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| Dutch privacy watchdog says Google breaks data law Thursday, Nov 28, 2013 12:45 PM PST  By Thomas Escritt AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Google's practice of combining personal data from its many different online services violates Dutch data protection law, the country's privacy watchdog said on Thursday after a seven-month investigation. The Dutch Data Protection Authority, or DPA, asked Google to attend a meeting to discuss its concerns, after which it would decide whether to take any action against the cloud services, Internet search and advertising giant, which could include fines. Google, responding to the Dutch authority's findings, said it provided users of its services with sufficiently specific information about the way it processed their personal data. We have engaged fully with the Dutch DPA throughout this process and will continue to do so going forward," Google said in a statement. Full Story | Top |
| Recovering Alcatel-Lucent seen rejoining France's CAC 40 Thursday, Nov 28, 2013 09:46 AM PST  By Blaise Robinson and Alexandre Boksenbaum-Granier PARIS (Reuters) - Alcatel-Lucent could rejoin France's blue-chip CAC 40 index next month as the telecom gear maker's turnaround gains traction and its stock hits two-year highs, analysts and fund managers said. If restored to the CAC 40, Alcatel would benefit from demand from index trackers of about 255 million euros, or 81 million shares, equivalent to two average days of volume, Exane BNP Paribas index analyst Christophe Wakim said. Alcatel - a founding member of the CAC 40 when the benchmark was created a quarter century ago - was kicked out of the index a year ago. Alcatel, which makes equipment for big telecom groups like AT&T and Orange, had been stuck for years in a downsizing spiral as it struggled with stiff competition from low-cost Chinese rivals and weak demand from customers. Full Story | Top |
| China's Huawei to roll out 4G service in Ethiopian capital Thursday, Nov 28, 2013 08:49 AM PST  By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's state-run Ethio Telecom said on Thursday it had picked Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, the world's second largest telecom equipment maker, to roll out a high-speed 4G network across the capital Addis Ababa. The introduction of the service is part of a $1.6 billion deal signed in July and August between the Ethiopian firm, Huawei and ZTE, China's second-biggest telecoms equipment maker, to expand mobile phone infrastructure throughout the Horn of Africa country. "In terms of allocation, Huawei will be responsible for the expansion of 4G in Addis Ababa, including other mobile services - the 2G, 3G, IP and the like," Abdurahim Ahmed, Ethio Telecom's head of communications, told Reuters. Full Story | Top |
| India to investigate Ericsson in smartphone patent row Thursday, Nov 28, 2013 06:21 AM PST  India's Competition Commission (CCI) is to investigate Swedish telecoms equipment maker Ericsson in regard to a dispute over charges levied on Indian group Micromax for the use of Ericsson's patents. Ericsson had sued Micromax in March 2013 for patent infringement and the Indian company responded by filing a complaint to the CCI, Ericsson said. "The CCI has now decided to refer the case to the director general for an in-depth investigation," Ericsson said in a statement, adding it would fully cooperate with the probe. According to a document on the CCI's website, it will investigate whether Ericsson charges Micromax too much in royalties to use its patents. Full Story | Top |
| France's Iliad asks to join rivals' network sharing plan-Les Echos Thursday, Nov 28, 2013 04:53 AM PST  By Leila Abboud and Gwénaëlle Barzic PARIS (Reuters) - France's upstart mobile player Iliad is seeking talks with larger rivals Vivendi's SFR and Bouygues Telecom over joining the duo's network sharing plan, according to a letter published online by Les Echos newspaper. The letter attributed to Iliad Chief Executive Maxime Lombardini underscores how the planned network sharing between France's second- and third-largest operators, which aims to cut costs in response to Iliad's low-cost service, could reshape competition in Europe's fourth-biggest mobile market by clients. Iliad, which is owned by billionaire Xavier Niel, is concerned that it will be left without a partner and in a weaker negotiating position with market leader Orange, if it is left out of a network sharing deal with SFR and Bouygues, said a person familiar with the group's views. Full Story | Top |
| China's rumor crackdown has 'cleaned' Internet, official says Thursday, Nov 28, 2013 02:58 AM PST  By Megha Rajagopalan BEIJING (Reuters) - China's campaign against online rumors, which critics say is crushing free speech, has been highly successful in "cleaning" the Internet, a top official of the country's internet regulator said on Thursday. China has the world's most sophisticated online censorship system, known outside the country as the Great Firewall. It blocks many social media websites, such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and others, along with many sites hosted in Taiwan and those of rights groups and some foreign media agencies. High profile users of Sina Weibo, China's Twitter-like microblog, have been targeted, apparently for political speech. Full Story | Top |
| The second coming of Obamacare website - will it work? Wednesday, Nov 27, 2013 10:12 PM PST  President Barack Obama's healthcare law is facing its biggest test this weekend since its disastrous October 1 launch, as Americans find out whether the administration has met a self-imposed deadline to fix its insurance shopping website. Another major outage of glitch-ridden HealthCare.gov could spell more political trouble for the president, who was forced to apologize for the botched rollout and admit burdening Democratic Party allies in their bids for re-election to Congress in 2014. If the website does not work on Saturday's deadline, that could turn off millions of uninsured Americans, especially young and healthy consumers whose participation in the new insurance exchanges are critical for keeping costs in check. Obama officials are confident that this second coming of HealthCare.gov will be much improved from the October 1 debut. Full Story | Top |
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