Smartphone

The share of Internet users aged between 16 and 74 went up in 2018 by 5.3 percentage points, compared to the previous year, their number reaching 11.7 million persons, according to a conjecture survey carried out by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).

Turkey has so far identified over 92,000 users of ByLock, an encrypted smartphone app used by members of FETÖ, the country's interior minister said on Dec. 11.

Huawei is working on its own voice assistant that works outside of China, potentially pitting it against software produced by Google and Amazon, according to CNBC.

In China, Huawei has its own voice assistant called Xiaoyi which operates in its smart speaker called the AI Cube and its smartphones. But it is only for the Chinese market.

The Bulgarian manufacturer of notebooks and mobile phones "Pravetz" is looking for a new owner. The information appeared first on a web portal for the sale of companies and was confirmed by the manager of "Pravetz Bulgaria" Boyko Vuchev to Money.bg.

Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point on Sept. 7 said a surveillance operation had targeted the smartphones of several hundred Iranian citizens, including those of Turkish origin.

The municipal authority of Athens and Greece's National Observatory have developed and released a new smartphone application aimed at helping city residents and visitors protect themselves from heat waves.

Facebook Inc has said it has data sharing partnerships with at least four Chinese companies including Huawei, the world's third largest smartphone producer, which has come under scrutiny from U.S. intelligence agencies on security concerns.

For several years, consumers have constantly dreamed of the latest and most expensive smartphone models. They were both a symbol of financial status, as well as the progress of technology. For some time, however, people are most interested in far cheaper smartphone models, Engadget Online News reported.

Your list of the most needed things - phone, keys, purse - will soon be shortened to "phone purse." Apple is considering introducing a new iPhone feature that can unlock the doors of homes and cars.

A car with a Bulgarian registration was used by the perpetrators of the spectacular theft of a tech store in Belgium, local media reported.

On Saturday and Sunday, a European chain store in the northern Flanders region was robbed twice. Perpetrators were masked and used aluminum panels to damp the motion sensors in the room.