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German government doesn't want 'a vision'
News Country's economics ministry hesitant to target singular IT goal, preferring instead to nurture diverse tech industry to better protect against crisis, says official.
Tags: Local Government, Politics, Software engineering/development, Venture capital, economic policy, software, Information Technology, European Union, Software AG, Berlin
Malaysia to enforce data protection law
News Eight years in the making, country's Personal Data Protection Bill will finally be tabled in parliament this month and expected to be in force early-2010.
Tags: Data security, Privacy, Local Government, Regulations, Data Protection, E-government, Conference, Safe Harbor, European Union, Singapore
Oracle's Sun deal: Oracle may need to loosen its grip
News Oracle may be forced by the European Union to give up some control of open source MySQL database software owned by Sun Microsystems, so as not to stifle competition.
Tags: Business development/management, Database, Oracle Corp., MySQL, Acquisition, software, Sales, Sun Microsystems Inc., Business development/management, European Union
UK public targeted by 1,500 monitoring bids per day
News Liberal Democrats claim the United Kingdom has "sleepwalked into a surveillance state" after public authorities make more than half-a-million interception requests in one year.
Tags: Network security, Authentication and encryption, Security, Home Secretary, Democrat, monitoring, technique, service provider, Network security, team
NSW health IT gets US$460M injection
News New South Wales special commissioner Peter Garling has prescribed a "one-off injection" to remedy a system bogged down by, among other things, paper and technical inadequacies.
Tags: Web sites, Business broadband, Database management, Privacy, Broadband, Clinician, E-health, CIO, Hospital, electronic health record
Facebook adopts new privacy policy
News The social-networking site hopes that policy revision will make the policy more accessible and easier to understand.
Tags: Privacy, Facebook, Social Networking, Revision, network, Video, general counsel, blog, Privacy
Europe getting 'Internet freedom' law
News Major overhaul of telecommunications regulations tackles issues ranging from data-breach notification to faster number porting to Internet access.
Tags: Regulations, Web sites, Piracy, negotiator, Telecoms Reform Package, European Commission, European Parliament, Web sites, Telecommunications, European Union
Google makes concessions to European publishers
News As hearings on Google's digitization project kick off in Europe, the company says European books still listed as commercially available will not be included in its online registry.
Tags: Data Management, E-commerce, European Union, Europe, Settlement, New York Times Co., Internet, board, France, E-commerce
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, Malware, Romania, European Commission, U.K., Telecommunications, Spam, European Union
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
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, European Commission, Microsoft Corp., software, Business applications, Web Browser, Europe
eBay ex-CEO to make Calif. gubernatorial bid official
News Former CEO of eBay is expected to officially declare her candidacy for governor of California on Tuesday.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, eBay Inc., Republican, Governor, Internet, Sen.
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 ...
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, MySQL ex-CEO, Business applications
EU deepens probe into Oracle-Sun deal
News New in-depth probe will take a close look at the prospects for open source MySQL, as it investigates the impact of the deal on the database market.
Tags: Data Management, Hardware, Business applications, Open-source Database, Ingres, European Union, Sun Microsystems Inc., Oracle Corp., Hardware, Data Management
