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The Taiwanese Fair Trade Commission has fined Qualcomm NT$23.4 billion ($773 million) for antitrust violations. This is one other major defeat for the chipmaker that’s currently embroiled in a complicated legal battle  against Apple and other tech firms. And local regulators keep hitting Qualcomm with fines, seemingly siding with Apple. Whatever Qualcomm says about Apple’s actions, these fines will undoubtedly hinder its defense. Qualcomm’s bottom line and the stock could also take serious hits. According to  Bloomberg , the Taiwanese regulator said that Qualcomm has been violating antitrust rules for at least seven years, during which time the company collected NT$400 billion ($13.23 billion) from local businesses. The regulator said Qualcomm abused its position by not providing products to clients who don’t agree with its conditions. The Taiwanese FTC also told Qualcomm to remove the deals that forced local competitors to provide price, customer names,...

Samsung Galaxy C9 Pro, the company's first smartphone with 6GB RAM, has received yet another price cut in India. The handset will be now retailing at for Rs. 29,900 and can be purchased via Samsung's e-store or other e-commerce websites. Back in June, the Samsung Galaxy C9 Proreceived its first price cut which brought the price down to Rs. 31,900 from launch price of Rs. 36,900 . With the current price revision, the C9 Pro has received further Rs. 2,000 discount. The price cut was first tipped by Mumbai-based offline retailerMahesh Telecom on Twitter. To recall its specifications, the dual-SIM (Nano+Nano) 4G-enabled Samsung Galaxy C9 Pro (Review) sports a 6-inch full HD (1080x1920) AMOLED display, and is powered by an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 653 SoC, with four cores clocked at 1.95GHz and the rest at 1.4GHz. In terms of optics, the Galaxy C9 Pro packs a 16-megapixel camera on both front and rear ends. The rear 16-megapixel camera comes with an ape...

Gaming fever proved to be fatal for this 21-year-old Chinese woman. The woman has been rendered partially blind after she played video game on her phone for 24 hours straight, according to the reports. The unnamed woman was playing a multiplayer online game ‘Honour of Kings’ when she suddenly lost her vision from her right eye. She was rushed to hospital where she was diagnosed with Retinal Artery Occlusion (RAO), a condition which is usually found in elderly people. It is rarely seen in young population.  However, in this case it was caused by eye strain from looking at the screen fortoo long without a break, the doctors said.According to the woman, who works in finance, it was probably caused by playing the game for too long without a break. The woman said she had become so obsessed with the game that she would play it after work and all day at weekends.  "On days when I have no work, I usually get up at 6 a.m., eat breakfast and play until 4 p.m.," she was qu...