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‘Drive-by download’ attacks involve downloading malicious code onto an unsuspecting user’s computer when they visit a website or fill up a form.

Cyber attacks on India rise, here's what you can do to keep your data safe

India sees second highest drive-by download attacks in Asia Pacific region in 2019, says Microsoft

29 Jul 2020 6:09 PM

Under the NBA’s virtual video experience, fans will be removed from their individual backgrounds and brought together in a shared visual space seen in the venue and on game broadcasts. (File Photo | AP)

With Microsoft's help, NBA fans will now feature on 17-foot video boards at games

Similar technology has been deployed by European football clubs, notably Manchester City, since play resumed.

25 Jul 2020 9:00 PM

“Organizations that build their own digital capability will recover faster and emerge from this crisis stronger,” Microsot CEO Satya Nadella said. (Photo | AP)

Revenues rise but profits fall at Microsoft as taxes take a bite

Chief executive Satya Nadella said Microsoft was equipped to deal with the pandemic with its “integrated, modern technology stack.”

23 Jul 2020 9:09 PM

Ultimate subscribers, who pay $15 monthly, will be able to access a library of games for play on Xbox consoles or Windows-powered computers.

XBox to debut cloud gaming service in September

Gamers can continue their game wherever they left off on any of your devices, Microsoft said.

17 Jul 2020 8:25 PM

Google, Facebook, Microsoft and other tech companies say the US Immigration rule requiring international college students whose classes have gone online to leave the country will disrupt their recruiting plans.

Google, Microsoft, Facebook join lawsuit against US visa rule forcing international students out

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement rule bars international students from staying in the country if their classes have gone fully online.

14 Jul 2020 4:38 PM

A Chinese flag flutters outside the Office for Safeguarding National Security of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region after its official inauguration in Hong Kong on July 8, 2020. - China opened a new office for its security agents to operate openly in Hong Kong for the first time under a tough new law. The law stipulates that trials can be held behind closed doors without juries, with offenders subject to a maximum of a life sentence. (Photo | AFP)

Won't entertain Hong Kong user data requests, say Microsoft, Zoom joining Twitter, Facebook, Google

Police have stepped up requests on user data to pick up dissidents in the wake of the national security law being enforced.

08 Jul 2020 4:10 PM

In this file photo taken on June 2, 2020 A looted and boarded up Microsoft store is seen after a night of protest over the death of an African-American man George Floyd in Minneapolis in Manhattan in New York City. Microsoft's physical stores, which sold Surface tablets, laptops and XBox gaming gear, never gained the momentum of rival Apple. Its retail team members will “serve customers from Microsoft corporate facilities and remotely provide sales, training, and support,” the company said. (Photo | AFP)

Microsoft products will now be sold solely online, all 80 retail stores shut

It will keep four locations as Microsoft Experience Centers in London, New York, Sydney and the company’s Redmond, Washington headquarters.

27 Jun 2020 5:36 PM

While Trump has argued the temporary freeze was aimed at helping US workers facing high unemployment during the coronavirus pandemic, critics said the move would backfire and hurt one of the key segments of the American economy. In this picture, a view of Tesla headquarters in Palo Alto, in the San Francisco Bay Area, considered part of 'Silicon Valley' in the United States. (Photo | Wikimedia Commons - Tumbenhaur)

Key segment of US economy, tech firms will be hit by Trump's ban on hiring H-1B workers

Google, Apple, Microsoft and other tech firms have long relied on skilled immigrants to fill key positions of engineers and data scientists.

24 Jun 2020 7:38 PM

Gamers will be encouraged to transition to Facebook Gaming, which has some 700 million people who play or watch games every month.

Can't keep up with Twitch, YouTube, Microsoft gives up livestreaming gaming, ties up with Facebook

Microsoft Mixer will be shuttered on July 22, the tech giant said in a statement.

24 Jun 2020 7:10 PM

A Black man who says he was unjustly arrested because facial recognition technology mistakenly identified him as a suspected shoplifter is calling for a public apology from Detroit police, and for the department to abandon its use of the controversial technology. Several cities, led by San Francisco last year, have banned the use of facial recognition. (Photo | bigbrotherwatch.org.uk)

Calls to abandon facial recognition use as wrongly identified Black man seeks Detroit police apology

The Detroit police has been challenged over face recognition flaws, bias, especially as it is prone to errors identifying people of colour.

24 Jun 2020 6:44 PM

$Facial recognition technology has a dark side, with it integrated into China’s massive public surveillance system and its social credit experiment where even minor infractions of public norms can result in sanctions.$

What's the deal with facial recognition software and how it's weaponised

Although firms like IBM have said it will no longer supply face scan software to police, several other players making the technology would.

18 Jun 2020 10:37 PM

Ongoing protests following the death of George Floyd have focused attention on racial injustice in the US and how police use technology to track people. In this picture, Mask-clad protesters gather for a demonstration in support of US protesters over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died after a police officer kneeled on his neck for several minutes, and against police violence outside the US embassy in the Israeli Mediterranean coastal city of Tel Aviv on June 12, 2020. (Photo | AFP)

Microsoft, Amazon, IBM decision to stop face scan tech for police use may not have impact

Companies that dominate the market in the US are less well known, including the Tokyo-based NEC and European companies Idemia and Gemalto.

12 Jun 2020 4:26 PM

Only 4.4% of Microsoft’s global workforce across all brands, and as for Amazon, while more than 60% of warehouse and delivery workers in most US cities are people of colour, only 8% of its managers in the US are black. In this picture, the beginnings of a Black Lives Matter mural begins to take shape on June 10, 2020 in Seattle, Washington. (Photo | AFP)

How diverse is the workforce in companies that are expressing solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter?

Associated Press reviewed the diversity reports of some of the biggest companies, including tech giants Microsoft and Amazon.

11 Jun 2020 4:30 PM

“I stand with the Black and African American community and we are committed to building on this work in our company and in our communities,” Nadella said

No place for hate: Satya Nadella speaks up for Black Americans, as he did for Muslim Indians

“There is no place for hate and racism in our society. Empathy and shared understanding are a start, but we must do more,” Nadella said.

02 Jun 2020 3:06 PM

Google said, "We have seen new activity from 'hack-for-hire' firms, many based in India, that have been creating Gmail accounts spoofing the WHO". "The accounts have largely targeted business leaders in financial services, consulting, and healthcare corporations within numerous countries including the US, Slovenia, Canada, India, Bahrain, Cyprus, and the UK," Google said in a recent blogpost.

Google detects coronavirus-themed phishing attacks by firms in India posing as WHO, banks

The sites typically feature fake login pages that prompt potential victims to give up their Google account credentials and phone numbers

31 May 2020 7:11 PM

IBM has struggled to compete with top cloud rivals Amazon, Microsoft and Google.

IBM's new CEO Arvind Krishna, on a path to sharpen focus of company, cuts US jobs likely in thousands

The company will eliminate software and services that don’t align with its top two focus areas: cloud computing and artificial intelligence.

23 May 2020 7:35 PM

Google said it will honour all existing contracts with its customers, but didn’t specify what companies. Greenpeace’s report says Microsoft appears to be leading the way with the most oil and contracts, offering AI capabilities in all phases of oil production. Amazon’s contracts are more focused on pipelines, shipping and fuel storage, according to the report. (Photo | Flicker)

Reminded of its climate change pledge, Google says it will stop building AI tools for oil extraction

Greenpeace report said Amazon, Microsoft, Google undermining their own climate pledges by partnering with Shell, BP, Chevron and ExxonMobil.

20 May 2020 7:45 PM

More than 200 million copies of the building and exploration game Minecraft have been sold as online play surges during the coronavirus pandemic.

11-year-old Minecraft one of the most popular games amid pandemic, has 26 million players monthly

Video games and online viewing of matches on platforms such as Twitch, YouTube and Facebook have been seeing huge growth during the pandemic

19 May 2020 6:36 PM

Technology will play a stronger role than ever before - enabling economic recovery and helping each one of us achieve more, Microsoft India President Anant Maheshwari says.

Investments in cloud, AI and cybersecurity being accelerated by the coronavirus pandemic

Technology is playing a key role in education, health and public distribution as movement restrictions become the norm.

16 May 2020 4:29 PM

China-based Huawei and Europe-based Nokia and Ericsson are major 5G equipment suppliers. (Photo | Flickr - Christoph Scholz)

With Huawei ostracised in US, alliance of 30 firms including Google, Samsung call for open 5G systems

The group, including telecom operators Vodafone, AT&T and Verizon, says it wants to avoid depending on any single technology supplier.

06 May 2020 10:07 PM

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