Hi John, Not long after the celebrations of Apple’s WWDC 2019 event, comes the news that iPhone has endured the toughest quarter for five years, with its market share in Europe in the first quarter of 2019 falling to 23%, according to research firm IDC.
In what appears to be an escalation of the row between the US and China, telecommunications equipment giant Huawei Technologies has written to American wireless provider Verizon asking it to pay more than US$1 billion to license more than 230 patents that the Chinese company owns. Meanwhile, Huawei Technologies has put on hold the launch of a new laptop in its Matebook series due to the ban placed on the company doing business with American companies. The Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) has welcomed the Federal Government’s appointment of a service provider for the National Relay Service (NRS) which delivers accessible telecommunications for the deaf or speech impaired. MariaDB Corporation, the company which came to life as a result of forking the open source MySQL database before it was taken over by Oracle, has released its Enterprise Server 10.4 codenamed Restful Nights as it claims to provide peace of mind to business users. Google has outlined the changes it proposes to make to the Chrome browser in order to reduce the ad-blocking potential of extensions and, as suspected, it's all done for the sake of users - not! And of course, there's plenty more so for all the news visit www.itwire.com. Have a great day! Stan Beer, Editor, iTWire ADVERTISE IN THIS NEWSLETTER & iTWire.com Contact: andrew.matler@itwire.com 0412 390 000
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