$62,000 to download a movie? That’s what happened to a caller named Alberto, who told his data roaming tale of woe on the air to HLN “money expert” Clark Howard on CNN. Alberto made the grave mistake of downloading Wall-E for his nephew while vacationing in Mexico over his data card and was slapped with [...]

Another Swedish ISP has decided not to retain customer IP records in an attempt to protect user anonymity. Tele2 announced this week that it plans to start deleting all IP records after they had been used internally—a move that is still legal under Swedish law, but is beginning to irk law enforcement.
Tele2 is the second [...]

While last week brought news of DDoS attacks on the main website of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, ifpi.org, which rendered the site sluggish and slow for most of Monday, there was no mention of similar attacks directed at lawyers representing the music, movie and game industries. It seemed the lawyers on the [...]

India’s Reliance Communications has set itself a target of breaking the 100 million subscriber mark before the end of this year - requiring an additional 25 million new customers to sign up to its network. The firm reported a surge in subscriptions following the launch of its GSM network, which overlays its existing CDMA service.
“We [...]

ONE of Africa?s leading mobile communications provider MTN is set to exhibit at this year?s Zimbabwe International Trade Fair raising high hopes that the South African company is preparing to operate in the country.
Although no position could be readily availed from the company, ZITF Company General manager Mr Daniel Chigaru told Sunday Business that the [...]

Microsoft is trying to make it easier to sway users of Windows XP onto the latest version of its operating system.
For some time now, the company has been quietly building a “Windows XP mode” that uses virtualization to allow Windows 7 to easily run applications designed for Windows XP. According to sources familiar with [...]

Samsung Electronics has shown off its first Android-powered mobile phone, the I7500. With a launch of I7500, Samsung became the first company among the global top three mobile phone manufacturers to unveil an Android-powered phone.
“Samsung is among the earliest members of the Open Handset Alliance and has been actively moving forward to introduce the most [...]

In Germany, the file-hosting service Rapidshare has handed over the personal details of alleged copyright infringers to several major record labels. The information is used to pursue legal action against the Rapidshare users and at least one alleged uploader saw his house raided.
Like many new releases, Metallicai??s latest album i??Death Magnetici?? was uploaded to the [...]

Estonia’s government and telecom companies operating there announced on Friday a 283 million euro (374 million dollar) project to provide access to broadband Internet for all by 2015, a report said.
“If the railway was developed in the 19th century and the electrical grid in the 20th century, then the 21st century is the era of [...]

US lawmakers are set to limit the way ISPs use deep packet inspection (DPI), even though no American service providers are using the technology.
Representative Rick Boucher, a Virginia Democrat, and three privacy experts, speaking at a hearing before the House Energy Commerce sub-committee urged lawmakers to pass comprehensive online privacy legislation in the coming months.
While [...]