British Telecom had a problem: The company was suffering an ongoing ser Taylor Armerding

Blue Coat Systems, a provider of Web traffic filtering and business assurance products and services, plans to buy security analytics specialist Solera Networks, which uses data mining techniques to classify network traffic and detect potential security threats. The acquisition is expected to be finalized within the next 30 days, the two companies said Wednesday. Lucian Constantin

The Internet is driving greater transparency of information but has also created more risk for corporations drowning in customer data, according to two legal experts. "The environment in which we all operate today is one of greater openness and transparency," former High Court judge Michael Kirby said at a book launch for Corporate Information and the Law by Leif Gamertsfelder. Adam Bender

For the last three months or so, the U.S. government and some of its defense contractors have engaged in a war of shame on China to pressure it to cool its cyber-attacks on U.S. targets. The campaign appeared to be yielding results, but it seems that Chinese hackers were only catching their breath. John P. Mello Jr.

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CSL, the Hong Kong mobile unit of Telstra, yesterday moved to make its 4G network faster by switching on additional LTE spectrum. The operator also announced that it will soon launch a new 4G device that will give customers a maximum download speed of 150Mbps. The mobile operator said it now provides 2 x 20MHz bandwidth in the 2600-MHz LTE frequency band, with the addition of the 5MHz extended spectrum. Fiona Chau (telecomasia.net)

Hong Kong-based satellite operator APT Datamatrix (APT) said recently that its tier III+ data center in Tai Po has been operational. APT is a subsidiary of APT Satellite that operates five in-orbit satellites, covering about 75% of the world's population. Computerworld Hong Kong staff

NFC (near field communications) lacks a strong momentum that will make it a mainstream tech behind the future mobile wallet, though consumers have used the technology for transport and retail purchases for years in Asia Pacific markets like Hong Kong, South Korea, and Japan. Teresa Leung

NASA recently approved a $125,000 grant for a six-month project to develop 3D-printed food, and the first edible prototype may be pizza, Quartz reports. The grant was issued to Systems & Materials Research Corporation (SMRC), which plans to take on the larger task of making 3D-printed food easier to produce, especially for developing regions with limited access or resources. Colin Neagle

Today’s CIOs and senior IT managers need to know how to set up IT ope Mary K. Pratt

VMware has launched its long-anticipated public infrastructure as a service (IaaS), touting its virtual networking capabilities as a differentiator from other established hybrid cloud offerings. VMware's vCloud Hybrid Service will be based on the company's vCloud architecture, allowing customers to shift their VMware encoded workloads between in-house and the VMware hosted service, a practice known as running a hybrid cloud. Joab Jackson

If you have any expectations about the privacy of your Skype communications, you may want to reassess them. Microsoft appears to be peeking into Skype messages for security reasons, according to ArsTechnica. The owner of Skype regularly scans the contents of messages sent on the service for signs of fraud, but what's done with the information from those scans--whether it's stored indefinitely or destroyed--is unknown. John P. Mello Jr.

US-based NYSE Technologies, the commercial technology unit of NYSE Euronext (NYX), has extended its global trading network to Hong Kong and Tokyo via Equinix's International Business Exchange (IBX) data centers. Asia Cloud Forum editors

Well, that didn't take long. A mere five days after Brian Krzanich took the reins as the new CEO of Intel, he's shaking things up at an organizational level. Krzanich has reorganized key business groups and created a new "New Devices" division to focus on emerging trends, including "ultra-mobile" devices, reports AllThingsD. Mike Bell, who formerly co-ran Intel's mobile unit--most notably in the push to bring x86 to Android--will take leadership of the new division. Brad Chacos

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