Source: Reuters A group of European regulators has written to Google Inc calling on it to halt the introduction of its new privacy policy, saying it needs to investigate whether the proposals sufficiently protect users’ data. Google said in January it was simplifying its privacy regulations, consolidating 60 guidelines into a single policy that ...
Source: Reuters Twitter announced recently that it would begin restricting Tweets in specific countries, renewing questions about how the social media platform will handle issues of free speech as it rapidly expands its global user base. Until now, Twitter had to remove a Tweet from its global network if it received a takedown request from ...
Source: Reuters Twitter gives an instant snapshot of the buzz around television shows, computer game launches and even new ads, but many media executives are simply too busy to tweet or engage with the microblogging service very much themselves. Digital reluctance is particularly strong among “old media” leaders, who told the recent Reuters Global Media ...
Source: Reuters Text-messaging has long been a big-time profit generator for US mobile operators, but they now risk losing these profits as consumers find cheaper ways to communicate. SMS ‒ short message service ‒ is no longer all the rage, but it still generates an estimated 12 per cent of service revenue for US ...
Source: Reuters Book publishers have survived the first stage of a digital revolution in better shape than the music industry and are now embracing the shift to e-books in their search for new revenue streams and lower costs. The industry has been battered this year by a significant shift from physical books to e-books that ...
Socotec Group, a provider of inspection, technical assistance, consulting and training services for various sectors such as construction and health, will deploy the Sage ERP X3 (version six) system across its offices in 30 countries. Logica will manage implementation of the new information system, which is set to affect 3,000 workstations across Socotec offices in ...
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Source: Reuters Facebook will be required to get user consent for certain changes to privacy settings as part of a settlement of federal charges that it deceived consumers and forced them to share more personal information than they intended. The settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will also subject the company, which is ...
Source: Reuters Secretive North Korea is expected to register the one millionth cellphone user on its new 3G network by the end of the year, barely four years after people were thrown into prison camps, or possibly even executed, for owning one. Most of the users are in the capital of Pyongyang, home to the ...
by Jared Heng Consumers in Singapore will be able to “tap” and pay at more than 20,000 retail points and taxis using their Near Field Communication (NFC)-enabled mobile phones from the middle of 2012. Announced late last month by the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA), the new system will also allow businesses to provide interactive and ...
by Jared Heng Southeast Asian consumer demand for smartphones jumped in the third quarter with the Android operating system (OS) taking the lead in popularity. According to a study by market research company GfK, more than 4.7 million units of smartphones were sold in the region during the third quarter, up 9 per cent from ...
