It’s hard to say for sure whether the Ebola epidemic in West Africa will spill over into other parts of the world. But computer modeling can predict a lot – for example, which cities are most at risk. Modern travel has no doubt made it easier for diseases to spread – and spread farther. This is nothing new in that diseases have always traveled with us, even back in the day when our best modes of transport were our feet, or a horse and cart. Over the ages, various forms…

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With the arrival of mobile saturation stagnation is occurring in telecoms revenue growth in most developed telecoms markets. Voice traffic is increasingly moving onto IP-based systems, which are either free or at very low cost to its users. This is taking place on both the fixed and mobile networks. While in the case of corporate and government organisations nearly all fixed voice traffic has moved to IP-based systems, in the SME and consumer market this has not been the case. In that market long-distance calls are being partly moved to…

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According to EMC’s Privacy Index, privacy isn’t dead, but consumers around the world are expecting it to erode over time. Eighty-one percent of consumers say they expect privacy to erode over the next five years, according to a study from EMC. EMC’s Privacy Index ranked countries by privacy and examined how much consumers are willing to give up for convenience. The report covered 15 countries and 15,000 consumers. The data is interesting given the Edward Snowden leaks and revelations about government snooping into social media, email accounts and instant messaging…

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A survey of nearly 4,000 IT managers across 27 countries, conducted by Kaspersky Lab in partnership with B2B International, found that 21% of manufacturers suffered a loss of intellectual property to security breaches within the past year. Malware was the most common cause of data loss incidents for manufactures, although other types of cyber-incidents – including software vulnerabilities, theft of mobile devices, network intrusion, etc. – were also cited as sources of intellectual property leakage. In a highly competitive global economy, businesses rise to leadership or sink into bankruptcy on…

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