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India smartphone market rebounds to a record high

India smartphone market rebounds to record high in a single quarter

Abhishek Chatterjee

The recent geopolitical rift between India and China did not impact the purchase decisions of mass market customers

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Hyderabad residents cope with patchy internet as rains lash the city

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Facebook's Oversight Board open but unlikely to play role before U.S. election

Facebook's Oversight Board open but unlikely to play role before U.S. election

Reuters Global users can submit appeals through the board's website in the 15 days after Facebook contacts them about its final content decision, though this option will be gradually rolled out over the coming weeks.

WhatsApp to offer in-app purchases, cloud hosting services.

WhatsApp to offer in-app purchases, cloud hosting services

Reuters The company will also enter the cloud computing sector, offering firms who use its customer service messaging tools the ability to store those messages on Facebook servers.

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The government said Google has nearly 90% of all general search engine queries in the United States and almost 95% of searches on mobile

U.S. says Google break-up may be needed to end violations of antitrust law

Reuters The lawsuit marks the first time the U.S. has cracked down on a major tech company since it sued Microsoft Corp for anti-competitive practices in 1998

Google will automatically migrate Hangouts conversations, along with contacts and saved history.

Google to migrate users from Hangouts to Chat in 2021

Aditya Saroha The search giant’s Chat service will be available for free, and integrated within Gmail.

YouTube follows Twitter and Facebook with QAnon crackdown

AP The Google-owned video platform said on October 15 it will now prohibit material targeting a person or group with conspiracy theories that have been used to justify violence.

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The home screen of the Google Pixel 4a

Google Pixel 4a review: Another win for #TeamPixel

Divya Kala Bhavani Google continues to impress with the Pixel 4a equipped with an improved camera. That it is easy on the bank account is an added bonus

Live updates from Apple's 'Hi Speed' October Special Event

The Hindu Net Desk Divya Kala Bhavani Live updates from Apple's 'Hi Speed' October Special Event - Apple goes live from Apple Park in Cupertino, California

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Hyderabad residents cope with patchy internet as rains lash the city

India smartphone market rebounds to record high in a single quarter

Google’s new feature lets you create apps without coding

Facebook's Oversight Board open but unlikely to play role before U.S. election

WhatsApp allows users to mute chats forever, offers in-app purchases

Russian hackers targeting state, local networks, says U.S.

Joint committee of Parliament summons social media giants Facebook, Twitter: sources

Summoning officials of Amazon and Google is also under active consideration, sources said.

U.S. pharma giant suffers data breach, exposes private data of drug users

The exposed data was related to conversations between Pfizer’s automated customer support software and people using its prescription drugs.

Facebook tops attackers’ list for cyber frauds

Facebook was leveraged with 4.5 million phishing attempts between April and September this year, as per Kaspersky’s analysis.

Watch | The buzz around Google Play policies

Google currently faces four antitrust cases in India. Its anti-competitive Play store policies caused dissent among developers and Indian startup entrepreneurs.

India-born US Judge Amit Mehta assigned Justice Department’s lawsuit against Google

India-born US District Judge Amit Mehta will preside over the Justice Department’s crucial lawsuit against internet search giant Google.Mr. Mehta was

Google’s antitrust case could benefit Microsoft’s Bing search engine

From at least 2007 through 2015, Microsoft lobbied lawmakers, funded private lawsuits, commissioned opposition research and academic papers and even ran TV commercials, all with the aim of getting regulators to bar what it viewed as anticompetitive practices by Google.

Global democracy at risk from cyberattack 'onslaught' - Microsoft president

Speaking at the Atlantic Future Forum, Smith named Russia, China, Iran and North Korea as the states most frequently engaged in malicious cyberattacks targeting elections and the domestic politics of other countries.

Jio revamps JioPages, unveils Made-in-India mobile browser

Conceptualised and designed entirely in India, JioPages supports eight Indian languages - Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Gujarati, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Bengali, besides English.

Google's navigation software let hackers track and identify users

Security DevOps engineer Peter Gasper discovered a flaw in the API that lets hackers track movements of drivers and identify the users.

India’s mobile revolution turns 25: tracking the high and low points

The sector continued to see steady growth until Asia’s richest man Mukesh Ambani entered the the industry with his Reliance Jio offering in 2016. A move that disrupted the existing order.

Microsoft to take Azure to space to enable cloud services in remote locations

The new connectivity will help bring valuable customer data from geosynchronous orbit (GEO) satellites directly into Azure, Microsoft said.

Watch | This tool tells you how people feel online

This tool uses Twitter's messages to determine how people are feeling online in real-time.

PayPal to open up network to cryptocurrencies

U.S. account holders will be able to buy, sell and hold cryptocurrencies in their PayPal wallets over the coming weeks, the company said.

Facebook's AI model can translate 100 languages without relying on English

For years, AI researchers have been working toward building a single universal model that can understand all languages across different tasks.

Amazon to pay select U.S. customers for sharing non-Amazon purchase receipts

Consumers can upload 10 eligible receipts in a month, by clicking pictures of the receipts using the Amazon Shopper Panel app for Android and iOS.

Adobe's new attribution tool for Photoshop to tackle misleading content

The attribution tool captures cryptographically verifiable data such as information about the creator of an image, when the image was created, and how it was created.

Watch | What is data scraping?

Two companies are said to have scraped data from Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn and Amazon to sell "marketing intelligence" and other services.

Microsoft is most mimicked brand to steal personal information, report says

Microsoft accounted for 19% of all brand phishing attempts as threat actors aimed at capitalising on large number of employees working remotely during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Digitising ancient maps using AI

The tool can be helpful to urban planners, historians and anthropologists.

Google Antitrust lawsuit: All you need to know

The U.S. Justice Department accused Google of partnering with Apple, and other companies, to ward off competition by striking exclusive business contracts with them.

U.S. says Google break-up may be needed to end violations of antitrust law

The lawsuit marks the first time the U.S. has cracked down on a major tech company since it sued Microsoft Corp for anti-competitive practices in 1998

Microsoft, Elon Musk's SpaceX tie up to woo space customers

The partnership would allow Microsoft to connect its Azure cloud computing platform to SpaceX's network of low-Earth orbiting satellites, offering the software company an edge in its battle with the rival cloud platform from Jeff Bezos' Amazon.com Inc.

Nokia seeks to block Lenovo sales in Germany over patent licensing

Nokia launched its legal battle against Lenovo last year over alleged infringement of 20 patents. The Finnish company has ongoing cases against Lenovo in the United States, Brazil and India, in addition to six cases in Germany.

Jio, Qualcomm successfully test 5G solutions

Jio has indigenously developed a 5G RAN product that has achieved over 1 Gbps throughput, says its president Mathew Oommen.

‘Cybercrimes caused loss of ₹1.25 lakh crore’

Cybercrimes in India caused losses of ₹1.25 lakh crore in 2019 and cyberthreats will continue to increase as the country starts developing smart

AI-powered ‘mini-brains’ to help robots perceive pain, self-repair

The AI-enabled sensors can process and react to pain caused by external pressure, and also help the robot to detect its own minor damages and repair itself.

Facebook, Carnegie Mellon partner to find new ways to store renewable energy

Facebook also said its data centers will achieve net-zero emissions by the end of 2020.

Sweden bans Huawei, ZTE from upcoming 5G networks

European governments have been tightening controls on Chinese companies building 5G networks, following diplomatic pressure from Washington, which alleges Huawei equipment could be used by Beijing for spying.

Google updates Assistant features, adds Zoom and dark mode

Besides adding features to Assistant smart displays, Google rolled out Lending DocAI, its first dedicated tool for mortgage industry.

Regulatory probes Google is facing in Asia

Here's a list of the current investigations and reviews into the alleged anticompetitive practices at Google in Asia.

UK issues guidelines on personal data transfers with organisations in EU

With less than three months before the end of UK’s transition period, the government launched ‘time is running out’ campaign for businesses and people.

Verizon signs up Microsoft, Nokia to help clients build private 5G networks

Verizon is now keen on taking a share in new businesses that 5G might enable, either by partnering with bigger companies or by buying stakes in smaller ones.

Fed chief says, more important for U.S. to get digital currency right than be first

Powell said that while the Fed has made no decision yet on issuing a digital currency, it is an active participant in research into the prospect in partnership with other central banks and the Bank for International Settlements.

Molecular computing: DNA-inspired advanced computers

Single-molecule-electret, the switching device could serve as a platform for small non-volatile storage devices such as Read-only-memory (ROM).

Zoom announces new features for companies with hybrid working models

The video communications company is also bringing Zapps, first and third-party developed apps within the Zoom platform to improve productivity.

‘NBA 2k21’ game review: We say, wait for 2k22

Unless you love microtransactions, there is not much reason to upgrade to NBA 2k21

Google Pixel 4a review: Another win for #TeamPixel

Google continues to impress with the Pixel 4a equipped with an improved camera. That it is easy on the bank account is an added bonus

China gives $1.5 million worth digital yuan to select citizens

The largest such trial to date in the world's second-largest economy had been hailed by analysts as a step forward for Beijing as it chases what has become a Holy grail among the world's central banks - the first central bank digital currency.

Got any signal up here? Nokia to build mobile network on moon

The first wireless broadband communications system in space would be built on the lunar surface in late 2022

Euronext halts trading on all products due to tech glitch

The widespread outage has hit trading in cash equities, derivative products and commodity futures across Europe.

Irish regulator probes Facebook's handling of children's data on Instagram

The first inquiry looks to establish if Facebook has the legal basis to process the data and whether it employs adequate protections and/or restrictions on Instagram.

Hackers pose as McAfee staff to trick users into installing malware, Google says

Chinese government-backed hackers posed as authentic service providers such as McAfee and GitHub to trick users into installing malware on their devices.

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