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Article | 11/06/2013 Rights groups ask US spy court for justification of Verizon order
Civil rights groups have asked the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) for the legal justification of the U.S. government's surveillance of...
Article | 7/05/2013 Skype extends coverage of Manager administration tool
Skype's Web-based management tool Manager for businesses is now available in over 170 countries and for all subscriptions, allowing companies to centr...
Article | 3/04/2013 Google simplifies integration of SMS and voice with App Engine
Google is hoping to make it easier for developers to integrate SMS or voice communications in applications running on the company's App Engine platfor...
Article | 2/04/2013 FTC's robocall-blocking contest yields tech winners
Two people will share a US$50,000 prize from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission for the best idea to block illegal robocalls from reaching the owners o...
Article | 21/02/2013 New smartphone OSes, network technologies vie for attention in Barcelona
ZTE smartphones based on Firefox OS along with Nokia's new Windows Phone-based devices will share the spotlight at this year's Mobile World Congress w...
Article | 20/02/2013 ST-Ericsson puts next-gen LTE technology on new quad-core smartphone processor
ST-Ericsson has cranked its forthcoming smartphone processor up to 3GHz. The quad-core NovaThor L8580 will include a PowerVR graphics processor and an...
Article | 13/02/2013 Ericsson plans mobile network upgrades to better handle HD video
Ericsson is aiming to make mobile networks better at handling HD video by improving the performance of regular base stations and adding small cells in...
Article | 24/01/2013 Having an Internet connection is crucial to everyday life, German federal court says
Internet access is as crucial to everyday life as having a phone connection and the loss of connectivity is deserving of financial compensation, the G...
Article | 17/01/2013 India halves starting price of 2G spectrum for CDMA services
India has cut in half the minimum bid price for 2G spectrum to be used by operators of CDMA services, after there were no bidders in an auction for th...
Article | 7/01/2013 Invoxia expands desk-phone mobile docks to enterprise
Mobile phones can become office VoIP phones with the Invoxia 610, a device that Invoxia will be demonstrating at the International CES this week.
Article | 30/11/2012 Syrians turn to satellites as the country's Internet connection remains down
Syrians are turning to satellites to communicate as the country's Internet connections are shut down, but instances of jamming are making even that ch...
Article | 27/11/2012 Experts call for deregulation at the FCC
Lawmakers should downsize the U.S. Federal Communications Commission by taking away its power to review mergers in the telecom industry and most of it...
Article | 14/11/2012 India's auction of 2G spectrum gets poor response
The auction of 2G spectrum in India that ended Wednesday will earn the government about one-quarter of what it had planned, reflecting industry concer...
Article | 9/11/2012 Human rights groups: Telecoms gouging prison callers
U.S. prisons, immigration detention centers and telecom carriers are charging "exorbitant" rates on collect calls made by inmates, and the U.S. Federa...
Article | 31/10/2012 Two major Dutch banks to introduce contactless debit cards
Major Dutch banks ING and ABN Amro will introduce MasterCard PayPass contactless payment cards to their customers by mid-2013, making the Netherlands ...