INTERNET SPACE - INDO DAILY

Apr 13, 2022 (AFP)

Sunak's wife Akshata Murty holds a nearly $1 billion stake in the IT firm, which was founded by her father N.R. Narayana Murthy and established itself as a glob...

iPhone maker Pegatron halts Shanghai production over Covid

Apr 13, 2022 (AFP)

The business hub of Shanghai has become the heart of China's biggest Covid-19 outbreak since the virus surfaced more than two years ago. The city of 25 million ...

iPhone, Macbook makers halt Shanghai production over Covid

Apr 13, 2022 (AFP)

The business hub of Shanghai has become the heart of China's biggest Covid-19 outbreak since the virus surfaced more than two years ago. The city of 25 million ...

Indian software provider TCS sees strong earnings, record orders

Apr 11, 2022 (AFP)

Net profit at the IT giant rose to 99.26 billion rupees ($1.3 billion) in the three months ending March 31, which was 7.4 percent higher than in the same period...

Fleeing Russians help Uzbekistan chase IT dreams

Apr 07, 2022 (AFP)

But with Russia's invasion of Ukraine driving an exodus of IT specialists to former parts of the Soviet Union, authorities in Uzbekistan are hoping to speed up ...

Ultra thin lenses coming soon to cellphones, drones and eyeglasses

Apr 07, 2022 (SPX)

However, that is all about to change. New, cheap, lightweight flat lenses - around a thousandth of the thickness of a human hair - will be making their move the...

Twitter to test longed-for edit button

Apr 06, 2022 (AFP)

The inability to tweak tweets after firing them off has been a key complaint among users of the one-to-many messaging platform. Word that the company would star...

Hackers got user data from Meta with forged request

Mar 31, 2022 (AFP)

Imposters were able to get details like physical addresses or phone numbers in response to falsified "emergency data requests," which can slip past privacy barr...

Facebook's Meta funded attack campaign against TikTok: report

Mar 30, 2022 (AFP)

The campaign reportedly includes placing letters in major US news outlets and promoting negative stories about TikTok, allegedly using the type of tough tactics...

Russia 'postpones' military service for IT specialists

Mar 29, 2022 (AFP)

Military service is compulsory in Russia for men aged between 18 and 27. Many try to evade service through medical or educational exemptions while some simply i...

Huawei reports record net profit as exec Meng makes public return

Mar 28, 2022 (AFP)

The company has been caught in the crosshairs of a US-China trade and technology rivalry, with the administration of former President Donald Trump moving to cri...

Microsoft says it addressed corruption allegations in Middle East, Africa

Mar 26, 2022 (AFP)

A former Microsoft employee accused the tech giant of corruption in The Wall Street Journal, and in an essay posted Friday to the website Lioness, which publish...

Big Tech now regulated like banks, says EU antitrust chief

Mar 25, 2022 (AFP)

"For companies that play a role as gatekeepers, the Digital Markets Act (DMA) will (now) set the rules of the game," the EU's competition chief Margrethe Vestag...

EU negotiators agree landmark law to curb Big Tech

Mar 25, 2022 (AFP)

Meeting in Brussels the lawmakers nailed down a long list of do's and don'ts that will single out the world's most iconic web giants as internet "gatekeepers" s...

Latin America's IT brain drain a regional challenge

Mar 23, 2022 (AFP)

Software engineer Ribeiro used to work remotely and had no intention of emigrating, but a harrowing incident changed his mind. "It was one night that my wife an...

Tencent reports slower growth as China cracks down on tech sector

Mar 23, 2022 (AFP)

China has exerted more authority over the industry since 2020, citing concerns that tech giants in the country have become too big and powerful. The Shenzhen-ba...

YouTube offers thousands of free TV episodes -- with ads

Mar 23, 2022 (AFP)

The Google-owned video platform said that popular television shows along with films from major studios will be available, with ads, on YouTube using smart telev...

EU in final push for Big Tech crackdown

Mar 22, 2022 (AFP)

Negotiators from the European Parliament and the EU member states are to hold talks on Thursday that various sources said could see both sides agree on the legi...

Microsoft data centre to warm homes in Finland

Mar 17, 2022 (AFP)

In what it touted as the world's largest "waste-heat recycling concept", Microsoft will collaborate with Finnish power company Fortum, whose existing district h...

Shenzhen: Lockdown in China's Silicon Valley rattles investors

Mar 16, 2022 (AFP)

Residents in the city of 17.5 million -- sometimes dubbed China's answer to Silicon Valley -- have been ordered not to leave unless necessary and public transpo...