NEW YORK ( MEDIA ) Twitter and Facebook lit up in a World Cup frenzy this week as millions of people around the world took to social media to share in the ups and downs of the matches. Defending champion Spain’s stunning elimination Wednesday after a 2-0 defeat to ChileRead More →
BANKOK ( MEDIA ) Thailand’s Dtac has confirmed that it has been ordered by the military government to block access to the Facebook website in a revelation that appears to have angered the telecoms regulator. Dtac’s majority shareholder is Norway’s Telenor, and it Telenor’s Asia vice-president Tor Odland who confirmedRead More →
LONDON ( MEDIA ) The cost of cyber crime for the global economy has been estimated at $445 billion (£266 billion) annually. Cyber espionage and stealing individuals’ personal information is believed to have affected more than 800 million people during 2013. Financial losses from cybertheft could cause as many asRead More →
ISLAMABAD ( BMZ REPORT ) An agreement signing ceremony between Higher Education Commission (HEC) and Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL), for provisioning of wireless internet services (EVO) to talented students under Prime Minister’s Laptop Scheme, was held at HEC Secretariat on Friday. Mr. Anwar Amjad, Director General (IT) HEC andRead More →
ISLAMABAD ( MEDIA ) Google Inc. plans to spend more than $1 billion on a fleet of satellites to extend Internet access to unwired regions of the globe, people familiar with the project said, hoping to overcome financial and technical problems that thwarted previous efforts. Details remain in flux, theRead More →
ISLAMABAD ( MEDIA ) Facebook Inc is developing its own video-chat app, known internally as Slingshot, after its failed attempt to acquire mobile messaging startup Snapchat, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. Facebook has been working for several months on the planned video-chat app, which would allow users to sendRead More →
ISLAMABAD ( MEDIA ) Officials in the Ministry of Telecommunication and Information Technology of Afghanistan said 4G internet services will be launched in the near future. The officials further said that around 90 percent of the Afghans are currently having access to mobile phone services while 50 percent have accessRead More →
LONDON ( MEDIA ) OwnFone, a London-based firm, has released the world’s first Braille phone that is invented by using customized 3D printing techniques. The company has attributed that the phone is the first of its kind to go on sale for customers and is currently available only in theRead More →
SAN FRANCISCO ( MEDIA ) Oracle Corp won a legal victory against Google Inc on Friday as a US appeals court decided Oracle could copyright parts of the Java programming language, which Google used to design its Android smartphone operating system. The case, decided by the US Court of AppealsRead More →
Espoo, Finland ( BMZ REPORT ) Nokia announced today that the company and NTT DOCOMO INC. have agreed to collaborate on research and standardization of 5G technologies and to work jointly on a 5G proof of concept (PoC) system. This move builds on the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed byRead More →
SAN JOSE ( MEDIA ) A federal-court jury ruled Friday that some Samsung devices infringed on two Apple software patents, but didn’t infringe on two others; the judge had earlier ruled that Samsung infringed on a fifth patent. The jury ordered Samsung to pay Apple $119.6 million in damages, farRead More →
RIYADH ( MEDIA ) Saudi citizens can now petition 90-year-old King Abdullah directly and lodge complaints through an internet site set up at the initiative of the monarch himself. The portal tawasol.royalcourt.gov.sa, named after the Arabic word for “communication”, was launched on an experimental basis on Wednesday. All messages areRead More →