A decision by the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) may see some operators crying "foul" after they have been told to make progressive reductions in the price of sending an SMS over the next two years.
InfoTech : Facebook gets a dose of its own viral medicine
It's almost elegant in its irony: someone started a false rumour that Facebook would close down on 15th March and that users should remove all their photos and content before then. Then the fractured viral media that Facebook is to a large degre...
IT security: Vodafone Australia's got your number - and so have loads of other people
Just who do you allow to have legitimate access to your customer data? And how do you control that perimeter. In the case of Vodafone Australia, the answers seem to be "almost anyone" and "loosely." Now they have no idea how...
Comms: keep you hand on your phone
According to police chiefs in Paris, one of the most dangerous things you can do is take your phone out of your bag or pocket. It's not that little old ladies hit you with their umbrellas for disturbing their peace nor grumpy old men turn and co...
Comms: Apple iPhone security issue noted by US-CERT
The USA's IT Security group, US-CERT, has warned of a security issue with iPhone 3G and later models which allows the bypassing of password-based security by a person who holds the phone.
The USA's government run IT security service, US-CERT, has published a list of "high-vulnerability" issues with Firefox, OpenSSH and Op...
IT security: Multiple risks in Google Chrome, says US-CERT
US-CERT, the USA's government software watchdog, warns of five "high vulnerability" issues with Google Chrome browser. The issues affec...
IT security: US-CERT warns of multiple vulnerabilities in Apple Quicktime
The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) warns of High Vulnerabilities in Apples' popular Quicktime software
InfoTech: back to the future with shared computer on Linux
Somehow, this doesn't seem like news, at least not if you bought office computers in the mid 1980s. But for millions - possibly thousands of mill...
IT Security: new wave of spam uses contact books from free e-mail accounts
It is as yet know known how criminals are gaining access to the address books of users of hotmail and yahoo, but a wave of "friend on friend...
