China's telecom giant Huawei said Monday that it has no plan to sell its flagship smartphone brands.

"Huawei has learned there are unsubstantiated rumors circulating regarding the possible sale of Huawei's flagship smartphone brands. There is no merit to these rumors whatsoever. Huawei has no such plan," Huawei said in a statement.

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Huawei remains fully committed to its smartphone business, and will continue to deliver world-leading products and experiences for consumers around the world, the company said.

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Global provider of ICT infrastructure and smart devices Huawei has been named as the “2020 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Data Center and Cloud Networking.”

The recognition came as a result of Huawei’s CloudFabric Data Center Network (DCN) solution. As of November 2020, Huawei had ranked first among almost 20 vendors with a rating of 4.9/5 stars.

Huawei CloudFabric has received encouraging customer feedback from industries worldwide, covering products and solutions such as CloudEngine series data centre (DC) switches, iMaster NCE-Fabric (autonomous driving DCN management and control system), and Huawei iMaster NCE-FabricInsight (intelligent analysis platform designed for DCNs).

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In the product capabilities, integration and deployment, and service and support categories, Huawei received high ratings from customers of industries such as finance, Internet, carriers, and public services.

Huawei CloudFabric serves over 9,200 enterprise customers in more than 140 countries.

In 2020, Huawei released CloudFabric 2.0 Solution. Based on an open architecture, this solution can connect to multiple clouds and is compatible with devices from multiple vendors, reducing operating expenses (OPEX) by 28%.

The high-density 400GE intelligent and lossless network features zero packet loss and low latency, improving the computing capability by 27% and data storage IOPS by over 30%.

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Huawei also launched the CloudEngine 16,800 next-generation 400GE DC switch.

Based on the industry-leading new platform, new optical interfaces, and new intelligence, the switch enables efficient collaboration between different fields of “new infrastructure” and accelerates the industry’s digital transformation.

According to Gartner’s Market Share: Enterprise Network Equipment by Market Segment, Worldwide, 2Q20, 29 September 2020, market share of Huawei’s 10Gbps and 25Gbps Ethernet Switches rank highest in the global port shipments.

“We are honoured to receive this distinction once again, with the highest rating and recognition from our global customers. We thank everyone who gave us feedback on Gartner Peer Insights,” said Leon Wang, president of Huawei Data Center Network.

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Gartner Peer Insights is an online platform of ratings and reviews of IT software and services – written and read by IT professionals and technology decision-makers.

The goal is to help IT leaders make more insightful purchase decisions, and technology providers improve their products by receiving objective, unbiased feedback from their customers.

Gartner Peer Insights includes more than 350,000 verified reviews in more than 340 markets.

The kulkhwani of Mahbub Alam Mridul, young entrepreneur and director of Walton Group, will be held at his village home of Gosai Joair in Tangail Sadar at 12:30pm on Monday.

Special prayers will be offered seeking the eternal peace of his departed soul.  

Mahbub Alam Mridul breathed his last at a private hospital in Dhaka on January 21 after a cardiac arrest.

He was laid to rest in his family graveyard in Gosai Joair on Friday.  

Walton family mourns the sudden death of young entrepreneur. To mourn the deceased, Walton Group announced a general holiday last Saturday, the company said in a press release.

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On Sunday, after Johar, prayer was offered for the eternal peace of his departed soul at Walton’s offices across the country. The members of all sister concerns of Walton Group wore black badges to mourn the young director’s death.

Mridul was born on Jan 25, 1997, in Gosai Joair in Tangail Sadar Upazila. His father SM Shamsul Alam is the Vice Chairman of Walton Hi-Tech Industries Limited. Mridul joined Walton Group as a director on September 1, 2019 and put outstanding signatures of his merit in a short time.

Smartphone brand realme has opened its first flagship centre in Bangladesh where customers will get both sales and service facilities.

The centre was launched at Jamuna Future Park on Thursday.

Actor and “Face of realme Bangladesh” Arifin Shuvoo inaugurated the sales and service centre along with realme Bangladesh Manager Tim Shao, and Jamuna Group Director Dr Mohammed Alamgir Alam.

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Gone are the days when we had to spend money and/or wait long to communicate with persons living in other places. Now we can send free messages and calls to several persons at a time within minutes. The advancement of technology has simplified our lives in many ways. But sometimes this technology is breaching the boundary of our privacy. Recently, many users are leaving the prominent messenger platform WhatsApp, as it is sharing users’ data with Facebook. Let’s talk about some of the best WhatsApp Alternatives for Free Calling and Group Messaging.

Top Free Messengers You Can Try as WhatsApp Alternative

Here we are going to highlight the two other renowned messenger platforms that you can use to communicate with your family members, friends, business partners, and colleagues without experiencing significant information infringement issues.

Also read: WhatsApp working on a new quick edit media shortcut

Telegram Vs Whatsapp

The cloud-based messaging platform Telegram offers an end-to-end message encryption system for both messaging and voice calling. This app is compatible with various operating systems such as Windows, Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows NT, etc. Let’s see Telegram’s merits and demerits over Whatsapp.

Communication via Public UserName

On the Whatapp platform, you can’t send a message or call a person without knowing his/her phone number. But, Telegram protects the privacy of users’ contact numbers. In this platform, you can communicate with other people through a public username. Therefore, you can send calls or messages to people; even if you do not have the contact numbers of those people.

Secret Chat Feature with Self Destruct Option

Another exciting feature of Telegram is that you will get notifications if someone takes screenshots of your Secret Chats. And the system also prevents the forwarding of ‘secret chats’ to another user. However, if someone takes a screenshot using another device, that’s a different story.

Do you want to delete your messages after a specified time? Telegram’s ‘Secret Chat’ feature has a clever end-to-end encryption system. This feature allows you to set a ‘Timer’ on the chats or messages to self-destruct after a specified period of time.

Media Compression Feature

Telegram has a cloud storage facility that allows users to save text messages, documents, images, and media files on its cloud storage. Here the allowable file size limit is 1.5GB. Its media compression feature allows the users to compress images/videos before sending them. This feature is not available on Whatsapp.

Also read: WhatsApp flaw 'puts words in your mouth'

Group Maintenance

On Telegram, the Group member limit is 200000. In a Telegram channel, the creator serves as an ‘administrator’ who decides which members can post and who can only view the posts.

Like Whatsapp, Telegram allows you to mute the chat notifications for specific contacts or groups for an hour, eight hours, two days, or forever.

Works on Desktop Independantly

Telegram has launched independent apps for different platforms. Unlike WhatsApp, you don’t need your phone to run the app simultaneously; while using a desktop or laptop. Certainly, it is a big advantage when your mobile is out of battery or left somewhere else and you need to use the Telegram app on your PC.

What if you need to change your phone number (attached to your account) or add a second number instead of migrating? Transferring all of the existing contacts and information to the new number can be a massive work in Whatsapp. But thanks to Telegram, as it allows you to change the phone number easily without losing any of your existing contacts, chats, or information. Here you can use multiple accounts at a time.

Message Editing Options

In Telegram, you can edit your message within 48 hours of sending it. This feature saves you from embarrassment if a wrong message this sent or a typing mistake is done. You can also utilize the 'schedule message' feature by picking a definite time and date.  

Limitations of Telegram App

However, Telegram stays behind Whatsapp in some features. Those are:

- Whatsapp uses end-to-end encryption for every chat whereas Telegram applied it only for secret chats.

- Whatsapp supports a video calling feature which is a great advantage for arranging virtual video meetings during the pandemic situation.

- In the Whatsapp platform, a sender is allowed to know both the delivery status and read the status of the message by the other users.

Read: A clear Signal that Indians are increasingly shunning WhatsApp?

Signal Vs Whatsapp

Are you looking for a free secured messenger as an alternative to Whatsapp? Try Signal! Holding the tagline "Say hello to privacy", Signal appeared as a secured messaging application. It is compatible with Apple devices, Mac, Linux, and Android devices. Is Signal better than Whatsapp? Let’s check out the key features of Signal.

Secured Messenger Platform

Like WhatsApp, the Signal users enjoy essential features such as voice calls, and video calls secure messaging with end-to-end encryption. 

Signal allows Voice and video calls on all platforms including iOS, Android, and Desktop. Here the voice and video calls are private and end-to-end encrypted. The system will ask for your permission regarding the Camera and Microphone connection when you send or get a Signal call for the first time.

Currently, the Signal Group calling feature is in beta testing. But up to eight people are allowed in Group calling.

Message Deletion via Timer

Like the aforementioned Telegram app, Signal offers a Timer feature for disappearing messages. The time duration ranges from 5 seconds to 7 days.

No Preservation of Group Records

Unlike Whatsapp, the Signal service has applied private group system technology. Under this facility, people can create a ‘New Group’, where the limit of members is 1000. Regarding both the ‘New’ and ‘Legacy’ groups, Signal won’t preserve any record of group attributes, group memberships, group titles, or group avatars.

Here the users are allowed to create ‘New’ and ‘Legacy’ groups on all platforms (iOS, Android, Desktop, etc); whereas insecure MMS groups are only compatible with android devices.

No Direct Adding to Groups

In this platform, not everybody gets added to a group automatically. Here each person gets an invitation to join a group’; whereas in WhatsApp people who know your phone number can add you to a group directly, without asking for your permission. The creator of Group (Admin) can invite people via QR-code, direct mention, a group link, etc.

Groups Monitoring Options

The Admin holds the authority to remove people from the ' New Group' and decide who is allowed to edit the group information and set the ‘Timer’ for message disappearance. Signal allows the approval of ‘Optional Admin’ via a group link.

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On the other hand, the ‘Legacy Group’ has no features like Admin and mentions. Here the members can’t be removed from the group unless they are convinced or forced to leave.

Note-to-Self Feature

Whatsapp doesn’t have any option to send messages to you. Thanks to Signal for its "note to self" (end-to-end encrypted) feature that allows each user to write or send notes to him/herself. Utilizing this feature, you can quickly write notes or send files to yourself while chatting on another group. You can review or share those messages/files later as per your convenience. What is more? You can apply a Timer for disappearing messages which you have sent to yourself.

Less Data Sharing

Compared to WhatsApp, the Signal app collects much less amount of user information. The WhatsApp platform collects a massive quantity of user-information such as phone number, payment information, user ID, email address, contacts, device ID, and advertising data; whereas, the Signal app collects the users' phone numbers only.

Also read:Facebook to integrate WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger

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