Developments in a phone-hacking scandal involving British newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.: November 2005: News of the World royal reporter Clive Goodman writes story saying Prince William has a knee injury. Buckingham Palace complaint prompts police inquiry. August 2006: Goodman arrested along with private investigator Glenn Mulcaire for suspected hacking into voicemails of royal officials. January ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Rebekah Brooks, a former top lieutenant in Rupert Murdoch's media empire, will learn on Tuesday whether she will be charged as part of a phone-hacking scandal at one of his British newspapers. Police launched an investigation in January last year into allegations that journalists at the News of the World tabloid regularly hacked ...
Microsoft may be petitioning the social network to use its slide-tiled operating system on a top secret handset When rumors that Facebook is secretly building its own smartphone began popping up in 2010, CEO Mark Zuckerberg moved quickly to squelch the murmurs. But a new report from Business Insider suggests that Facebook is still considering its own ...
Mobile phone roaming charges will fall again from July following a European Parliament vote. The latest round of cuts are the latest step towards a European Commission goal of reducing the gap between domestic and "foreign" call rates to virtually nothing by 2015. As well as further reducing the cost of making calls from abroad and receiving ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — U.S. consumers have had their fill of expensive, contract-based phone plans. Figures from T-Mobile USA on Thursday, added to earlier reports from other companies, indicate that the U.S. wireless industry lost subscribers from contract-based plans for the first time in the first quarter. Contract-based plans are the most lucrative ones for phone ...