Google has kicked off a project to build high-speed fiber-optic networks in parts of the world that lack fast broadband connections, starting with the Ugandan capital, Kampala.
Kuwait, Networking, News, Telecoms
Kuwait gears up for IPv6 adoption
The RIPE Network Coordination Centre (NCC) and the Kuwait Communication Information Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (CITRA) recently held a training programme for telecommunications and Internet service providers (ISPs) to educate them on how to work with Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) and deploy it on their networks.0 5291
Android spyware infections on the rise, report says
An increasing number of Android phones are infected with mobile malware programs that are able to turn the handsets into spying devices.
Safaricom expects to dominate data business
Safaricom expects to increase its data market share in Africa after reporting an increase in both voice and data revenue …
Hackers increasingly target shared Web hosting servers for phishing
Cyber criminals increasingly hack into shared Web hosting servers in order to use the domains hosted on them in large …
Spanish police say DDoS suspect used a van as a mobile office
The man suspected of participating in a large DDoS attack on an anti-spam organisation that caused intermittent Internet hiccups drove …
North Korea suffers 36-hour Internet outage
Internet connectivity in North Korea was restored on Friday following a 36-hour outage that the country’s official media blamed on …
Egypt YouTube block ‘not viable’
Egypt‘s telecom regulator said last week that it is not viable for it to follow a court order to block …
Microsoft unveils big Africa plans
Microsoft has announced that it is collaborating with the Kenyan government and a local Internet service provider to provide broadband …
IDM to use Blue Coat CacheFlow appliances
Blue Coat systems on Thursday announced that it had tied up with one of Lebanon’s biggest internet service providers, IDM, …
Anonymous India calls for protests against censorship
The Indian arm of Anonymous is planning what it describes as non-violent protests against Internet censorship in various Indian cities, after some …