Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook on Wednesday said customer data was being “weaponized with military efficiency” by companies to increase profit and called for a federal privacy law in the United States.
But Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg d…
Facebook has said that 8.7 million images of child nudity were removed by its moderators in just three months.
The social network said that it had developed new software to automatically flag possible sexualised images of children.
I…
The award is for a turnkey service including design, supply, deploy and maintenance
Open Fiber a national wholesales operator awards SM Optics, part of SIAE MICROELETTRONICA group a contract to supply and deploy WSS-free WDM ROADM techn…
The EISA Consumer Smartphone of the Year 2018 dishes up Android 9 Pie; first smartphone globally to roll out Android 9 Pie on Qualcomm 660 mobile platform
Android 9 Pie puts AI at the core of the operating system with added…
Political campaigners in Brazil have used software that scrapes Facebook for citizens' phone numbers, and then automatically sends them WhatsApp messages and adds them to WhatsApp groups.
Almost three weeks ago, 147 million voters in th…
Apple and Samsung have been fined millions of euros each by Italian authorities over "planned obsolescence" in smartphones.
Apple was hit with a 10 million euro (£8.8m) fine while Samsung received a smaller bill of five million euros.
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Partnering with Alepo, m:tel to launch cellular offload and public WiFi plans in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Customers will be able to access the internet using multiple free as well as paid options like watching a promo, social media log…
The iPhone XR is Apple's best knockoff yet of its groundbreaking iPhone X
This iPhone is great. It is most like the last iPhone — but not the last “best” iPhone — more like the last not as good iPhone. It’s better than that one…
French-based transport firm Transdev has been ordered to stop an "unlawful" test of a driverless school bus in Florida by US regulators.
The regulator said the firm had not been authorised to transport schoolchildren in Florida, and sai…
Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) reported quarterly profit and net new phone subscribers well ahead of Wall Street estimates on Tuesday, as customers took advantage of its subsidies for Apple Inc’s (AAPL.O) latest iPhones late in the quar…
Data harvesting and sharing by mobile apps is "out of control", University of Oxford researchers have warned.
Nearly 90% of free apps on the Google Play store share data with Google parent company Alphabet, the Financial Times reported.…
Elon Musk says Twitter briefly blocked him because the tech firm suspected his account had been hacked.
The Tesla chief indicated the safety precaution was prompted by a tweet he had sent asking: "Wanna buy some Bitcoin?"
Several fak…
Instagram has overtaken Snapchat as the most used social media app among US teens, according to a study.
A total of 8,600 teenagers were surveyed for investment bank Piper Jaffray's twice-annual look at so-called Generation Z's habits.
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Uber is planning to add a surcharge to all fares booked via its app in London to help its drivers buy electric vehicles.
The fee, expected to be 15p per mile, will be introduced "early" in 2019.
Uber said drivers working for 40 hours…
In the first half of 2018, the shipment of Huawei smartphones reached a record high of over 95 million units.
According to IDC, a renowned global market intelligence firm, the global market share of Huawei smartphones has soared by up t…
Audi’s first electric sport utility vehicle (SUV) will hit showrooms four weeks later than planned because of a software development issue, a spokesman for the German luxury car brand said on Sunday.
The spokesman said Audi’s e-tron mid…
Japan’s government on Monday told U.S. technology firm Facebook Inc (FB.O) to better protect its users’ personal data following lapses this year affecting tens of millions of people globally.
The government asked the world’s largest soc…
Every time I ponder the impact Apple Watch has had on my life, my mind always goes to Matthew Panzarino’s piece published prior to the device’s launch in 2015. In it, Panzarino writes about how using Apple Watch saves time; as a “satellit…
Netflix Inc (NFLX.O) announced its third tap of debt markets in a year on Monday, aiming to raise about $2 billion as the streaming video pioneer invests heavily in original shows and acquiring content to fend off intensifying competition.…
A4AI celebrated its fifth anniversary. Five years after our 2013 launch in Lagos, we've seen broadband prices come down and attention around the importance of affordable internet access grow. Our membership has grown to 80+ strong and coun…
Would you trust a taxi with no driver?
Taxi firm Addison Lee is betting its customers will be ready to, in London at least, in just three years' time.
It has joined forces with self-driving software specialist Oxbotica, and says the …
Apple chief executive Tim Cook has called for the retraction of a story alleging Chinese infiltration in its and other major firms' infrastructure.
Bloomberg’s Businessweek published a story which said malicious chips were built into se…
If you’re heading out to meet someone, there are plenty of ways to inform them of your location and estimated arrival. Chat apps like WhatsApp, Messenger, LINE and iMessage, for example, offer location-sharing functionality, while navigati…
Tesla Inc on Thursday introduced a new $45,000 version of its Model 3 sedan on its website, launching the car as U.S. tax breaks for Tesla cars are about to decrease.
According to the website, the rear-wheel-drive model has a “mid range…
New research from ISACA and the CMMI Institute finds that few employees understand their role in protecting information
With cybersecurity threats continuing to escalate worldwide, the ISACA/CMMI Institute Cybersecurity Culture Report f…
The European Commission is set to approve and set rules for the use of wifi in cars, giving Volkswagen and Renault who have pursued this technology the edge over Daimler and others who invested in rival 5G networks.
The EU executive is …
Americans looking to reduce their reliance on products from tech’s most alarmingly megalithic companies might be surprised to learn just how far their reach extends.
Privacy-minded browser company DuckDuckGo conducted a small study to l…
The Trump-supporting right has a new favourite meme and it's being shared far and wide to troll their political opponents.
Twitter has suspended hundreds of accounts after users on pro-Trump Reddit forum r/The_Donald coordinated efforts…
Concept cars look beautiful and futuristic, but why do manufacturers spend millions developing them if they're never going to make it into production?
Take, for example, the DS X e-tense, a "2035 dream car" produced by the French luxury…
• Staggering 133 percent increase in stolen, lost or compromised records over H1 2017
• Social media incidents account for over 56 percent of records breached
• 65 percent of data breach incidents involved identity theft
Gemalto, …
And here you thought hardware season was over. A month and a half after its last major event, Apple’s throwing a big party in Brooklyn on October 30. The event will likely suss out some of the technology that slipped through the cracks ba…
PayPal Holdings Inc (PYPL.O) on Thursday reported a third-quarter profit that beat analysts’ estimates as the company signed up more new customers and volume of payments processed rose.
Net income rose to $436 million,…
A 5.3mm (0.2in) thick 4G phone has been announced by Japan's biggest telecoms firm NTT Docomo.
The compact device, which will be released in Japan next month, is designed to fit inside a card holder.
It is part of a trend to offer so…
By: Sandeep Sharma, Vice President: Global Enterprise Business at Nokia Software
There is a reason why the term ‘a New York minute’ has not just come to define the vibrant, endlessly shifting city, but also the realities of the technolo…
Here's a word of warning to anybody applying for a US travel visa or Esta online.
The top search results in Google are not for the official application forms, but paid advertisements for commercial websites that charge more than five ti…
The brisk business Julius Kirya did from his cash transfer kiosk in the Ugandan capital has slowed right down with a new tax on mobile money. Many of his customers have returned to sending banknotes by hand, in some cases via motorbike tax…
The big accounting firms are under pressure from digital disruption just like every industry these days, but PwC is trying a proactive approach with a digital accelerator program designed to train employees for the next generation of jobs…
Emma, the U.K. money management app (or self-described “financial advocate”), is launching a cryptocurrency feature by integrating with a plethora of exchanges so that you can easily track your cryptocurrency balances. The idea is that a m…
More than 10 million tweets posted by suspected state-backed Russian and Iranian "troll farms" have been shared online by Twitter.
It has published more than 360GB of material to aid studies into how its platform has been used to try to…
Netflix Inc’s (NFLX.O) Indian operation drew attention in a surge of international subscribers in the third quarter, but it faces fierce competition and a difficult cultural conundrum to make inroads with the country’s more than one billio…
IBM Corp reported a bigger-than-expected drop in revenue on Tuesday, hit by slowing software sales and wavering demand for mainframe servers, pointing to a bumpy recovery for the technology services giant that is in the midst of a turnarou…
Chinese search engine Baidu Inc (BIDU.O) has become the first Chinese company to join an artificial intelligence (AI) ethics group led by top U.S. tech firms, amid wider political clashes over AI competition between China and the United St…
Universal Laser Systems, Inc. (ULS), a worldwide leading manufacturer of laser material processing systems, celebrates its 30th anniversary.
From establishment in 1988, its mission has been to advance the development and deployment of m…
Nearly 2 to 1 patients prefer AirFit F30 over the current minimal-contact full face market leader
ResMed (NYSE: RMD, ASX: RMD) today announced the availability of its first minimal-contact full face CPAP mask, AirFit F30, the latest add…
Huawei has decided not to use the wearable-tech version of Android in its latest smartwatch, opting instead for an in-house operating system.
The company said the decision to use Lite OS had been taken in part to maximise battery life.
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Google is dropping restrictions it imposed on Android-device-makers, following a clash with the EU.
It is ending a ban on manufacturers having a line-up that includes tablets and phones powered by alternative versions of the operating s…
A surge in the use of video chats and live-streaming among children is leaving them vulnerable to abuse, the NSPCC has warned, calling for a social network regulator to be introduced.
A survey of 40,000 children aged seven to 16 found a…
At HUAWEI CONNECT 2018, Huawei released the high-accuracy wireless location solutions. Of these, the meter-level accuracy solution for commercial scenarios helps enterprises provide real-time optimal business experience based on customer r…
With the proliferation of smartphones, there’s a camera in everyone’s pocket these days. Taking a snapshot of lunch and uploading it to Instagram or sharing the image with friends over Facebook is a way of life for most people – old and yo…