China plans to bring gigabit Internet speeds to its major cities by 2020, part of its effort to expand broadband among households in the nation.? The Chinese government set out the target in its new broadband strategy announced on ...
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Facebook and six other tech companies have launched a joint project called Internet.org which aims to connect the two-thirds of the global population that is not currently linked to the Internet. The other founding members of the project ...
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has invited Claire Perry, the Devizes MP who is Prime Minister David Cameron's 'advisor on childhood' to dinner - so that he can tell her how wrong her plan for internet web filtering is. Perry is the driving ...
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File-sharing website The Pirate Bay has launched a browser that it claims will circumvent blocks from internet service providers (ISPs) on its site and other similar webpages. The browser, dubbed PirateBrowser, was launched as a 'gift' ...
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A skeptical but mostly respectful crowd of Black Hat security attendees Wednesday listened intently as National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander defended controversial U.S. surveillance programs in a keynote address. The nearly ...
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The web porn filter praised by David Cameron recently is operated by Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications firm that politicians in the UK and US have voiced concerns about. According to the BBC, UK-based employees of Huawei have the ...
Google has reportedly been in talks with major media companies to stream television channels direct to consumers over the internet. The idea is being seen as potential competition to US cable providers, such as Time Warner and Comcast, ...
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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has approved the $21.6 billion acquisition of Sprint by Japanese telecommunications group Softbank, saying it promises to bring consumers faster and more advanced wireless broadband Internet ...
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NetEase Inc. (Nasdaq: NTES) has become an exclusive partner for flights of Air China Limited (SHSE: 601111 and SEHK: 0753) offering on-board Internet surfing service through air-ground satellite systems so that passengers could browse news ...
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While LED LCD TVs seem to get all the attention, and certainly the lion's share of sales, 2013 is actually turning out to be something of a renaissance for plasma TVs—at least in terms of picture quality. Leading the charge are ...
With more than a billion monthly active users, it's easy to imagine that most of the data travelling over Facebook's networks is delivering photos, status updates and "likes" to its end users, but that's far from the case. The social ...
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It may have taken almost two decades, but Tun Thura Thet's investment in one of Asia's poorest countries is finally paying off. "I've been waiting here for 17 years to have this moment," he said, sitting at his office in Yangon, Myanmar. ...
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If you've checked through our most recent TV Ratings and don't see a model or series you're considering, we might be checking it out right now. Here are the HDTVs currently being tested in our labs. Among the notable models is the Sony ...
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Texas is poised to become the first state in the U.S. to require law enforcement officers to get a search warrant based on probable cause before they access any electronic communications and customer data stored by a third-party service ...
Seeing a “404 error” or the Twitter “Fail Whale” can really kill a good online buzz. Those kinds of service outages, though, occur on the Internet on a daily basis, as the latest numbers from Outage Analyzer ...
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