Cognizant’s adjusted diluted earnings per share came to 99 cents on revenue of $4.6 billion, up 14.6% year-over-year. Analysts were expecting earnings of 96 cents per share on revenue of $4.44 billion. “We delivered a strong second quarter,” CEO Brian Humphries said in a statement. “Through targeted investments, we’ve been shifting our portfolio to faster-growing market segments while extending our capabilities and partnerships to help clients build modern businesses. I see a stronger, more competitive Cognizant emerging, with growing commercial momentum....

Under the Telecommunications Act, ComCom is required to establish the value of Chorus’ fibre network, which includes the assets Chorus uses to provide fibre broadband services, as well as a financial loss asset (FLA) to compensate Chorus for losses it incurred when rolling out the network ahead of demand. The official valuation, which must be officially set by the start of 2022, determines the maximum revenue a regulated provider like Chorus can earn from its fibre network....

According to Counterpoint’s charts, this quiet, yet impressive, climb puts it behind only Apple and Samsung with a 10% share of the market by year’s end. Meanwhile, Apple continued to dominate the US market with 58% and Samsung held a distant second with 22%. Motorola’s rise was partially driven by the former third-place holder, LG, which exited the smartphone arena in early 2021. However, the success of the company’s own sub-$300 smartphones also played a major role, according to Counterpoint....

Separately, Coupa said its CFO, Todd Ford, would take on a new role overseeing not only finance but also strategic initiatives. The company’s chief accounting officer, Tony Tiscornia, will become the company’s new CFO. Despite the upbeat report, Coupa shares dropped 8% in late trading. CEO and Rob Bernshteyn noted that the company “delivered record revenue, generated meaningful free cash flows, and added dozens of new customers to the Coupa Community....

Two of the biggest names in the crypto arena, Coinbase and FTX, both spent big on ad spots during the game. As of Monday morning, it’s looking like those ads had their desired effects. Kings of Crypto, book review: How Coinbase helped to reshape the future of financeCoachella to auction 10 lifetime festival passes as NFTs with FTX One of the most talked-about ads of the night was Coinbase’s, although you may not have realized what the ad was even for until the very end of it....

As the first software to be released from Project Metalweaver, which was announced in June, Dell said the Bare Metal Orchestrator will offer communication service providers (CSPs) the tools to automatically discover, deploy, and manage their servers. “With Bare Metal Orchestrator, cloud communication service providers are going to be able to keep costs in control, while they build out their edge,” Dell Technologies edge and telecom VP Aaron Chaisson told media....

“I’m not sure what we gain by doing the sort of pressure on companies to wholesale remove all this content all the time,” Digital Rights Watch programme and partnership director Lucie Krahulcova said, appearing before Australia’s Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement. “I don’t think it removes the societal issues, it doesn’t remove the socioeconomic issues, and it certainly doesn’t remove the violence that happens around the world.” The comments were made in relation to Australia’s Criminal Code Amendment (Sharing of Abhorrent Violent Material) Act 2019 (AVM Act), which is currently being reviewed by the joint committee....

In 2014, the company began operations in India and is alleged to have commenced the illegal activity in 2015. The ED claimed that Xiaomi India remitted foreign currency to three off-shore entities under the guise of royalties, with one of those including a company within the Xiaomi group, whilst the others were US-based. Further, the ED stated that the payments were made “on the instructions of their Chinese parent group entities”....

In its simplest form, chemistry is the study of substances. Chemistry professionals focus on the atomic and molecular aspects of substances. By conducting research, chemists learn about interactions between substances, how to manipulate and improve upon them, and how to create new ones. Chemistry specializations include analytical chemistry, chemical engineering, organic chemistry, and biochemistry. Chemical technicians, chemists and materials scientists, and chemical engineers are among the most common chemistry positions....

Cryptocurrency has become a favored means for many threat actors to monetize cyberattacks. While, perhaps, the most well-known application of crypto including Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and Monero (XMR) in the criminal realm is when ransomware payments are made, more covertly, cryptocurrency mining is also a problem. Cryptocurrency mining malware, when deployed on PCs or unsecured servers, quietly siphons away computing resources to generate virtual currency which is then sent to wallets controlled by its operators....

As Americans pack their suitcases for overseas travel, many are often unprepared when it comes to having proper health coverage should a medical emergency occur. According to a survey published in May by travel insurer InsureMyTrip, nearly half of the survey respondents (1,329 Americans ages 18 and older) said they didn’t know if their health care policy would cover a medical emergencies incurred in a foreign country. Being unprepared can be costly....

Drop, originally called Massdrop, started out as a purveyor of group buys, a way of securing discounts on existing products and paying for initial manufacturing of new products that’s similar to crowdfunding. Since then, the online retailer has grown to produce its own branded products in collaboration with some of the top names in the audio and mechanical keyboard communities. To make an audiophile-grade pair of truly wireless earbuds, or IEMS (In-Ear Monitors) in this case, Drop tapped Grell, a company founded by former Sennheiser engineer Axel Grell....

All told, eBay’s non-GAAP earnings per diluted share came to $1.05 on revenue of $2.6 billion, up 5% year-over-year. Analysts were expecting earnings of 99 cents per share on revenue of $2.61 billion. “Rounding out a very strong year, I’m proud of our team for delivering yet another solid quarter,” CEO Jamie Iannone said in a statement. “By investing in our strategy to drive sustainable growth, we increased customer satisfaction, improved the seller and buyer experience, and returned value to our shareholders....

One issue was the unreliable sound when using serious recording hardware. That, of course, wasn’t so much an Elementary OS issue as it was a PulseAudio problem. Unfortunately, it looks like Elementary OS 7 is sticking with PulseAudio for now. This can be seen when issuing the pactl info command, which will include the following in the output: Server Name: pulseaudio Okay, I’m not about to judge Elementary OS on keeping with the problematic sound server....

It said the groups violated its rules around Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior and two new policies: Brigading and Mass Reporting. Facebook defines Brigading as networks of people work who together to mass comment, mass post or engage in other types of repetitive mass behaviors to harass others or silence them. Mass Reporting is when people work together to mass-report an account or content to get it incorrectly taken down by Facebook....

The AvosLocker gang has targeted victims in the US within financial services, critical manufacturing, and government facilities, according to the FBI. “AvosLocker claims to directly handle ransom negotiations, as well as the publishing and hosting of exfiltrated victim data after their affiliates infect targets,” the FBI’s Internet Crime Center (IC3) reports. SEE: Cybersecurity: Let’s get tactical (ZDNet special report) AvosLocker hit the ransomware scene last year, cunningly using AnyDesk remote admin software in Windows Safe Mode to bypass anti-malware software....

The fund was created to help subsidize the costs associated with bringing terrestrial and wireless broadband services to unserved and underserved rural communities across the US. It attracts carriers by providing additional funding to the construction of network extensions, enabling projects that would not be financially viable without its aid. The latest round of $1.2 billion in disbursements will be used to build out broadband infrastructure in 32 states. A total of 23 broadband providers are involved with this round, with a target goal of reaching more than 1 million new customers locations with broadband services....

A study by Crunchbase, which monitors investments in startups, reports that for the first seven months of 2021, female-founded startups have received 2.2% of total funding – the smallest level since 2016. Startups with female and male founders received 11.7% of total funding, which is about the same level as in prior years of about 12%. The Crunchbase report is part of its Something Ventured project, which monitors progress on diversity in venture capital investments....

Here are five warning signs that your iPhone is about to die. Ignore them at your peril! Screen is flickering This is a slippery slope towards death for iPhones. I’ve seen this caused by a number of reasons (the most common is a damaged or defective display, but I’ve also seen the ribbon cable become detached inside). One day that display will flicker its last. “Ghost touches” Ghost touches are random touches on the display....

In a statement, the company told ZDNet a portion of its customer database had been breached after its AWS servers were compromised on December 23. FlexBooker said their “system data storage was also accessed and downloaded” as part of the attack. The spokesperson said the data was “limited to names, email addresses, and phone numbers” and a website notifying customers of the breach says the same thing. But Australian security expert Troy Hunt, who runs the Have I Been Pwned site that tracks breached information, said the trove of stolen data included password hashes and partial credit card information for some accounts....