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A report last week suggested that PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia had submitted a bid to buy PacNet in a deal that could value the latter at US$1 billion, including debt. The bid was later denied.
Telco merger and acquisition transactions are seldom straightforward.
For telcos such as PacNet, which is a Designated Telecommunication Licensee in Singapore, any consolidation has to comply with.....
An intermediary in Internet terms is a facilitator for communication. It could refer to a telecom service provider, such as an ISP (Internet service provider), a Web hosting provider or an Internet Content Host, such as a forum or social media site where content can be posted by third parties.
Recent statements and actions in the media by, and involving, intermediaries.....
In the upcoming Law Society of Singapore-LAWASIA E-commerce and Communications international conference, entitled "Regulating a New World Order", legal eagles from Asia will be gathering to discuss emerging trends in the tech world.
The focus seems to be very much on data protection and social media, with the two topics covering more than half of the airtime. These also happen.....
Some cinemas in Singapore have announced that they will be installing CCTVs on their premises--the operators hope to use the cameras to spot movie pirates as well as resolve disputes with customers.
While up to now, installing CCTVs have been done with relative ease, with the upcoming Personal Data Protection Act, there are implications which property owners should consider. (On a.....
A few people have recently asked me what a quashing order is, so here's a quick brief on it.
The queries cames from news reports that Singapore's NBN NetCo OpenNet had sought a quashing order against the government. Exact details of the quashing order are currently not known as the order sought has been sealed.
A quashing order is what.....
It's happened. Singapore's draft personal data protection act was released last Monday alongside a public consultation. The public consultation ends in April and if everything goes according to plan, the government envisages the Data Protection Act being in place in third quarter this year.
A couple of years back, I said this was coming. It took some time but with this.....
The announcement that Singapore possibly could have cyberbullying legislation has got commentators all hot and bothered.
Some suggested an Internet code of conduct, while others pointed to finetuning that proposal with a bottom-up instead of a top-down approach. Others lamented that the current state of law allowed perpetrators to easily put up damning content while the victims would have to.....
In quick succession, Singapore authorities recently announced arrests and launched investigations to look into several bad online behavior.
In one case, a gang lured young single men into exposing themselves in front of Webcams and committing other unspecified cybersex acts before proceeding to blackmail them.
In another instance, a young man hacked into women's online accounts in order to impersonate them.....
Over the last week, three separate actions by political and business leaders in Singapore against a political Web site and a blogger have sent everyone scrambling for their defamation textbooks.
These have unearthed some issues...
Bloggers and Web sites are now weighing whether it is ever wise to come out into the open instead of remaining anonymous.
Web site moderators also are wondering.....
A lawsuit filed in Massachusetts, United States, may have implications on end-users who leave their Wi-Fi networks unsecured.
San Diego-based Liberty Media, which produces adult content, has accused 50 or so people for negligence in allowing their wireless networks to be used for accessing BitTorrent to download a certain gay movie. The negligence alleged is the failure to secure Wi-Fi.....
Called to the Singapore and English Bars, Bryan Tan has practised in two of Singapore's largest law firms and an international law firm. 
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