
Mobile World Congress 2020 cancelled
Massive withdrawals cause big pull out
Uncommon cold kills conference.

Ericsson pulls out of MWC
Cites virus health concerns
Fear of viral infection by the corona virus means that Swedish vendor Ericsson won't be attending the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona next month.

AI will tell you who to snog, marry, avoid
Romance disappears into servers
In five years from now you can abandon dating sites – if you want a squeeze - because artificial intelligence will even prompt you with chat-up lines and find the right person for you.

AMD powers Huawei notebook refresh
Ryzen fall
Huawei introduced two notebook PCs which use AMD chips and come with an interesting way to couple your smartphone to the machines.Sticking your smartphone on the PC lets you share information from phone to laptop without any dongles or USB copulation.

Johnson fudges Huawei strategy
Where there's a will, there's Huawei
The prime minister of the United Kingdom, Dominic Cummings Boris Johnson will give Chinese firm Huawei a limited licence to sell its kit in the country.

Graham Palmer retires from Intel
Turns in his chips for cash
British Intel legend Graham Palmer has retired from Intel UK. I met up with him a couple of weeks ago (pictured, in The Grapes, Oxford) and we shared some memories about the Intel Developer Forums we attended together.

USA “colludes” in Chinese spying
Comment: Hey, it's commerce and globalisation, guys
The Wall Street Journal has realised that American companies supply loads of tech to the People's Republic of China.

Nvidia gobbles up add-in board share
While market continues to soar
Jon Peddie research said that sales of add-in boards boomed in the third quarter of this year, increasing by 42 percent compared to the third quarter.

Pai says goodbye to American Huawei
Chevy equals levy
In a move which must alarm rural American ISPs, federal commications commissioner Ajit Pai more or less told broadband companies they had to rip out anything Chinese and replace them.

US extends Huawei's temporary licence
But Huawei says US itself suffers
The US Commerce Department said that it has granted a 90 day extension of its temporary general licence which will extend until February 16th next year.