Lords question security firms on cyber-attack prevention
The House of Lords questioned two security firms today on the technical measures needed to protect nations against cyber-attacks and IT infrastructure failure. The meeting was held in response to Critical Information Infrastructure Protection, a report published earlier this year by the European Commission (EC) on the danger to Europe from large-scale cyber-attacks.
V3

First Mobile Firefox nears release
Mozilla is wrapping up work on its first version of Firefox for mobile phones, an important step in bringing the second most popular PC browser to an area where a rival project holds more influence.
ZDNet

Publisher Archant begins taking local titles onto mobile
Regional publisher Archant is targeting local advertisers and readers with its first mobile sites for flagship titles Ilford Recorder and Norwich Evening News. It has signed Suffolk brewer Adnams as the first mobile sponsor of Norwich City FC fanzine site The Pink’Un. Other advertisers on the sites, developed by mobile agency YOC, include local councils, airports, police and car dealers.
NMA

Two year mobile contracts surge to 59 per cent market share
The number of customers tied into two year contracts has surged tenfold in one year, according to new figures from GfK.  Two year contracts, such as those associated with Apple’s iPhone, represented a 58.5 per cent share in October 2009 – up from 6.8 per cent in October last year.
Mobile Today

Facebook gives users more control of privacy
Facebook is launching new privacy settings, designed to simplify the process for its 350 million users. It is the latest in a string of changes that have been made to its privacy policy this year.  The site claims that only 15-20 per cent of users have ever adjusted their settings.  One new feature - the ability to control who sees every post made - was made following a stream of requests from users.
BBC News

One in four UK businesses suffer unreliable broadband
Ofcom survived 1,200 British businesses and found that 28 per cent have encountered issues with reliability of their internet connection.  Results showed that 24 per cent of the surveyed businesses have changed service providers during the last four years due to reliability problems.
Information Age

Mobile phones will come of age in 2010 – and this time I mean it
For years The Guardian’s Victor Keegan has been ribbed by colleagues for claiming that “next year will be the year of the mobile” but this time he means it. With a 10 per cent predicted rise in sales after the poor seven per cent decrease this year, and the continuous innovation and cannibalisation of other products, he has a point.
Guardian

Nokia targets China for new platform
Nokia is trying to transform itself from a hardware vendor to a provider of services and content and is using China as its test bed. In a bid to boost its services business, Nokia has joined forces New Alliance with the task of launching the handset maker's Ovi services platform in the country next year
FT

EA chief conservatively estimates a billion gamers
EA CEO, John Riccitiello reckons there is over a billion gamers worldwide, but agrees he’s being conservative with his estimate. Riccitiello, who spoke in a video interview on America's PBS Nightly business report, believes that given the influx of new gamers who play mobile phone games, MMORPGs, and grow crops and fight the Mafia on Facebook, the number of gamers is set to grow further.
Hexus

Humax Freeview HD 2010 line unveiled
Humax has unveiled its first two Freeview HD boxes utilising UPnP to access media over Wi-Fi. Freeview HD has been switched on in some areas of the UK and further roll-out is expected in 2010. Both set-top boxes come with hard drives to record content and upscaling from 720p broadcast service to 1080p full HD.
Electric Pig