Viruses, spam and malicious Internet scams transmitted by e-mail all grew sharply in 2002, posing a threat to the smooth running of worldwide e-mail systems, according to security vendor MessageLabs Ltd.
The decision Tuesday by Australia's High Court to assert jurisdiction over allegedly defamatory material posted on a U.S. Web site has been roundly criticized by local media and cyberlaw experts.
Worldwide revenue from sales of VPN (virtual private network) and firewall hardware and software will grow by 31 percent from US$668 million in the third quarter of 2002 to $874 million in the third quarter of next year, according to research released Wednesday by Infonetics Research.
Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. (SingTel) posted net profit of S$792 million (Approx AUD$794 million) for the first half of fiscal 2002, 31.7 percent lower than the S$1.19 billion net profit for the same period last year, the company said in a statement Thursday.
PDAs (personal digital assistants) based on Microsoft's Pocket PC operating system now account for 30 percent of the worldwide PDA market compared to 48.6 percent for PalmSource Inc.'s market leading Palm OS, according to research released Monday by Dataquest, a unit of research company Gartner.
Fuller implementation of electronic commerce between members is necessary to drive open trade and economic cooperation, according to ministers of the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) group.
Telecommunication services revenue in major Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan) markets will grow 20 percent from US$150 billion in 2002 to $180 billion in 2003, according to research released Tuesday by IDC.
Vietnam will invest $US4 billion on building up its IT sector between now and 2010.
Software vendor Commerce One Inc. will lay off 400 of its current 1,100 staff by the end of this year, the company said in a statement late Friday.
Storage vendor EMC will lay off about 1300 of its 17,000 employees worldwide as weak IT spending forces its third-quarter results down, the company said in a statement last week.
A flaw in Microsoft Corp.'s Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) used to secure VPN (virtual private networks) leaves corporate intranets open to attack from outside, according to German IT security company Phion Information Technologies GmbH.
A flaw in the SmartHTML Interpreter contained in Microsoft Corp.'s FrontPage Server Extensions (FPSE) could enable an attacker to run malicious code or to instigate a denial of service attack, Microsoft said in a security advisory late Wednesday.
National carrier Telstra has begun offering a commercial wireless e-mail service based on the Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) BlackBerry device.
A new worm with distributed denial of service (DDoS) capabilities and the ability to grant hackers backdoor access to remote systems is being actively propagated across the Internet, according to Internet Security Systems Inc.
The Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan) system management software market will grow at a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 24.6 percent to reach US$659 million