Mozilla wants to address online behavioral tracking by advertisers with a "Do Not Track" feature for the Firefox browser. – Mozilla is planning to take its own shot at improving user privacy controls online.
The company is looking to add a new feature to its Firefox browser that would enable users to opt-out of online behavioral tracking by advertisers. The move follows a December report from the U.S. Federal Trade …
The FCC says it wasnt easy to clear spectrum for digital TV, and it wont be easy to clear it to meet growing mobile broadband needs. But it needs to happen, and pronto. – The Federal Communications Commission is proposing that some broadcast television airwaves be used to meet the nations growing demand for mobile broadband services, which is being driven by widespread smartphone adoption and the increasing use of mobile devices such as laptops and tablets.
The O…
Mervyn King – the governor of the Bank of England – has proposed abolishing fractional reserve banking.As the BBC noted last week:Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, has tonight made a big intervention into the debate on banking reform. …
IBM researchers are proposing an approach to WiFi security they call Secure Open Wireless in light of the release of the Firesheep tool. – IBM is proposing a new approach to address WiFi security in the wake of the Firesheep plug-in for Firefox.
The Firesheep extension can be used to hijack the sessions of people using unencrypted sites such as Facebook and Twitter on
an open wireless network. The tool was released less than a wee…
Facebook plans to roll out encryption to prevent applications from sharing Facebook User IDs. – Facebook plans to use encryption to block Facebook applications from leaking user identification numbers.
The data exposure was reported earlier this week,
and was due to the sharing of user IDs via the HTTP Referrer
Header. The culprits included some of the site’s most
popular applications,…
News Analysis: Data congestion is already becoming a fact of life for carriers, and itll only get worse. So Ruckus Wireless suggests WiFi as a way to avoid the congestion. – If you own an iPhone, you already know what
wireless data congestion looks like. Its when your phone tells you
that you have a strong signal, but you cant connect to the 3G network,
or you can get only a very weak, very slow connection.
The reason is because the cell site youre
using has re…
Dragon Group International is proposing a renounceable and non-underwritten rights issue of up to 896,325,824 new ordinary shares at $0.02 each, with up to 896,325,824 free detachable warrants.
Each warrant carrying the right to subscribe for one new ordinary share at US$0.03 each on the basis of four rights shares with four warrants for every one existing share held by shareholders of the company.
In the minimum subscription scenario, based on 552,253,768 rights shares with warrants to be issued, the net proceeds of the rights issue, after deducting estimated expenses of $0.6 million, is expected to be $10.4 million.
Scorpio East Holdings says wholly-owned subsidiary Scorpio East Properties today entered into a put and call option agreement with RBC Dexia Trust Services Singapore in its capacity as trustee of Cambridge Industrial Trust.
The option agreement is for the proposed $21.1 million sale and leaseback of Scorpio East Building at 25 Tai Seng Ave, a seven- storey light industrial building for use as movie production, audio visual recording studio and special file storage, between Scorpio East Properties and purchaser RBC Dexia in respect of.
Koon Holdings is proposing a bonus issue of up to 81,994,000 new ordinary shares , on the basis of one bonus share for every one existing ordinary share held by shareholders of the company.
Koon Holdings says the company is proposing the bonus Issue to increase the issued share capital base of the company to reflect the growth and expansion of the group’s business, and at the same time, to reward shareholders for their loyalty and continuing support of the company.
Falcon Energy Group is proposing a renounceable non-underwritten rights issue of warrants to shareholders of up to 162,826,994 warrants at an issue price of $0.10 each, on the basis of one warrant for every five existing ordinary shares held.
Each warrant carries the right to subscribe for one new share at the exercise price of $0.40 and has an exercise period of three years.
Singapore Exchange is consulting the public about introducing non-ferrous metals futures contracts for trading on its derivatives market, it said in a statement.
The new futures are the result of the bourse’s partnership with the London Metal Exchange and are for copper, aluminum, zinc and nickel, it said.
The contracts are standard, cash-settled, non-ferrous metals futures based on LME settlement prices. Market participants and members of the public have until Sept 9 to send in their comments, it said.
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The Turkish prime minister has said he might amend an army law that opponents say could encourage military coups. Recep Tayyip Erdogan was addressing a rally in southeastern Turkey as he began campaigning ahead of a referendum on constitutional reforms.
Singapore Exchange (SGX) says it is proposing new rules and measures to provide more information on short sales activities in the marketplace to facilitate greater market transparency.
SGX is also seeking public comments on the proposed rules that require the marking of all sell orders, either as a normal sell order or a short sell order. With the collated data, SGX proposes to report the short sales volume and value by counter for each trading day.
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski believes that auctioning off some 500 megahertz of the wireless spectrum, currently held by television broadcasters, would be the best way to increase spectrum for mobile carriers and other providers, according to prepared remarks delivered to a New America Foundation event. The FCC has an ambitious National Broadband Plan, due to be revealed to Congress on March 17, that it hopes will allow the rate of broadband penetration in the United States to increase from 65 percent to 90 percent.
– The Federal Communications Commission wants
to increase the wireless spectrum available to mobile carriers by 500 megahertz
over the next decade, a plan that involves auctioning off portions of spectrum
currently held by television broadcasters and other providers. Reports indicate
that the 500 …
8Telecom International Holdings Co., the developer and manufacturer of telecommunications infrastructure and equipment in China, has posted a record full-year net profit of RMB72.1 million ($14.9 million) for the financial year ended 31 December 2009 (FY2009), representing a 477.6% y-o-y increase compared to FY2008.
Revenue from continuing operations rose 101.9% y-o-y to RMB554.5 million from RMB274.6 million backed by strong sales from all three telecommunication business units on strong demand for 3G-related infrastructure in China.
