Apple recently closed its business in Turkey due to concerns about the sharp drop in the exchange rate of the Turkish lira and now a new report has claimed that the iPhone maker has resumed sales of products in the country. According to MacRumors, Apple has also significantly increased the price of all of its […]
US President Joe Biden has signed the law to ban Chinese tech companies like Huawei and ZTE from getting approval for network equipment licences in the country. The ‘Secure Equipment Act of 2021’ had received bipartisan support prior to it being signed by the President, ZDNet reported on Friday. Last year, the Federal Communications […]
Tech giant Facebook has sued Ukrainian national Alexander Solonchenko for allegedly scraping data for more than 178 million users. Solonchenko reportedly exploited Messenger’s contact import feature by using an automated tool that mimicked Android devices, citing The Record, Engadget reported on Saturday. He fed Facebook millions of phone numbers and gathered data whenever the site […]
Snap Inc, the parent company of Snapchat, saw its stock tumbling 22 per cent after missing revenue expectations for its third-quarter (Q3) earnings. However, daily active users on Snapchat rose 23 per cent (year-over-year) to 306 million. The shares fell as Apple’s iPhone privacy changes disrupted Snap’s advertising business. In an earnings call late on […]
The Alliance of Digital India Foundation (ADIF), an industry body for more than 440 digital startups, on Friday hit out at Google, calling its Play Store commission cut a deflect and distract tactic — nothing but a reduced ‘Lagaan’. The search engine giant Google has announced that it will cut the service fee for all […]
Hospitals and health care systems have become a major target for hackers during the Covid-19 pandemic and a new report has claimed that third-party apps that pull patient data from electronic health record (EHR) systems are vulnerable to hacking. The researchers at app security company Approov were able to access over 4 million patient and […]
As India takes advanced steps to launch 5G technology soon, Dell Technologies has introduced new telecom software, solutions and services to help communications service providers (CSPs) accelerate their open, cloud-native network deployments and create new revenue opportunities at the edge. With the launch of 5G in India, consumers are anticipating mobile networks, which will support […]
Petrol and diesel prices rose again on Thursday after a two-day break, taking its retail rates to record high levels across the country. Accordingly, in the national capital, petrol and diesel prices increased by 35 paise per litre to Rs 104.79 per litre and Rs 93.53 per litre respectively. In India’s financial capital, Mumbai, petrol […]
In order to promote digital transactions, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday enhanced the transaction limit using Immediate Payment Service (IMPS) of banks to Rs 5 lakh. RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said that the limit has been raised in view of importance of the IMPS system and for enhanced consumer convenience. The current […]
India now ranks second only to the US in most security threats on Cloud, followed by Australia, Canada and Brazil, and malware was the technique used most often in reported incidents, a new report showed on Monday. With the shift to a more flexible pandemic workforce, cyber criminals have introduced new and updated threats and […]