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Exclusive Opera Mini Flavor in India at Vodafone Essar

Norwegian software company Opera has just announced a partnership with Vodafone Essar for the release of a special flavor of the Opera Mini mobile browser in India.The new announcement follows the extension of the global frame agreement that Vodafone Group Services and Opera Software made earlier this year. Vodafone...

18 August 2011
18:51 GMT

Half of Japan's Undersea Cables in the Pacific Damaged

The major earthquake, its aftershocks and subsequent tsunamis are labeled as Japan's biggest crisis since the Second World War. The country is facing a large number of economical and social problems, as the earthquake has affected any number of areas.While initially thought to have been mostly un-impacted, it no...

15 March 2011
06:15 GMT

Egypt Pulls the Plug on the Internet

The unrest in Egypt, where demonstrators have been protesting against the 30-year regime, is escalating and is turning violent. Unlike in the recent Tunisian revolution, which mostly likely had a lot to do with the situation in Egypt, President Hosni Mubarak isn't going down without a fight. The latest, sporadic...

28 January 2011
05:04 GMT

Suspected Spy Claims Mossad Sabotaged Egypt's Internet Access

A suspected Mossad spy arrested in Egypt allegedly told his interrogators that the Israeli intelligence service damaged undersea data cables that severely crippled the country's Internet access two years ago.The allegation refers to an incident in December 2008 when three high-speed Internet cables passing throu...

28 December 2010
13:23 GMT

Opera Mini Gets Pre-Installed on ZTE Phones

Norwegian company Opera Software has just announced a collaboration with telecommunications company ZTE Corporation for the inclusion of Opera Mini on the company's future devices. According to the global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, the new cooperation should result in a bett...

29 September 2010
11:31 GMT

Mobile Subscriptions Already Top 5 Billion, Ericsson Says

According to leading telecommunications infrastructure solutions provider Ericsson, the number of mobile subscriptions all around the world already passed the 5 billion mark. The company says that the 5 billionth mobile subscriptions was added to the count on Thursday, July 8, 2010, and that this is yet another impo...

9 July 2010
08:41 GMT

Mobile Phone Users Keen on Google and Facebook Access

According to a recently published report from Strategy Analytics, one of the main features that mobile phone users praised on their devices during the ongoing year was access to Google and Facebook. Moreover, as the research firm notes, most of the handset users that responded to its survey have declared that they w...

15 December 2009
08:50 GMT

Consumer Voice Market Declines in the US, Internet Access Grows

A recently published study from ATLANTIC-ACM, entitled “U.S. Telecom Wired and Wireless Sizing and Share: 2009-2014,” shows that the consumer voice segment of the market will see a tremendous decline during the following years. According to the study, a number of around $16 billion consumers are expected ...

17 September 2009
15:11 GMT

Nokia N97 Available in India Too

Nokia N97, the high-end smartphone from the Finnish mobile phone maker, has reached the Indian market too. The device comes to the country on the airwaves of wireless carrier Vodafone, and seems to be on a mission to fulfill the needs of any mobile Internet enthusiast in the country. In addition, the handset also com...

6 July 2009
04:03 GMT

Communication Mayhem in Silicon Valley

Tens of thousands of AT&T, Sprint, Verizon and Comcast customers located in the southern San Francisco Bay Area lost Internet access and phone service yesterday for a significant period of time. The outage was the result of vandals cutting fiber-optic cables at four different underground access points. According to ...

10 April 2009
08:11 GMT

Public Institution Restricts Access to Atheist Websites

Employees of the Birmingham Council reported that their access to websites that promote atheism or some exotic religions is prohibited by their employers. Apparently, the council is not very fond of websites "that promote information on religions such as Witchcraft or Satanism. Occult practices, atheistic views, vood...

2 August 2008
07:13 GMT

Olympic Games Coverage, Threatened by Internet Censorship

The Chinese Government assured international media representatives and human rights organizations that they would have full access to the Beijing Olympic Games and all the information they needed. In defiance of this statement, many online resources that foreign journalists need to report from China have been restric...

31 July 2008
04:22 GMT


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