BENGALURU: Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro on Wednesday said it detected 119,000 cyber threats per minute in 2020, leading it to block 62.6 billion threats last year.

SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft on Wednesday launched new industry Clouds for financial services, manufacturing and nonprofit sectors.The tech giant also announced first update to Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare, and the public preview timing for Microsoft Cloud for Retail.

HYDERABAD: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Tuesday said he hopes for global rules on the safety and privacy of data that would make sure that tech products and services are safe to use.

NEW DELHI: Google Cloud has achieved a full Cloud Service Provider (CSP) empanelment after completing an audit from the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), a top company official said on Tuesday.

SINGAPORA: ZASH Global Media and Entertainment Corp. on Tuesday said it has inked a deal to acquire a majority controlling interest in Lomotif, a Singapore-based video-sharing social networking platform and budding rival to TikTok.

NEW DELHI: Twitter appears to be serious about expanding its reach in the Indian market and the microblogging platform reportedly even considered buying homegrown social networking platform ShareChat.

SEOUL:South Korean auto giant Hyundai Motor on Tuesday unveiled the IONIQ 5, the first model embedded with its own electric vehicle (EV) platform, as it strives to morph into a future mobility solutions provider.

INDIA:  HMD Global, the home of Nokia phones, announced that the Nokia 3.4 is now available in India in Fjord, Dusk and Charcoal colour options, in a RAM/ROM variant of 4GB/64GB at a recommended best buy price of INR 11,999, across leading retail outlets and online channels in India, including  Nokia.com/com, Amazon.in and Flipkart.

NEW DELHI: Samsung on Tuesday launched a new range of 'Digi-Touch Cool TM 5-in-1' single-door refrigerators in India at a starting price of Rs 17,990.

NEW DELHI: Enterprises in India are leveraging cloud for objectives beyond business continuity and cost and about 20 per cent of organisations in the country will adopt connected Cloud strategies by 2023, an IDC report said on Tuesday.

NEW DELHI: TECNO, the global premium smartphone brand on Tuesday announced the launch of its first virtual edition of TECNO India Run. A brand-connect initiative to engage with our young TG and also strengthen the Government of India's Fit India Movement'.

NEW DELHI: HP on Tuesday announced Pavilion 13, HP Pavilion 14 and HP Pavilion 15 as the company's first consumer notebook range that uses post-consumer-recycled as well as ocean-bound plastics at a starting price of Rs 62,999 in India.

NEW DELHI: Samsung has started rolling out support for electrocardiogram readings and blood pressure monitoring on its Galaxy Watch Active 2 and Galaxy Watch 3 devices in more countries.

NEW DELHI: Telecom major Bharti Airtel and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc on Tuesday announced their collaboration for accelerating 5G in India.

NEW DELHI: Global PayEx plans to raise Series A funding from strategic investors in the year ahead.

NEW DELHI: Google has quietly added Apple iOS privacy labels to its Gmail app which is yet to come as an official update for billions of users.

BEIJING: Chinese tech giant Huawei has launched Mate X2, the companys latest foldable phone, as the successor to the Mate X that was launched in 2019.

NEW DELHI: Swedish music streaming platform Spotify has announced that it will arrive in over 80 new countries, along with rolling out 36 new languages on its platform.

NEW DELHI:Amazon India on Tuesday said it has deployed nearly 100 Mahindra Treo Zor three-wheelers in seven cities in the country as part of its broader goal.

NEW DELHI: E-learning platform Vedantu on Monday announced it has acquired Instasolv, a doubt-solving app for students from Class 6 to 12 for science, mathematics, IITJEE and NEET, for an undisclosed sum.

NEW DELHI: LG on Monday unveiled its latest W41-series smartphones -- the W41, W41+ and W41 Pro at a starting price of Rs 13,490 in India.

 
NEW DELHI: Mi on Monday launched its latest line-up of audio products 'Mi Portable Bluetooth Speaker' (16W) and 'Mi Neckband Bluetooth Earphones Pro' in India.

If you were contemplating purchasing a new laptop last year during the pandemic, you would have been left perplexed and bemused, and for a valid reason. The cost of laptops spiked, with some models seeing an increase of almost 30 percent! Laptop manufacturers were also left in a limbo because of the pandemic, as their shipments stalled for a number of weeks. 

NEW DELHI: Sony on Monday launched its latest premium wireless speaker 'SRS-RA3000' at Rs 19,990 in the Indian market.

NEW DELHI: Microsoft on Monday launched the Surface Pro 7+ detachable tablet computer in the Indian market at a starting price of Rs 83,999.

SAN FRANCISCO: Apple is reportedly working on its third-generation AirPods and now, a new report claims that it will feature a flat edge with a slight change in the placement of the devices sensors.

SINGAPORE: Dell Technologies has opened a $50 million innovation facility in Singapore focusing on research and development (R&D) in key digital transformation technologies.

SYDNEY: Top tech giants like Facebook, Google, Microsoft, TikTok and Twitter have agreed on adopting the Australian Code of Practice on Disinformation and Misinformation that aims to address the spread of fake news and disinformation on online platforms.

NEW YORK: The use of the words like sacrifice, share and help more than doubled on Twitter and Google from before the pandemic to the period after March 13, according to new research, saying that internet trends suggest Covid-19 spurred a return to earlier values and activities among people.

SAN FRANCISCO: The Cupertino-based tech giant Apple with iPadOS 14.5 beta is expanding Apple Pencil 'Scribble' support for German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese.

NEW DELHI: Samsung has officially started bringing the One UI 3.1 update to Galaxy S20 Series, Note 20 Series, Z Fold2, Z Flip devices and several 2019, 2020 Galaxy A-series models.

BEIJING: Chinese tech giant Huawei has reportedly told suppliers that smartphone production will drop by about 60 per cent in 2021.

SAN FRANCISCO: Google has fired another artificial intelligence (AI) ethics leader Margaret Mitchell who was the the co-lead of its Ethical AI team, following an investigation into her use of corporate email.

NEW DELHI: Experts from a range of domains on Friday discussed the implications and the road to implementation of the recently released Guidelines for acquiring and producing Geospatial Data and Geospatial Data Services, with the top scientific advisor to the government asserting that these guidelines will enable Indian innovators to make advanced maps.

NEW DELHI: As the NASA successfully landed its Perseverance rover in a deep crater near the planet Mars' equator called Jezero, Google on Friday added a virtual fireworks on its page for a specific search.