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Malaysian govt defends action in Web censorship
News Ministry says MCMC has been "transparent, fair and balanced" and condemns allegations multimedia commission acted like Nazi police "Gestapo".
Tags: Local Government, Politics, Regulations, Web sites, Commission, multimedia, Web sites, Information And Communication Technology, Video, Malaysia
Catching up with voyeurism and cybercrime
Blogs The over-the-top coverage by the mainstream media this week on the sex video scandal of a celebrity doctor here has been...
A MegaPacific mess in the making?
Blogs The way things are going at the pre-qualification bidding of IT suppliers for the 2010 elections, I now have this uneasy...
Europe to test Microsoft browser ballot system
News The EC has said it is happy with concessions made by the software giant to provide a choice of browsers, while Microsoft will make technical docs available to developers.
Tags: Business applications, Microsoft Windows, Web browsers, Commission, Microsoft Corp., software, European Commission, Business applications, Web Browser, Europe
Europe urged to hasten book digitization
News Europe could pull ahead of Google in the digitization of books as long as it acts swiftly, information society and media commissioner Viviane Reding has said.
Tags: Web 2.0, Data Management, Digital rights management (DRM), Commission, Google Inc., Books Digitization, European Commission, Web 2.0, Copyright Protection, Europe
UK urged to coordinate with EU allies on spam
News The United Kingdom and other member countries need to make a concerted effort to crack down on spam and spyware, according to the European Commission.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Hacking, Commission, Romania, Malware, European Commission, U.K., Telecommunications, Spam, European Union
Roaming caps legal, advises EU advocate general
News The EC's imposition of roaming caps on Vodafone and other mobile operators did not stifle competition, according to the European Court of Justice's advocate general.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, Commission, Cap, European Commission, mobile, Miguel Poiares Maduro, Telecommunications, European Court, European Union, economic activity
US govt sets Internet regulation in motion
News Federal Communications Commission votes unanimously to gather data that will be used to determine regulations to keep the Net open.
Tags: Regulations, Web sites, Commission, Verizon Communications Inc., network, Web sites, Republican, Regulation, Wireless, Broadband
Europe assisting US with IBM antitrust probe
News The European Commission said it has provided information to U.S. regulators looking into possible anticompetitive practices by IBM in the mainframe market.
Tags: Components, Antitrust, Commission, Mainframe, IBM Corp., European Commission, U.S. Department Of Justice, T3, Computer & Communications Industry Association, data-processing
It's down to you to save the world, IT industry
News Brussels calls on tech to cut its own carbon--and help everyone else do the same.
Tags: Green IT, Commission, Information Technology, Carbon Emission, Green IT, Video Conferencing, Information And Communication Technology, Europe, public sector, industry
Saudi faces tough time with cybercrimes
News Government official in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia says "close to impossible" to completely eradicate "fast-developing" cybercrime techniques.
Tags: Data security, Security Management, Security implementation/standards, Commission, Cybercriminal, Malware, Saudi Arabia, e-mail hacking, network, Cybercrime
MySQL ex-CEO tells EU to let Oracle buy Sun
News Marten Mickos urges EU antitrust regulators to approve Oracle's Sun acquisition, arguing that delay hurts customers and that Oracle won't sink Sun's MySQL group.
Tags: Open source, Business applications, Acquisitions, Regulations, Open Source, Database, Commission, European Commission, Business applications, MySQL ex-CEO
Rays of hope from the polls
Blogs The local IT industry has been teeming with activities in the last few weeks, so much so that you'll wonder if there's r...
Unnecessary distraction from country's e-polls
Blogs If not for the weird story that President Arroyo underwent a breast implant operation in a local hospital, I'm pretty su...
A look back at Arroyo's ICT term
Blogs As I watched the State of the Nation Address (Sona) of Pres. Gloria Arroyo last Monday, I noticed that she peppered her ...
