All telecommunication operators should be given a chance to grab equal blocks of the 2.1-gigahertz spectrum in the upcoming auction to ensure fair competition in third-generation cellular service in the future, True Corp chief executive officer Suphachai Chearavanont said. He added that there should be a cap restricting each bidder to receiving 15 megahertz bandwidth […]
The popular social networking site Facebook agreed to purchase the Instagram photo-sharing mobile app for US$1 billion in cash and stock Monday. The app, which can be used to apply faux-vintage filters to photographs, allows users to share photos with one another both directly and through posts to social networking sites. Instagram was founded less […]
Almost every day, Chue Her sits down at his computer, pulls out his Hmong-English dictionary and starts typing 10 to 20 words into an online translator. He hopes his contribution to Microsoft’s translation project will be the key to reviving the Hmong language that he worries is disappearing. “I believe if we don’t have the […]
China lifted its three-day block on 16 of the country’s Twitter-like services, including the two largest, which are Sina’s and Tencent’s microblogging sites. China said it carried out the ban on the sites’ commenting function because microbloggers were using the sites to spread conspiracy theories and rumors about the disappearance of politican Bo Xilai on […]
BANGKOK, 4 April 2012 (NNT) – CAT Telecom Plc has revealed that its 3G contract with mobile phone service provider, True Corporation, is in breach of Section 46 of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) Act. According to the report, the CAT Board has resolved that the company’s 3G contract with True Corp is […]
RIM abandons battle with iPhone and Android As guardian.co.uk informed today, Research in Motion is to pull back from trying to compete with Apple’s iPhone and the Android mobile platform and prefers to return to its original focus on business users. RIM claimed they will focus their future efforts on devices that “employees would want […]
Taiwanese Facebook user Claire Lin told her online friends that she was killing herself with charcoal fumes and posted photos to prove it, police said on Wednesday. An officer said the woman, who lived in New Taipei City, took her life on March 18 – the day she turned 31 – after an unresolved argument […]
Cyber crime in Vietnam has become more sophisticated with many IT networks being targeted. So said the director of the IT department at the Ministry of Public Security, Nguyen Viet The, during the two-day Cloud Computing and Security World 2012 conference that concluded on Mar. 23 in Hanoi. He said that last year saw an […]
