he will focus on emerging industries. Kuo has been one of the leading analysts covering Apple, often predicting correctly what the company would do.
- Microsoft's Windows 10 April 2018 update is now available. It features Timeline which lets you resume activities across multiple Windows 10 devices, the ability to mute tabs in the Edge browser, quick Bluetooth pairing and more.
- Concerned about possible export restrictions by the US, China's Huawei has been developing its own OS for mobile phones, tablets and PCs. The US Department of Justice is investigating Huawei over allegations of violating sanctions against Iran. ZTE was recently punished for similar violations.
- YouTube is rolling out three ad programs to target viewers of video on TVs. YouTube On TV screens lets advertisers target TV along with the existing smartphone, tablet and desktop targeting. YouTube TV, the cable replacement service, will now have ad inventory available through Google Preferred which delivers ads to the top 5% YouTube channels. And a new segment in AdWords called Light TV viewers targets people who watch TV online and are unlikely to subscribe to pay TV.
- Ride-hailing company Didi Chuxing wants its team of automotive designers and engineers to work with car manufacturers to make "purpose-built" vehicles. The idea would be to design standards for intelligent driving technologies and charging facilities. GAC Motor and CHJ Automotive are said to already be collaborating with Didi. Didi thinks cars are generally over-specced for ride-hailing purposes.
- Estonia's Starship Technologies has launched a large-scale commercial autonomous delivery service with an aim of 1,000 robots on academic and corporate campuses. The launch is an extension of a test that has been run on Intuit's campus in Mountain View, California.
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Daily Tech Headlines – April 30, 2018 |
Followed by: "Daily Tech Headlines – May 1, 2018" |