BlackBerry fires 250 more employees in turnaround effort
By Seth Fiegerman From Mashable BlackBerry (originally RIM) laid off 250 more employees on Tuesday as part of a continued effort to turnaround the company. The layoffs, which were first reported by Bloomberg on Thursday, affected employees at BlackBerry’s product…
Cayman Islands’ submarine cable system MAYA-1 partially down
From TeleGeography Cayman Islands’ incumbent telco LIME Cayman Islands has announced that MAYA-1 cable system, which provides international bandwidth capacity to the island, has suffered a shunt fault on Segment Six, located between the system’s landing station at Half Moon…
The typewriter is back — to save privacy
By Chris Taylor Mashable You know how to make sure a government agency — or if you are a government agency, then Wikileaks — won’t eventually read everything you type? By dumping your laptop and clacking the keys on something…
Golden Frog launches VyprVPN Server Cluster in Italy
Internet Privacy Policies Continue to Be an Issue in Europe GRAND CAYMAN, CAYMAN ISLANDS, Jul 24, 2013 (Marketwired via COMTEX) — Golden Frog, a global software and Internet application development company, announced today that it has added a new VyprVPN…
Apple’s Growth Rocket Has Hit A Wall. What Will Get It Started Again?
By DAN FROMMER From Techcrunch Apple’s stunning growth over the past decade has been one of the biggest stories in all of tech. Even as the company released new product after new product, and grew larger and larger, its growth…
The death of Google Reader opens the door to a smarter subscription ecosystem
Julien Genestoux From TechCrunch We all know that Google Reader, which used to be the most obvious RSS subscription tool, is now gone. At the same time, we see “follow” buttons on just about every website. We are at a…
Caribbean youth encouraged to innovate
From Guardian Media T&T The region needs more youth getting involved in technology innovation and digital entrepreneurship. That is the message being delivered to young people attending a special technology camp now underway in Port of Spain, Trinidad. “The great…
The Caribbean needs more local digital content, says VP at Columbus Communications
From South Florida Caribbean News PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago — Producing more local digital content remains one of the most effective means of increasing internet penetration in any market. Local content production can also create significant opportunities and positively impact…
Racing Google to bring driverless cars to the road
By Rip Empson Tech Crunch Racing Google To Bring Driverless Cars To The Road, Mobileye Valued At $1.5B As Investors Take $400M Stake In the world of self-driving cars and autonomous vehicle technology, Google gets most of the attention, but…
ICTA launches new consultation on LLU
From TeleGeography 18 Jul 2013 Cayman Islands Cayman Islands’ telecoms regulator the Information and Communications Technology Authority (ICTA) has opened a new public consultation on whether mandating the provision of access to the local loop in the Cayman Islands would…
