Alphabet Inc’s Google has extended its deadline for Indian app developers to comply with a new billing system for commission fees by six months, it said on Monday, days after local startups voiced anger about the charges.
Google will no…
A designer has earned more than $100,000 (£77,000) in less than a week, after posting a tweet showcasing his collection of iPhone app icons.
The creator, known online as Traf, says he produced "the right content, at the right time" and …
A hack on Grindr allowed anyone with the email address linked to a valid account to reset the user's password and take over their profile.
Security experts revealed the vulnerability online - and reported it the LGBT dating app.
It e…
Transport for London (TfL), the capital's transport authority, has not renewed the licence of Indian taxi app Ola over public safety concerns.
The cab company has been operating in London since February.
TfL said the firm reported a …
YouTube has apologised and deleted a tweet from its official Twitter account in which it mocked content creators for making videos that were too long.
Under its own rules, adverts can be placed in the middle of videos at least eight min…
New Offering to enable enterprise agility in The Volatile Energy Market, Improving Supply Chain Visibility and Providing Timely Crude Oil Quality Information
AVEVA, a global leader in engineering and industrial software, today announce…
Screenshots are handy. You can use them to show your grandparent how to use a new app. You can use them to send a shot of that strange error message to your company’s IT department. You can use them to capture tweets — yours or someone els…
Auto Mode is a new feature coming to Amazon’s Alexa app that turns your phone into a “driver-friendly display” when used with Alexa auto accessories like the Echo Auto, the company says. As well as offering access to Alexa’s typical voice …
Google is adding a few notable new features to Live View, the augmented reality mode of Google Maps that lets you hold your phone up and see visual overlays over the real world as its captured by your mobile camera’s viewfinder. The bigges…
Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium, home of the Atlanta Falcons and Atlanta United FC, will use a pair of drones to disinfect fan seating and other areas after upcoming events. The purpose-built D1 disinfecting drones are being provided by Lu…
In an interesting development in the wake of a bias controversy over its cropping algorithm Twitter has said it’s considering giving users decision making power over how tweet previews look, saying it wants to decrease its reliance on mach…
Facebook today says it has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. against two companies that had engaged in an international “data scraping” operation. The operation extended across Facebook properties, including both Facebook and Instagram, as well …
Small rivals of Alphabet Inc's GOOGL.O Google say signs are emerging of more benevolent behavior from the online advertising leader amid accusations by the U.S. government and states that the company uses its dominance to thwart competitio…
E-scooters should be legalised on roads but riding on pavements should be prohibited, the Transport Committee of MPs has said.
Currently, privately-owned e-scooters are banned to use in the UK anywhere except on private land.
The com…
The US Senate Commerce Committee has voted to subpoena the heads of Google, Facebook, and Twitter.
It means that Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey face being quizzed by senators about their policies on different types of co…
PTR Robots Introduces World’s First Mobile Lifting Robot That Both Transfers and Rehabilitates Patients
Patient transfer and rehabilitation robot is mobile and intelligent
PTR Robots, a Danish service-robot company, announced the wor…
Strategic buy builds on industry-leading food and beverage, pharmaceutical and logistics portfolio
ABB has acquired Codian Robotics B.V., a leading provider of delta robots, which are used primarily for high-precision pick and place ap…
Google's hardware chief has said its new flagship smartphone was designed to go on sale during an economic downturn.
As a result, the Pixel 5 has abandoned some of its predecessor's headline features and runs on a slower chip in order t…
Alphabet’s Google plans to pay $1 billion to publishers globally for their news over the next three years, its CEO said on Thursday, a step that could help it win over a powerful group amid heightened regulatory scrutiny worldwide.
News…
Twitter Inc TWTR.N said on Wednesday it had removed 130 accounts, as they were attempting to disrupt the public conversation during the first U.S. presidential debate between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden.
Twitter remove…
A smart plug for sale on Amazon poses a fire risk and people should immediately stop using it, an investigation by consumer watchdog Which? suggests.
Amazon said it had removed the Hictkon smart plug with dual USB ports from sale, pending…
The German government is planning tougher oversight of telecoms network vendors that, while stopping short of a ban on Huawei [HWT.UL], will make it harder for the Chinese company to keep a foothold in Europe’s largest market.
Three coa…
China’s Huawei is ready to be thoroughly examined to show that its technology does not pose any risk to the countries that will include its equipment in the creation of 5G networks, the head of its Italian unit said on Wednesday.
“We wi…
Amazon has announced a new payment system for real-world shops which uses a simple wave of the hand.
Its new Amazon One scanner registers an image of the user's palm, letting them pay by hovering their hand in mid-air "for about a secon…
HUAWEI now offers safe and contactless digital payment options with the launch of Mondia Pay on HUAWEI Mobile Services (HMS) in the MEA Region
The new partnership with Mondia Pay will increase reach in countries across Africa and the Mi…
Mobile phone screens have always been an innovation milestone in the history of mobile phone development. In the past two years, major mobile phone manufacturers have been competing on full screens, from notch screens, water-drop screens, …
Microsoft's MSFT.O Bing, PrivacyWall and Info.com were among the search engines that won a quarterly auction by Alphabet's GOOGL.O Google to show up as search options on new Android devices in 31 European countries.
Google offered to al…
Huawei Technologies has built up stakes in Chinese semiconductor companies and other tech businesses as the world’s largest telecoms equipment maker bolsters its supply chain in the face of pressure from the United States.
Habo Investme…
Microsoft said it’s investigating an authentication outage with Office 365, preventing users from accessing some of the company’s most widely used services, including Office.com, Outlook.com and Teams.
The company’s status dashboard sai…
There's an election scenario that is giving social media company bosses nightmares.
The period between the polls closing and the declared result usually takes a few hours.
But this time it's likely to take days - perhaps even weeks. …
Nokia is set to become a major beneficiary of Huawei being blocked from the UK's 5G networks.
The Finnish telecoms firm has struck a deal to become the largest equipment provider to BT.
Nokia will now provide additional base stations…
* Alepo’s automated and convergent fixed IN platform will replace the PSTN operator’s legacy system
* The full IN replacement will include IN-OCS, IVR, voucher management, reporting, interconnect partner management, and more
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South Africa technology company develop technology to help municipalities in revenue recovery and collections
Technology solutions provider TechSoft International has developed an integrated and data rich solution to assist in improving…
Orange announced the Sanza touch - an exclusive Orange smartphone and the most affordable 4G Android (Go edition) device globally
Affordability of devices remains one of the most significant barriers to smartphone adoption in Africa. Th…
And I don’t mean building an app that gets the world addicted to short-form videos. I mean, where you build a huge company that spans the world and then get turned into a political football.
The Bytedance-owned app developer still appea…
When it comes to smartwatches, it’s Apple against the world. It’s not that there aren’t plenty of other products to choose from — it’s more that the company has just utterly dominated the space to such a point that any other device is rele…
SoftBank’s robotics arm said on Monday it will bring a food service robot developed by California-based Bear Robotics to Japan as restaurants grapple with labour shortages and a new socially distanced norm as a result of the novel coronavi…
SAIC Motor, the biggest automaker in China, plans to have nearly 100 new energy models with its partners by 2025, its president Wang Xiaoqiu said on Monday.
New energy vehicles include battery electric vehicles as well as plug-in hybrid…
Piedmont Lithium PLL.AX on Monday said it signed a five-year deal with Tesla Inc TSLA.O to supply high-purity lithium ore mineral to the U.S. electric carmaker, prompting an 83% surge in the Australian lithium miner's shares.
The initia…
TikTok has avoided a government-ordered block on new downloads in the US after a judge issued a temporary injunction.
The video-sharing app had faced being removed from Apple's App Store and Android's Google Play marketplace at midnight l…
Rack Centre, carrier neutral data centre operator in West Africa, announced an expansion programme that will increase capacity to a total net lettable white space of 6000 square metres and allow for 13MW of IT power capacity in its Lagos …
KLab Inc., a leader in online mobile games, announced that its head-to-head football simulation game Captain Tsubasa: Dream Team will hold the worldwide Dream Championship 2020 tournament and will kick off its online qualifiers starting to…
VPNs are in high demand as Americans scramble to keep access to TikTok and WeChat amid a looming government ban. There are dozens of free VPNs out there that promise to protect your privacy by keeping you anonymous on the internet and hidi…
A number of top app makers have banded together to fight against Apple’s control of its App Store and, to a lesser extent, Google’s control of the Play Store — a topic of increased regulatory scrutiny in recent months. Today, 13 app publis…
At its Devices and Services event, Amazon launched its own cloud gaming competitor to Google Stadia and Microsoft xCloud . It’s called Luna.
The company is launching the product in early access at an introductory price of $5.99 per mont…
Twitter’s experiment to get people to actually read the content they’re sharing is going so well the company plans to expand it to the platform at large “very soon.”
In June, Twitter introduced a test feature on Android to promote “info…
Launch Center Pro, an iOS utility that offered widgets and custom icons long before they were allowed on the iPhone’s home screen, is bringing its design tools to iOS 14. The app aims to capitalize on the recent trend toward home screen pe…
When 32-year-old photographer Jaco Xu needed a run-around car for work in the eastern city of Hangzhou, the price tag on the latest micro EV from GM's GM.N China joint venture overcame his qualms about electric vehicles.
Xu paid 38,800 …
Advertisers who boycotted social media are not all rushing back, despite an agreement by Facebook, YouTube and Twitter on how to curb harmful content online.
Unilever, one of the world’s biggest advertisers, told Reuters the move this w…
Amazon's smart home security division Ring has unveiled a flying camera that launches if sensors detect a potential home break-in.
It is designed to activate only when residents are out, works indoors, and is limited to one floor of a b…
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