A Vietnamese security company has detected what it believes is a new worm that thwarts Google’s security protections in order to register new dummy Gmail accounts from which to send spam.
Bach Koa Internetwork Security (BKIS) said the worm was discovered earlier this week in one of its honeypots, the term for a computer set up [...]
3 is ?opening up? Skype to allow any customer with an unlocked 3G phone to use the service on its network.
Consumers can bring an unlocked phone to 3 and buy a ?1.99 Sim card to be used for free Skype-to-Skype services from this summer.
Meanwhile, from 1 May, there will be no data charges or top-up [...]
Oprah Winfrey’s effect on book sales when she supports a new title is legendary. She may have even contributed to the election of the nation’s first black president with her endorsement of Barack Obama. So what happened in Twitterland after Winfrey started Tweeting, and used her TV show as a platform to announce her [...]
Euro MPs have voted overwhelmingly to cut the cost of texting and using the internet on mobiles abroad.
The cap for a “roaming” text will fall to 11 euro cents (10p; 14 US cents), from about 29 cents on average today.
The EU-wide caps, excluding VAT, will take effect in July. They cover text messages and data [...]
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said today that it’s designing a server processor with up to 16 cores, which would quadruple the count in the company’s existing quad-core Opteron chips.
But the new chip, which is code-named Interlagos and slated to support between 12 and 16 processor cores, will be a long time coming. The processor won’t [...]
Tanzania’s government has joined the growing trend for countries to require all PrePay SIM cards to be registered with the network operators, citing the usual reasons of crime and terrorism. The Minister for Communication, Science and Technology, Prof. Peter Msolla, said the government would soon table a bill in the National Assembly for the establishment [...]
We’ve been discussing US broadband policy and the stimulus package, and this table shows the cost of fiber-based, residential Internet service in several cities (Brough Turner provided the European and Asian data):
Where?
Monthlycost
Uplink(Mbps)
Downlink(Mbps)
Stockholm
$11
100
100
Seoul
$24
100
100
Hong Kong
$35
100
100
Tokyo
$61
100
100
Amsterdam
$127
100
100
Lafayette, LA, Municipal
$58
50
50
Lafayette, LA, Cox Cable
$140
5
50
US, where available, Verizon
$145
20
50
Can we explain the large speed and cost differences?
The Cox Cable offering in Lafayette, Louisiana [...]
A court in Sweden has jailed four men behind The Pirate Bay (TPB), the world’s most high-profile file-sharing website.
Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde were found guilty of breaking copyright law and were sentenced to a year in jail.
They were also ordered to pay 30m kronor (i??2.4m) in damages.
In a Twitter [...]
Foreign navies have agreed to protect a vessel installing an undersea high-speed Internet cable from pirates off the coast of Somalia, a Kenyan minister said on Thursday.
Sea gangs from lawless Somalia have been increasingly striking the Indian Ocean shipping lanes and strategic Gulf of Aden, capturing dozens of vessels and hundreds of hostages in attacks [...]
Time Warner Cable said repeatedly that it wanted to hear from the public as it expanded its Internet data caps, and the public has roared back its response: metered billing should exist in some non-obscene ratio to cost and to competitors’ pricing. In response, TWC will shelve the trials “while the customer education process continues.”
The [...]