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Video explosion challenges Net neutrality
News Conflict between neutrality and quality of service intensifies as excess backbone capacity saturates, observes an industry expert.
Tags: CommunicAsia 2008, Service level management, Web sites, Web 2.0, Business plans, Video, QoS, Broadband, Net Neutrality, Internet User
Rogue Facebook apps steal login data, spam
News Group of malicious Facebook apps stealing login credentials and sending spam to friends of affected users, according to Trend Micro researcher.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Network security, Web 2.0, Phishing, App, Web Browser, Spamming, Spam, Trend Micro Inc., IP
A billion Internet users can be wrong
Insight commentary Global Internet usage reached over one billion unique visitors in December, according to ComScore. However, the Web is not the Net.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Wireless, Tim Berners-Lee, Foresight, Internet User, ComScore Networks Inc., Earth, Internet, Geneva
UK sees sharp rise in spam
News Recent figures show spam has quadrupled over the past three months, with increased broadband availability blamed as the primary cause.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Security, Spam, E-mail Message, Anti-spam, Internet User, e-mail, software, U.K., bank
Internet security is everyone's business
Blogs About a month ago, a friend of mine revealed that his bank account had been compromised and that an unknown person or pe...
Sony to ship Google Chrome browsers on Vaios
News Google deal with Sony will see all the hardware vendor's American Vaio-brand PCs equipped with Chrome browser in tandem with Internet Explorer.
Tags: Web browsers, Web Browser, Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Internet User, Sony Vaio, Apple Safari, Web browsers, Sony Corp.
Who’s tracking your online trail?
Insight perspective Do you know how your personal data is being used online? If you value your privacy, you should, says lawyer Ruth Hoy.
Tags: PC security, Data security, Security implementation/standards, Security Management, Security, Online Privacy, Google Inc., Search Engine, Advertisement, Internet User
Report: ID fraud malware infecting PCs at increasing rates
News Study finds that last year a third of computers that were infected by malware designed to steal information for use in identity fraud had up-to-date antivirus software.
Tags: PC security, Malware, Antivirus Software, computer, Internet User, financial, bank, researcher, trojan horse, identity fraud
China's Net population hits 298 million
News The latest figure represents a 42 percent increase over the previous year, according to the China Internet Network Information Center.
Tags: Web sites, Internet advertising, 3G (Third Generation), Mobile, Cell Phone, Wireless, wireless Web, South Korea, Internet User, financial
Worldwide Internet-user total passes 1B
News In December, global Internet usage reached over 1 billion unique visitors, while the Asia-Pacific region accounted for the biggest chunk of people on the Internet during the month.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Search, Internet Audience, Mobile Internet, Asia-Pacific, Japan, Latin America, Internet User, Internet usage
Europe calls on US to let go Icann
News Upcoming expiry of deal between the U.S. government and body that governs the Internet's core functions should lead to independence for Icann, says the European Commission.
Tags: Domain names, Web sites, ICANN, European Union, Europe, Internet User, U.S. Government, Internet, U.S., banking
Asian Net users most engaged online
News Chinese youths spend more leisure time online than anyone else globally, while Koreans top the world in social networking, new study finds.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Web services, Web browsers, Web logs, Wiki, Social Media, Japan, Internet User, social networking
Microsoft targets Bing search at Asia
News update Company launches Bing, invests in Asian languages and banks on user disloyalty to wrestle market share from current search leaders, Google and Baidu.
Tags: Search, Forrester Research Inc., Asia, India, Google Inc., Search Engine, Internet User, Analysys, Baidu.com Inc., senior vice president
Online payment security gets APAC nod
News Over 60 percent of online shoppers in the Asia-Pacific region are satisfied with current levels of Internet payment security, new study from Visa shows.
Tags: E-commerce, Security, Online Payment, Asia-Pacific, consumer confidence, Internet User, payment, payment processing, electronic payment, Visa Inc.
China outlaws virtual money for trading
News Chinese government decrees virtual currency not legal tender in transactions involving real-world products and services, but allows it to be purchased by real money.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Local Government, Security, Money, Philippines, MasterCard International, Online Game, Internet User, Tencent
