UN: cell phone subscribers to hit 4 billion

" September 2008 – The number of mobile cellular subscribers worldwide will reach the 4 billion mark by the end of 2008, the head of the United Nations International Telecommunications Union (ITU) announced...

Japan Leads in Attack Traffic; U.S. Web Penetration Stinks: Report

If the US is going to be competitive in the world, it's going to have to invest in connecting the People to broadband. One of the drawbacks with the kind of corporate socialism/quasi free market system we have in the US is that gains made from public goods are privatized and...

Sri Lanka: NESoHR Chairman Fr. Karunaratnam killed in DPU attack

"Rev. Father M X Karunaratnam, the chairman of the NorthEast Secretariat on Human Rights (NESoHR), was killed in a Claymore attack carried out by a Deep Penetration Unit (DPU) of the Sri Lanka Army on Sunday,...

Study: TV is Shrinking

This study focuses on Satellite services but TV will also face challenges from IP based TV like iTunes, YouTube and Veoh:"Satellite TV services and other subscription TV alternatives to wire cable continue to gain...

Hacking Your Neighbour with Wireless Penetration Tools

Isn’t technology a lovely thing? The advent of wireless networking has made sharing a broadband connection a simple task that even your mother can set one up. Its simplicity however is its downfall. How many available wireless networks can you see? Are they taunting you to...

Rape Gets a Lot More Painful

This seems to be a real product launch, and not a hoax. South Africa has a lethal combination of high instances of rape and high HIV infection rates, so one company decided to strike back. One rand is awfully...

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