The NBA is focusing on Martin Luther King Day (Jan. 18) for a start date next season, league sources tell Yahoo Sports. Among the issues the league is facing from this unconventional calendar means getting the NBA back on track for normalcy for the 2021-22 season, as in October to June. Before the pandemic shut the NBA down in March, many were openly campaigning to start the season on Christmas Day permanently, largely to avoid conflict with the NFL’s season. The lower ratings for the… Source link

Months before the Justice Department filed a landmark antitrust suit against Google this week, the internet company’s adversaries hustled behind the scenes to lay the groundwork for a case. Nonprofits critical of corporate power warned lawmakers that Google illegally boxed out rivals. With mounds of documents, economists and antitrust scholars detailed to regulators and state investigators how the company throttled competition. And former Silicon Valley insiders steered congressional… Source link

TECH TRUST-BUSTING: As the Justice Department accuses Google of antitrust violations, Jim Gallagher and David Nicklaus debate whether the tech giant is living up to its “Don’t Be Evil” motto. Tags The_bottom_line Bottom … Source link

Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple, speaks at the 2019 Dreamforce conference in San Francisco on November 19, 2019. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against Google focuses on deals the company has signed to be the default search engine on mobile devices and web browsers. The biggest of these default search deals is with Apple. Through its placement as the default search engine in the Safari browser for the iPhone and iPad, Google… Source link

Yesterday, the Department of Justice and 11 states sued Google for violating antitrust law. The complaint argued that Google had become “the unchallenged gateway to the internet for billions of users worldwide,” but that its success depends on unfair and monopolistic behavior. In some ways, the case is an obvious and long-awaited move. But it’s also an early test of how American antitrust law will handle the coming decade’s tech giants. Since the late 1970s, antitrust cases have… Source link

Google has long defended itself against charges of monopoly by stressing that its products are free and that no one has to use them. And it’s avoided tough government scrutiny for years based in part on the idea that people searching the internet are not Google’s true customers. … Source link

Jewel Burks Solomon is a 31-year-old Black woman heading a key division of Google. She is also the co-founder of a tech company that was bought by Amazon. In her short career, she has already hit more professional milestones than many people twice her age. And beyond her own professional success, she is now committed to teaching, funding and empowering other Black founders. “My 20s was really dedicated to knowing the process of building and growing and even selling a business, and now that I’m… Source link

New Delhi, Oct 21 : Reliance Jio has revamped its made-in-India browser as JioPages, which supports eight Indian languages — Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Gujarati, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Bangla. Currently available for Android smartphones, the browser is a revamped version of JioBrowser which has already been downloaded over 10 million times from Google Play Store. The revamped browser, built on the powerful Chromium Blink engine, focusses on data-privacy to give users full… Source link

NEW DELHI: Reliance Jio has launched new, revamped ‘JioPages’, its Made-in-India mobile browser that is available in eight Indian languages and promises enhanced browsing experience while focusing on data privacy. The new version of the browser made its debut on Google Playstore on Tuesday. JioPages is built on the Chromium Blink engine, and provides enhanced browsing experience through faster engine migration, webpage rendering, faster page loads, efficient media streaming, Emoji domain… Source link

In addition to patching the actively exploited bug, the update also brings fixes for another four security loopholes Google has rolled out an update to its Chrome web browser that fixes five security flaws, including a vulnerability that is known to be actively exploited by attackers. “Google is aware of reports that an exploit for CVE-2020-15999 exists in the wild,” Source link