NEW DELHI, INDIA Bharti Airtel said that an international consortium comprising leading Indian telecoms firms had launched Unity cable system that directly connects Japan and the west coast of the United States. Also Read Bharti signs $9 bn deal for Zain Africa ops Global Transit, Google, KDDI Corp, Pacnet and SingTel are the other partners [...]

SAN FRANCISCO, USA Google Inc moved its China Internet search service to Hong Kong in a bid to resolve its dispute with Beijing over censored search results while keeping a foot in the worlds largest Internet market. But comments on Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency, suggested that Googles attempt to strike a balance may [...]

Advanced IT systems have been instrumental in the expansion of remote working by enabling employees to log on and work from home. Most companies have policies that spell out the procedures that must be followed. But what about those who are not home workers but who occasionally work from home? Security and data protection measures [...]

LONDON, UK BBC World Service said it is partnering mobile network operator Zain, in a collaboration that will provide Zain users with quick and easy access to BBC content via mobile Internet. Zain has now added BBC World Service banners to nine of its mobile portals across the continent. Users in Nigeria, Kenya, Burkina Faso, [...]

In an effort to spur broadband deployment in rural, remote and low-income areas, a bipartisan pair of lawmakers has introduced legislation to come up with the Universal Service Fund, the telecom subsidy overseen by the Federal Communications Commission. The USF Reform Act, authored the agency of Reps. Rick Boucher and Lee Terry, would require recipients [...]

MUMBAI, INDIA The shares of Indias top telecom company Bharti Airtel opened strong on bourses here Wednesday, a day after it sealed a $10.7 billion deal to acquire the African assets of Kuwaits Zain. The bluechip, among the 30 scrips that are part of the sensitive index Sen of the Bombay Stock Exchange, opened at [...]

Computerworld Privacy advocacy group Electronic Privacy Information Center EPIC has filed a Freedom of Information Act FOIA request with the National Security Agency NSA asking for details on the agencys purported partnership with Google Inc. on cybersecurity issues. In a separate action that was also taken today, EPIC filed a lawsuit against the NSA and [...]

IDG News Service Bharti Airtel, Indias largest mobile phone service provider, is in exclusive discussions to buy the African operations of Kuwaits Mobile Telecommunications Co. known as Zain, in a deal with an enterprise value of US$10.7 billion, the Indian company said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange. Zain said it has received [...]

A party line vote isnt a good omen for an upcoming regulatory fight, but thats how things are shaping up with the FCC over its proposed oversight plans for the Internet. The FCC is looking at regulating the Internet like a telco, and under regulations that predate the invention of the Internet itself. But there [...]

A senior Treasury minister has warned the ICT industry that cuts to rebalance the governments books in the wake of the economic crisis mean it will have to help government departments do more for less. Economic secretary Ian Pearson said the crisis had had a profound impact on the public finances resulting in fiscal consolidation [...]