ONTARIO, CANADA( MEDIA ) BlackBerry said its revenue decreased 64 percent to $976 million for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2014 due to poor demand for its latest smartphones including Z10, Z30, Q10, Q5, etc. The Ontario, Canada-based smartphone vendor said it sold 1.1 million BlackBerry smartphones on the latestRead More →
WASHINGTON ( MEDIA ) BARACKObama has put forward a long-awaited plan to end the US government’s bulk collection of telephone records, aiming to defuse a controversy over surveillance on millions of Americans. Responding to a global outcry over the National Security Agency’s extensive eavesdropping programs, Mr Obama’s plan would requireRead More →
ESPOO, FINLAND (BMZ REPORT ) Nokia Solutions and Networks today announced the appointment of Farooq Azam as head of Jordan. He takes charge of the company’s operations in the country, leading the end-to-end customer team responsibilities, including sales, delivery, operations, customer relationship and financial operations. Farooq is an experienced businessRead More →
DUBLIN ( MEDIA ) UN Broadband Commission for Digital Development has urged governments and international financing bodies to remove current barriers to broadband investment. 95 percent of telecommunications infrastructure is private sector-funded, but better incentives are urgently needed if investment is to expand in line with the coming exponential growthRead More →
BEIJING (MEDIA ) China has demanded a clear explanation from the US over a report which says that the United States National Security Agency infiltrated servers at the headquarters of Huawei Technologies, media reports say. “China was ‘extremely concerned’ about the spying allegations,” said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hong Lei.Read More →
ESPOO, FINLAND ( ABRAR MUSTAFA ) Nokia today announced that it now expects the transaction whereby the company will sell substantially all of its Devices & Services business and license its patents to Microsoft to close in April 2014. This compares with Nokia’s previous expectation on the transaction closing inRead More →
ISTANBUL ( MEDIA ) Earlier this week, the Turkish government blocked access to Twitter inside the country in response to a You Tube video that alleges Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s involvement in a corruption scandal. Citizens found a number of ways to circumvent the ban, but according to a newRead More →
ISLAMABAD (MEDIA ) WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum on Monday said his company was serious about the privacy of users and had no plans to collect additional user data at behest of Facebook, which bought the instant messaging app in a $19 billion deal. IN a blog post titled “Setting TheRead More →
ANKARA ( MEDIA ) Twitter went dark in Turkey late Thursday, just hours after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to “wipe out” the social network — one of several highlighting corruption allegations in his inner circle. Twitter’s public policy team responded by saying on its official @policy feed thatRead More →
WASHINGTON ( MEDIA ) How if you are told that each and every call made with-in and outside Pakistan from Pakistan is being recorded and recordings of these billions of calls made with-in a calendar month are saved for future listening by National Security Agency of United States of America?Read More →
WASHINGTON ( MEDIA ) While support is strong across emerging and developing countries for an Internet without government censorship, Pakistan recorded the lowest percentage of people expressing opposition to censorship, a US survey showed Wednesday. The Pew Research Center found a majority opposed to government restrictions on online activity inRead More →
NEW DELHI ( MEDIA ) Indian intelligence agencies want that Jammu and Kashmir should be excluded from inter-state mobile number portability (MNP). In a letter to the ministry of communications, the Defence ministry has written that the “One-nation-one number provision in the new telecom policy 2012 should not be implementedRead More →