Wireless Communications

Digital Cable Systems (DCS), al treilea furnizor de programe TV prin satelit, aflat in portofoliul AIG din septembrie anul acesta, a preluat integral Dial Telecom Romania (DTR), unul dintre cei mai importanti furnizori alternativi de servicii de telefonie fixa.

Comisia federala de comert din Statele Unite (FTC) a picat de caord cu achizitia firmei de publicitate online DoubleClick de catre compania de servicii pe internet Google, dupa ce tranzactia a fost investigata cu privire la riscurile de monopol asupra pietei de publicitate online, scrie Brandrepublic.com. Cu toate acestea, tranzactia este investigata si de o autoritate de supraveghere a Comisiei Europene, iar Google a anuntat ca nu va finaliza tranzactia pana cand nu va primi un raspuns favorabil in acest sens.FTC a anuntat in luna mai ca va investiga preluarea DoubleClick de catre Google, dupa ce compania Microsoft a reclamat ca aceasta achizitie ar crea un monopol pe piata de publicitate pe internet.Reprezentantii Google declarasera, insa, ca sunt convinsi ca FTC va aproba intelegerea cu DoubleClick si ca vor ajunge la concluzia ca aceasta achizitie nu reprezinta un pericol pentru competitie.Compania de servicii pe internet Google a anuntat in luna aprilie ca va achizitiona firma de ...

The FBI is planning to build the world's largest biometric database to aid the agency in its law enforcement duties. Little has been said, however, about the impact such a system would have on American citizens, or on the technology and policies that would be used to keep false positives minimal.

NTT DoCoMo Inc. will team up with Google Inc., the world's No. 1 Internet search engine, to enhance its i-mode Net service custom-made for mobile phone users, company sources said Tuesday.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia successfully launched a rocket on Tuesday carrying the last three satellites to complete a navigation system to rival America's GPS. The military-run GLONASS mapping system works over most of Russia and is expected to cover the globe by the end of 2009, once all its 24 navigational satellites are operating. A space rocket blasted off from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome on the steppes of neighboring ex-Soviet Kazakhstan, from which Russia rents the facility. "The launch was carried out smoothly at 10:32 p.m. (1932 GMT)," RIA news agency quoted a spokesman for the Russian space agency as saying. "We expect satellites to separate from the booster on the orbit at 2:24 a.m. (2324 GMT)". Work on GLONASS -- or Global Navigation Satellite System -- began in the Soviet Union in the mid-1970s to give its armed forces exact bearings around the world. The collapse of the Russian economy in the late 1990s drained funds and the plans withered, but ...