In the last five years mobile data has grown significantly and now generates just under 700 petabytes per month. According to internet firm Akamai, there is now four times as much data as voice traffic on mobile networks. In the first ...
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Researchers from Israel-based IT security firm Seculert have uncovered a custom-made piece of malware that infected hundreds of point-of-sale (PoS) systems from businesses in 40 countries in the past few months and stole the data of tens of ...
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Security researchers have collaborated to take down Grum, the world's third-largest botnet of hijacked computers. The Grum botnet is believed to have been responsible for around 18% of global spam, or 18 billion spam messages a day. ...
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A UK judge has ordered Apple to publish announcements that Samsung did not copy the design of its iPad, after Apple failed to prove the allegation in court. Judge Colin Birss said one notice should remain on Apple's website for six ...
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Computerworld - Twitter has issued its first report about the requests it received this year from various governments for user information, and its responses. The U.S. government asked for information about far more users than any other ...
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China’s ministry of commerce said that foreign direct investment in China fell 5.4% from a year earlier in November, widening from October's drop of 0.24%. The total value of overseas investment stood at USD 8.29 billion, the sixth ...
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IDG News Service - One of the world's most active spam botnets -- Grum -- was crippled after two of its command and control (CnC) servers hosted in the Netherlands were taken down, according to researchers from security firm FireEye. ...
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IDG News Service - Following Intel's lead, contract chip maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), is investing A!838 million (US$1 billion) in Netherlands tools maker ASML to speed up the development of faster and more ...
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Samsung has claimed that the way Android's multitouch software works is not as good as Apple's, in a bid to avoid a recall and ban on sales of its Android smartphones in a patent dispute with Apple in the Netherlands. Apple said in the ...
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The Netherlands-based packaging manufacturer Plasticum Group has been acquired by private equity firm Lindsay Goldberg for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition that has been fully financed with own equity capital was approved by competition ...
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Netherlands based insurer Aegon has signed a 25-year strategic partnership with Spain's Banco Santanderto, to distribute both protection and general insurance products in the country. Under terms of the alliance, the lender will offer ...
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Netherlands based insurer Aegon has signed a 25-year strategic partnership with Spain's Banco Santanderto, to distribute both protection and general insurance products in the country. Under terms of the alliance, the lender will offer ...
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The Netherlands - Dutch super group Within Temptation and lighting designer Pim Elberse are making full use of Clay Paky Sharpys on their extensive summer tour. Following a hugely successful Dutch theatre tour, Within Temptation ...
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NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of both indium phosphide (InP) and silica-on-silicon photonic integrated circuit (PIC)-based modules and subsystems for bandwidth-intensive, high-speed ...
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Controversial rules that could have seen the United Nations put in charge of the internet have been rejected by the UK and other member states at a conference in Dubai this week. The International Telecoms Union (ITU) – the ...
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