Tech Roundup: Amazon "Ice" Phone, OnePlus 5 & More
[A recurring feature on the latest in Science & Technology.]
- Chinese authorities arrest 22 people in connection with illegal sale of personal information of an unspecified number of Apple customers.
- Google releases Android O (aka 8.0) Developer Preview 3 with final APIs, redesigned clock app and coloured media notifications.
- Apple's concerns with developing new smart features while balancing user privacy stifling development, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal (paywall).
- Apple previews Business Chat in iOS 11 for customer service and iMessage-oriented shopping.
- Amazon planning to release new budget phones branded as "Ice" with access to Google services, reports NDTV Gadget 360.
- U.S. banks join hands together for a new peer-to-peer payments solution called Zelle in an attempt to rival Venmo, Square Cash and Apple's upcoming new offering.
- Snap Inc. acquires Placed, a location-based analytics and ad-measurement startup, to measure its sponsored geofilters worth.
- Kaspersky Lab files antitrust complaint against Microsoft with Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS), "claiming that Microsoft is using its dominant position with Windows to push its own anti-virus software over competitor products with Windows 10."
- OnePlus to be unveil its next-gen smartphone OnePlus 5 on June 20.
- Alphabet Inc. sells its robotics arm Boston Dynamics to Japanese telecom giant SoftBank.
- Microsoft to shutter document sharing platform Docs.com on Dec. 15, 2017 in favour LinkedIn's SlideShare.
- Pinboard acquires rival social bookmarking site Delicious; to shut it down on June 15.
- Pop star Taylor Swift's entire back catalog returns to Spotify and other services as music streaming becomes the norm (and also right in time for her new album release).
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