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UK sees drop in average broadband speed

...saw lower download rates, while 41 saw increases. The top two countries, South Korea and Japan, both saw rises in average downloads to 17.5Mbps... Read more

30 April, 2012 by Ben Woods

South Yorkshire broadband scheme faces sell-off

...A broadband scheme in South Yorkshire, set up using millions of pounds of public money, may need... Read more

20 September, 2011 by Ben Woods

South Korean antitrust officers raid Google offices

...South Korea's Fair Trade Commission, the country's antitrust agency, raided Google... Read more

7 September, 2011 by Jay Greene

McAfee: South Korea botnet self-destructed after DDoS

...South Korean and US military websites were struck by a hit-and-run... Read more

7 July, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Report: 35 million South Koreans hit by data breach

...The personal information of 35 million South Koreans has been compromised as a result of a hacking attack on... Read more

29 July, 2011 by Elinor Mills

IBM pays $10m to settle bribery case

...cash bribes that it says IBM paid between 1998 and 2003 to South Korean government officials, and between 2004 and 2009 to Chinese government officials... Read more

21 March, 2011 by Erica Ogg

Australian ATMs spew cash after data glitch

...cash just hours after suffering a computer error on Tuesday morning. New South Wales Police raised the alarm after it received reports the ATMs were... Read more

1 March, 2011 by Darren Pauli

South Korea builds digital 'bunkers' against DDoS attacks

...South Korea has installed digital 'bunkers' to prevent a repeat of the massive... Read more

18 November, 2010 by Darren Pauli

Samsung launches 'industry's largest' memory fab

...foundry the company says is the world's largest, located in Hwaseong, South Korea. Line-16, which will have cost Samsung 12 trillion Korean won... Read more

22 September, 2011 by Jack Clark

Microsoft launches IE9 at SXSW

...third-party websites. Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), which was unveiled at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival on Monday, also has redesigned and revamped... Read more

15 March, 2011 by Ben Woods

Vodafone fires staff after data leak

...employment of several staff members and referred their actions to the New South Wales Police Service. For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see... Read more

13 January, 2011 by Luke Hopewell

LG chief quits over poor phone sales

...The chief executive of South Korean consumer electronics company LG Electronics resigned on Friday amid declining mobile... Read more

20 September, 2010 by Jamie Yap

Zurich Insurance hit with record fine over data loss

...security failings. The company had outsourced some customer data processing to a South African subsidiary, Zurich SA, which in August 2008 lost an unencrypted back... Read more

25 August, 2010 by David Meyer

Germany's Rosat satellite returns to Earth

The Rosat satellite, a joint project between US, UK and German researchers and run by the German space agency, has re-entered the Earth's atmosphere, though its exact location on the surface is unknown Read more

24 October, 2011 by Jack Clark
Why app numbers don't make the platform

Why app numbers don't make the platform

Mobile user-experience expert Jan Chipchase discusses smartphones, tablets, the cloud and the future centre of gravity for the mobile industry Read more

13 March, 2011 by David Meyer

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JW, Thanks as always for the great review on these new releases. One thing that I've also read is that Fedora 17 will include GIMP 2.8 which is...

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...... and PDP11s too

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Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

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@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

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