Privacy and digital rights advocates largely prefer the approach of building a travel device from scratch, but they caution that a phone that is too squeaky clean, too much like a burner phone, can arouse suspicion. “You have to ‘seed’ the device. Use the phone for a day or even for a few hours. It…
Mainland Chinese manufacturers at a trade show in Hong Kong have been keen to diversify their markets towards the Middle East to mitigate the impact of the intensifying trade war. More than 150,000 products were on display at the second phase of the Global Sources Hong Kong Shows held at the AsiaWorld-Expo from Friday to…
A reprieve from the weekend’s tariff exemption on electronic goods proved short-lived for Chinese manufacturers and exporters, as Washington, citing national security concerns, moves ahead with plans for new tariffs on Chinese tech products. On Sunday, US President Donald Trump announced on social media that the exemption for smartphones and laptops from China would be…
The Trump administration signaled on Sunday that it would pursue new tariffs on the powerful computer chips inside smartphones and other technologies, just two days after it excluded a variety of electronics from the steep import taxes recently applied on goods arriving from China. The push came as President Trump’s top economic advisers scrambled to…
STORY: President Donald Trump’s administration granted exclusions from steep reciprocal tariffs on smartphones, computers and some other electronics imported largely from China, providing a big break to tech companies that rely on imported products. In a notice to shippers late on Friday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection published a list of tariff codes excluded from…
The United States has exempted tariffs on laptops, smartphones, and other tech items in the ongoing trade war with China. This move is expected to benefit tech companies globally. Machines used to make semiconductors have also been exempted from tariffs. The decision comes as a relief for China, with the US ‘blinking first’ in the…
After more than a week of ratcheting up tariffs on products imported from China, the Trump administration issued a rule late Friday that spared smartphones, computers, semiconductors and other electronics from some of the fees, in a significant break for tech companies like Apple and Dell and the prices of iPhones and other consumer electronics….
You little anarchist. They told you to switch to airplane mode, and you just … didn’t. Maybe you were sending one last Slack; maybe you decided not to take PTO and you’re in the middle of a Zoom call; or maybe you just don’t like being told what to do. Either way, you’re not alone….
US President Donald Trump has emphasised that the United States cannot depend on China for essential technologies like semiconductors, chips, smartphones, and laptops, the White House said on Saturday (April 12), following a decision to exempt these items from steep new tariffs. The exemptions mark a significant policy move within Trump’s broader strategy to reduce…
Dear readers, I have a confession: I am suffering from an ailment that the younger ones call “brain rot,” the inability to think deeply after too much scrolling on my phone. These days, it’s tough to even finish a book. Plenty of people have this problem. So many, it has birthed a category of minimalist…