AT&T Inc., Ericsson, France Telecom, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung Siemens, Sony, and Telecom Italia announced the founding of the Open IPTV Forum, an industry consortium that will work to define an interoperable end-to-end specification for delivery of IPTV services. The forum, which is fully open to participation across the communications and entertainment industries, will focus on

Nokia announced that its Enterprise Solutions business group has received the 2007 Frost & Sullivan North American Mobility Award for Mobile Device Management. “Mobile device management and mobile security is now a critical component to any enterprise deploying a mobility solution,” said Samir Sakpal, Frost & Sullivan. “These solutions enable businesses to cope with rising

Expanding its lineup of consumer-friendly, easy-to-use external hard drives, Western Digital Corp. recently introduced the My Book World Edition family of shared storage appliances. This new series allows consumers and home office workers to securely access their digital content, such as photos, home videos and documents, and share it with family and friends from anywhere

PandaLabs has detected VideoCach, a new adware specimen, that is designed to fraudulently promote certain security applications including the novelty of using rootkit techniques. Rootkits are programmes designed to hide files or processes running on a computer which makes malicious code that use rootkit techniques more difficult to detect. VideoCach creates shortcuts on the desktop

The Bank of Cyprus campaign offering to renew motorists’ circulation licenses online has paid off as the bank booked 75% of the record 200,000 renewals through the Internet. The campaign raised record awareness for the online payment to the Dept. of Motor Vehicles by entering each renewal into a draw for a BMW X5 all-purpose

A new drop in inflation was recorded in Cyprus in February, reaching 1.2% compared to 1.4% in January. This is the second lowest inflation rate in the EU after Malta with 0.8%, which allows Cyprus to easily fulfill the relevant criterion for entering the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU).Data released by Eurostat indicates that the

The Cypriot House of Representatives plenary voted on Thursday in favour of bills for Cyprus’ entry into the Eurozone on 1 January 2008, with 36 votes in favour from the Democratic Rally, the Democratic Party, the European Party, the Social Democrats’ Movement EDEK and the Ecologists and Environmentalists’ Movement, and 15 against from AKEL.The amendments

Aspis Holdings Pcl (MFS) announced that the shareholders of Universal Life Insurance Public Co. Ltd, who have accepted the Public Offer of Aspis until March 15, 2007 will be able to receive their money from the office of SFS Securities & Financial Services Ltd.All shareholders who will accept the Public Offer from March 16 until