Technology

AT&T has announced that it has acquired the rights to Carrier IQ’s software and some CIQ employees have also been moved to AT&T. Carrier IQ appears to have shut down, which came under scrutiny in 2011 as people came to know about its practices of getting hold of the user data on more than 140 million mobile devices.

AT&T has signed on as a customer years ago to access the CIQ software across phones in its network with a purpose to troubleshoot wireless quality for its customers. The company spokesman said that today also it is the similar case.

A glitch that appeared on Facebook on Thursday shows its users that they have been friends with Facebook for 46 years. The company experts are presently busy in fixing the bug as soon as possible.

At first, it was thought that the issue was experienced by really old accounts. Due to the glitch the largest social network has sent out messages congratulating users for 46 years of friendship with people in their list.

A little longer wait for all those people who are hoping to reach out and touch computer-generated worlds. The news will slightly disappoint those customers who have been pining to finally use this new technology. As per recent statement by Oculus VR on Thursday, it has delayed the release of its Touch controllers until the second half of 2016. In 2014, Facebook started Oculus VR, the pioneering virtual-reality for $2 billion. The gadgets are designed to let people use hand gestures in all-digital environments.

The tax office of Italy will receive 318 million euros ($348 million) from Apple towards the settlement of a dispute over the failure to make tax payments of six years. The iPhone and iPad manufacturer is likely to sign a deal in early-2016 to formulate guideline for its tax payments from 2015 onwards.

At the CES meeting to be held next week, Samsung is going to introduce three latest products from its Creative Lab (C-Lab) that includes the WELT smartbelt, head controller for VR and a wrist strap that helps you send audio through fingertip. The CES meeting will start of January 6 and will continue till January 9. The WELT belt is a device that helps you keep track of your waist size, eating habits and the number of day to day activities. It functions as a belt too holding your pants up. The smartbelt will keep your updated by notifying you that you are active, moving and losing weight.

Joining the league of other wireless operators like T-Mobile and Verizon, AT&T is also putting an end to its long-going two –year phone contract scheme. From January 8, people will not be able to get a cellphone using this scheme.

Instead, AT&T is starting two new schemes as per which a person can buy the phone by paying the full price upfront or in installments over time. The decision will be applicable on all the phones even flip phones and non-smartphones with keyboards. But the scheme will remain open for business contracts.

In its new policy, Microsoft will inform users of online services that whether or not they have become a target of government-sponsored attackers. When you will use Microsoft’s online email and file-storage service, you can get a special heads-up that may state if your account is hit by a state-sponsored hacker. It will be more like a warning that user must take additional steps to protect their accounts.

Gone were the times when hacking used to cause goose bumps! In the era of computer world and technology, being system hacked is not something surprising. Similar attack happened with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) company reported on Thursday that its digital services had been shut down temporarily in what its news operation described as a hacking attack. On Thursday morning, many of the BBC’s websites and popular video-on-demand services were offline for about three hours, though its television and radio stations were not affected with the attack.

Mass production of the iPhone 6C is said to start from January 2016. The small-sized iPhone will boast of features including a 4-inch display protected by 2.5D curved glass, the same glass present on the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s smartphones.

The iPhone 6C will have Apple A9 chipset and accompanied by 2GB of RAM. The newly released iPhone 6S and 6S Plus also have A9 chip and the same amount of data. The beginner’s model will be having an internal storage of 16 GB and a rear camera of 8 megapixels.

Apple releases new models for iPhone every year and months before launch of a new model, media reports start surfacing about the features the company would add in the newer model. Apple has till date surprised technology experts and customers by offering amazing features in each major model release. And, with each major release, Apple has grabbed a bigger market share in the high-end smartphone segment. New report published by Forbes talks about three major features that we could see in Apple’s iPhone 7.