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Malaysia lowers broadband targets
News Currently faced with a disappointing 11.7 percent penetration rate, the Malaysian government revises its 2010 broadband target down from 75 percent to 50 percent.
Tags: Personal broadband, Regulations, SMB
Policing, with a virtual twist
News For law enforcement agencies, Web 2.0 poses challenges but also serve up opportunities in surveillance and intelligence gathering.
Tags: Network infrastructure, Terrorism insurance, Data security, Virtualization, Video, Singapore, Facebook, Web 2.0, Second Life, Internet
Microsoft chops price of its hosted software
News Redmond says it's cutting by a third the monthly subscription fee for those using a hosted version of Exchange, SharePoint, and Office Communications Server.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Microsoft Office, Google Inc., Autodesk Inc., Aon Corp., Chile, Microsoft Corp., software, Blockbuster Inc.
Rural Europe may get US$1.29B for broadband
News The European Commission has proposed a billion-euro boost for rural broadband across the continent, in a bid to create jobs and stimulate the economy.
Tags: Network infrastructure, International governments, Investments, Networking technology, Investment, European Union, Europe, High-speed Internet, Broadband, Greece
Will greentech attract lots of green in the new year?
News Folks with money expect the new regime under U.S. president-elect Barack Obama to encourage, perhaps even subsidize, greentech in the United States.
Tags: Green IT, Network infrastructure, Infrastructure/architecture management, Dollar, Money, Wyoming, fossil fuel industry, Greece, venture capital, SolFocus
Copycat Amazon site changes name
News Copycat online bookstore Amazon Greece has changed its name two weeks after Amazon.com filed suit against the company.
Biometrics used to keep German Olympians safe
News German athletes going for Gold in Greece are to be protected in their section of the "Olympic Village" by the very latest in biometric technology.
Tags: Biometrics
Facebook botnet risk revealed
News Researchers created a demo "Photo of the Day" app that turned Facebook users' machines into a botnet. Social networks, they warn, are ideal for attack platforms.
Tags: Security, Web 2.0, Environment, social networking, denial of service, Facebook, network, researcher, network provider, authentication mechanism
Securing the gold in Athens
News The Olympics will be three weeks of intense scrutiny, but there will likely be few lessons for homeland security.
Tags: Network security
All eyes on virus protection at Athens Olympics
News As the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens approach, keeping the official network free of virus attacks is top priority.
Tags: Network security, Security implementation/standards
European Commission proposes TV spectrum for WiMax
News UHF spectrum could be used for mobile broadband services once the analogue TV signal is turned off, but views differ on whether money or public interest should win out.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Bandwidth, Government
Comparison shopping sites in copycat lawsuit
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Net calling coming in loud and clear
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Red Hat, Oracle to certify Linux for gov't
News The two software companies plan to work together to certify Red Hat's advanced server under the Common Criteria, a certification that could open doors for Linux into the government.
Reversing trend, global software piracy rate rises
News The global software piracy rate rose last year for the first time in six years, indicating that the downward trend in piracy rates could be over, according to the latest piracy survey from the Business Software Alliance.
