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EU court cancels US data-sharing pact over snooping concerns

LONDON (AP) — The European Union’s top court ruled Thursday that an agreement that allows thousands of companies — from tech giants to small financial firms — to transfer data to the United States is invalid because the American government can snoop on people’s data. The ruling to invalidate Privacy Shield will complicate business for […]

Biden, Gates, other Twitter accounts hacked in Bitcoin scam

Unidentified hackers broke into the Twitter accounts of technology moguls, politicians, celebrities and major companies Wednesday in an apparent Bitcoin scam. The ruse included bogus tweets from former President Barack Obama, Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden, Mike Bloomberg and a number of tech billionaires including Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Tesla […]

IoT to help reduce water scarcity.

The water sector worldwide is facing significant challenges. While having access to water is a fundamental right, half of the population is still suffering from water scarcity. By 2050, 6 billion people around the world will suffer from the scarcity of clean water, according to The United Nations World Water Development Report published in mid-2019. […]

2 biggest California districts say school will start online

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles and San Diego school districts, the two largest in California with a combined K-12 student population of about 720,000, announced Monday they won’t bring students back to classrooms next month because of rising coronavirus hospitalizations and infection rates. School leaders said there is too much uncertainty surrounding the […]

UK backtracks on giving Huawei role in high-speed network

LONDON (AP) — Britain on Tuesday backtracked on plans to give Chinese telecommunications company Huawei a role in the U.K.’s new high-speed mobile phone network amid security concerns fueled by rising tensions between Beijing and Western powers. Britain said it decided to prohibit Huawei from working on the so-called 5G system after U.S. sanctions made […]

UK to exclude Huawei from role in high-speed phone network

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government on Tuesday backtracked on plans to give Chinese telecommunications company Huawei a limited role in the U.K.’s new high-speed mobile phone network in a decision with broad implications for relations between London and Beijing. Britain imposed the ban after the U.S. threatened to sever an intelligence-sharing arrangement because of concerns […]

Telstra unveils world-first Enterprise-grade 5G solutions

14 July 2020: A faster and more agile future for Australian business has arrived, with Telstra launching a world-first suite of Enterprise-grade 5G solutions. Telstra Enterprise customers are the first in the world to be able to purchase and deploy Cradlepoint 5G wireless network edge solutions – a series of adaptors and routers engineered to […]

Telia Carrier to Establish Secure Fibre Route from Norway

Stockholm, 13 July 2020 – Following a tender process, Norwegian Communications Authority has chosen Telia Carrier to establish a new secure route for electronic communication between Norway and abroad. Today, most Internet traffic from Norway follows two paths through Sweden. In case of disturbances or in a worst-case scenario where all connections through Sweden are […]

Google announces $10 billion 'digitization' fund for India

NEW DELHI (AP) — U.S. tech giant Google is investing in a $10 billion fund to help accelerate India’s transition to a digital economy in the next five to seven years. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet Inc‘s Google, said Monday that the project will focus on building products that are relevant to India’s needs and […]