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Apple iPhone SE Black
Apple has released iOS 13.4.1 for the iPhone SE today. Ironically, anybody who pre-ordered their iPhone SE should be receiving them tomorrow, so you should expect the OS to be upgraded as you set it up.
Samsung UK Pay Monthly
Samsung’s online store in the UK has introduced pay monthly contracts to customers, allowing prospective buyers to choose from a variety of payment plans and acquire new devices through a wider range of payment platforms.
Sir Michael Rake
Huawei has appointed Sir Michael Rake to their UK board as a non-executive director. Sir Michael Rake is well known for serving as the chairman of BT for over a decade, as well as heading the Confederation of British Industry.
iOS 12
Apple has released iOS 13.4 which focuses on bug fixes. Most notably, they address a problem caused by iOS/iPadOS 13.4 wherein users running that version could not join FaceTime calls with users running older versions of iOS or macOS—iOS 9.3.6 or OS X 10.11.6 or earlier, to be specific.
mcptx
Samsung today announced a demonstration of the world’s first video call on Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platform using Mission Critical Push-to Talk, Data and Video (MCPTX, also known as Mission Critical Communications), a communications capability developed for first responders.
Huawei Celia
Due to the fact that the U.S. placed the company on a trade blacklist, Huawei is working really hard to develop alternatives to Google apps and services. One of the main features lost is Google Assistant, so Huawei has created its own voice assistant by the name of “Celia".
Microsoft
Microsoft has entered into an agreement to acquire Affirmed Networks, a privately held, Boston (USA)-based vendor of 4/5G mobile core networking software, for a reported USD1.35 billion at the end of March 2020.