Huawei

Huawei has been in rough waters so far in 2019, and it doesn’t look like they’ll be getting out any time soon.

A 13-count indictment was unsealed earlier this week in a federal court in Brooklyn, New York, charging four defendants. The indicted defendants include Huawei and two Huawei affiliates, Huawei Device USA and Skycom Tech,  as well as Huawei’s chief financial officer (CFO) Wanzhou Meng (Meng).

Yesterday The New York Times published an explosive report claiming that Chinese spies have been eavesdropping on calls made on President Trump’s personal, unsecured iPhone. How did China respond today? By suggesting Trump switch to a Huawei phone.

China's Huawei has paid for Australian politicians' overseas trips more than any other company in the world.

Over the last eight years, the Chinese firm has funded 12 international trips to China for federal MPs, more than double the number of trips provided by the next highest corporate sponsor, Fortescue Metals Group, owned by mining billionaire Andrew Forrest. The Chinese government also paid for accommodation for seven trips.

One week after unveiling its P9 flagship smartphone, Chinese electronics giant Huawei has now joined the throng of tech companies embracing virtual reality (VR), with a new wearable headset of its own.

Unlike Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, or PlayStation VR, Huawei is adopting a Samsung Gear VR-style approach, which means that this only works in tandem with your smartphone. But it’s actually more like the LG 360 VR, insofar as you connect your phone to the unit via a USB cable. So it merges the power and processor of the phone with a built-in screen inside the headset itself.

Past political trouble in the U.S. isn't stopping Huawei Technologies from selling its enterprise services in the country.

The Chinese company, which was labeled a U.S. national security threat in 2012, has been effectively blocked from selling telecommunication gear to U.S. carriers. Government officials there are concerned about Huawei's alleged ties with the Chinese government, even as the company has repeatedly denied the claims.

Chinese equipment supplier Huawei has been facing fears in the UK over exactly how secure their gear really is. To assuage these fears the company created the Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre (HCSEC) in Oxfordshire back in 2010. The tricky part is, many of the employees and officers of the HCSEC are also Huawei employees.

It doesn’t take a genius to question whether Huawei is the right entity to determine if Huawei products pose a threat. And so, in an attempt to legitimize the HCSEC Huawei created the HCSEC Oversight Board – again, with Huawei employees in place.

Huawei might not be well-known in the US, but behind Apple and Samsung, the Chinese company is currently battling for the #3 smartphone spot with Lenovo and Xiaomi. At Mobile World Congress this year, the company surprised us by taking on the Android Wear smartwatch category, and the result is something that looks really good—easily the best smartwatch of MWC.

U.S. security concerns may still haunt the reputation of Huawei Technologies, but the Chinese company’s elusive founder brushed off any involvement in state-sponsored cyber espionage in a rare interview on Thursday.

“We are a Chinese company, but we will never hurt another country,” said Ren Zhengfei, in an webcast interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

The Ascend Mate2 has a 6.1-inch (15.5-centimeter) screen, making it more than twice as big as an iPhone 5. It's almost the size of a tablet, giving rise to the half-joking term "phablet." It's the successor to a phone of the same size launched last year.

Britain will clear Chinese telecoms equipment firm Huawei to run a UK-based cyber security centre if it agrees to tighter rules to allay spying and hacking fears, a person familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.

Huawei supplies software and equipment which channels phone calls and data around Britain and has found itself at the centre of a debate, particularly in the United States, over whether it is a risk for governments to allow foreign suppliers access to their networks.