According to The Verge, Apple CEO Tim Cook has donated $100 million to Stanford’s hospital – with $25 million for a new children’s hospital, $25 million for a new main building and $50 million has been donated to Product RED – a charity that combats diseases such as AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. Cook made his announcement during an internal town...
In protest against the controversial ACTA treaty, Hacker group Anonymous has hacked the Greek Ministry of Justice website (cached version), giving the warning to the authorities that it will take down over 300 media and ministry sites if it does not reverse its course of action. The site, www.ministryofjustice.gr/ is currently showing “Under Construction” followed...
In a recent Television commercial for a Taiwanese Action Electronics Co.’s combined PC and multi-language dictionary promotion, Taiwanese comedian and impersonator Ah-Ken, dressed in Jobs’ trademark black turtle neck sweater and blue jeans and sporting white angel’s wings and a halo, extols the virtues of company’s new product. “Introducing...
According to Reuters, after review of 2000+ filings since SEC found some companies – including Internet Infrastructure giants – VeriSign Inc. and Credit Card and Debit Card Transaction processor – VeriFone Systems Inc., accounts for significantly “large and new” numbers of hacking incidents. Securities and Exchange Commission issued a lengthy “guidance” document on October 13 outlining how and when publicly traded companies should report hacking incidents and cybersecurity risk. “It’s completely confusing...
With earlier protests against US SOPA and PIPA – in which we see thousands of websites – both small and large protested against the act – even including the biggies – Google, Wikipedia and other technology giant – in the similar way protests are taking place but this time in Europe and it is against Anti-Counterfeiting Trademark Agreement (ACTA) – by joining...
A French commercial court on Tuesday slapped a fine of 500,000 euros (approximately $660,000) on Google France. The complaint was lodged by Bottin Cartographes against search engine giant French division – Google France and against the parent company Google Inc. on account of providing free web mapping services to some businesses. “This is the end of a two-year...
Carpathia Hosting – the Virginia based company that has leased servers to the Megauplad today in collaboration with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EEF) has started a new website, megaretrieval.com, to collect the stories of legitimate users who want access to their current-inaccessible files stored with accused Megaupload. “The Electronic Frontier Foundation...
Japan’s broadband company eAccess has announced that it has completed specification testing for LTE, achieving download speeds of 300Mbps – which is seven times faster than currently available via mainstream mobile services. The company offers mobile services through its eMobile brand, looking to launch data communication services over its LTE network in March this year – making the second Japanese conmapny after NTT DoCoMo to offer the 4G technology at commercial level. In November 2011 eAccess launched a trial of fourth-generation...
Have you ever wondered a bin whose screens will display news from the Economist and stock quotes – if you not, then start thinking again as London got its first 25 units of such “Smart Bin” across the metropolis. Built by Renew, the bins are installed on the streets of London city with two LCD screens on its sides. The number right now is only 25 but the city...
Internet search engine giant Google has reportedly fired its Kenya country manager, Olga Arara-Kimani over a recent data poaching scandal. Mocality had conducted a sting operation that revealed Google employees had been undermining its business in the country by accessing the database and contacting clients – claiming to work with Mocality. South African site News.com reported the news of Arara-Kimani’s termination on Tuesday morning. The company apologised, but also stated that it would investigate the conduct of its Kenyan unit...
