In its latest quarterly report on Ireland’s telecommunications market, that 12.5 per cent of all broadband subscriptions in Ireland are for broadband speeds advertised as being greater than 10 megabytes per second compared to 7.3 per cent this time last year.
The number of people adopting higher broadband speeds has increased in the last quarter.
Findings the [...]

U.S. law targeting cyber crime may need to be changed because it has allowed law enforcement agencies to target people who simply violate websites’ terms of service or their employers’ computer use policies, two senators said Wednesday.
President Barack Obama called for changes to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), with his focus mostly on [...]

David Goodman, director of the Ohio Department of Commerce, warned Ohioans to be alert to an email scam telling the recipient that they have international unclaimed funds worth millions in cash. A new e-mail scam promising riches to unsuspecting recipients is making its way across the country and this one appears to bear the [...]

Security company McAfee which uncovered the intrusions,said it believed there was one “state actor” behind the attacks but declined to name it,though one security expert who has been briefed on the hacking said the evidence points to China.
Security experts have discovered the biggest series of cyber attacks to date, involving the infiltration of the networks [...]

The Future of RFID Technology.A tiny radio chip is arousing fear but also great enthusiasm.A tiny radio chip is arousing fear – but also great enthusiasm. Is it a threat to everything that we know as personal data protection, or the optimal way of keeping track in a chaos of products?
Imagine a world in which [...]

The Large organized crime syndicates have been launching sophisticated attacks against individuals and major corporations for decades. The result of their efforts is the theft of billions of dollars every year, and a large, ongoing presence in many of our most sensitive computer systems.
There are probably some corporations and credit cards that haven’t been hacked,” [...]

A new report released has revealed that more than 15,000 people have victims of fraud. The report, which focuses on UK consumers, was compiled by Action Fraud – the national fraud reporting centre – and reveals that the amount of money people had been tricked out of ranged from just GBP£6 to more than GBP£1m.
In [...]

Huawei Technologies Co Ltd (Shenzhen, P.R.C), a manufacturer of handsets and network equiptment, aims to ship 20 million smartphones this year, an executive said on Wednesday.
In April, Huawei said it expected to ship between 12 million and 15 million smartphones, which run on Google’s Android operating system. Last year, it shipped 3.3 million units.
“Currently, based [...]

eBay has acquired mobile payments company Zong for $240 million in cash. The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2011.
Zong has been one of the pioneers in the mobile payments space, adding a compelling new way for consumers to pay for items online. Simply put, it lets you pay for things, particularly virtual [...]

The expansion further strengthens the company’s position in the M2M, telematics and wireless markets in the region.
Telenor Connexion, the world leader in premium M2M solutions for business and life critical applications, today announced the expansion of its business development team in Japan and Malaysia to meet the growing demand for M2M services in the Asia region.The Tokyo office established [...]