The Register – Symbian malware creates mighty zombie army

Mobile malware that affects Symbian Series 60 handsets is being used to create a botnet.

Management Today – Power cuts and burst pipes cost SME’s nearly £600m a year

38% of SME’s hit by a ‘business breakdown’ last year, according to new survey. As if the recession, the budget deficit and VAT wasn’t enough to worry about, it seems that the nation’s SMEs are in the midst of another expensive crisis. ‘Business emergencies are apparently costing smalled firms some £598m a year in repairs and lost earnings.

ZDNet – Kent village puts up funds for fibre broadband

A small Kent village is using public funds to subsidise BT’s installation of fibre in the area, which would otherwise have missed out on a super-fast broadband connection.

BBC tech – Google expects new China licence, says Schmidt

Google boss Eric Schmidt has said he expects the internet giant to be granted a new licence to operate in China.

ComputerWorldUK – Peter Mandelson named Internet villain of the year
Lord Mandelson was named Internet Villain of the Year at the ISPA awards, last night.

The Daily Telegraph – Biz Stone: Twitter is the world’s fastest growing search engine
Talking at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Stone revealed the statistic – which means Twitter’s search engine is serving more than 24 billion searches per month compared to Bing’s approximate 4.1 billion and Yahoo!’s approximate 9.4 billion combined.