David Legard

The amount of information transmitted globally over the Internet will continue to double each year over the next five years, according to research released earlier this month by IDC.

Telecommunications liberalization is gathering pace in many African countries and has resulted in rapid growth in take-up of services, especially mobile services, according to a report released Wednesday by independent telecommunications analyst Paul Budde.

Telecommunications liberalization is gathering pace in many African countries and has resulted in rapid growth in take-up of services, especially mobile services, according to a report released Wednesday by independent telecommunications analyst Paul Budde.

Microsoft Corp. Wednesday filed a brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit asking it to set aside an injunction ordering Microsoft to offer Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java Runtime Environment with Windows XP and some versions of Internet Explorer.

Singapore telecommunications carrier StarHub Pte. Ltd. will begin trials next month of the BlackBerry wireless e-mail device for its corporate customers, the company said Wednesday.

The industry-wide consortium Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) has released the first draft of a royalty-free data representation standard for electronic commerce, the group said in a statement Monday.

The CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) security organization has warned of a critical vulnerability in the widely-used Concurrent Versions System (CVS) software which could enable an unauthenticated remote attacker with read-only access to execute arbitrary code, alter program operation, read sensitive information, or cause a denial of service to servers.

IT security threats will become more widespread and sophisticated in 2003, and end users will have to lift their game in order to contain those threats, according to Piti Pramotedham, managing director, Asia South, for Computer Associates International Inc.