SAN FRANCISCO (MEDIA ) Twitter Inc crashed on Tuesday for about an hour. This has happened for the second time in nine days when a software glitch held up the popular messaging service. The company apologized to its 250 million users in a status blog, saying it had encountered “unexpectedRead More →
BEIJING (MEDIA ) China.org.cn reported 19 families signed a joint statement saying their family members’ cell phones connected, but the calls hung up. Relatives have asked Malaysia Airlines to reveal any information they might be hiding, seeking an explanation for the eerie phone connections. The relatives have complained that the MalaysiaRead More →
ANKARA (MEDIA ) Turkey’s president on Friday ruled out any ban on Facebook and YouTube after Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said the sites could be shut to stop his foes anonymously posting audio recordings purportedly exposing corruption in his inner circle. In the latest recording, released on YouTube late onRead More →
NEW YORK ( MEDIA ) Facebook is in talks to buy Titan Aerospace, a maker of solar-powered drones, to step up its efforts to provide Internet access to remote parts of the world, according to reports from technology blog Techcrunch and financial news outlet CNBC. Both websites cited anonymous sourcesRead More →
BEIJING ( MEDIA ) China is bolstering its efforts on cyber security with a new high-level committee that aims to turn the nation into an “Internet power,” the country’s official state media said last week. Chinese President Xi Jinping is leading the new government body, which first met on Thursday.Read More →
NEW YORK ( MEDIA ) Pornography is no longer the leading source of malware on mobile devices, according to a new study. The non-honor now goes to Web-based ads, according to Blue Coat, a security firm that analyzed data from more than 75 million global users for a report itRead More →
SAN FRANCISCO (MEDIA) Google has been allowed by a court to keep a controversial film trailer that mocks the Prophet Muhammad on YouTube, but the video has to be scrubbed to remove the performance of actress Cindy Lee Garcia, who claims infringement of her copyright. The U.S. Court of AppealsRead More →
In Planned Transition, Luca Maestri to Become His Successor (California – March 4, 2014) Apple® today announced that Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s senior vice president and CFO, will retire at the end of September. Luca Maestri, Apple’s vice president of Finance and corporate controller, will succeed Peter as CFO reporting toRead More →
SAN FRANCISCO (MEDIA) Google urged a US appeals court to let it repost an anti-Islamic movie on YouTube, pending a re-hearing of the copyright case that got it removed. The 2012 appearance of “Innocence of Muslims” on Google’s video-sharing site provoked deadly violence, but the current legal case against itRead More →
ISLAMABAD ( ABRAR MUSTAFA ) Government of Pakistan has no hurdle to re open YOU TUBE for Pakistani viewers. Because Google has removed anti-Islamic film from Youtube, after a US Appeals court on Wednesday ordered it to do so. In this regard the decision would be in next week when MinisterRead More →
SAN FRANCISCO ( MEDIA ) A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday ordered Google Inc to remove from its YouTube video-sharing website an anti-Islamic film that had sparked protests across the Muslim world. The decision by a divided three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San FranciscoRead More →
Barcelona ( MEDIA ) The activities undertaken by the GSMA and Facebook will entail working with governments in developing markets to address key factors that have an impact on affordability and availability. “While there are nearly 7 billion mobile connections worldwide, there are only 3.4 billion people that currently haveRead More →