Category: IT NEWS & UPDATES

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) on Monday started legal proceedings in the Federal Court against Mastercard for allegedly stifling competition in the supply of debit card acceptance services.

A US judge has denied Apple’s appeal to dismiss an amended antitrust lawsuit filed by the creator of Cydia, an app store for jailbroken iPhones, giving the iPhone maker 21 days to respond to the complaint, the media reported.

Meta-owned Facebook’s dark mode interface for the iOS platform has reportedly disappeared for several users.

Meta-owned WhatsApp is now planning to improve the function even more with a few tweaks for iOS users.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s Starlink, the satellite Internet division of his rocket company SpaceX, has received the green light in the Philippines, Nigeria, and Mozambique.

Mobile gaming now represents 61 percent of the overall gaming market and is set to surpass $136 billion in 2022 a” growing 1.7x faster than the gaming market overall, a new report has shown.

Popular social media platform Snapchat has introduced Shared Stories, a new way for Snapchatters to build a community around the content users love to Snap.

Twitter, which started testing Circle earlier this month with a limited group, has started rolling out the feature to more users.

While the 5G network is yet to be available worldwide, global smartphone brand Nokia’s CEO Pekka Lundmark has claimed that 6G mobile networks will be commercially available by 2030.

A group of US senators has urged the tech giants Apple and Google to prohibit the apps in their app stores from collecting data that could be used to identify women seeking abortions, media reports say.

Meta-owned photo-sharing Instagram on Thursday announced a new platform — 1 Minute Music — tracks for Reels, which is currently available only for Indian users.

Sony has announced that half of its game releases will be on PC and mobile by 2025.

NASA‘s impending Artemis program will include a Japanese astronaut, US President Joe Biden has said. Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met in Tokyo on Monday where they announced progress on collaboration for human and robotic lunar missions. They confirmed their commitment to include…

E-commerce platform eBay has launched a series of exclusive non fungible tokens (NFTs) through a strategic partnership with OneOf, a premier green NFT platform for communities across music, sports, and lifestyle.

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the UK on Monday fined facial recognition surveillance firm Clearview AI more than 7.5 million pounds ($9.5 million) for using images of people in the UK and elsewhere, that were collected from the web and social media to create a global online database that could be used for facial recognition.

Google-owned music streaming platform YouTube will now highlight the “most replayed” parts of videos in its web player and mobile apps to let users skip the boring parts.

Meta-owned WhatsApp is likely working on a new feature that will allow users to silently exit groups.

Meta (formerly Facebook) is now testing end-to-end encryption (E2EE) features on its Quest virtual reality (VR) Messenger headsets.

The knives were finally out on Monday between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Parag Agrawal as the Twitter CEO went into finer details on how the micro-blogging platform is fighting spam and fake accounts, to which Musk has objected and put the $44 billion Twitter takeover deal on hold.

Tech giant Apple has updated its App Store rules to make it so subscriptions can auto-renew without your explicit permission, even if the developer has raised the monthly or annual price.