Data from 8.7m KT users stolen in hack
Korea Telecom has admitted that the personal data of some 8.7 million customers - roughly half of its 17 million mobile subscribers - has been stolen by hackers. Police have arrested two suspects in the breach.
MS wins German ban on Moto Android phones
A German court has granted Microsoft's request for an injunction on sales of certain Android-based Motorola Mobility smartphones in the market, after finding that Motorola breached Microsoft patents related to the FAT file system.
CAT to increase investment in APG cable
The board of Thailand's CAT Telecom has approved the proposal to increase its investment in the Asia-Pacific Gateway subsea cable to $51 million.
Google admits it still has some Wi-Fi data
Google has admitted it is still in possession of some Wi-Fi packet data from the UK and other European countries, despite previously claiming that all the data erroneously collected by its Street View fleet had been wiped.
Japan's NTT DoCoMo grew its June quarter profit 3.5% to 164.2 billion yen ($2.09 billion), even as customer net adds fell to 266,000 - from 405,000 a year earlier.
Apple buys fingerprint reader tech for $356m
Apple has agreed to pay $356 million to acquire fingerprint reader company AuthenTec, in an apparent bid to bolster its security capabilities.
Twitter disables “find friends” for Instagram
Twitter has disabled photo sharing app Instagram's access to the Twitter Friend Graph part of the site's API, forcing Instagram to get rid of the “find friends” feature within its mobile app.
Olympics fans asked to tweet, SMS sparingly
Attendees at the London Olympics have been asked to take it easy on the sending of SMS and tweets, because the sheer volume of traffic has been impacting television coverage of the event.