Washington: A Google Inc. executive says the company is still considering its next step in China seven weeks after it pledged to stop censoring search results and threatened to pull out of the country altogether.

Google Vice President and Deputy General Counsel Nicole Wong told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that the company is continuing to investigate a hacking attack that emanated from China and attempts to snoop on dissidents by accessing their Gmail accounts.
Google says it has been in talks with Chinese officials. The company has said it …

Karachi: Nokia has announced the results of the Nokia N86 8MP Click it! Competition and distributed prizes to the lucky winners of the competition.

Nokia N86 8MP Click it! Competition was launched by Brandsynario in collaboration with Nokia on 23rd November 2009 and closed off on 23rd January, 2010. The competition kicked-off from Brandsynario platform simultaneously in the three metros of Pakistan: Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad. The one of its kind online photography competition invited university going youth of Pakistan to upload photos depicting the theme “Jawan Pakistan” on www.brandsynario.com and …

Karachi: Communication has changed. Staying in touch with friends, family and colleagues is just as important as staying up-to-date with the latest news, views and gossip. It’s all about instantly sharing a moment, an idea or a thought, which is why mobile email is fast becoming the essential everyday tool for everyone!

Around 300 million people worldwide have experimented with mobile email but only 10% of accounts, or 30 million accounts, have actually been activated on the mobile phone. With over 100 million email-enabled devices from Nokia in people’s hands – …

WASHINGTON: Some groups are calling on the United States to challenge China’s “firewall” before the World Trade Organization, as a bilateral row over cyberattacks on Google adds to trade tensions.
As President Barack Obama awaits answers from Beijing on the cyberstrikes, Washington is being asked to contest China’s Internet censorship as a breach of global trade rules to which the Asian giant, as a WTO member, is subject.

“The US can argue that China’s ‘Great Firewall’ — a system of filters and bottlenecks that effectively shutters the country within its own intranet …

Beijing: China sought on Friday to play down a threat by Google Inc. to quit the country on hacking and censorship concerns, saying any decision by the Internet search giant would not affect US trade ties.
The United States said it was too soon to tell how economic ties would be affected, but added free information flow was crucial to China’s maturing economy.

A spokesman for China’s Commerce Ministry said there were many ways to resolve the Google issue, but repeated that all foreign companies, Google included, must abide by Chinese laws.
“Any …

The greatest shift is happening right now. It’s the shift of connecting the unconnected – and the opportunity to bring information, knowledge and services directly to more than six billion people on our planet – that will drive our future. Mobile phones have a profound impact on people’s lives – on the way they live, the way they work and the way they connect. Studies have revealed that on average, 10 mobile phones per 100 people increases GDP by 0.6%.
Socio-economically, the emerging markets in Middle East and Africa represent both …