The use of millimeter wave spectrum for 5G will support an $565 billion increase in global gross domestic product by 2034 and $152 billion in tax revenue, accounting for 25% of the total value generated by 5G networks, according to a new GSMA report. While other reports have looked at the overall value that 5G …
Japan’s government has issued instructions Monday effectively banning China’s Huawei and ZTE from official contracts, while the country’s top three telecom operators plan to follow suit, Japanese media reported Monday. As if 5G equipment bans from the United States, Australia, and New Zealand weren’t enough this year, Huawei will end 2018 on an even worse …
Public Interest Registry (PIR), the nonprofit operator of the .ORG domain, has announced that its Board of Directors has unanimously selected Jonathon Nevett as President and Chief Executive Officer, effective December 17, 2018. Nevett co-founded Donuts Inc. in 2010 and served as Donuts’ executive vice president for corporate affairs and on its Board of Directors. …
The wait for .Web is just about to be longer after Afilias file a notice and request for an independent review process. Most recently, Donuts that was recently acquired by Former ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade backed ABRY Partners lost at the Court of Appeal. Donuts had claimed that ICANN” “intentionally failed to abide by its …
Oath, the owner of AOL and Yahoo, has agreed to pay about $5 million to settle charges from the New York attorney general that the media company’s online advertising business was violating a federal children’s privacy law. AOL, through its ad exchange, helped place targeted display ads on hundreds of websites that it knew were …
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) efforts to broker a peace deal between the regional Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organisation (ACTO) and giant online retailer Amazon has aborted, according to ICANN CEO Göran Marby. The meeting had been planned for today longside the 21st meeting of the ACTO countries in Bolivia. “Unfortunately, at …
The .coop domain to retain exclusivivity for the co-operative movement for the next 10 years. Dot Cooperation LLC (Dot Coop) renewed it’s contract with Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for another 10 years whereby negotiations for renewal began in 2016 and were finalised this year in November end. Launched in 2001, the domain …
Data belonging to 32 million customers of SKY Brasil has been exposed online long enough to make their theft very likely, an independent security researcher discovered. Fábio Castro found that the data cache could be reached by anyone that knew where to look on the internet. 32 million Sky Brasil customer data records were accessed …
Have you recieved an email lately about your compromising browsing history? It is a huge scam, here is a true story from a BBC reporter. Don’t get pawned Thousands of people all over the world have been receiving sextortion emails from scammers. They’re different from garden-variety scam emails because they often include a hacked password …
DNS Belgium, the Belgian domain registrar has announced a partnership with the economy minister to fight fraudulent e-commerce websites. This is expected to lead to a quicker take-down of misleading sites, within 24 hours of their identification, and increase consumer confidence in .be websites. The new powers allows the withdrawal of .be names at the …