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Christian Fredrikson, President and CEO of F-Secure Corporation, has resigned to pursue a leadership opportunity outside the company. The F-Secure Board of Directors has appointed Samu Konttinen as new President and CEO, effective 1 August 2016. Konttinen joined F-Secure in 2005 and has held a wide range of senior management positions in the company, including Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing, and Executive Vice President of F-Secure’s Consumer Business. Most recently he served as Executive Vice President Corporate Security Business. Since 2009 he has been a member of the...

The company records your conversations whenever you leave your smartphone nearby with the Facebook application running in the background. Facebook claims that the process is not for pushing targeted advertisements, but to facilitate the users in posting stuff related to the content which they might be consuming. For instance, the background noise from a television show or a movie. Some users have also claimed that they have been flooded with advertisements which aligned with the conversations, they recently indulged in, reflecting a possibility of Facebook utilizing your conversations for commercial...

In a significant step towards enabling effective e-governance services, the website of the Prime Minister’s office (PMO) of the country (www.pmindia.gov.in) has been upgraded to offer support for six new Indian languages. The new sets of languages include Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu, besides the existing Hindi and English. The new website was inaugurated by Sushma Swaraj, the Union Minister for external affairs. The minister, while announcing the upgrade said that the initiative strengthens the commitment of Prime Minister to communicate with the citizens of the country in...

Microsoft and Xiaomi have expanded their global partnership to provide innovative user experiences on mobile devices. As part of the agreement, Xiaomi will ship MicrosoftOffice and Skype on Xiaomi Android smartphones and tablets. As a result, tens of millions of consumers and business customers in China, India and around the world will have new ways to work, collaborate and communicate. The companies’ new collaboration also includes a cross-license and patent transfer agreement. “We are excited to be working closely with Microsoft on a broad technology collaboration partnership,” said Xiang Wang,...

Tech major Huawei has outlined its business plans at the Asia ICT Innovation Forum 2016 organized by Singapore Exhibition Services. Huawei spokespersons said the company is looking for a ICT transformation to enable more people in Asia Pacific to reap the benefits of technology and move towards a better connected World. Toward this end, Huawei showcased the latest innovations and solutions together with 50 partners off-site. Together with industry partners, Huawei aims to deepen cooperation across verticals and strengthen the ICT value chain. 5-point agenda 1. Huawei aims to the...

Symantec the global cybersecurity company , today announced the availability of Encryption Everywhere, a website security package available through web hosting providers. Encryption Everywhere lets web hosting providers integrate encryption into every website from the moment it is created. With the new web security service, hosting providers can offer a variety of flexible options, including basic website encryption included as part of any hosted service, and a number of premium security packages with increasingly stronger levels of website validation, protection, and trust seals. Encryption Everywhere was developed to support Symantec’s...

In an exclusive interview to ET NOW from London, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales defended Wikipedia Zero to provide internet free of cost on mobile phones in developing markets and has backed the principle of net neutrality project despite admitting it was a complicated topic and that getting access to knowledge for poor people is equally important. Wikipedia Zero follows a very strict set of principles such as no money is ever exchanged etc. “Net neutrality is such a complicated topic, it is something that I am extremely passionate about and I think...

ZAGG is a publicly traded company based in South Salt Lake, USA. It is best known for its line of protective coverings, audio (iFrogz) and keyboards for consumer electronics and hand-held devices under the brand name InvisibleShield. ZAGG is global leader in accessories and technologies that empower mobile lifestyles. ZAGG, a global leader in accessories and technologies that empower mobile lifestyles, has announced their ZAR reseller program for India. As a part of the program, the company is appointing 300 authorized resellers across 20 Indian cities. ZAR, which stands for...