FLORIDA, March 25: India's lunar mission Chandrayaan 2, scheduled to launch next month, will carry NASA's laser instruments that allow scientists to make precise measurements of the distance to the Moon, according to the US space agency officials.

Google announces browser-based streaming game service

Published On: March 20, 2019 11:11 AM NPT By: Reuters

SAN FRANCISCO, March 20: Alphabet Inc’s Google announced on Tuesday that it would launch this year a browser-based video game streaming service dubbed Stadia that attempts to capitalize on the company’s cloud technology and global network of data centers.

Netflix says it will not join Apple TV service

Published On: March 19, 2019 01:20 PM NPT By: Reuters

LOS ANGELES, March 19: Netflix Inc, the world’s dominant streaming service, will not make its TV shows and movies available through Apple Inc’s upcoming video offering, Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings said on Monday.

Apple infringed three Qualcomm patents, jury finds

Published On: March 16, 2019 11:30 AM NPT By: Reuters

Mobile phone chip supplier Qualcomm Inc on Friday won a legal victory against iPhone maker Apple Inc, with a jury in federal court in San Diego finding that Apple owes Qualcomm about $31 million for infringing three of its patents.

TOKYO, March 11: Nissan’s former chairman Carlos Ghosn, released on bail last week, is asking for a court’s approval to attend the Japanese automaker’s board meeting Tuesday.

March 9: At first glance, Mark Zuckerberg’s new ”privacy-focused vision ” for Facebook looks like a transformative mission statement from a CEO under pressure to reverse years of battering over its surveillance practices and privacy failures.

NEW YORK, March 9: Senator Elizabeth Warren vowed on Friday to break up Amazon, Google and Facebook if elected U.S. president to promote competition in the technology sector.

BEIJING, March 8: China’s foreign minister has endorsed tech giant Huawei’s legal fights with the U.S. government, saying Chinese companies shouldn’t be “silent lambs.”

SAN FRANCISCO, March 7: Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Wednesday the company would encrypt conversations on more of its messaging services and make them compatible, the latest sign that the world’s biggest social network sees its future in intimate online chats.

Number of online music users in China hits 576 mln

Published On: March 3, 2019 11:10 AM NPT By: Agencies

BEIJING, March 3: The number of Chinese online music users hit 576 million as of December 2018, accounting for 69.5 percent of the country's total online population, according to a statistical report on China's internet development.