Ecuador restores Assange’s communications after 7-month blackout – WikiLeaks

The Ecuadorian government has lifted restrictions on WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange’s communications with the outside world, allowing visitors to his embassy hideout and restoring internet access it cut off in March. It was reported on Sunday that Ecuador moved to restore Assange’s access to the Internet, cell phone communications and permitted him to receive visitors […]

Alex Jones’ flagship radio station shut down by Federal Communications Commission

The US communications regulator has shut down Alex Jones’ flagship radio station and slapped it with a $ 15,000 fine. A lawsuit filed in the US District Court in Austin this week accuses Liberty Radio of operating without federal consent since at least 2013, the Austin American-Statesman reports. The Austin-based station has been solely streaming […]

The Army wants to replace its new, $6 billion communications system after finding Russia and China could breach it

US Army National Guard/Sgt. Matthew Sissel The US Army has concluded that its $ 6 billion battlefield communications system would likely be breached by Russia or China in the event of a big-power conflict, rendering it all but useless against sophisticated foes. The Army says it needs at least two years to come up with […]

Cisco to acquire cloud communications company Broadsoft for $1.9 billion

Networking giant Cisco has announced plans to pay out $ 1.9 billion to acquire Broadsoft, a Maryland-based cloud communications company that creates software for PBX systems, team collaboration, and other related enterprise products. Though Cisco is better known for its data center and networking hardware, the company has long intimated its intentions to transition into a software […]

JP Morgan Chase just got a patent on basic app communications

Enlarge (credit: Cooper Neill/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Do you have apps on your phone? More than one? Can you imagine if the different apps could actually talk to each other? Of course you can—because they do, all the time. It’s nothing special. But that didn’t stop the nation’s biggest bank, JP Morgan Chase, from getting a […]

Hope Hicks is Trump’s next communications director: Here’s how a 28-year-old with no political experience got into his inner circle

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Hope Hicks, 28, may be named President Donald Trump’s White House communications director shortly. But before joining Trump’s campaign, she had no political experience. Hicks was born in Greenwich, a town of 60,000 on the southwest tip of Connecticut that’s a favorite spot for hedge-fund headquarters. She was a model, actress, and […]

Here Be Dragons AR/VR studio gets $10 million funding from Discovery Communications

You might not have heard of Here Be Dragons before, but you’ve probably heard of some of the projects the it’s worked on. Today, this VR and AR production studio is announcing the closure of a $ 10 million series A round of funding. Discovery Communications led this investment. Here Be Dragons has been creating […]

Trump is reportedly considering hardline nationalist Stephen Miller for White House communications director

AP Photo/Susan Walsh President Donald Trump is considering senior policy adviser Stephen Miller to fill the role of White House communications director, sources told Axios.  Miller, known for his hardline nationalism, is a longtime Trump loyalist who most recently made headlines after holding a contentious press conference Wednesday as the Trump administration rolled out its new immigration […]