Mobile chipmaker Qualcomm Inc will settle an anti-trust case with Taiwanese regulators for about $93 million, and has also pledged to invest $700 million in Taiwan over the next five years. The settlement replaces a fine of roughly $778 million imposed by Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission in 2017, when itRead More

Def Con, one of the world’s largest security conventions, served as a laboratory for breaking into voting machines on Friday, extending its efforts to identify potential security flaws in technology that may be used in the November US elections. Hackers will continue to probe the systems over the weekend inRead More

Facebook Inc is removing content related to instructions on 3D printing of firearms, a company spokesperson said on Thursday, as the debate around access to a gun in the United States intensifies. “Sharing instructions on how to print firearms using 3D printers is not allowed under our Community Standards. InRead More

In India, the world’s second-biggest smartphone market, Apple Inc’s normally deft management of government relations is being put to a fresh high-stakes test. For almost two years, Apple has battled India’s telecom regulator over a demand that it allow the use of the government’s anti-spam app. Non-compliance, the watchdog threatenedRead More

The next-gen Android version – 9.0 Pie has already been released and Google’s devices are the first to receive them along with the Essential smartphone. While we are still waiting for others manufacturers to announce the latest software update, Vivo is the only one which clarified on the topic. AsRead More

A day before Facebook announced that it had discovered and disabled a propaganda campaign designed to sow dissension among US voters, it exclusively shared some of the suspicious pages with an online forensics team so busy it hasn’t put a nameplate on the door. The Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic ResearchRead More

India has asked its telecom operators to find ways of blocking applications such as Facebook and messaging app WhatsApp in the case of misuse, according to a document seen by Reuters. India has in recent months intensified efforts to crack down on mass message forwards after it found that peopleRead More

Italy’s UniCredit has stopped using Facebook for advertising and marketing campaigns and will not do so again until the U.S. giant improves its ethical standards, the bank’s CEO said on Tuesday. “Facebook is not acting in an ethical way… We will not use it until it has proper ethical behaviour,”Read More

In order to make its presence felt in the flagship smartphone category in India, LG has launched their flagship G7+ ThinQ. The smartphone has been priced at Rs 39,990, thereby pitting it against the OnePlus 6 and Vivo NEX. The handset will go on sale from August 10 on Flipkart.Read More

Following the highly disappointing cases of lynching and other mishaps which took place due to the rumours spread on Whatsapp, the Department of Telecom (DoT) is seeking views and opinions of other telecom operators related to blocking the mobile messaging platform under Section 69A of the IT act. In fact,Read More