The Indian President Droupadi Murmu on Friday granted assent to the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill (DPDPB) after it was unanimously passed by both houses of the parliament last week, marking a significant step towards securing people’s information. “The Bill provides for the processing of digital personal data in a manner that recognizes both the
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Apple supplier Foxconn reported on Monday a 1 percent drop in second-quarter net profit, as global economic woes hurt demand for smart consumer electronics. The Taiwanese company, the world’s largest contract electronics maker, said net profit for the April-June quarter slipped to TWD 33 billion (roughly Rs. 8,578 crore) from a revised TWD 33.29 billion
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The US Supreme Court on Wednesday denied Epic Games’ stringent App Store payment rules that prevent developers from introducing alternate payment methods for in-app purchases. The court declined to let a federal judge’s injunction take effect that could force the iPhone maker to change payment practices in its lucrative App Store. The court’s ruling lets
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The California Institute of Technology has reached a “potential settlement” in a high-stakes patent infringement lawsuit against Apple and Broadcom over Wi-Fi chips, according to a Thursday filing in federal court. Caltech previously won a verdict of more than $1.1 billion (nearly Rs. 9,100 crore) from Apple and Broadcom in the case that was later
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US President Joe Biden speaks on how “Bidenomics” is helping clean energy and manufacturing, at Arcosa Wind Towers in Belen, New Mexico, on August 9, 2023.  Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images The Biden administration’s executive order restricting U.S. private equity and venture capital investments in Chinese technology finally landed on Wednesday. For U.S.
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The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) launched the Indian Web Browser Development Challenge (IWBDC) on Wednesday, according to a release. The IWBDC is an open challenge competition that seeks to inspire and empower technology enthusiasts, innovators, and developers from all corners of the country to create an indigenous web browser. The programme saw
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Aug 10, 2023THNPrivacy / Encryption A widely used Chinese language input app for Windows and Android has been found vulnerable to serious security flaws that could allow a malicious interloper to decipher the text typed by users. The findings from the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, which carried out an analysis of the encryption mechanism
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