Security Clouding Cloud Future

It’s official, at least according to the latest report from Cisco, cloud computing is being held back by corporate concerns about security.  That, in itself, is no surprise but the reasons for those concerns should be. The report states that with each advance in...

Mobile Billing Blows Up

The explosion in mobile data networks and services – not to mention the boom in subs in emerging markets like India and China – has operators leveraging network intelligence for more dynamic mobile charging A year ago, mobile operators started to think about creative...

Feeling Phished Out?

Are you the victim of ‘packet sniffing’, a ‘brute force attack’ or simply been ‘phished’?  Do you even know what these terms mean? The latest in the Data Breach Investigations Report series by Verizon Business security experts...

Microsoft & Murdoch Mull Gagging Google

Numerous reports are emerging that Microsoft and media mogul, Rupert Murdoch, are in discussions about removing News Corporation indexes from Google and making its news content exclusively available on Microsoft’s Bing. FT.com was the first to report the...

People are willing to pay for online news content

If anyone doubted my previous blog regarding Rupert Murdoch’s claim that people would be willing to pay for online news content, the New York Times reports the following. Americans, it turns out, are willing to pay for their online news, but less so than people...

Rupert has it right!

Rupert Murdoch is not a man to be ignored.  His recent proclamation that good internet content will need to be paid for may have drawn howls from the critics but he makes good sense. So what has Rupert’s stance got to do with us, you may well ask? Speaking from...

Australian telcos just don't get it

If you are a telecommunications service provider in Australia and your customers are forced to complain to the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman or TIO (the nation’s telco watchdog) for resolution, you can expect to receive a bill for your troubles.  And it’s...

cVidya swallows ECTel

In what could well be the first of a round of industry solution provider M&A activity, cVidya has acquired ECTel.  ECtel Ltd, a provider of revenue management solutions for communications service providers, announced today that it has entered into a definitive...

FBI Director dumps online banking

Hot on the heels of NSW Police warnings on the use of Windows for online transactions, last week, FBI Director Robert Mueller told an audience in San Francisco how he nearly fell for a bank phishing email. As a result of this Mueller now doesn’t do any banking on...

Police advise not to use Windows for internet banking

Consumers wanting to safely connect to their internet banking service should use Linux or the Apple iPhone, according to a detective inspector from the NSW Police, who was giving evidence on behalf of the NSW Government at the public hearing into Cybercrime today in...