SAN FRANCISCO ( MEDIA ) Four Silicon Valley companies including Apple and Google failed to persuade a US judge to sign off on a $324.5 million settlement to resolve a lawsuit by tech workers, who accused the firms of conspiring to avoid poaching each other’s employees. In a ruling onRead More →
MOSCOW ( MEDIA ) The individual responsible for one of the most significant leaks in US political history is Edward Snowden, a 31-year-old global surveillance whistleblower and former U.S. intelligence contractor, who has received a three- year residence permit from Russia, his lawyer announced on Today. “On the first ofRead More →
NEW YORK (MEDIA ) Microsoft on Friday fired a legal salvo at long-time partner Samsung, accusing the South Korean giant of breaching a contract over licensing of technology used in the competitive smartphone market. “After becoming the leading player in the worldwide smartphone market, Samsung decided late last year toRead More →
WASHINGTON ( MEDIA ) Army Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, last week called the threat of cyberattacks against U.S. infrastructure a major strategic vulnerability. “Eighty percent of the affected areas in our country are what we would call a critical infrastructure, and they’re inRead More →
WASHINGTON ( MEDIA ) After the House of Representatives passed legislation to give US mobile phone users the right to unlock their devices, all that remains now is for President Barack Obama to rubber-stamp the bill and make it law. The Senate has already waved the legislation through. “The billRead More →
MASCOW ( MEDIA ) The Russian government is offering almost 4 million ruble which is approximately equal to $111,000 to the one who can devise a reliable technology to decrypt data sent over the Tor, an encrypted anonymizing network used by online users in order to hide their activities fromRead More →
DEHLI ( MEDIA ) Google has identified and blocked unauthorized digital certificates for a number of its domains issued by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) of India, a unit of India’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. National Informatics Center (NIC) holds several intermediate Certification Authority (CA) certs trusted byRead More →
ISLAMABAD ( BMZ REPORT ) The inaugural Commonwealth Domain Name System Forum took place on the 19-20 June 2014 at the Hilton Metropole London.This event is a joint initiative by the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organization, The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), Public Interest Registry (PIR) and Nominet andRead More →
WASHINGTON ( MEDIA ) Ordinary internet users, American and non-American alike, far outnumber legally targeted foreigners in the communications intercepted by the National Security Agency (NSA) from US digital networks, according to a four-month investigation by The Washington Post. Nine of 10 account holders found in a large cache ofRead More →
KABUL (MEDIA ) The Afghan government on Sunday rejected a proposal to ban Facebook during an ongoing deadlock over the presidential election, despite fears that social media postings have fanned ethnic hatred. The dispute between candidates Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah over alleged fraud in the June 14 election hasRead More →
KISTA ( SWEDEN ) Telecom network vendor Ericsson today said its 5G delivered 5 Gbps speeds during a live, over-the-air demonstration at Ericsson lab in Kista, Sweden, in the presence of NTT DOCOMO and SK Telecom senior management. The achievement is significant for Ericsson because vendor such as Huawei, Nokia,Read More →
California ( MEDIA ) In 2012, a small team of Google Inc engineers and business staffers met with several of the world’s largest car makers, to discuss partnerships to build self-driving cars. In one meeting, both sides were enthusiastic about the futuristic technology, yet it soon became clear that theyRead More →