YANGON (Reuters) – More than 500 companies list among their suppliers Chinese-controlled firms that indirectly buy tin ore from a mine operated by an ethnic armed group in Myanmar, a Reuters examination of the supply Read more…
The open-source Mirai malware that shocked the technology sector a few weeks ago has been studied by Akamai in its latest State of the Internet report. It’s bad news for the world, as Akamai suggests Read more…
Okay, I’ll admit it – social media has me baffled. Try as I might to understand its incredible popularity and all the benefits it supposedly brings, I still don’t quite get why it’s so popular. Please Read more…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – A cyber attack that infected nearly 1 million routers used to access Deutsche Telekom internet service was part of a campaign targeting web-connected devices around the globe, the German government and security Read more…
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Cyber attacks on Chinese companies have soared in the past two years, according to a survey, with new technologies that connect household items to the internet and allow them to receive Read more…
SEOUL (Reuters) – Tech giant Samsung Electronics, under pressure from shareholders to improve investor returns, said on Tuesday it will consider creating a holding company in what would be the biggest shake-up in its 47-year Read more…
PCCW Media has launched its OTT video service Viu in the Philippines as part of its regional expansion, just as Viu announced that it has racked up four million unique users just one year after Read more…
BEIJING (Reuters) – The head of Ant Financial Services Group, the payment affiliate of Alibaba, apologized on Tuesday following backlash from Chinese netizens over a social feature in the company’s payment app that critics say Read more…
Singapore’s three main cellcos – Singtel, M1 and StarHub – have announced joint support for the GSMA’s Mobile Connect authentication standard, which they say will enable consumers to enjoy fast, simple and secure access to Read more…
MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine lender RCBC and a Bangladeshi minister traded blame on Tuesday over liability for tens of millions of dollars that were looted from a New York bank and then went missing in Read more…
Biometric authentication is ready to move beyond fingerprints and use a range of identifiers, from facial recognition to voiceprints, says a new study from Juniper Research. The new research study, Mobile Biometrics: Consumer Markets, Opportunities Read more…
Philippines telco rivals Globe Telecom and PLDT have signed a memorandum of understanding to reduce the interconnection rate for voice calls between the two operators, which in turn will translate to lower prices for domestic Read more…
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Digital payments providers in India have mobilized hundreds of extra workers to enroll small merchants and offered their services for free, betting that severe cash shortages will prove to be the Read more…
Hong Kong telecoms regulator OFCA is under fire again for overpricing spectrum as 900/1800 MHz licenses come up for renewal, with industry players, consultants and the local Chamber of Commerce slamming a proposal to raise Read more…
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Three of Australia’s four biggest banks will be barred from collectively bargaining with Apple over its Apple Pay mobile digital payments system, under a draft decision released by the antitrust regulator on Read more…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of Deutsche Telekom customers in Germany were hit on Sunday by network outages and a company executive blamed the disruptions on a failed hacking attempt to hijack consumer router Read more…
BENGALURU (Reuters) – Anticipating a more protectionist US technology visa program under a Donald Trump administration, Indian companies in the country’s $150 billion IT services sector will speed up acquisitions in the United States and Read more…
Privacy is becoming one of the most important issues of our time. So far, companies like Facebook and Google have got away with using customer data – or rather, user data – to make money Read more…
Bharti Airtel announced that it has deployed LTE-Advanced technology with carrier aggregation for both FDD and TDD bands in nine major cities across Tamil Nadu: Chennai, Madurai, Hosur, Vellore, Pondy, Trichy, Coimbatore, Salem and Tiruppur. Read more…
Nokia has been the most advanced of the major OEMs in embracing software-driven networks – even before SDN entered carriers’ daily conversations, it had Liquid Net and Liquid Apps, and back in 2011, it was Read more…
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