New Zealand’s business community ranks broadband, or telecommunications in general, second behind physical transport as the infrastructure “having the most potential to contribute to New Zealand’s future economic prosperity”.
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The first copyright infringement notices have been filed by rights holders under the “Skynet” law that came into effect two months ago.
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This time a year ago, the television industry was rife with worry about so-called cord-cutting — people dropping cable subscriptions in favor of watching TV over the Internet.
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Britain’s largest police force is operating covert surveillance technology that can masquerade as a mobile phone network, transmitting a signal that allows authorities to shut off phones remotely, intercept communications and gather data about thousands of users in a targeted area.
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The Church of England may withdraw the millions it has invested in internet companies unless they take action to curb internet pornography.
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Research In Motion Ltd. has set up a facility in Mumbai to help the Indian government carry out lawful surveillance of its BlackBerry services, according to people familiar with the matter, but the move hasn’t fully satisfied India’s appetite for access to messages on the popular smartphones.
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The number of smartphone subscribers in South Korea surpassed 20 million last week, with about 40 percent of South Koreans carrying the mobile device, the country’ s telecom regulator said Sunday.
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YouTube, making an expensive bet on original content, is planning to create dozens of channels featuring comedians, sports stars, musicians and other entertainers, the company said on Friday.
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Google TV arrived last fall to lukewarm reviews. Its remote control was big and complicated, its software was clunky and confusing, and it didn’t live up to the promise of Internet-connected TV’s — that they would allow us to cut the cable cord and watch whatever we wanted whenever we wanted.
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The British streaming television service, SeeSaw, has been closed down.
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