The commercialization of 3G services in China which kicks off this year may offer an opportunity for China's home-grown WAPI (WLAN Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure) standards for WLAN devices to boost its penetration in China's mobile communication market, according to sources at Taiwan's telecom service operators. At stake is China Telecom's plan to expand its services by introducing

Commercial applications are one thing that I'm usually not writing about, but unfortunately software for 5th edition rise softly, sparsely, like rare flowers in the forest and any application that is really useful and fully compatible with 5th edition of S60 platform is a big news. I am one of those lucky bastards who own Nokia 5800 and I know it's hard to test thousands of available 3rd...

BACKGROUND It great to be invited to attend and participate in the State of the Net conference in Washington DC by Tim Lordon Director of the Internet Education Foundation who met me when I spoke at the EIF event at the European parliament . I would also like to thank MEP James Elles and Peter Linton - EIF for their support. The timing of this event is significant coming just before the inaugurati...

Amongst the various things I spent working over the new year break - (LTE, k-anonymity, mobile web megatrends, Cloud privacy policies, Internet of things) all already blogged or will be blogging .. (I know - I know .. I should get more of a social life .. - ha ha! ) But one of them was a fun project called 'Scratch' Scratch is a programming language for kids created by MIT media labs and...

Web 2.0 - harnessing collective intelligence? - Do we want to be harnessed? Web 2.0 has taught us the concept of harnessing collective intelligence . Companies like Google with Page Rank, Amazon (with Amazon reviews) and others have benefited from the idea of harnessing collective intelligence. So, the business model for the provider in harnessing collective intelligence is proven. We i.e. creator...

The Internet experts polled by the Pew Internet and American Life Project believe that life in 2020 will be all about mobility, touch-screens, and privacy (or the lack thereof).

Japanese lawyers and profs are saying Google Street View violates basic privacy rights.

Sprint® today announced that it is enhancing its industry-leading open approach by partnering with location aggregation platforms Veriplace™ by WaveMarket and WHERE™ by uLocate Communications to help developers create new location-based services for Sprint customers. These platforms protect the privacy and security of Sprint customers while offering third-party mobile, Web, WAP, SM...

With Consumer-Friendly Standard, Yahoo! Sets 90-Day Data Retention Policy SUNNYVALE, Calif. & London, Dec 17, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Today, Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) announced a new global data retention policy that sets an industry-leading approach to user data privacy. This new policy strengthens Yahoo!'s relationship of trust with its 500 million users world-wide and enhances its longtime

Sprint today announced that it is enhancing its industry-leading open approach by partnering with location aggregation platforms Veriplace by WaveMarket and WHERE by uLocate Communications to help developers create new location-based services for Sprint customers. These platforms protect the privacy and security of Sprint customers while offering third-party mobile, Web, WAP, SMS and widget develo...