
Tapping into the processing power of the human brain could help computers with some tasks.
Researchers at Columbia University use signals from an electroencephalogram (EEG) device (worn) to help search rapidly through images. Credit: Neuromatters
Most brain-computer interfaces are designed to help disabled people communicate or move around. A new project is …
H.E Mohammed Omran, Chairman Etisalat
Mohammed Omran, the CEO of UAE’s telecommunication service provider Etisalat, has been named the World CEO of 2010 at a ceremony in Britain, it was announced on Saturday. He was honoured at the World Communication Awards ceremony in recognition of his outstanding work in the sector.
Etisalat …
Asian bandwidth prices are plummeting but remain much higher than in the US or Europe.
TeleGeography’s latest data shows IP transit prices worldwide are sliding despite growth of more than 60% in international traffic.
But Pacific and Atlantic prices are still far apart. In Hong Kong, the median price for a 1Tbps …
Daily performance targets, value-added services help telcos navigate India’s turbulent mobile market; Bharti Airtel CEO sees emerging market operators entering global top 10
When it comes to navigating India’s fast-growing but intensely competitive mobile market, Telenor believes average revenue per user is not the most important measure of performance.
Instead, the Norway-based …
Vodafone and Telenor both plan to expand their mobile money services in emerging markets to include new services such as saving accounts, micro credit lending, insurance and international remittances.
In a mobile money session at Congress this morning, Greg Reeve, head of mobile payment solutions at Vodafone, told how the firm’s …
Algeria will not negotiate the future of mobile telephone operator Djezzy, which it aims to nationalise, with would-be buyer Russia‘s Vimpelcom (VIP.N), a newspaper quoted an unnamed government source as saying.
Vimpelcom has agreed a $6.6 billion dollar deal to buy the assets of Egypt’s Orascom Telecom (ORTE.CA), the centrepiece of …
Twitter Inc., the Internet service for short messages, is developing a penchant for keeping its CEOs’ tenures relatively brief, too.
Evan Williams on Monday became the second Twitter co-founder to step aside after a two-year stint, making way for a colleague considered to be better suited for steering the next phase …
Skype is replacing its CEO with a Cisco Systems executive, a change that may indicate the Internet calling service is closer to announcing specific plans for an initial public offering. Skype S.A. said Monday that Tony Bates, formerly a Cisco Systems Inc. senior vice president and general manager of its …
The head of the Telecommunication Transmission Directorate, or TİB, is facing one to three years in prison for not halting access to a website that claimed the main opposition party’s leader is a member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, the daily Hürriyet reported Sunday.
TİB head Fethi Şimşek …