The European parliament has voted through new rules that will scrap mobile roaming charges and stop holidaymakers returning home to the nightmare of a massive phone bill.
Australia is drafting a new regulation that Facebook says misunderstands the dynamics of the internet and will do damage to the very news organisations the government is trying to protect. In response, Facebook has said Australian users will no longer be able to post news stories on its platforms in protest of proposed media bargaining legislation.
Crypto Blockchain Industries (CBI) has signed an agreement to acquire Xave, a blockchain technology company based in Barcelona and Argentina that has been developing Xave World, a dedicated music metaverse, since 2020.
Kiley Grombacher of Bradley/Grombacher LLP have filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of Apple users who allege Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta still tracks their activity on their iPhones even though they "opted out" of tracking.
SAP today announced a new capability designed to provide organizations with insight to better manage and optimize their total workforce of permanent and external workers.
Pebble, a new entrant to the electric RV market founded by veterans from Apple, Tesla, Cruise, and Volvo, announced at CES that its upcoming Pebble Flow RV will be the first on the market with semi-autonomous assists.
BlackBerry has announced that its QNX OS for Safety 2.2 will be certified to the highest Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 4, of the functional safety standard for the railway industry
Mobile World Congress (MWC 2020), has been cancelled due to coronavirus concerns. The GSM Association (GSMA), which organizes the show, have officially confirmed the cancellation.
The UK Government has announced the infrastructure for a contract tracing app has been put in place, and has been undergoing testing with a view to rolling it out on a large scale "within weeks".
TCL Communication Technology Holdings, together with its subsidiaries and its affiliates (the group), today announced the unaudited figures for shipments of handsets and other products in January 2017.
Due to the outbreak of the Coronavirus Ericsson has taken the decision to withdraw from Mobile World Congress 2020 (MWC2020) as the company says that the health and safety of employees and customers cannot be ensured.
Mobile security research firm, Check Point, has revealed a new bug in messaging service, WhatsApp. The bug appears to affect only WhatsApp Web has the potential to allow ransomware and malicious apps on your device.
Volkswagen and EV start-up Rivian have entered a joint venture to create next-generation software-defined vehicle (SDV) platforms to be used in both companies’ future EVs.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today announced a settlement with Zoom that will require the company to implement a robust information security program
Only hours after Apple won their €13 billion EU Tax Bill Appeal, the European Commission has today adopted a new Tax Package to "ensure that EU tax policy supports Europe's economic recovery and long-term growth".
BlackBerry has enhanced the BlackBerry Partner Program to help Managed Security Service Providers capture the demand among small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) for 24 by 7 by 365 managed extended detection and response services.
A German start-up specialising in AI-enabled software solutions for predictive maintenance, vehicle health and usage monitoring, COMPREDICT has raised €5.5 million in funding.
On the eve of Amazon’s 20th birthday, the company introduces Prime Day, a global shopping event, with more deals than Black Friday, exclusively for Prime members.
LaLiga and Dapper Labs have unveiled the name of their officially-licensed digital collectible platform – LaLiga Golazos - and the launch date of its closed beta and first drop, October 27.
TIDAL, the first high fidelity lossless music streaming service with HD music videos and curated editorial, today announced the launch and availability of its service in the UK and US.
SADP Works and Ithon have announced a Distribution Agreement to market SADP (“Simplified Application Delivery Platformâ€Â) solution in Europe.
Virgin Media Business has today announced the appointment of Rob Orr, former Vice President of European Telecoms Operations for Samsung, as the new Director of Large Sales.
BlackBerry and Texas Instruments today unveiled the QNX Academy for Functional Safety, a comprehensive online software developer enablement program designed to turbocharge software innovation efforts and de-risk the product development process for safe and secure embedded systems.
Nearly 100 US technology companies have filed a legal brief opposing President Trump’s ban on migration from seven Muslim-majority countries, arguing that it imposes significant burdens on the industry.
Payday loan firm Wonga are warning more than a a quarter of a million customers that personal data may have been stolen in a data breach at the firm. The online lender said it was “urgently investigating illegal and unauthorised access” to personal data of some of its customers in the UK and Poland.
A Canadian man is facing up to a year in jail and a fine of up to 25,000 Canadian dollars for refusing to unlock his cell and thus “obstructing†an in-depth security screening by the border service officials at the Halifax airport.
InfStones and Oracle are collaborating on integrating InfStones' leading blockchain development platform with Oracle Cloud Infra-structure (OCI) to accelerate Web3 development.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has made a formal offer to purchase Twitter outright for $43 billion. Musk has filed an updated 13D with the SEC, offering $54.20 per share for 100 percent control of the social media platform.
The Federal Trade Commission filed a federal court complaint against AT&T Mobility, LLC, charging that the company has misled millions of its smartphone customers by charging them for “unlimited†data plans.
Boku and French mobile services providers SFR, Orange and Bouygues Telecom, have signed a partnership to launch mobile identity products aimed at protecting consumers against cyber-hacks, account takeover attacks, SIM swap attacks, and other forms of digital fraud.
CellTrust continues to lead the enterprise BYOD industry with today’s beta availability for CellTrust SL2â€â€the next generation of CellTrust SecureLine for mobile compliance enforcement.
Vibe Inu is a decentralized video streaming application that has been developed to support upcoming music artists and video content creators, enabling them to strive in the music industry and help content creators to monetize their content on web3.
Twitter has relaunched its Blue Subscription service, which gives users who sign up a blue tick badge, the ability to edit tweets and a range of other features in exchange for a £6.50 monthly fee.
Waygate has launched its NFT Platform and 3D Capture Tool, where you can transform your real-life objects into ultra realistic and immersive 360-degree viewable 3D NFTs.
Digital Entertainment Asset (DEA) has secured funding from the “KDDI Open Innovation Fund III” operated by Tokyo-based Global Brain Corporation (KDDI).
It's another day, so time for another Facebook scandal, as the company admitted Thursday that it had stored hundreds of millions of its users’ passwords internally in a readable format.
The world’s largest social network said in a blog post that during a routine review in January it had found the flaw in its internal data storage systems, adding that the company had now fixed the issue.
A major security vulnerability has been discovered which could potentially leave hundreds of thousands of devices, apps and services vulnerable to attacks.
Vodafone UK has written to Sharon White, the CEO of Ofcom, with a ‘10 Point Plan for a Better Openreach’, a plan which contains a series of proposals aimed at creating a reformed Openreach.
Facebook has suffered another outage of its services a month after a server upgrade left users unable to use its Facebook, WhatsApp or Instagram services for almost a day. Services were restored within hours of reports emerging about the outage.
Entrust Datacard today announced that the company has completed a technology integration between Entrust IdentityGuard Mobile Smart Credential and BlackBerry 10 Smart Card Service Framework.
Global HR Blockchain Group COSMETA claims to be the first-ever HR blockchain company. While it operates from Delaware, USA, the enterprise collaborates with the world's largest community of Korean-American students.
Google has released the fifth and final Developer Preview of Android 7.0 Nougat. Last month’s Developer Preview included the final APIs for Nougat; this preview gives developers the near-final system updates.
OneLogin announces availability of its complimentary Office 365 All-in-One IAM Kit, a collection of resources detailing how to simplify identity and access management for Microsoft Office 365.
Recently, TCL creative project advertisements can be seen at four landmarks of Rome, namely the Colosseum, Via del Corso, Castel Sant’Angelo and Ponte Milvio Bridge. Through this advertising campaign, this Chinese consumer
Apple has given us a first glimpse of the next generation of Apple CarPlay, with manufacturers like Porsche, Polestar and Aston Martin signing up to allow for full customisation of the car home screen and dials using the app.
Viral word game, ‘Wordle’, has been acquired by The New York Times. Wordle was acquired from its creator, Josh Wardle, a software engineer in Brooklyn, for a price “in the low seven figures,” The Times said. The company said the game would initially remain free to new and existing players.
Qualcomm has announced that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, has a growing customer design pipeline in excess of 60 premium tier mobile devices based on the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 810 processor.
Chris Hughes, one of Facebook’s co-founders, has called for the social network to be broken up by regulators, arguing that Mark Zuckerberg’s “unchecked power” has created a monopoly and given him “unilateral control over speech”.
Absolute Software has teamed up with BlackBerry to enable joint customers to augment CylancePROTECT with Absolute’s Application Persistence capabilities.
The European Commission wants to make it mandatory for smartphone manufacturers and manufacturers of other electronics to include a USB-C charging port on their devices and is putting forward legislation to establish a common charging solution
WalkSphere, a program that encourages individuals to get out and walk regularly, is launching two significant events for its crypto project, namely, new “ShoeBox” NFTs and the WALKX token.
In celebration of Pride month this June, Apple is releasing two new Pride Edition bands with dynamic Pride watch faces in support of the global LGBTQ+ community and equality movement.
Nest has announced 15 new partners for its six-month-old “Works with Nest†program. Nest’s partner program originally launched with just five partners  most notably a tie-in with the Pebble smartwatch.
Superhero NFT Wars is to launch its NFT collection today, May 8, 2022. These Superhero NFTs will be essential for entering the one-for-all SocialFi metaspace and interacting with all NFT ecosystems.
Experian North America today announced that one of its business units experienced an unauthorized acquisition of information from a server that contained data on T-Mobile USA.
Canada's final version of the Electric Vehicle Availability Standard was published this week, and it includes a sales ban on new cars that generate emissions from 2035.
Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, the crown prince of Dubai and chairman of the Dubai Executive Council, has announced the launch of the Dubai Metaverse Strategy.
A hack discovered by us-based firm vpnMentor that has exposed a database of 80 million (nearly 65 percent) American households. The unprotected 24GB database, hosted on Microsoft Cloud servers, includes the number of people living in each household with their full names, their marital status, income bracket, age, and more. While some information is available freely, other data like title, gender, etc are coded.
Apple today previewed a ground-breaking security capability that offers specialized additional protection to users who may be at risk of highly targeted cyberattacks from private companies developing state-sponsored mercenary spyware.
BlackBerry has rolled out an update to BES12 Cloud, bringing new features for the management console and migration, iOS, Android, Samsung KNOX, Windows 10, IBM Notes Traveler, Pulse Secure, the self-service console, and the BlackBerry Connectivity Node.
Virgin Money has announced new partnerships with The SSE Hydro in Glasgow and The O2 in London and as part of its repositioning of the brand in the UK.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is taking a closer look at Google and Meta’s conduct over concerns that they hampered competition in markets for online display advertising services.
Apple and Google are teaming up to enable the use of Bluetooth technology to help governments and health agencies reduce the spread of the virus, with user privacy and security central to the design.
Apple may reportedly open the standardised tap-to-pay technology in iPhones to competitors following an antitrust investigation by European Union officials.
Three UK is zero-rating seven websites that offer financial advice and guidance, furthering its support for customers of Three during the cost-of-living crisis.
Apple is bringing Share Item Location, a new iOS feature that helps users locate and recover misplaced items by easily and securely sharing the location of an AirTag or Find My network accessory with third parties
Sachin Jogia has been by appointed by Ofcom as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) after nine years at Amazon, where he is currently the General Manager for Alexa Smart Home International – overseeing development of the company’s voice-activated services. A highly experienced product and technology leader, Sachin has also held senior technology roles at AOL and advertising.com.
Degen Productions has released ‘A Bear and a Robot: Artificial Imagination’, one of the first books ever fully written and illustrated by Artificial Intelligence.
Microsoft President Brad Smith has said it’s time for antitrust regulators in the U.S. and Europe to discuss tactics that app stores use to take advantage of those who want to distribute their software.
Octopus Energy’s electric vehicle (EV) charging platform has become Europe’s largest for consumers, as it rockets to nearly 850,000 connected chargers.
My Little Pony has trotted into Roblox with a new game, "Visit Maretime Bay," in celebration of new episodes of My Little Pony: Make Your Mark, now on Netflix.
Check Point has announced the availability of Check Point Capsule, a complete mobile solution that offers unparalleled protection for business data and mobile devices, everywhere.
Cellhire has appointed Simon Fort to the newly created position of UK Business Development Manager, Reseller Channel, responsible for the growth and development of key strategic partnerships within the UK mobile telecoms reseller industry.
Betaverse has established itself as a blockchain-based decentralized platform. In the latest development, the platform has expanded its services by introducing self-governed, fully decentralized Peer-to-Peer Betting Platform features.
OnePlus is to offer a bug bounty offering up to $7,000 USD to security experts who discover and report potential threats to OnePlus’ systems. The company has also partnered with HackerOne, a hacker-powered security platform as part of its efforts to better protect users from cyber threats.
David VanderWaal has been named Vice President of Marketing, LG Electronics USA. He is responsible for overseeing all advertising, consumer research, sponsorships, promotion, shopper insights and digital marketing initiatives for LG's Home Entertainment and Home Appliance business units in the United States.
OpSec Security has launched OpSec SmartCheck, a proprietary smartphone-enabled Optically Variable Device (OVD) validation tool that uses advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) and offers clients a reliable method of validating overt OVD features with a high level of confidence.
Apple beat analysts' estimates thanks to the company's rapidly growing services revenue, but the company's 2024 fiscal year showed another drop in iPhone sales.