Are you looking forward to saying “Hello” without actually speaking? The NRC Tampere research team announce today the “Nokia Hello” – the NFC (Near-Field Communications) chips through which, users can touch phones briefly in order to exchange a range of greetings such as ‘Good morning’, ‘Good afternoon’ and even to pass on tea and coffee preferences. Dr...
As we reported earlier, a group of European regulators, Article 29 Working Party has asked Google to halt the process of its new privacy policy – suggesting they need to investigate whether the proposals truly protects users’ personal data or not. The Article 29 Working Party, an independent body that brings together data protection authorities from each of the...
Hacker group Anonymous is making one move to another since from the time when feds knocked out Megaupload last month. The group first with 5,635 participants hacked RIAA (the record industry’s lobbying arm), MPAA (the movie industry’s lobbying arm), Universal Music, and the Department of Justice websites. Moving to the next, the group continues it strikes with shutting down CBS website for approximately 20 minutes. On January 26, twenty-two states of European Union had attended the ceremony in Japan and signed the Anti-Counterfeiting...
Earlier today we reported that Apple has removed, as a result of an injunction Motorola won in Mannheim over a FRAND-pledged patents declared essential to an industry standard, several 3G/UMTS-capable products from its German online store: the iPhone 3G, the iPhone 3GS, and the iPhone 4 (but not the iPhone 4S), and all 3G/UMTS-capable iPads. In a statement given...
Hacker group Anonymous earlier today hacked Greek Ministry of Justice Website in protest against the ACTA treaty – and now the Anonymous group posted the tweet on the micro-blogging site with a line to an intercepted FBI/Scotland Yard telephone conference call. The conference call included two Metropolitan Police officer and four LA-based FBI agents. It wasn’t legitimate immediately that whether the call been intercepted or not, but now FBI confirmed that hackers had indeed intercepted a conference call that had been set up between...
HP released its annual proxy statement this morning, which among other things gives a look at what its top five executives made last year. CEO Meg Whitman, who upon becoming CEO, after succeeded Leo Apotheker last year agreed to take an annual base salary of $1 received more than $16 million worth of stock awards – add on another $372,598 in other compensation and the total value of her package was north of $16.5 million. Next January, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to accept a $1 annual salary, the initial public offering document...
Skype’s VP of products, Rick Osterloh, revealed during the CES 2012 that Microsoft’s Skype division is gearing up to launch its Window’s phone product – Skype for Windows in the coming months – stating not much detail at that time – but today we are got the news that Skype is currently testing an initial Windows Phone client, which is expected to debut...
Siemens is looking out for a new Chief Executive for its Nokia-Siemens mobile phone network equipment joint venture – Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN). NSN is a 50-50 joint venture with partner Nokia. According to Sibylle Wenkel, Siemens supervisory board member, “Siemens finance director Joe Kaeser has been looking around for an alternative to the current CEO Rajeev Suri.” Wenkel represents the IG metal trade union on the supervisory board of the German engineering conglomerate (Image Source: Nokia Siemens Networks logo, Featured Image) ...
Last week, we reported that European Union formally launching an investigation that whether the South Korean Electronics giant is, Samsung breaching the antitrust rules in its legal battles against Apple – its rival. Replying to a request for comment from Bloomberg, Samsung said that it believes the “enforcement of its 3G standard-essential patents is consistent...
South-Korean Electronics giant, Samsung seems like creating much havoc in the middle-east on the basis of fault that too is not of its own – an Israeli commercial may be resulting in causing Samsung’s products to be banned entirely in Iran – as even might further cause and result in bringing an end to Iran’s trade with South Korea. The company produced a...
