Qualcomm has notched a win in its worldwide legal battle with Apple, announcing Friday that a jury in a federal court in San Diego found Apple infringed on three Qualcomm patents and owes the chip giant $31 million in damages. Devices infringing on at least one of the three non-standard essential patents include the iPhone…

An aftermarket connected car device is the first to be certified by CTIA’s IoT Cybersecurity Certification Program, which launched last August to help ensure the increasing number of cellular-connected devices have appropriate security capabilities.   The device, the Harman Spark, is offered exclusively by AT&T and plugs into a vehicle’s OBD-II port to deliver connected…

T-Mobile launched  free scam protection services two years ago, and has now expanded its ‘Caller Verified’ feature to seven additional devices. Caller Verified debuted in January and is T-Mobile’s implementation of the FCC-recommended STIR/SHAKEN standards to alert mobile users of and prevent against likely spam or scam calls. The latest phones to get the feature…

The first 5G smartphones have arrived – check out this week’s Tuesdays with Roger for Roger Entner’s take on the latest, plus reports that Huawei plans to sue the U.S. government and more talk of a nationalized 5G network. Follow Roger on Twitter at @RogerEntner for more insights throughout the week, and stay up to date on…

5G was certainly the darling of MWC 2019 in Barcelona last week, including flagship 5G smartphone reveals, new 5G equipment pacts, and demos galore. However, Ruckus VP of Product Marketing Mark Davis says the next-gen wireless technology won’t completely take over in the 5G era, as many people think.   Instead of a replacement to…

Israel-based NanoLock Security won the GSMA’s Four Years From Now (4YFN) competition in Barcelona this week for the company’s low-cost security and management platform for connected edge and IoT devices. NanoLock’s product uses virtually zero computing or power resources and prevents physical and cyber security attacks on connected IoT devices by protecting firmware, boot image…

HCL Technologies, a global technology company, and Sierra Wireless, a provider of fully integrated device-to-cloud solutions for the IoT, are honing in on if companies are leveraging their inventory and obtaining the correct information. For instance, are breweries monitoring their kegs’ temperatures and do they know when they need to make another batch? Now, HCL…

With its next-generation chipset already powering the first 5G smartphones, Qualcomm has now debuted a 5G CPE reference design built to help manufacturers develop 5G-capable fixed wireless home gateway products. The reference design, announced at MWC 2019 Barcelona, is for both sub-6 GHz and millimeter wave 5G fixed wireless broadband products and features Qualcomm’s recently…

China’s Huawei unveiled a new folding-screen phone on Sunday, joining the latest trend for bendable devices as it challenges the global smartphone market’s dominant players, Apple and Samsung. Huawei revealed its Mate X phone on the eve of MWC Barcelona, a four-day showcase of mobile devices, as the company battles U.S. allegations it is a…