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For the record 7 May
Wednesday, May 07 2008
by Matthew Clark


CyberSource to create 56 jobs in Belfast | MP3 files used in
massive malware attack 

CyberSource, a US e-payment firm, is to create 56 new
jobs over the next three years at a new software development
facility in Belfast. In the first year the company said it
plans to employ 20 engineers and support staff, increasing
that figure to nearly 60 within three years. The expansion
will be partly funded by Invest Northern Ireland, which is to
provide STG840,000 in funding to the company. 



The winners of the prestigious href="http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php?season=12">Webby
awards have been announced in New York. Among those
honoured are comedian Stephen Colbert, film-maker Michel
Gondry and will.i.am, the Black Eyed Peas frontman. Colbert
was named the Webby Person of the Year, while Gondry picked
up the Webby Film and Video Person of the Year award in
recognition of his 'Be Kind, Rewind' low-budget movie.
Will.i.am picked up the award for Webby Artist of the Year
for his pro-Obama internet videos. The awards will be given
out at a ceremony in New York on 10 June.



Mobile operator Digicel has announced it has launched
a service in Tonga in the South Pacific. Digicel Pacific now
operates across Samoa, Papua New Guinea and Tonga with
launches pending in Fiji and Vanuatu. Tonga has a population
of 102,000 and a mobile penetration rate of 35 percent. 



Attackers are using fake MP3 files and Mpeg files to launch a
massive malware attack. After downloading the fake
media file, the user is asked to launch an executable called
'play_mp3.exe'. This program then installs adware on the
machines of users of the Firefox browser. McAfee has detected
attacks on more than 360,000 machines, with more than 120,000
occurring in the past 24 hours. The IT security company has
traced the attacks to the Fastmp3player.com domain.

Salesforce.com, a software and platform-as-a-service
provider, says it signed up 7,000 customers and 14,000
subscribers across Europe, Middle East and Africa during the
first quarter of 2008. These included the likes of Air
Liquide, the Christie Group, CODA, COLT Telecom Group, and
Rentokil Initial. 



Canon has introduced two new printers to its Selphy
compact photo printer line-up. The Selphy CP770 portable
printer and its sister model, the Selphy CP760, are aimed at
families looking for high-quality prints, the company says.
The CP770 model features Bluetooth and wireless printing. 





Sword, a risk management solution, has been named best
oprisk software by risk industry publication Operational Risk
and Compliance. This is the second successive year Sword has
taken the top spot in the rankings. 



Colt Telecom Ireland has just transferred all of
Aon Corporation's communications requirements from
three offices to Aon's new premises on James Joyce Street in
Dublin. The overall value of the deal is EUR495,000 over a
three-year period. 

 

The European Commission is inviting feedback from
industry, consumer and other interested stakeholders to
review the functioning and effectiveness of the EU Roaming
Regulation, which came into force on 30 June 2007. The public
consultation process has a deadline of 2 July 2008 for
submissions. The Commissions public consultation document can
be found href="http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/roaming/index_en.htm">here.




ChangingWorlds, a media market intelligence company,
has presented a paper to the Mobile Content World Asia
conference in Singapore. It made the presentation about the
importance of personalisation and content discovery for
mobile internet growth and advertising success. "The
ability to use granular subscriber intelligence is critical
to delivering relevant, personalized mobile data services
such as specific Walt Disney content or music content that
matches an individual subscriber's profile," said Michael
Breen, technical director for ChangingWorlds, at the
conference.