In the latest move by the French government, it is considering extending the television license fee which will include computer screen from now onwards, once it’s implemented in order to boost revenues for public-sector broadcasting operations. In a radio interview with RTL, culture minister Aurelie Filippetti said the proposed expansion would obviously be a fee per...
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In an urge to break down the continuously growing racism over on the web, the South Korean government giving its media watchdog the power to delete offensive posts. The organization says that racist remarks are on the rise following the recent alleged murder of a Korean woman by a Korean-Chinese man. Six comments have been removed from unspecified sites by the Korea Communications...
The BlackBerry maker RIM executive Scott Totzke told Bloomberg Businessweek that its share of the US government market “is probably increasing,” and that it sold 400,000 devices to federal agencies in the past year. RIM’s fiscal fourth quarter of 2012 saw a 19 percent drop in revenue totalling $125 million, and a 21 percent drop in shipments from Q3,...
Over claims that AT&T purposefully violated registration requirements for use of IP Relay, the US Department of Justice has sued the carrier. AT&T has collected millions of dollars from the government for fraudulent calls, a service that allows the hearing impaired to place calls over the internet by typing messages. Since from November 2009, the government says...
