av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 23, 2017 | Lästips

The $39.95 screen protector is no longer available to purchase from Belkin’s website or Apple’s online store after dozens of customers—but not all—complained about it cracking in normal usage conditions and without ever dropping their devices. We’re told it has also been pulled from shelves at Apple retail stores around the world.
Källa: Belkin Halts Sales of ’InvisiGlass Ultra’ Screen Protector for iPhone X Following Widespread Customer Complaints
av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 22, 2017 | Lästips

CNN to end daily Snapchat show ’The Update’ from 2018
(Reuters) – Time Warner Inc’s CNN will stop producing its daily show on Snap Inc’s Snapchat app, called the “The Update”, from 2018, the two companies said on Friday.
CNN began streaming the daily show on Snapchat in August, featuring at least five news stories in each episode from around the world in efforts to attract younger viewers.
CNN was an original content partner for Discover, a Snapchat feature introduced in early 2015 that allows users to watch stories from publishers.
Källa: CNN to end daily Snapchat show ’The Update’ from 2018
av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 22, 2017 | Lästips

Police in Chicago said on Thursday they have arrested 50 people suspected of using ”secret groups” on Facebook to deal in guns and drugs, and have teamed up with the world’s largest social media network to crack down on criminal trafficking online.
Källa: Chicago police say Facebook ’secret groups’ traffic in guns and drugs
av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 22, 2017 | Lästips

Hackers tried to steal 55 million rubles ($940,000) from Russian state bank Globex using the SWIFT international payments messaging system, the bank said on Thursday, the latest in a string of attempted cyber heists that use fraudulent wire-transfer requests.
Källa: Russia’s Globex bank says hackers targeted its SWIFT computers
av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 22, 2017 | Lästips

THE THREE REPUBLICAN commissioners now in power at the FCC voted this week to erase the agency’s legal authority over high-speed Internet providers. They claim that competition will protect consumers, that the commission shouldn’t interfere in the ”dynamic internet ecosystem,” and that they are ”protecting internet freedom.” Now that the vote is done, the agency has little to do but mess around with spectrum allocations. The mega-utility of the 21st century officially has no regulator.
Källa: Koch Brothers Are Cities’ New Obstacle to Building Broadband
av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 22, 2017 | Lästips

Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) said on Thursday its Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt will step down in January, ending a 17-year-run in whoch he played a central role in building a promising startup called Google into a global technology powerhouse.
Källa: Alphabet’s Eric Schmidt to step down as executive chairman