Daily Archives: November 1, 2011

Most of the Palestinian region has lost internet service as the main phone network has suffered by computer hackers in the West  Bank and Gaza city, says the Palestinian Authority. ...

Netflix and Amazon.com have announced streaming video pact with Walt Disney’s Disney-ABC Television Group that will allow streaming video users’ access to various contents from ABC Studios, Disney Channel and ABC Family. To continue to stream TV shows over the Internet, Netflix has extended its license agreement with ABC Television Group, said Netflix. ...

US-based provider of social intelligence Fliptop, Inc, has bought Qwerly which has been it’s close competitor all the while, in an undisclosed financial deal. Qwerly was the brainchild of Max Niederhofer who started it about 18 months ago to assist firms in mining the social web. ...

In a round led by Mayfield Fund, Translink Capital and Red Hat, Appcelerator managed to raise $15 million in Series C funding which will be used to spread out its mobile cloud development platform Titanium. ...

British Gov and business computer systems are going through a ‘disturbing’ number of cyber attacks, said the head of Britain’s communication spy agency. These cyber attacks, such as the recent assault on the Foreign Office’s network, are posing a threat to Britain’s economic security.  ...

Whenever users download a new text, E-books becomes heavier, says a new study. Nevertheless, users will never notice the difference since each of the downloaded book is as weighty as a simple molecule of DNA. ...

Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. is going cut almost 800 jobs for which it has to spend more than $31 million, said the company. According the company the discharges, which will take place before the end of the year, will comprise about $27 million to be paid out in severance. Moreover it will include an additional $4 million that will go toward costs related with closing...

 Republic Wireless is the new product scheduled to be introduced on November 8 by Bandwidth.com. This service is necessarily a virtual network mobile operator competing with Verizon and AT&T. ...