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Zambian communication minister warns of e-waste harm

Zambia’s minister of communications and transport issued a warning Wednesday on the harmful environmental effects resulting from unsafe disposal of computers and other ICT...

Competition in Belgian telephony market ineffective, says EU

The European Commission took Belgium’s national telecommunications regulator to task on Thursday for failing to enforce effective competition in the market for fixed phone...

Click fraud at 16 percent as scammers resort to botnets

The incidence of click fraud, the bane of the highly profitable search advertising business to which Google owes its success, fell slightly in the...

NetSuite luring Salesforce customers with discount offer

On-demand business software vendor NetSuite is trying to grab CRM (customer relationship management) customers from its rival Salesforce with an aggressive discount offer.

Zain Group’s quarterly profits up 7 percent

The Zain Group’s financials for the third quarter have shown significant growth in revenue, net profit and customer numbers.  c

Microsoft not to release Fallout 3 in India

Microsoft is not releasing gaming software Fallout 3 for the Xbox 360 in India, citing cultural sensitivities.

Netherlands teen sentenced for stealing virtual goods

Stealing virtual goods is a crime, according to a ruling handed down by a judge in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, this week.

Perceived, real risks of Mobile Payments

The world is never going to be perfect, either on- or offline; so let’s not set impossibly high standards for online – Esther Dyson

Perceived, real risks of Mobile Payments

The world is never going to be perfect, either on- or offline; so let’s not set impossibly high standards for online – Esther Dyson

Microsoft combats cybercrime in Nigeria

Paradigm Initiative Nigeria (PIN) and Microsoft have partnered to educate the country’s youth on cybercrime and to provide opportunities for them to use their...

Orkut introduces automatic filter for sexual content

Google’s social networking site Orkut has introduced what it describes as a “safety filter” that automatically filters out adult content such as sexually suggestive...

Gartner: SaaS enterprise app spending set to soar

Spending on SaaS (software as a service) enterprise applications will top US$6.4 billion this year, a 27 percent jump over 2007, and will catapult...

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