Debt and claims

US satellite broadband provider Hughes Network Systems may have to shut its Indian operations due to unpaid levies owed to the government, which could put thousands of banking services at risk, a company letter seen by Reuters showed. The Supreme Court late last year ordered a number of telecom companies, including Hughes and larger firms like Vodafone, to pay billions of dollars owed to the government. Hughes' India unit provides services to defence, education and banking sectors in the country and told the telecom ministry in a letter dated February 20 that it faces bankruptcy as it can't pay the Rs 600 crore ($84 million) it owes. The closure of the company could disrupt connectivity at more than 70,000 banking locations and many critical satellite networks in the Indian navy, army and railways, Hughes' India President Partho Banerjee said in the letter, which was seen by Reuters. "We are facing a huge demand ... which by no means is serviceable by us and is in fact pushing … [Read more...] about Telecom crisis: This US company may have to shut India operations

A Medium blog post, now deleted but available in Internet archives, documents how Slickwraps' "abysmal cybersecurity" permitted anyone to upload a file to root, leading to remote code execution (RCE) attacks and the ability to execute shell commands. A single upload.php file was at fault, according to Lynx0x00's penetration testing report.  … [Read more...] about Slickwraps says customer trust was ‘violated’ in data breach caused by glaring security holes

Realme is releasing the X50 Pro in Europe, China, and India at first, and while pricing details aren’t yet final, the company tells The Verge it should come in between €550-650 (roughly $600-700) in Spain and cost less in China. That still makes it by far the most expensive Realme phone yet, but one that gets the company onto the list of those producing high-performance 5G devices for 2020. And with Samsung setting the floor for its new Galaxy S20 range at $999, Realme still has room to provide a significant discount in the 5G space. … [Read more...] about Realme’s X50 Pro has a Snapdragon 865 and 5G for $600

NEW DELHI: Xiaomi’s Redmi brand launched its latest entry-level smartphone — Redmi 8A Dual earlier this month. The company has now announced that the smartphone will be available in the country via open sale for a limited period of time. The open sale will be at midnight on February 25. The customers who are planning to purchase the smartphone can go to Amazon India and Mi.com websites. The Redmi 8A Dual comes in two variants — 2GB priced at Rs 6,499 and 3GB priced at Rs 6,999. The company claims that the smartphone comes with Aura X Grip design and P2i coating which makes it splash resistant. The smartphone comes in Midnight Grey, Sea Blue, and Sky White colour options. Redmi 8A Dual specifications The Redmi 8A Dual features a 6.22-inch HD+ IPS display. The dot notch screen is protected with a coating of scratch-resistant glass. The smartphone runs Android operating systems and is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 439 processor. It comes in two variants — 2GB … [Read more...] about Redmi 8A Dual to go on open sale for a limited period

Over the past couple of years there have been numerous reports that the company is working on a pair of Apple-branded over-ear headphones. In early 2018, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo and Bloomberg both reported that the headphones were due to release before the end of 2018, but in June Bloomberg subsequently reported that they’d been delayed following “development challenges.” Most recently, Kuo predicted last month that Apple would release a pair of high-end Bluetooth headphones in the first half of 2020. … [Read more...] about Apple’s over-ear headphones could be launching soon