Service appears to be restored for some Facebook and Instagram users after a global outage that disabled the social media platforms, owned by Facebook Inc, for nearly six hours. Facebook-owned WhatsApp messaging app was still experiencing issues late on Monday. In a tweet on Monday evening, Facebook confirmed its apps were coming back online and apologised to…
Twitter has appointed Resident Grievance Officer – India. The microblogging site has named Vinay Prakash as Resident Grievance Officer for India. He can be contacted on grievance-officer-in @ twitter.com, as per the site details. The moves comes pursuant to Article 4(d) of India’s Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, wherein Twitter…
In the suit filed on Monday, they asked the court to declare the indefinite suspension of Twitter in Nigeria a violation of their human rights under international law. They also want the court to order the government to immediately rescind the suspension order and compensate them for the violation of their rights. The NGO applicants…
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama disclosed this after a meeting with some of the top envoys of various Diplomatic Missions in Nigeria. While highlighting that the responsibility of the government is to protect law, order, and human lives, Onyeama made it clear that there is no definite time for lifting the ban. “The condition…
Epic attorney Katherine Forrest began the case, accusing Apple of turning its online marketplace into a monopoly “walled garden” that lures in developers and users and then squeezes money out of them. Apple essentially planted a “flower in the walled garden (that) was turned into a Venus fly trap,” the lawyer said during opening statements…
The return of vinyl continued unabated with sales up 23.5 percent on the year before, while CDs continued their steady decline, down 11.9 percent, according to the annual report by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). But it is streaming — up 19.9 percent — that has propelled the industry back to growth…
Nick Clegg, head of global affairs, said in a statement that the company is willing to support news media while reiterating its concerns over mandated payments. “Facebook is more than willing to partner with news publishers,” Clegg said after Facebook restored news links as part of a compromise with Australian officials. “We absolutely recognize quality…
A Google statement to AFP said the internet giant would from Wednesday lift the ban which was ordered to comply with its “sensitive events” policy. “We will continue to rigorously enforce our ads policies, which strictly prohibit demonstrably false information that could significantly undermine trust in elections or the democratic process,” the statement said. …
As the months and years go by, Microsoft keeps steadily moving away from its old model of PC operating systems, which started with buying Seattle Computing Products’ 86-DOS, aka Quick and Dirty DOS in July 1981 and renaming it MS-DOS 1.10, toward Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS). If your home office doesn’t have a fast Internet connection yet, get one….
The leading social network said it would begin testing the change “for a small percentage of people” in Canada, Brazil and Indonesia this week, and the United States in the coming weeks. “During these initial tests we’ll explore a variety of ways to rank political content in people’s feeds using different signals, and then decide…
