Mikael Ricknäs
London Correspondent
Mikael Ricknäs reports on telecommunications, cellular, and mobile technology for the IDG News Service, and is based in London.
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 processor gets technology to secure Android phones
The Snapdragon Smart Protect technology uses on-device machine learning to help detect zero-day malware
NTT helps integrate private and public clouds with dedicated connectivity
Purported advantages of the new Multi-Cloud Connect service include better reliability, faster speeds, lower latency and higher security
Operators and vendors join forces to push cellular IoT networks
An initiative backed by the likes of AT&T, Intel and Qualcomm is hoping to accelerate the rollout of cellular networks customized for machine-to-machine communications
Amazon, Microsoft strengthen tools to store app and enterprise data in their clouds
Vendors race to appeal to IT departments that want to move from in-house systems
Samsung banks on classy looks, high perfomance with Galaxy Note 5 and S6 Edge+
The two new Android phablets will ship on August 21
Symantec finally sells Veritas for $8 billion to investment group
Both Symantec and the separated Veritas are betting big on the cloud
Five smartphones to look forward to
Apple, Samsung Electronics and OnePlus are all expected to launch new models in the next couple of months
5G networks look to new frequencies to deliver gigabit speeds
New spectrum bands in the 6GHz to 100GHz range will be needed to operate a new generation of mobile networks
Fingerprint sensors on their way to more smartphones
Cheaper sensors and broader software support will make fingerprint authentication more accessible to app developers and service providers
Amazon Web Services jumps on Spark bandwagon
Growing competition for Spark services should help it take off on larger scale
5 things Apple is doing to please developers
Apple announced at this week's developers conference that Version 2.0 of Swift and upgraded frameworks for Watch apps are on the way