The number of Internet security incidents reported by businesses in Asia in August rose 43 per cent over the figure in July, according to Singapore-based security company e-Cop.net Pte. Ltd.
Oracle Corp. has once again extended the deadline for PeopleSoft Inc. shareholders to accept its US$19.50 per share takeover offer, Oracle said in a statement late Thursday. The extension now runs until Oct. 17.
The worldwide server market was worth US$10.6 billion in the second quarter of 2003, a scant 0.2 per cent higher than in the same quarter last year, according to revenue figures released Friday by International Data Corp.
The number of Internet users in Vietnam will rise by a factor of 10 over the next seven years to around 20 million, according to the country's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPT).
A proposal to make it as difficult for Australians to open an Internet account as to open a bank account has drawn stinging criticism from online civil liberties group Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA).
A U.S. district court in New York has issued a US$4.3 billion judgement against the Uzan family of Turkey for perpetrating a fraud against Motorola Inc. through their control of cellular operator Telsim Mobil Telekomunikasyon Hizmetleri A.S., Motorola said in a statement Friday.
Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. (SingTel) will launch its long-awaited 3G (third-generation) mobile network early next year in the city-state's central business district, the company said in a statement Wednesday.