Anuradha Shukla

China remains the top source country for Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, according to Prolexic Technologies Quarterly Global DDoS Attack Report.

The newly released report indicates that the first quarter of 2012 (Q1 2012) was characterised by extremely high volumes of malicious traffic directed at Prolexic's financial services clients.

Jetstar is revolutionizing the in-flight entertainment experience for its customers by rolling out iPads on selected Jetstar flights.

Those flying longer than two hours can choose to lease an iPad from $10 to $15 per flight.

Last year saw a daily average of 1000 new compromised sites, according to a newly released 2010 Threats Roundup report by Trend Micro.

The threat landscape was bad in 2010 and Trend Micro, a global provider of network antivirus and Internet content security software and services, says we should bear in mind the lessons learned from 2010 even as we enter the second quarter of 2011. (See also Cybersecurity Quiz: Know Your Threats.")

Weak demand for consumer PCs was the biggest inhibitor of growth for worldwide PC shipments that showed a 1.1 per cent decline from the first quarter of 2010, according to preliminary results from Gartner's PC Quarterly Statistics Worldwide by Region program.

Despite the global weakening of sales, the Asia Pacific region showed encouraging growth as PC shipments surpassed 28.2 million units in the first quarter of 2011.

There has reported a one third decrease in global spam volumes, according to the latest MessageLabs Intelligence monthly report.

Illustration: Lou BeachMessageLabs concludes that the decrease comes after the dismantling of Rustock, one of the most stubborn and technically sophisticated botnets on the malware landscape.

Photograph: Marc SimonSales of light-emitting diode (LED) monitors have begun to register consistent upward growth since end of last year, according to global market research company GfK Asia.

The research indicates that although the desktop monitor market has matured in the constantly evolving PC industry, the introduction of LEDs monitor panels in the last three years has managed to bring a new life in the sector.

Gartner sees the third quarter as historically a strong consumer quarter for PCs but the results for this year were below its earlier market outlook.

The research firm had expected third quarter PC shipments to grow 12.7 percent but preliminary results show that worldwide shipments surpassed 88.3 million units in the third quarter of 2010, a 7.6 percent increase from the third quarter of 2009.

A 40 percent increase in average monthly spending on mobile broadband compared to 2009 has been determined by Nokia Siemens Networks' Mobile Broadband Study 2010.

The annual study, which covers HSPA+ use in France, Germany, Spain, UK indicates that more than half of mobile broadband users are interested in high-speed mobile broadband or LTE.

Four out of five people think "level of security" is high priority when buying or using smartphones and tablet computers, according to a newly released global consumer study by Juniper Networks.

Of those surveyed, more than half said they are worried about losing their mobile devices, and want to protect their identities as well as their families with parental controls.

In the future, small sensors carried by members of the public, in devices such as next-generation smartphones, may communicate with each other to create potentially vast body-to-body networks (BBNs).

This possibility is being investigated by engineers from Queen's Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT).

Consumers will pay for Internet connectivity in a much wider range of ways by 2025, according to a new report by Cisco and the Monitor Group's Global Business Network.

The report titled "The Evolving Internet" examines the driving forces and uncertainties that will shape the path of the Internet over the next 15 years.

The Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) PC market grew 15 per cent sequentially and 36 per cent year-on-year in the second quarter of 2010 to reach 27 million units, according to research firm IDC.

About all nations in this region posted double-digit year-on-year growth during this period and IDC said stronger-than-expected desktop PC shipments helped to offset the shortfall in portable PCs.