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The next Sony Xperia Pro is rumored to have a rotating camera ring

Latest Mobile PhonesBy Haslinda Bt Ghani December 18, 2023

According to info coming from Weibo, the upcoming Sony Xperia Pro model will have a rotating camera ring that will control things like zoom, aperture and focus, similar to a lens on a DSLR/mirrorless camera. Unfortunately, the original post is in Chinese and it was discussed on the Japanese site sumahodigest, so there are language…

Fleet management systems in Australia and New Zealand to exceed 2.4M by 2027

Internet of ThingsBy Shiv Eswar December 18, 2023

IoT analyst firm Berg Insight predicts substantial growth in active fleet management systems deployed across commercial vehicle fleets in Australia and New Zealand. As of Q4 2022, the number of active fleet management systems in the countries stands at approximately 1.4 million units. Berg Insight forecasts this figure to reach over 2.4 million units by…

Adobe and Figma end $20B acquisition plans after regulatory headwinds in Europe

Smart TvsBy Shiv Eswar December 18, 2023

Adobe’s $20 billion mega-bid to buy rival Figma is now officially dead, after the companies said today that regulatory pushback in Europe had caused them to put an end to the acquisition plans. First announced in September last year, the deal was always going to attract regulatory scrutiny due to the size of the transaction…

Meltwater, the media monitoring startup, gets a $65M investment from Verdane

DronesBy Shiv Eswar December 18, 2023

Meltwater, which first made its name around media monitoring and then got active in business intelligence using AI and big data analytics techniques, is picking up a new investor. Verdane, a Norwegian private equity firm that earlier this year closed a $1 billion+ fund to make investments in scaling tech companies, is taking an 11%…

Santa Claus came to town a few weeks ahead of schedule for a group of merry healthcare workers in Bowling Green, Kentucky. In an unlikely twist of holiday fortune, Sheila Colter, a Med Center Health Environmental Services supervisor, gave her employees a bunch of lottery tickets as a last-minute gift after her original presents were…

Saudi shopping and BNPL platform Tamara tops $1B valuation in $340M Series C funding

Cyber AttacksBy Jessica Venkat December 18, 2023

Tamara, a buy now pay later platform for consumers in Saudi Arabia and the wider GCC region, has raised $340 million in a financing C round that values the fintech at $1 billion. Saudi asset manager and financial institution SNB Capital and Sanabil Investments, a wholly-owned company by Saudi’s sovereign wealth fund Public Investment Fund…

CISA Urges Manufacturers Eliminate Default Passwords to Thwart Cyber Threats

Web Security NewsBy Jessica Venkat December 18, 2023

Dec 18, 2023NewsroomSoftware Security / Vulnerability The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is urging manufacturers to get rid of default passwords on internet-exposed systems altogether, citing severe risks that could be exploited by malicious actors to gain initial access to, and move laterally within, organizations. In an alert published last week, the agency…

FCC rejects Starlink’s bid for $886M in subsidies

Telecom NewsBy Haslinda Bt Ghani December 18, 2023

The FCC has denied Elon Musk’s Starlink a hefty $886 million subsidy from the Universal Service Fund, allocated for expanding broadband services in rural areas. The rejected bid, originally intended for the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) program, faced criticism as the FCC deemed Starlink incapable of proving its ability to deliver the promised broadband……

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