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HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (Reuters) – Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, two of the leading advocates of bitcoin, expect to get regulatory approval to launch a U.S. exchange for investors to buy and sell the virtual currency in the first quarter, the twins told Reuters on Monday. “The information coming out of the DFS (Department of Financial Services) […]
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) – India is betting that mobile phone vendors, fuel stations and corner stores can help it put basic banking within the grasp of hundreds of millions of its poor people living beyond the reach of traditional bank branches. The clock is ticking down to a Feb. 2 deadline for applications to set […]
The number smart homes in Europe and North America reached 10.6 million in 2014 according to new research findings from Berg Insight. The North American market recorded a 70 percent year-on-year growth in the installed base of smart homes to 7.9 million at the end of the year. This corresponds to 6.0 percent of the […]
At ITU Telecom World earlier this week, moderator Tony Poulos kicked off a lively debate, by asking assembled delegates to, in terms of emerging market broadband, discuss “not what it did do, but what it can do. What does it really offer?” Debates among panelists, with some lively input from the audience, spanned a number […]
On Wednesday afternoon at 4pm EST an unknown third party initiated a DDoS attack on our domain host’s (1&1) DNS infrastructure. The Domain Name System (DNS) is used to attribute internet addresses such as “1and1.com” to IP numbers, similar to a telephone book. During the coordinated attack, many widely spread computers (also known as bot net) sent […]
On Wednesday afternoon at 4pm EST an unknown third party initiated a DDoS attack on our domain host’s (1&1) DNS infrastructure. The Domain Name System (DNS) is used to attribute internet addresses such as “1and1.com” to IP numbers, similar to a telephone book. During the coordinated attack, many widely spread computers (also known as bot net) sent […]
Rumours, the kind that come from very reliable sources, are saying that Nokia’s next, and possibly final home will be a long way from Finland, in China, no less. The new owner looks to be none other than Chinese everything manufacturer, Huawei. The move will clearly provide much needed financial stability to the one time […]
Teenage years are a turbulent time of learning independence, developing social skills, and experiencing sexuality and romance. Teens face peer groups pressure and have no micro guidance from parents. Texting is an important social communication channel for teens, giving the opportunity for anxiety free communication with the opposite sex. New study in Journal of Children […]
In the UK we have competition, of a sort. But amidst calls for the regulator Ofcom to review the playing field, which some are saying is not so level, comes news that two mobile phone companies want BT to buy them. Telefonica is known to have approached BT, offering up O2, in exchange for 20 […]
90 percent of people over the age of six will have a mobile phone by 2020, and the number of subscriptions will reach 9.5 billion. Six billion or so people will have smartphones, and traffic will increase by eight times. These are the latest figures to come out of the Ericsson Mobility Report, which makes […]
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