1. A Canadian company's hardware is being used to hack internet users along Turkey's border with Syria, researchers said Friday, adding that there were signs that Kurdish forces aligned with the United States might have been targeted.
2. Mobile TV app of Reliance Jio has announced that its users can customise live watching of cricket matches of ongoing tri-nation Nidahas trophy including preferred camera angle, commentary language and audio at the venue.
3. Oculus Rift virtual headsets that shut down worldwide for roughly a day have been given a fresh lease of life. Facebook-owned virtual reality company Oculus has released a patch that fixes the issue with the Rift headsets.
4. Japan will open up its doors to about two lakh IT professionals from India, and issue green cards to settle down in Japan and support the country's rapidly expanding IT infrastructure, said Shigeki Maeda, Executive Vice President at Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO), a government body, here on Thursday.
5. Broadcom Ltd said in a letter to US Congress on Friday that it will not sell any critical national security assets to any foreign companies if its $117 billion deal to buy chipmaker Qualcomm is approved.
6. Twitter Inc appointed Parag Agrawal as Chief Technology Officer on Thursday.
7. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday slapped a penalty of Rs 5 crore on Airtel Payments Bank Limited for violating know your customer (KYC) norms.
8. Microsoft is looking to turn ordinary school buses into Internet-enabled hotspots, in an experiment that's aimed at helping students in rural Michigan do their homework. The company wants to use empty TV airwaves to beam high-speed Internet signals to buses in Hillman, Michigan, as they travel to and from school.
9. Tata Power today announced launch of its IoT based, asset-tracking, automation solution enabled by Tata Communications in Mumbai. This solution allows various features like asset trace log on a periodic basis and Geo Fence breach alerts. It also allows information to be converted into actionable insights in real-time which in turn will help drive operational efficiencies.
10. Handset maker Motorola said on Thursday it will set up 1,000 'Moto Hubs' across 100 cities, as the "first milestone" of strengthening offline presence.
11. In what could damage Twitter's popularity, Google is now allowing US musicians to post updates directly to its Search result pages.
12. Global electronics company ViewSonic Corporation on Friday launched a PX747-4K projector in India for Rs 2,75,000, that delivers a big screen experience and high detail images for home entertainment.
13. False news stories spread much more quickly and widely on Twitter than truthful ones, an imbalance driven more by people than automated "bot" accounts. A study by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab examining about 126,000 stories shared by some 3 million people on Twitter from 2006 to 2017 found that false news was about 70% more likely to be retweeted by people than true news.
14. Apple is aiming to expand the benefits of an awareness programme, launched in India and China last year to encourage women workers to focus on personal health, to over 1 million women by 2020.
15. National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) accepted telecom operator Aircel's bankruptcy petition, and issued a directive that the directors, promoter and chairman and managing director of the company should not leave without permission till further offers.
16. A German law requiring social media companies like Facebook and Twitter to quickly remove hate speech from their sites is set to be revised following criticism that too much online content is being blocked.
17. Steam and Half-Life creator Valve revealed more details regarding Artifact. Announced in 2017, Artifact is a card game based on Valve’s popular multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game Dota 2. Artifact will come to Windows, macOS, and Linux via Steam. It will also release on mobile — Android and iOS thereafter. The game runs on Valve's Source 2 engine on all platforms. Valve has stated that Artifact is slated for a 2018 release window on PC and will come to Android and iOS in mid-2019.
18. Following its usual suit of endless hints, Indian smartphone market leader Xiaomi is now teasing the launch of a new smartphone on March 14 in India.
19. Samsung has revealed the rollout timeline of Android 8.0 Oreo update for some of its smartphones - in the same week that the Android P Developer Preview 1 was released. The South Korean smartphone manufacturer posted a list of handsets as well as a timeline on when they will receive the Android Oreo update. As of now, Samsung has rolled out the update only on Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ smartphones. Also, Samsung's latest flagships - Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ - come with Android 8.0 out-of-the-box. However, as per the latest report, handsets like the Samsung Galaxy Note 8, Galaxy S7, Galaxy S7 Edge, Galaxy A7 (2017), Galaxy A5 (2017) and Galaxy A3 (2017) will get the latest Android OS soon.
20. Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk took to Twitter on Thursday to call on US President Donald Trump to challenge China's auto trade rules, which limit foreign ownership of Chinese ventures and impose steep tariffs on imported cars.
21. Homegrown electronics brand Mivi on Friday launched its first Bluetooth neckband earphone "Collar" for Rs 2,999 in India.
22. Apple not only has its mainstream products in focus but accessories as well. Soon it could be increasing its focus on the particular segment if a recent patent filing on a new ‘crumb-resistant’ Mac keyboard is an indication. The patent was made public recently indicating Apple to be working on a keyboard that will prevent crumbs and dust to spoil the MacBook keys.
23. Fortnite Battle Royale is coming to Android and iOS. And what's more is that it's not like the pared down version of the smash hit game like PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds' (PUBG) mobile efforts via Tencent. Developer Epic Games took to its blog to explain what you can expect from Fortnite Battle Royale on Android and iOS.
24. Around 600 computers used to mine bitcoin were stolen in Iceland in a series of large-scale heists in December and January.
25. Chinese smartphone manufacturer iVoomi on Friday announced the launch of anniversary edition variant for its flagship i-series smartphone- iVoomi i1s. The key highlight of the iVoomi i1s Anniversary Edition is the introduction of the face unlock feature - there is no change in specifications.
26. A patent filed by Apple has revealed that the company was working on a new charging connector to juice up its devices.
27. Tata Consultancy Services gets nearly $2 billion in revenue a year from analytics, the company’s CEO Rajesh Gopinathan told ET in an interview, making it the largest chunk of its digital revenue.
28. Google Chrome already has an inbuilt password manager which users can sync between other devices. However, Google is now working on enabling users to export passwords for use in third-party managers. This essentially means that Chrome users will be able to export their saved passwords in a text file in a simpler way.
29. Indian smartphone market leader Xiaomi has made its first 'Made in India' power banks -- 10000mAh Mi Power Bank 2i and 20000mAh Mi Power Bank 2i -- available via third party e-commerce websites such as Amazon and Flipkart.
30. The heavy industries and public enterprises ministry is supporting setting up of four centres in the country to facilitate SMEs implement Industry 4.0. N Sivanand, Joint Secretary in Department of Heavy Industry, said these four centres will come up at institutes, including IIT Delhi; Central Manufacturing Technology Institute, Bengaluru; and IIT Mumbai.
31. Lenovo S5 is expected to be the latest smartphone from the company that will launch on March 20. Earlier this week, Lenovo executive Chang Cheng had uploaded an invite for the launch event. Now, he has shared an image of the Lenovo S5 in a post on Weibo that showcases a Red colour variant of the smartphone. Additionally, the image also reveals features like a dual rear camera setup, a fingerprint scanner, and a metal unibody design.
32. Nintendo announced a wealth of games for the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo 3DS at its Nintendo Direct event.
33. As India moves towards becoming a cashless economy, service providers will have to focus on infrastructure as well as end user tools to secure digital payments, National Cybersecurity Coordinator Gulshan Rai said on Friday, urging them to "take a step ahead in this direction".
34. Indian ride-hailing firm Ola's pilot project to test a fleet of electric vehicles in Nagpur was expected to herald a coming revolution in the Indian autos industry. So far, though, it has only exposed fractures in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ambitions to make all new vehicles electric by 2030.
35. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, has said that the social media platform is working towards allowing any user to have a verified account. In a Periscope livestream, he also shed some light on the idea behind the Blue tick. He said, "The intention is to open verification to everyone. And to do it in a way that is scalable so we’re not in the way and people can verify more facts about themselves and we don’t have to be the judge and imply any bias on our part.”
36. Apple Inc , the world's most valuable publicly listed company, is in danger of being beaten by Amazon.com Inc to the $1 trillion mark. Wall Street's optimism about last year's 10th anniversary iPhone had propelled Apple's stock 24% higher over the past 12 months, giving it a market capitalization of $893 billion. That is $141 billion more than the $752 billion market value of Amazon, the world's third most valuable publicly listed company, but Amazon has been quickly closing the gap.
37. The first of two mid-size commercial missions to the Moon for NASA could come as early as 2022, said the US space agency which is focused on increasing science activities near and on the Earth's natural satellite and ultimately returning humans to its surface.
38. Android continues to have more loyal users than the ones using the iOS operating system, a new report by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) said on Friday.
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