Network providers in Britain would have to mandatorily provide internet users with high-speed broadband by 2020 as the government will make this a legal right, the UK government announced and dismissed pleas from service providers to keep it voluntary. The government aims to achieve a minimum broadband speed of 10Mbps to be available throughout the…
If one believes that the older versions of the iPhones appear to be slower, they are not wrong. An older iPhone would operate slowly due to a software feature released last year because the company wants to reduce the problems of an aging lithium ion battery, Apple said on Wednesday. Aging batteries can result in…
The European Union’s top court is set to soon decide on the question of whether Uber technologies Inc. – the company that owns the ride hailing app of the same name, is a taxi company or an IT company. Uber has argued that the rules and regulations that are applicable on the taxi companies cannot…
The global market for legal cannabis is anticipated to register a growth of CAGR of 21.1% between 2017 and 2024 according to a market research report published by Ameri Research Inc. The report states that the market was valued at a total of $14.3 billion in 2016. In 2024, that market would be worth $63.5 billion.…
The U.K Justice secretary of the view that there should be banning of the sale of miniature mobile phones by online retailers because the design of the phones is such that is easy to be smuggled into prisons. The body orifice security scanners that are used in England and Wales would not be able to…
BP had made significant investments in renewable energy and was in a leading position among industry peers at a time when companies were going green. It was amongst the first oil majors to accept the linkage between fossil fuel burning and global warming. And it had coined the slogan “Beyond Petroleum.” But the Gulf of…
Beijing has signaled that it is keeping a close watch on the movements in rate across the Pacific in the U.S. and is keen to maintain its capacity to contain capital outflow after China’s central bank increased the interbank policy rates by 5 basis points soon after a rate hike was announced by the US…
Cryptocurrencies are being unwittingly mined by the users of four popular video sites every month. According to a report on the practice of the so called cryptojacking, the number of visitors in this case is almost one billion. According to security firm Adguard, tokens for the bitcoin-like cryptocurrency Monero are being created as cryptocurrency mining…
The One Belt One Road (OBOR) program of China has seen financing of infrastructure projects right across Asia. However, the world’s second-largest economy is the one that does all the deciding – which countries get funding and when. However, a cautionary tale is being offered by Pakistan. China – Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is the name…
A study on the aspect of net neutrality and its history in the U.S. was published by business information provider IS Markit. The report also examined the related information on rivalry which could determine the future of the internet if the present net neutrality protections be repelled, amidst risin fears of removal of net neutrality. “Despite…
