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Month: December 2018

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Hackers access information on 1,000 North Korean defectors

December 31, 2018 News Centre 0

SEOUL (Reuters) – The personal information of nearly 1,000 North Koreans who defected to South Korea has been leaked after unknown hackers got access to a resettlement agency’s database, the South Korean Unification Ministry said Read more…

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Grab ordered to pay compensation to Vietnam taxi company

December 31, 2018 News Centre 0

HANOI (Reuters) – Ride-hailing firm Grab was ordered to pay 4.8 billion dong ($206,985) in compensation to a local taxi operator by a Vietnamese court on Friday, sources and state media said. The 18-month-long legal Read more…

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Apple to assemble top-end iPhones in India

December 31, 2018 News Centre 0

MUMBAI/DELHI (Reuters) – Apple Inc will begin assembling its top-end iPhones in India through the local unit of Foxconn as early as 2019, the first time the Taiwanese contract manufacturer will have made the product Read more…

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Huawei expecting record profits despite global scrutiny

December 29, 2018 News Centre 0

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Huawei Technologies is expected to record a 21 percent jump in revenue for 2018 to $109 billion, its rotating chairman said, marking the Chinese tech giant’s fastest pace of business growth Read more…

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India will ban e-commerce companies under new rules

December 27, 2018 News Centre 0

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) – India will ban e-commerce companies such as Amazon.com and Walmart-owned Flipkart Group from selling products from companies in which they have an equity interest. In a statement, the government also said Read more…

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China’s cyber watchdog issues new regs for domestic FIPs

December 26, 2018 News Centre 0

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s cyber watchdog on Wednesday issued new regulations for domestic financial information providers, in an apparent crackdown on online content deemed detrimental to the country’s financial stability as the economy slows.  Financial Read more…

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Ofo bike-sharing collapse – Chinese tech investors beware

December 24, 2018 News Centre 0

BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – On the sidewalks of Shanghai and Beijing, once bright-yellow Ofo bicycles lie in varying states of disrepair – chains unhooked, wheels buckled and paint starting to fade – reflecting the quick rise Read more…

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India to intercept and monitor information from any computer

December 21, 2018 News Centre 1

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India has authorised 10 government agencies to intercept and monitor information from any computer, a move opposition parties said on Friday risked creating a “surveillance state”. The home ministry said late Read more…

Features

Christmas advertisements to bring some cheer

December 21, 2018 Tony Poulos 0

It’s Christmas time and in many countries companies spend huge amounts creating special advertisements. Some make you laugh, some make you happy, some will even make you cry, but all of them will make you Read more…

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Friday Futures: glow in the dark ramen, moon wobbles, Musk

December 21, 2018 Alex Leslie 0

Welcome to Friday Futures, our weekly guide to the latest visions of  The Future from around the web. This week: the moon wobbles; glowing food; Musk to live on Mars; Angry Birds AR; teenage kids really Read more…

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Who needs govt web censorship when you have Tumblr?

December 21, 2018 John C. Tanner 0

ITEM: Microblogging site Tumblr banned “adult” content from its site as of December 17th. And the reasons behind it highlight the amount of control that web giants have over what people can and can’t see online. Read more…

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India braces for 2019 election social media test

December 21, 2018 News Centre 0

JAIPUR/TONK, India (Reuters) – When India votes in a general election next year, it will be the world’s largest democratic exercise, and the biggest ever test of the role of social media in an election. Read more…

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Facebook, Twitter remove accounts before Bangladesh elections

December 21, 2018 News Centre 0

DHAKA (Reuters) – Facebook and Twitter said on Thursday they had removed accounts and fake news pages linked to the Bangladesh government which had posted anti-opposition content, days ahead of an election in the South Read more…

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Chinese Cloudhopper campaign hacks HPE and IBM

December 21, 2018 News Centre 0

WASHINGTON/LONDON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Hackers working on behalf of China’s Ministry of State Security breached the networks of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co and IBM, then used their access to hack into their clients’ computers, according Read more…

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EU roaming data traffic proves that it should be free everywhere

December 20, 2018 Alex Leslie 0

Remember the long running skirmish between the EU and Vodafone (mainly) over implementing the data roaming rules? Remember Vodafone (mainly) saying that if the rules were implemented the drop in revenue would badly hinder its Read more…

Features

Is it time to kill off the pesky OSS RFP?

December 20, 2018 Ryan Jeffery 0

TM Forum is currently investigating ways to procure OSS without resorting to the current RFI / RFP approach. It has published the following survey results. As this survey shows, the RFI/RFP isn’t fit for purpose Read more…

Off the Wire

ETSI creates new Industry Specification Group on blockchain

December 20, 2018 News Centre 0

ETSI has announced the creation of a new Industry Specification Group on Permissioned Distributed Ledgers (ISG PDL). The group will analyze and provide the foundations to operate permissioned distributed ledgers to be deployed across various Read more…

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Early days of China’s electronics boom started in Shenzhen

December 20, 2018 News Centre 0

SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) – When Japanese recruiters plucked Liu Xueqin from her provincial hometown 33 years ago to work in an electronics factory in Shenzhen, she was happy to get a well-paid job and unaware Read more…

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Facebook removes accounts linked to Myanmar’s military

December 20, 2018 News Centre 0

(Reuters) – Facebook Inc has removed hundreds of additional accounts, pages and groups in Myanmar from its social networks after discovering what it called “coordinated inauthentic behaviour” and links to the country’s military. The social Read more…

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The Oath debacle and the future of advertising

December 19, 2018 Alex Leslie 0

The demise – or virtual demise – of Oath is, as Richard Windsor says, hardly a surprise. At the time it all took place, it was like watching the really cool kids pick their football Read more…

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