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IBM ‘security on a stick’ protects online bank customers

IBM researchers have come up with a small device they like to call “security on a stick” for use in online banking so customers...

Vodacom, RIM launch BlackBerry in South Africa and Tanzania

Vodacom Group and Research In Motion (RIM) have launched the new BlackBerry Bold smartphone in South Africa, and the Curv 8310 and Pearl 8110...

Mitsubishi Electric cuts sales, profit forecast on slowdown

Mitsubishi Electric has cut its full-year sales and profits forecast due to anticipated worsening business conditions caused by the global economic slowdown.

SANGONeT extends software distribution to five countries

The Southern African NGO Network’s technology branch, SANGOTeCH, in partnership with TechSoup Global, is extending its software distribution to include nongovernment organizations in Botswana,...

Crypto hash algorithm competition set to begin

Security experts vying to have their technology selected as the next cryptographic-hash algorithm standard for the U.S. government need to submit their entries this...

Pioneer wins PDP patent suit against Samsung SDI

Pioneer won on Wednesday a patent infringement lawsuit it filed against Samsung SDI over plasma display panel (PDP) technology.

Pioneer forecasts deeper full-year loss, replaces president

A steep decline in sales of home electronics and lower sales of car electronics led Japan’s Pioneer on Thursday to replace its president and...

CIO Pakistan Partners with P@SHA ICT Awards 2008

From its nascent beginnings in the late 1980s, the Pakistan IT and ITES industry  has now reached a point where its value proposition has...

ParaScale pushes private storage clouds

Cloud storage startup ParaScale is targeting enterprises, as well as service providers, with new software that it claims can turn a group of heterogeneous...

Telcos, Sierra Leone gov’t discuss royalty payments

A Tuesday meeting at the Sierra Leone Ministry of Information and Communication addressed the royalties paid by GSM operators for the construction of facilities...

Worm uses Google to squirm around Facebook

A malicious program that sprang up on Facebook.com in late July has surfaced again, this time using Google’s Web sites to sneak around security...

Miami woman sentenced to prison for Internet kiosk scheme

A Miami woman has been sentenced to six and a half years in prison and ordered to pay US$18.2 million in restitution for a...

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