The European Union’s new privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), will come into force in a year’s time on May 25, 2018. This is more than just a privacy law for Europe – Read more…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The head of the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday released a 58-page draft plan to reverse the landmark 2015 “net neutrality” order and disclosed the agency may withdraw “bright line” rules barring Read more…
HELSINKI (Reuters) – Telecom networks equipment maker Nokia reported a slowing rate of sales decline on Thursday, saying the global networks market was showing signs of recovery, particularly in North America and India. Nokia outpaced Read more…
Chief security officers have a lot on their plate these days, from a daily influx of zero-day vulnerabilities to increasingly sophisticated denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. It’s a good bet that securing their unified communications (UC) application Read more…
(Reuters) – Apple has held talks with payments industry partners about launching a money-transfer service, technology news website Recode reported on Thursday. The service will allow iPhone owners to transfer money digitally to other iPhone Read more…
The evolving consumer landscape calls for digital transformation as companies rethink their marketing strategies, but 80% of companies in Asia-Pacific are behind that digital curve, according to a new survey from OgilvRED Asia Pacific, the Read more…
HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam’s government said Facebook has committed to work with it to prevent content that violates the country’s laws from appearing on its platform. In February, communist Vietnam complained about “toxic” anti-government and Read more…
Governments in China, Japan, and South Korea are leading the Asia-Pacific region in the deployment of citizen-centric, smart city initiatives, according to the latest smart city market report from ABI Research. The smart city programs Read more…
The ETSI Open Source MANO group (ETSI OSM) – which is tasked with developing an Open Source NFV MANO software stack aligned with ETSI NFV – has announced OSM Release Two, which it says delivers significant Read more…
Netflix announced it has developed a fully localized user interface for its service in Thailand, complete with Thai subtitles and dubbing for thousands of hours of TV shows and films, including Netflix original programming. This follows Read more…
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