ISLAMABAD (MEDIA) Luxembourg’s data protection authority is investigating Microsoft-owned Skype for its alleged cooperation with the U.S. National Security Agency’s Prism spying program, the agency said Friday. Luxembourg’s data protection authority, CNPD, is investigating Skype’s links to NSA spying programs after receiving several complaints, said Tom Kayser, a spokesman forRead More →
KABUL (MEDIA) Vodafone Group formally completed today its €7.7 billion takeover of Kabel Deutschland Holding (KDH), but Robin Bienenstock, a London-based analyst with Sanford C Bernstein, reckons the mobile operator will struggle to realise the intended benefits. Pointing to what she sees as Vodafone’s poor track record of integrating fixed-lineRead More →
ISLAMABAD (MEDIA) BlackBerry, on the block as its smart phone business struggles, is in talks with Cisco Systems, Google and SAP about selling them all or parts of itself, several sources from Telecom sector close to the matter said. Such a deal would be an alternative to the preliminary agreementRead More →
KARACHI (MEDIA) Pakistan is among the bottom ten countries in the Freedom on the Net 2013 report, which measures the level of internet and digital media freedom in 60 countries. The annual report is carried out by Freedom House, an independent watchdog organization. In the new report, each country received aRead More →
ISLAMABAD (MEDIA) The Pakistani arm of China Mobile has stated that it is interested in acquiring local operator Warid Telecom, which is already the target of some major operators looking to consolidate their position in the Pakistani market. Currently China Mobile Pakistan, known as Zong, has 19.4 million subscribers andRead More →
ISLAMABAD (MEDIA) The United States’ National Security Agency intelligence-gathering operation is capable of accessing user data from smart phones from all leading manufacturers. Top secret NSA documents that SPIEGEL has seen explicitly note that the NSA can tap into such information on Apple iPhones, BlackBerry devices and Google’s Android mobileRead More →
Islamabad (MEDIA) Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a global leader in digital media and convergence technologies, today unveiled the GALAXY Note 10.1, 2014 Edition, an original approach to balancing productivity, powerful content creation and consumption in one portable tablet device. Equipped with WQXGA Super clear LCD (2560×1600) resolution in a stunning 10-inch display,Read More →
ISLAMABAD (MEDIA) The European Imaging and Sound Association (EISA) has chosen this year’s best mobile devices for Europe. Amazingly, Huawei’s Ascend P6 has won the “consumer smartphone of the year”, 2013-2014. The EISA award is definitely nothing trivial. It combines the merit of Europe’s largest association of appropriate journals: 50 magazines fromRead More →
BANGALORE/NEW DELHI: The government will soon ask all its employees to stop using Google’s Gmail for official communication, a move intended to increase security of confidential government information after revelations of widespread cyberspying by the US. A senior official in the ministry of communications and information technology said the governmentRead More →
ISLAMABAD (MEDIA) Mozilla’s Firefox browser has lost more than 11 percent of its user share in the last two months, giving Google’s Chrome another shot at replacing it as the world’s No. 2 browser, according to new data. Statistics from Web measurement company Net Applications illustrated a rapid decline inRead More →
ISLAMABAD (MEDIA) BlackBerry has confirmed it is considering a possible sale of the company. The smartphone maker announced that its board has formed a special committee to evaluate strategic options, and these could include, among others, joint ventures, strategic partnerships or alliances or a sale of the company. The committeeRead More →
KOLKATA(MEDIA) Come October 1, the government plans to test all imported mobile phones, SIM cards, 3G & 4G base stations, customer database servers, among other core network devices for bugs and malicious software before they are used in Indian telephone networks. The telecom department, in consultation with software firm Wipro,Read More →