In a country as diverse as ours, building technology for the masses is not a simple task. With almost 90% of India’s population being non-English speaking, tech companies today need to overcome language and interface barriers to make their products relevant to vernacular users who have recently come online. TheRead More

Facebook is making it easier for you to have conversations in its Messenger app with the help of voice commands. A Facebook Messenger spokesperson has reportedly confirmed that the social network is internally testing a voice command feature, to make it more engaging and convenient for users. Facebook Messenger forRead More

The appearance of a Facebook executive behind Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh during his contentious confirmation hearings has created some rifts at the company. Joel Kaplan, Facebook’s vice president for global public policy, is a friend of Kavanaugh and worked with him during the George W. Bush administration. Kaplan wasRead More

Apple’s top security officer told Congress that it had found no sign of suspicious transmissions or other evidence that it had been penetrated in a sophisticated attack on its supply chain. Apple Vice President for Information Security George Stathakopoulos wrote in a letter to the Senate and House commerce committeesRead More

The October 2018 issue of Bloomberg Businessweek incorrectly reports that Apple found “malicious chips” in servers on its network in 2015. As Apple has repeatedly explained to Bloomberg reporters and editors over the past 12 months, there is no truth to these claims. Apple provided Bloomberg Businessweek with the followingRead More

Teens and young adults say cyberbullying is a serious problem for people their age, but most don’t think they’ll be the ones targeted for digital abuse. That’s according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and MTV, which also finds that about half ofRead More

Shareholder advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services Inc (ISS) said on Friday that Dell Technologies Inc should renegotiate an offer to acquire a tracking stock tied to is virtualization software subsidiary VMWare Inc. Several hedge funds, including Elliott Management Corp and Canyon Capital Advisors LLC, as well as activist investor CarlRead More

Facebook said in response to a lawsuit accusing it of not doing enough to protect users from human traffickers that it works internally and externally to thwart such predators. “Human trafficking is abhorrent and is not allowed on Facebook. We use technology to thwart this kind of abuse and weRead More

At its Surface hardware event, Microsoft also announced a slew of new software and tools which are aimed at soaking in more users for its Windows 10 platform. One of the interesting announcements surrounded the launch of an app mirroring feature for Android users. The feature will be available inRead More

Facebook’s lead regulator in the European Union, the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC), on October 3 began an investigation into a massive cyberattack on the social networking site disclosed by the company last week. Facebook said that hackers had stolen login codes that allowed them to access nearly 50 millionRead More