Web users in BRICI countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and Indonesia – will almost double in the next five years, as PC and smartphone penetration grows, analysts say.
The number of subscribers accessing the web in the five markets will grow from 610 million in 2009 to 1.2 billion in 2015, Boston Consulting Group predicts, as PC penetration doubles
RIM has staved off a ban on BlackBerry – at least for the next two months – as the government tests monitoring technology it has offered as a fix to their dispute over access to encrypted data.
The Department of Telecommunication (DoT) will evaluate RIM’s technical solution for 60 days to determine whether it
Smartphones will represent the majority of handsets sold in the APAC region by 2015, compared to just 5% of phones sold in 2009, according to Frost & Sullivan.
The smartphone is catching up to the feature phone in all A
Apple faces the prospect of another scandal after it emerged a senior executive has been selling his own apps through the App Store.
App Store director Phillip Shoemaker was found to be selling his own applications on the site, using a pseudonym to conceal his identity and so get round an
India is considering extending tough new security rules covering imports of telecoms equipment to include all communications services offered in the country.
The government proposes to force firms to provide details of how to crack data encrypted at over 40 bits – the maximum level its security forces can currently deal with – in a move that could hit sm
