SRINAGAR ( MEDIA ) In the Common Entrance Test (CET) paper-selling scam of 2012, the High Court has warned the telecom companies of proceedings against them on the charges of contempt for failing to provide telephonic details of the accused to the investigators. A division bench of the court consistingRead More →
DEHLI ( MEDIA ) As many as 32 websites including GitHub, PasteBin, Vimeo, Imgur, DailyMotion, Internet Archive have reportedly been banned in India under an order from the Department of Telecom (DoT). China is known as the nation of ‘global internet censorship’, and the country proved it many times, inRead More →
LONDON ( MEDIA ) The GSMA has elected a new board member and reelected Jon Fredrik Baksaas as chair. Baksaas, the president and CEO of the Telenor Group, will become chair for a second term. Ahmad Abdulkarim Julfar, the CEO of Etisalat, was elected to serve as deputy chair. TheRead More →
WASHINGTON ( MEDIA ) AT&T has agreed to pay nearly $52 million for illegally dumping hazardous electronic waste, in a settlement that represents the first legal action taken in California against a telecommunication company’s e-waste dumping. Over the next five years, AT&T will pay $28 million to improve its environmentalRead More →
WASHINGTON (MEDIA ) The White House’s unclassified computer network was recently breached by intruders, a US official said on Tuesday, with The Washington Post newspaper reporting that the Russian government was thought to be behind the act. “In the course of assessing recent threats, we identified activity of concern onRead More →
BUSAN , KOREA ( BMZ REPORT ) While delivering country policy statement for Pakistan at the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference 2014 in Busan Korea, the premier moot of world telecoms community, the Minister of State for Information Technology reiterated that the Government of Pakistan is fully appreciative of the recent developmentsRead More →
ISLAMABAD ( BMZ REPORT ) Presence of the Minister for IT Anusha Rehman who is in the Korean city of Busan to attend the global telecommunications top policy setting conference was widely acclaimed by the bevy of Ministers attending the moot. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Plenipotentiary Conference 2014 (PP-14)Read More →
BEXCO ,BUSAN ( KOREA ) ( MEDIA ) The message was clear from Busan: the key to Korea’s economic future is information and communication technologies (ICT).That’s what was stressed by President Park Geun-hye and other leaders from the private sector attending the 2014 International Telecommunication Union (ITU) PlenipotentiaryRead More →
MAKKAH ( MEDIA ) This year’s Haj season heralded a new era of increased IT usage giving pilgrims a choice of many different kinds of telecommunication. According to experts, Haj 2014 registered a bumper increase in phone calls with nearly 400 million mobile calls made from the holy sites toRead More →
BERLIN GERMANY (BMZ REPORT ) Nokia Networks and China Mobile today announced a framework agreement for mobile communication equipment and services valued at 970 million USD (760 million euros). The agreement was signed at the Sino-German Economic Forum in Berlin by Li Huidi, Vice President of China Mobile, and Hans-JuergenRead More →
STOCKHOLM ( MEDIA ) An invention that promises to revolutionize the way the world lights its homes and offices — and already helps create the glowing screens of mobile phones, computers and TVs — earned a Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for two Japanese scientists and a Japanese-born American. ByRead More →
BOSTON ( MEDIA ) Banks are supposed to be among the most secure places on Earth, guarded against physical attacks and cyber-intrusions with extensive security measures. But after JPMorgan Chase, the nation’s largest bank, said this week that more than 80 million customers were affected by a breach of itsRead More →