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Intel Corp. and Micron Technology Inc. plan to construct a factory in Singapore to produce NAND flash memory, the two partners announced Monday.

The GSM Association (GSMA), an industry group comprised of mobile operators, wants to see 3G (third-generation) cellular technologies used for wireless broadband in notebook PCs, but operators will have to change their way of doing business to make that happen.

Encouraged by the transformative impact that telecommunications, particularly cellular networks, have had on developing countries in Africa and elsewhere, the World Bank's private-sector investment arm plans to expand the scope of its investments to include content providers, according to a senior executive.

In a keynote speech that was webcast at last month's Hack in the Box Security Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Bruce Schneier, chief technology officer of U.S.-based managed security services provider Counterpane Internet Security Inc., identified 10 trends affecting information security.

Governments around the world are holding on to billions of dollars collected for their universal service funds that should be spent to build out telecommunications networks, an industry group said Tuesday, calling for the funds to be eliminated over the long term.

Banks and other companies switching their phone systems to VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) are making themselves vulnerable to phishing attacks for which there are currently no effective detection or prevention tools, a security researcher warned.

Companies are losing the battle to secure their IT systems from attacks by hackers and other threats, warned Bruce Schneier, the founder and chief technology officer of Counterpane Internet Security Inc. in a speech webcast at the Hack In The Box Security Conference (HITB).

The Vietnamese Communist Party's decision to move its computer systems to open-source software got a boost on Friday from Intel Corp., the world's largest chip maker.