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Singapore's MDA rapped over conflict of interest
News Country's government agency chided by Auditor-General for allowing conflict of interest in its availing of funds to interactive digital media startups.
Tags: Funding, Audits, Digital media, TV, Singapore, Digital media, payment, Microsoft Office, audit, revenue
Analyst: Satyam vulnerable to takeover
News The Indian outsourcing firm's corporate governance woes may result in the company being divided up and sold off separately, according to Ovum.
Tags: Acquisitions, Accounting, IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Ovum, David Mitchell, liquidity, corporate governance, financial, industry
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1-Net bags S$90m govt contract
News 1-Net Singapore Pte Ltd has been selected to spearhead the new government data centre project and provide facilities management services in Technopark@Chai Chee.
Microsoft to offer discounts to UK public sector
News A U.K. Treasury official has said the deal will save the public sector 75 million pounds (US$112.7 million) over five years, but critics have said the figure is meaningless without knowing how much is spent on Microsoft licences.
Tags: Business applications, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Government, consortium, public sector, software, U.K., open standard, tax
US and UK experts launch anti-cybercrime plan
News At Infosecurity 2009, U.S. and U.K. government security agencies announce a high-level plan to tackle cybercrime.
Tags: Network security, Security, C, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, cyberthreats, software, U.K., knowledge, action plan, software architect
Businesses urged to devise digital-forensics plans
News A report from the Information Assurance Advisory Council says, businesses need to have a forensics strategy to support their position in legal proceedings.
Tags: Security Management, Business security, Disaster Recovery, Evidence, Security, Organization, Disaster Recovery Planning, London School of Economics, Computer, professor
What not to do after a scandal
Blogs And so the proverb goes that silence is golden--especially when you've just come off a flight with bawling kids. But ...
US cybersecurity review scrutinizing telecom policy
News Senior government officials say U.S. President Barack Obama's cybersecurity review will be the springboard for future plans.
Tags: Data security, Network security, Privacy, Government, Cybersecurity, Telecommunications, American Civil Liberties Union, Internal Revenue Service, Hathaway, Center for Democracy and Technology
Citibank Singapore customers get identity protection service
News ID Protect service helps bank customers prevent identity theft, and also provides assistance to restore customer's stolen credit record.
Tags: Business security, Singapore, Citigroup Inc., phone, payment, Customer, financial, bank, Service Coverage, Internet
Templates published for mass fatality incidents
Blogs Many hospitals are unprepared to deal with large numbers of dead bodies--a mass fatality incident, or MFI--that would re...
Sample influenza business continuity plan
Blogs My colleague and fellow IAEM Asia member Chew Lip Heng and I started writing a sample corporate incident action plan (IA...
Satyam suitors expected 'within a week'
News Outsourcing giant Satyam could soon be snapped up by competitors or lose out to them as competitors are prospecting their clients in this times of uncertainty.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Acquisitions, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Wipro Technologies, David Mitchell, liquidity, National Outsourcing Association, NOA, Bombay
UK ID cards 'may still fail'
News UK Government U-turn on databases may not be enough to save project.
Tags: Database management, Biometrics, Government
China signs up for antispam push
News China will join international enforcement efforts against spam by adopting the London Action Plan on Spam Enforcement Collaboration.
Tags: Spam and phishing
S'pore govt invests US$743m in online services
News The government has unveiled a US$743 million investment in online public services. Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong launched the new three-year programme, dubbed e-government action plan II (eGAP II), according to a report from news agency AFP.
