0 HSBC websites knocked offline after hack

                              

HSBC on Thursday confirmed that it had suffered a cyber attack that took down several of the bank's websites around the world.

The company was hit by a denial of service attack, which limited access to its websites and online banking services. The attack, however, "did not affect any customer data," HSBC said.

"We are taking appropriate action, working hard to restore service. We are pleased to say that some sites are now back up and running," the bank said. "We are cooperating with the relevant authorities and will cooperate with other organisations that have been similarly affected by such criminal acts."

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0 Number of smartphones in use worldwide surpasses 1 billion

A new report from the research and consulting firm Strategy Analytics says global smartphone sales have gone past the 1 billion mark – 1.038 billion to be precise – for the first time in the third quarter and the numbers are set to double by 2015-end. The figures translate into one out of every seven people globally carries a smartphone.

"By the third quarter of 2011, we estimate there were 708 million smartphones in use worldwide. After a further year of soaring demand, the number of smartphones in use worldwide reached 1.038 billion units during the third quarter of 2012," Scott Bicheno, a senior analyst at Strategy Analytics, said in a statement.

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0 Apple iPad Mini in stores on November 2, with $249 starting price: Reports

                                  

The latest reports surrounding the Apple iPad Mini claim that the as yet unofficial tablet from the fruity giant will hit store shelves 10 days after its launch, starting at a leaked price of €249. Industry speculation holds that Apple would try to undercut the market with the low asking price, but also start with a not so generous 8GB Wi-Fi version.

Both Google and Microsoft also have events scheduled around the same time as Apple’s scheduled press conference, with the search giant expected to showcase new Nexus products(probably including a budget tablet, or a 10-inch device), and the Redmond giant is expected to make Windows Phone 8 related announcements. The Surface for Windows RT will also begin shipping on October 26.

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0 Bharti Airtel rolls out 4G services in Pune

Bharti Airtel has announced the launch of its 4G services in Pune, months after the company rolled out the fourth generation mobile services in Kolkata and Bengaluru. Airtel's 4G services are currently available for postpaid users in Pune; for prepaid customers the services will be launched shortly.

Airtel customers in Pune can now use Airtel 4G LTE modems(check out Airtel's 4G tariff plans below) to start using the LTE network. The dongle for accessing 4G network on laptops and PCs is priced at Rs. 4,999 and comes with monthly usage charges. To find out more about Airtel's 4G LTE USB modems, click here.

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0 Swipe Tab All-in-One' dual-SIM Android tablet launched

                                 
Swipe Telecom has announced the launch of a dual-SIM tablet called, Swipe Tab All-in-One. Priced at Rs. 11,999, the Swipe Tab All-in-One runs Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system and is powered by a 1.5 GHz processor.

The Swipe Tab All-in-One has a 7-inch TFT LCD capacitive touchscreen with 5-point multi-touch and a resolution of 1028x768 pixels. The device comes with 2MP rear camera and 1.3MP front-facing camera. The slate has 8GB of built-in storage and 32GB microSD card slot.

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0 Microsoft announces Surface RT pricing, starts pre-orders

The crew up at Redmond made a slight fumble yesterday, making the pre-order page for the homegrown tablet dubbed “Surface” live. We’re not sure whether it was intentional or accidental, but what we do know is that the link was pulled quite promptly and a few hours later, Microsoft officially announced that they were taking pre-orders for the new tablet through their site. Currently, the pre-orders are only being accepted for the Windows RT tablets.

The chic slab of magnesium and Corning Gorilla Glass comes essentially in two configurations; 32GB and 64GB. When Surface was originally announced, many analysts and industry experts said that the pricing on these Windows RT tablets would be around $300-400 in order to help Microsoft cut its way into the tablet market.

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0 India once again tops the list of spam-relaying nations

According to a new report from cyber-security firm Sophos, India has once again been rated as the top spam relaying country in the world, ahead of the U.S., Italy and Saudi Arabia. According to the report, one out of six junk messages that floods users' e-mail inboxes originate from India.

Sophos' third quarter 'Dirty Dozen' report on spam relaying nations discovered that the percentage of global spam originating from India has grown in the third-quarter in a row, and now totals more than 16 percent of all junk e-mails. In the last quarter, India accounted for an 11.4 percent of the total world spam. 

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