Facebook owner Meta has caved to demands by the German national competition regulator the Bundeskartellamt, which insisted that its VR headset products enable users to operate the devices without needing Facebook accounts.



Senior Living providers in the UK and France, and soon Italy and Germany, can now integrate Alexa into their properties. The Alexa experiences are designed to keep residents connected, informed, and entertained.

Netherlands-based global telecoms services provider VEON has entered into an agreement to sell the company's Russian operations to a group of senior members from the management team of Russian telco PJSC VimpelCom, led by its current CEO and former banker Aleksander Torbakhov.

Security teams find it “increasingly difficult” to detect and stop cyber threats argeting their organisations, according to a new report from Security AI-driven hybrid cloud threat detection and response company Vectra.

If you're in the market for a soundbar with great audio and an affordable price, BlueAnt has two excellent choices, with immersive Dolby audio in 2.0 and 2.1 channels respectively.

And as always there's plenty more today, so for all the news please visit www.itwire.com.

Stan Beer, newsletter editor, iTWire



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