Michael Birch co-founder of Bebo plans to relaunch his social network with real-time interactions between friends rather than the new feeds displayed by Twitter and Facebook which inadvertently spread fake news. Bebo – an acronym for “Blog early, blog often” was once the most popular network in the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. In…
A couple of months ago, the heads from 18 small British telecoms companies met at a London bank to discuss investment, strategy, and mergers. In the meeting, they were asked if they thought the Chinese could eavesdrop through back doors in Huawei equipment all 18 hands went up. One of the bankers then asked, if…
A regulation announced in September 2019, was due to come into effect on Sunday when all people in China are required to have their faces scanned when registering new mobile phone services, as the authorities seek to verify the identities of hundreds of millions of internet users. China has for years been trying to…
Ericsson, Juniper and ECI telecom partnerships will allow it to compete with rivals such as Nokia and Huawei. Over the past two year Ericsson has sharpened its workforce to save over $1billion in costs. Cisco has teamed with Samsung while Verizon teams up with Apple and Google on 5G streaming. Although Ericsson formed a…
Santa Clara-based Cyphort, an innovator in the software security space, had raised £ 22.5million ($30 million) in venture funding from investors including Sapphire Ventures, Trinity Ventures, and Matrix Partners. Sunnyvale-based Juniper Networks Inc. has agreed to buy Cyphort Inc., a security software startup run by Manoj Leelaniwas, one of Juniper’s former executives, who previously…
Cyphort, the next generation Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) defense company announced it has hired Gord Boyce as Chief customer officer and Franklyn Jones as Vice President of Marketing. “Gord formerly CEO of file security company FinalCode and Franklyn former CMO of Spikes Security, are charged with continuing to drive Cyphort’s rapid growth and success in…
272.3 million Gmail, Yahoo, Microsoft, Mail.ru email accounts have been hacked and data up for sale according to Alex Holden founder and chief information security officer of Hold Security. Hundreds of millions of hacked usernames and password for email accounts and other websites are being traded in Russia’s criminal underworld, in one of the biggest…