Service Providers News
Google agrees to court order in India to remove content
Google has agreed before a court in Delhi to remove religious and other content considered objectionable, though some other Internet firms are likely...
Who really was behind the SOPA protests?
Some critics have blamed Silicon Valley tech firms for the massive online protests last month against two controversial copyright bills. Other groups...
India to auction 2G spectrum from scandal-tainted licenses
India initiated plans Friday to auction 2G spectrum, a day after the country's Supreme Court ordered licenses and spectrum issued in 2008 to be...
Tiff over LightSquared reveals odd partnership
LightSquared founder Philip Falcone's response to ethics allegations by a U.S. senator sheds some light on a strange chapter in the carrier's...
Amazon sets up website for Indian retailers and own products
Amazon.com has set up a subsidiary in India, Junglee.com, that aggregates products from local online and offline retailers, but does not sell them,...
Google introduces country domains on Blogger to aid content removal
Google is directing users to localized country domains on Blogger to provide it flexibility to comply with content removal rules in various countries.
India's top court strikes down 122 2G mobile licenses
India's Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that 122 mobile licenses awarded across 32 service areas in 2008 should be cancelled, giving a new...
White House: No comment on call to investigate MPAA for SOPA bribery
The U.S. White House has declined to respond to a petition calling for authorities to investigate the head of the Motion Picture Association of...
AT&T appoints chief strategy officer
AT&T has appointed its first chief strategy officer to develop the company's road map, including long-term mobile capacity needs, the company...
Panasonic offers wireless broadband service to connect its products
Panasonic launched a wireless broadband service in Japan this week that is intended to encourage customers to use its coming wave of Internet-ready...
AT&T posts loss on breakup fee, benefit plan costs
Though smartphone sales were strong, AT&T on Thursday reported a net loss in the fourth quarter of 2011 due to extraordinary charges including a...
Clearwire 4G users and data use booming
Clearwire exceeded 10 million subscribers in the fourth quarter but still needs to raise more money to build its planned LTE network, a task that...
Senator questions ethics of alleged LightSquared lobbying
U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa said Monday that the owner of LightSquared and a possible representative of the company may have broken ethics...
SOPA and PIPA: What went wrong?
For Internet activists, last week's Web protests against two controversial copyright enforcement bills were a huge victory against three powerful...
US Senate postpones Tuesday vote on PIPA
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has postponed a vote on the controversial Protect IP Act, scheduled for Tuesday, as a growing number of...
Vodafone wins over $2B tax dispute in India
India's Supreme Court has ruled that Vodafone did not have to withhold tax from Hutchison Telecommunications when buying its stake in 2007 in...
Apple clears another regulatory hurdle to bring iPhone to China Telecom
Apple may be a step closer to offering its iPhone through China Telecom, after yet another Chinese regulator approved a version of the iconic...
SOPA, PIPA opponents celebrate, but say work isn't done
A day after an estimated 10,000 websites went dark and more than 7 million people signed a Google.com petition opposing two controversial copyright...
Cisco expands smart grid portfolio
Cisco this week expanded its smart grid portfolio for utilities with a reference architecture, products and services intended to modernize the...
Issa introduces SOPA alternative in the House
Lawmakers opposing the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act have introduced alternative legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives.