With only a fewer phones in the country and probably the fewest internet connections, Myanmar recent gathering of techies in Yangon’s Myanmar Info-Tech complex illustrates the promise, changes and problems Myanmar presents as the next frontier for investors, reports Reuters. Thaung Su Nyein, secretary of the association and managing director of IT and media company Inforithm-Maze says, “It was harder to convince my fellow independent co-founders of BarCamp Yangon that parking our activities under the umbrella of this legally...
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Over earlier this week, we reported that the European Union France-led investigation stated that Google’s new privacy policy may violates the European Law, confirming over on this EU justice commissioner Vivian Reading says it breaches the union’s law. Google, whose new single policy is into effect since from yesterday, March 1st – consolidating 60 products different privacy policies into one – in order to make things clearer and simpler. Reading told the BBC that “the new rules are not in accordance with the European law,...
As a part of its bankruptcy restructuring in the company and saying it would stop making digital cameras, Eastman Kodak has entered into an agreement to sell its online photo services business to Shutterfly for $23.8 million. The move which means that Kodak Gallery customers’ accounts and uploaded images in North America will be transferred to Shutterfly, through giving an option to customers will be able to opt out. Shutterfly is an Internet-based social expression and personal publishing service. Shutterfly is a “leading social...
It’s always interesting to note the company’s stock price soon after its any of product releases and updates. This is what makes us to stop and take a sigh at Microsoft’s stocks. The Redmond-based giant unveiled Windows 8 Consumer Preview two days back during the Microsoft’s Windows 8 event at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Over on the top of this, we...
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom for the first time since being released has given an interview to the 3News in New Zealand. The conversation is of 20 minutes long during which Dotcom strongly found urges that Hollywood is the one to blame for piracy, stating the way in which movies are released on country basis resulting in people to seek alternatives to view them. Talking...
Microsoft over the years has faced one regulatory challenge after another, in lieu of keeping the same pace; the software giant has hired a senior Federal Trade Commission attorney who had also led several of the agency’s antitrust investigations into Google Inc. has been hired by the company’s archrival, Microsoft. Randall Long, a deputy assistant director in the agency’s Bureau of Competition, will become a director of regulatory affairs in Washington, D.C., at the end of March, Microsoft said Wednesday. WSJ states,...
Rehabilitating criminals and that too mainly in the case of cyber criminals where they have got a specific skills are turned out to be a valuable asset for the companies who believe employing those very people would be a best bet since the companies are fighting against – This is what the center stage topic that hit during the RSA Conference going on in San Francisco. Author...
Box, an online File Sharing and Cloud Content Management service, has announced a deal with Podio, a social business collaboration platform, to offer storage services to Podio customers expanding its reach across the borders and moving into Europe. Box which seen a strong growth in 2011, now having around 8 million users and 100,000 businesses with a plans to offer...
Intel Corporation and Micron Technology, Inc. announced that the companies have entered into agreements to expand their NAND Flash memory joint venture relationship for approximately $600 million. The two companies have been working together on producing NAND flash memory since 2006 with the IM flash Technologies partnership. The agreements, which are designed to improve the flexibility and efficiency of the joint venture, include a NAND Flash supply agreement for Micron to supply NAND products to Intel and agreements for certain joint...
With the funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a team led by Professor Martin Rinard, a principal investigator at CSAIL and leader of the Cloud Intrusion Detection and Repair project from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) aim to develop a smart, self-healing cloud computing infrastructure that would be able to identify the nature of an attack almost instantaneously. Cloud computing has become completely ubiquitous, spawning hundreds of new web based services, platforms...
