Facebook this week began notifying about 14 million users that posts published to Facebook during the period of mid-May might have been made public due to a bug. The company claims the audience selector tool was accidentally set to public for a large group of users. Normally, the tool reflects whichever setting the user last selected, […]
Hyundai Motor America customers will soon be able to pay for goods and services such as gasoline, food and parking spots through new technology developments and in-car purchasing options. Hyundai and automotive software developer Xevo Inc. — which connects drivers and their vehicles to mobile applications and services through touchscreens and their vehicle-branded mobile apps […]
Amazon and eBay are among retailers pulling a brand of plushy smart toys from sale after warnings they pose a cyber-security threat. Concerns were raised about CloudPets products in February 2017 after it was discovered that millions of owners’ voice recordings were being stored online unprotected. The CloudPets range includes a number of soft animal […]
Facebook has confirmed it has a data-sharing partnership with Chinese firms including Huawei, a company US intelligence previously flagged as a security threat. The agreements gave the Chinese firms some access to users’ data to help them build Facebook “experiences” on their smartphones. Facebook said all the data collected remained on users’ phones not servers. […]
Jun 6 2018 | Posted in
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Nokia today said it has sold its Withings business to the wearable company’s original co-founder, Eric Carreel. Nokia had purchased the company in 2016. Moving forward, Withings will be headquartered in Paris, with offices in the U.S. and Asia. The company says it is “dedicated to developing innovative connected health products focused on preventive health.” Withings […]
AT&T today indicated it is prepared to settle with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over allegations that it throttled users’ mobile data speeds without property informing them. AT&T advertised “unlimited” mobile data, but slowed users’ speeds once they crossed a certain threshold. The FTC first sued AT&T over the matter in 2014, but that case […]
The makers of Fortnite, one of the world’s most popular video games, have been accused of copying rival title PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG). Bluehole Studio Inc, the studio behind PUBG, has asked a court in South Korea to determine whether Epic Games copied its intellectual property. Fortnite and PUBG have both attracted millions of gamers with […]
Papua New Guinea will ban Facebook for a month while it identifies fake profiles and considers the website’s effect on the country. Communication minister Sam Basil said users posting pornography and false information would be identified. He also suggested the country could set up its own rival social network. Facebook has faced scrutiny following the […]
May 29 2018 | Posted in
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The Trump administration has handed ZTE an olive branch, according to sources cited by the New York Times and Reuters. The Commerce Department has brokered a deal that will allow ZTE to resume operations as long as it agrees to pay a substantial fine, submit to American compliance officers, and wholly change is management team. If […]
May 25 2018 | Posted in
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A California jury on Thursday decided that Samsung must pay Apple $539 million for copying its smartphone designs. The decision comes after a retrial concerning the amount of damages owed for the 2012 case that found Samsung guilty of infringing on Apple’s design patents. A jury in that case initially awarded Apple $1.05 billion, though […]
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