FASTTAKES: RIM, F-Secure, XL, Tencent

22 Jan 2009
00:00

RIM has withdrawn its bid for security vendor Certicom, following a Canadian Court's injunction on its C$1.50 ($1.19) per share hostile takeover offer.

The recently-discovered Conficker worm is infecting 1 million machines per day, reports security firm F-Secure. The worm has already infected at least 6% of all computers connected to the internet. It can use infected computers as a botnet and harness that computing power to crack passwords, F-Secure adds.

Indonesian operator PT Excelcomindo has deployed new router technology from Cisco that will allow it to increase its network capacity up to seven times.

Tencent, the world's biggest instant messaging firm, with 300 million users in China, has created an English language version of its QQ IM application.

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