BlackBerry is pulling the plug on service for its once ubiquitous business smartphones, which were toted by executives, politicians, and legions of fans in the early 2000s.Read More
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Google, Apple has been asked by FCC official Brendan Carr to either remove TikTok from their app stores by July 8 or explain to him why they did not plan to do so. Carr alleged that the video-sharing app TikTok has collected vast troves of sensitive data about US users that could be accessed by…
BlackBerry phones based on its proprietary operating systems will no longer be able to “reliably function” starting January 4. The company initially announced the move in September last year — years after struggling to fight Android and iPhone devices.Read More
Google has announced the roll out of Switch to Android applications for all Android 12 smartphones. The application was earlier only available for Google’s Pixel smartphones. Google had earlier announced the roll out of the application for iOS smartphones via the Apple App Store. The application will help Apple iPhone users to switch seamlessly to…
BlackBerry plans to negotiate a settlement of an eight-year-old lawsuit claiming it defrauded shareholders by overstating demand for its BlackBerry 10.Read More
Vodafone is working with Google to extend the battery life of on Wear OS by Google watches. The telecom network will achieve so by reducing the “chatter” between the device and the network.Read More
BlackBerry said on Monday it will sell its legacy patents primarily related to mobile devices, messaging and wireless networking for $600 million (roughly Rs. 4,490 crore) to a special purpose vehicle formed to acquire the company’s patent assets.Read More
Google has been targeted by a French consumer group and its peers in complaints to privacy watchdogs over its vast trove of users’ personal data harvested via their Google accounts, said European consumer organisation BEUC. “The language Google uses at every step of the registration process is unclear, incomplete, and misleading,” the group said.Read More
YouTube announced that it will no longer allow users to hide the number of subscribers they have. The company has added a new comment moderation setting to increase strictness and it is also limiting the type of special characters that can be used in a channel name.Read More
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has approved Google’s proposed acquisition of a minority stake in telecom major Bharti Airtel. Earlier in January this year, Google announced its plan to invest up to $1 billion (roughly Rs. 7,510 crore) in Airtel in a move that could help bolster the Indian telecom operator’s digital offerings, the…