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S'pore, Taiwan among world's most competitive
News update Five economies in Asia-Pacific make top 20 list of world's most IT competitive nations in new study conducted by Economist Intelligence Unit.
Tags: Local Government, India, Business Software Alliance, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, Broadband, Broadband Penetration, South Korea, Environment, vision
PC software piracy increases globally
News Worldwide PC software piracy rate rises for second year in a row, to 41 percent, with problem being greatest in world's fastest-growing markets, according to new study.
Tags: Piracy, Piracy, India, Business Software Alliance, Hong Kong, Asia-Pacific, Small Business, software, China, enterprise software
SMBs get help against software piracy
News Singapore government and trade associations launch campaign to help small businesses better manage their software licensing assets.
Tags: Piracy, Software, Small And Medium Enterprise, Business Software Alliance, Safe Harbor, Software Piracy, IPO, Singapore, ASME, software company
US$2.27B: The price of pirate desktop software in the UK
News More than a quarter of the desktop software installed in the United Kingdom last year was pirated.
Tags: Piracy, Business applications, Apple Inc., Egypt, Piracy, Business Software Alliance, International Data Corp., software company, software, desktop software
EC wants software makers held liable for code
News After identifying gaps in EU consumer protection rules, the European Commission is proposing that software makers give guarantees about the security and efficiency of their code.
Tags: Open source, Business applications, Apple Inc., Security, Business Software Alliance, European Union, digital content, software company, performance, software
Philippine pirates still trouble Autodesk
News Maker of AutoCAD software says 70 percent of its products are illegally copied and sold in the Philippines, but adds its revenues are boosted by country's real estate boom.
Tags: Piracy, Business applications, Software licensing, Autodesk Inc., Piracy, Business Software Alliance, Philippines, Real Estate, Business Process, BPO
Piracy problem sails to rural China
News While software piracy dropped in 11 Asian countries, an increase in PCs shipped with pirated applications in China has kept numbers up, study finds.
Tags: Piracy, Copyright, Piracy, India, Business Software Alliance, Philippines, Asia-Pacific, Small And Medium Business, Japan, software
Philippine government proposes new IPR laws
News Facing mounting piracy, country unveils set of proposed rules to facilitate faster and more efficient resolution of court cases involving intellectual property rights.
Tags: Copyright, Lawsuits, Piracy, Chief Justice, Conference, Business Software Alliance, Philippines, IP, Intellectual Property Right, Government
Thailand hopes to be taken off Priority Watch List
News It expects the Untied States will move Thailand from the PWL to the Watch List because of the country's huge success enforcing intellectual property law.
Tags: Copyright, Asia, Business Software Alliance, Thailand, IP, copyright violation, intellectual property, business software, software, financial
Tech sector suggests role of CTO in US administration
News U.S. President-elect Barack Obama should make his chief technology officer part of his economic policy team because IT is increasingly integral to good governance, says industry.
Tags: Network security, Infrastructure/architecture management, Federal Government, Regulations, Cybersecurity, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Business Software Alliance, Information Security, Tech Sector, Health IT
Pirates cost software industry US$48B
News Annual report from software industry group says piracy rates declined in most countries surveyed during 2007, but estimated lost sales worldwide grew overall.
Tags: Software, Piracy, Sales/revenue, Piracy Rate, Piracy, India, Business Software Alliance, Sales, phone, China
Taiwan is world's No. 2 in IT competitiveness
News update Backed by a strong patent track record, Taiwan's IT sector trails only U.S., new study shows. South Korea and Singapore are other Asian economies in top 10.
Tags: Competitive advantage, Patents, R&D, India, Business Software Alliance, Philippines, Singapore, Japan, intellectual property, software
Pirated software worth S$720,000 seized
News The Singapore Police Force has seized about 60,000 pirated software CDs worth about S$720,000.
DrinkorDie pair convicted of software piracy
News British men convicted for providing software that pirates cracked and distributed for free.
Tags: Piracy
Dell buys IT asset-management firm
News The PC maker has acquired software asset-management company Asap, aiming to simplify the management of software licenses for customers.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Best strategies, Business plans, Acquisitions
