Internet Giants Told To Accept Cyber Curbs To Be Greeted In China Facebook and Google will have to agree to tough online laws and censorship from China if they need authorize to its 751 Million Internet consumers, Chinese controllers claimed in a meeting this week in Geneva. Facebook and Google are banned in China, in … Read more
In a strange development, Lithuania has said that software from Kaspersky Lab is a threat to its national security and hence they will not be using any of the security software developed by the Moscow-based company on computers that hold sensitive information. The Lithuanian government said it will be removing Kaspersky Lab software from all computers that … Read more
Nokia has added one more smartphone manufacturer to its patent licensing kitty by inking a licensing deal with Huawei. The deal with Huawei means that Nokia now has smartphone patent licesing deal with almost all major smartphone manufacturers out there including Apple, Samsung Electronics, LG, and Xiaomi. Neither Nokia nor Huawei revealed financial details about … Read more
Twitter has expanded its two-factor authentication from accepting just SMS to third-party apps now. Users will be able to install third-party apps for two-factor authentication to verify their accounts thereby paving way for millions of users who were not able to use SMS-based 2FA to proceed with better securing their accounts. You will now be … Read more
A top Microsoft official in India has revealed expansion plans of the software giant in the country stating that the Redmond-based Windows 10 maker will be focusing on government and small business segment to grow. Microsoft India president Anant Maheshwari said in an interview that the company’s clear focus areas are the SMB and government … Read more
Germany’s competition watchdog has slammed Facebook for its ‘abusive’ data harvesting practices and added that the social networking behemoth is abusing its dominant position to “limitlessly” harvest user data from outside websites and apps. The Federal Cartel Office (FCO) has released a preliminary assessment report wherein it has focused on Facebook’s use of third-party sites to track … Read more