January 9, 2014

Networks

Wales BDUK Fibre Rollout Reaches 100,000 Properties

BDUK-backed Superfast Cymru plans to reach 690,000 homes and businesses by March 2015

Workspace

Kickstarter Reveals Record Year

Three million people pledged $480m to projects throughout 2013

mobile OS

Samsung Galaxy S5 Could Feature Iris Scanner

Samsung Galaxy S5 set for April release says executive

Legal

Apple And Samsung Agree To Mediation

Company CEOs to meet before upcoming US patent court clash

Deutsche Telekom Customers Test Clean Pipe Service

Germany advances efforts to escape foreign surveillance, as customers test DT's Clean Pipe service

Collaboration Suites

LinkedIn Sues Crew Who Scraped Member Profiles Using Amazon Servers

LinkedIn wants compensation and a jury trial, saying it could determine who the attackers were by asking Amazon

Green-IT

CES 2014: ZTE Shows Off Eco-Mobius Modular Phone Concept

Innovative design will let users upgrade and improve their device whenever they want

Blackberry crumble smartphone © sarsmis Shutterstock

Cloud

Fairfax Purchases $250m More Of BlackBerry’s Debt

Largest shareholder asks for seconds of BlackBerry crumble

Marketing

The Convergence Summit North is the only regional trade event in the North for the Comms & ICT Industry. There will be over 70 leading suppliers exhibiting and over 1,200 attendees across the two days. Attendance is free.

Marketing

4th Payment Innovation Convention – the Most Influential Payment Conference

Taking Mobile Payment as a typical example, more Chinese consumers are making payments via mobile devices and the size of the market is expected to exceed 800 billion Yuan (USD 130.4 billion) this year, more than five times the volu ...

Open Source

OpenSUSE Forums Down After Breach

Another vBulletin-based attack causes problems for open source crew

Qualcomm Still Unsure Why It Is Under Investigation In China

Snapdragon manufacturer still hasn't been told why it faces Chinese antitrust investigation

Mobility

First Tizen Smartphones Expected In Time For MWC

Samsung and NTT Domoco are expected to offer Tizen smartphones soon, according to reports

france spy snoop surveillance © Andrei Marincas Shutterstock

Marketing

French Watchdog Fines Google Over Data Privacy Policy

CNIL hits Google with a record fine for failing to amend its privacy policies

EE And Vodafone Agree To Provide Channel Tunnel 4G

Operators to provide 2G, 3G and 4G services to passengers travelling from the UK to France

Marketing

The Open Mobile Summit London

The Open Mobile Summit London (19-20 May, 2014, UK) maps the emerging trends in the mobile ecosystem. It draws top mobile experts to engage in a critical dialogue in order to devise new business rules and seize opportunities of the ...