David Legard

National carrier Telstra Corp. Ltd. has begun offering a commercial wireless e-mail service based on the Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) BlackBerry device.

A flaw in the SmartHTML Interpreter contained in Microsoft Corp.'s FrontPage Server Extensions (FPSE) could enable an attacker to run malicious code or to instigate a denial of service attack, Microsoft said in a security advisory late Wednesday.

A new worm with distributed denial of service (DDoS) capabilities and the ability to grant hackers backdoor access to remote systems is being actively propagated across the Internet, according to Internet Security Systems Inc.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) has fabricated a standard complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) transistor with a gate length of 10 nanometers, six times smaller than the smallest CMOS transistors currently in production, the company announced in a statement Tuesday.

A consortium of telecommunication carriers will build a 1.28T bps (bits per second) fibre-optic cable stretching from Indonesia to France, linking 10 other countries on the way, the consortium announced Wednesday.

The investigation launched last week by Singapore

Vietnam aims to increase the number of Internet subscribers in the country to 3.2 million, or 4 per cent of the 80 million population, by 2005, according to a report detailing the government

Developing markets such as China, India and Indonesia are poised to be the next Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan) growth areas for IT services, which up to now have been concentrated in Australia and Korea, according to research released Tuesday by IDC.