Blackberry faces ban in India
Research In Motion's (RIM) Blackberry service may be banned in India if the company does not resolve government concerns over security.  The news comes just days after the United Arab Emirates (UAE) government said it was concerned that the Blackberry smartphone is open to misuse and poses a security risk.
Computer Weekly

Facebook 'hack' puts public data into the public domain
A white hat hacker has announced on his blog that he's taken advantage of Facebook's muddled privacy settings by putting 100 million people's details on BitTorrent site Pirate Bay.
Tech Radar

Sky 3D channel to launch October 1
The Sky 3D channel will launch on October 1 for the public, with the innovative broadcaster offering the service for all Sky+ HD viewers for no extra cost.  Viewers who subscribe to Sky's HD package and, of course, have a 3D ready television will be able to get 3D broadcasts through their satellite dish from October.
3D Radar

Russian city blocks YouTube
The Russian city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur has ordered ISP Rosnet to "restrict access" to YouTube and four other websites containing "extremist" material, Pravda reports. Prosecutors in the far eastern Khabarovsk region city trawled cyberspace and unearthed several examples of restricted material, including excerpts from Hitler's Mein Kampf. On YouTube, they identified a video entitled Russia for Russians, which is "on the federal list of extremist materials".
The Register

Cell phone eavesdropping enters script-kiddie phase
Black Hat Independent researchers have made good on a promise to release a comprehensive set of tools needed to eavesdrop on cell phone calls that use the world's most widely deployed mobile technology.
The Register

Virgin Media player launches online and for mobile
Virgin Media will launch its first online and mobile TV player in beta today.
The cable giant has been teasing the launch of a VOD service over the internet and through mobile phones for some time, and has now confirmed that the service will launch today.
Tech Radar

Britain joins cyber-security race
As the world's military forces become increasingly vulnerable to attacks from cyberspace, a growth area is opening up in digital employment.  China has set up its first military cyber-crime department just months after the United States announced the opening of a new Pentagon "cyber command" to deal specifically with this threat. But it's not just governments bolstering their online armoury – private companies too are waking up to the threat.  Now the UK has moved to secure the future of the digital space in both the public and private sector with a national hunt for future cyber-security professionals. The Cyber Security Challenge opened earlier this week, with more than 2,000 applicants already vying for the title of UK Cyber Security Champion.
The Guardian

SAP confident of SaaS and cloud uptake
Almost two-thirds of customers plan to invest in SAP's on-demand technology.  Nearly two-thirds of SAP customers will use the firm's software-as-a-service (SaaS) products in the future, according to a survey by the UK & Ireland SAP User Group.  Three-quarters of respondents also indicated that SAP has been too slow in bringing its SaaS suite to market.
V3

Google, CIA Invest in ‘Future’ of Web Monitoring
The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future.  The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents — both present and still-to-come. In a white paper, the company says its temporal analytics engine “goes beyond search” by “looking at the ‘invisible links’ between documents that talk about the same, or related, entities and events.”
Wired 

Developers migrate from iPhone to Android in droves
Developers are flocking to Android in their droves, making it the most used platform for mobile developers in 2010, according to a report by Vision Mobile.  The study, entitled Mobile Developer Economics 2010 and Beyond, surveyed over 400 developers worldwide working on eight different platforms: Apple's iOS for the iPhone, Google's Android, Nokia's Symbian, BlackBerry, Java ME, Windows Phone, Flash Lite, and mobile web.  The research found that the Android and iPhone platforms are, as one would expect, top of the list for developer mindshare, taking over from Symbian and Java ME, which previously held the crown in 2008, but Symbian still remains a contender in terms of sheer volume and market share.
TechEye

UK to auction mobile spectrum by end of 2011
The UK government has confirmed today that it has given the green light for a mobile spectrum auction by the end of 2011, bringing to an end a three year long wait for a decision.  The Tory government wants telecommunications regulator Ofcom, made infamous for its drafted proposals for the Digital Economy Act, to preside over the auction which includes the 800 megahertz and 2,600MHz frequencies for delivering high speed mobile broadband.
TechEye