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Philippine NTC transfer made known after delay
News Presidential directive to transfer country's telecom regulator back to the ICT commission was released to the public more than 16 months after it was signed.
Tags: Regulations, Mobile platforms/communications, Local Government, Telecommunications, Philippines, Directive, Information And Communication Technology, U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. Senate, CICT
Asia's lawmakers need not copy Europe
Insight Region's governments should focus on core data protection concepts of harm prevention and accountability, yet stay true to culture, says IBM privacy chief.
Tags: Privacy, Data security, Security Management, Security implementation/standards, Government, Data Protection, Social Networking, IBM Corp., Law, Security
More energy must go into making devices efficient
Insight perspective Technology exists to make devices far more efficient, but a number of factors are standing in the way, says ARM executive.
Tags: Green IT, Consumer Technology, Electronics, Device, Carbon Footprint, Europe, device manufacturer, Brussels, carbon dioxide, manufacturer
Code concepts: Visual Studio's T4 templates
Techguide The T4 templating system is used to programmatically generate artifacts. Here's an overview about why the templates are useful and how to work with them.
Tags: Protocols and platforms, Business applications, Microsoft Visual Basic.Net, T4, Directives, Levit & James Inc., Business applications, File, Directive, Tool
EU directive could change iPhone battery design
News European regulators are considering a directive that would force cell phone makers to offer batteries that are "readily replaceable", which is not the case with Apple's iPhone.
Tags: Components, Smart phones, Mac OS, Battery, Cell Phone, Directive, Europe, Apple iPod, chemicals, circuit board
Once chopped up, CICT is whole again
Blogs It was late Friday afternoon when the press statement from the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (...
Do more with Apache
Techguide The apachectl command allows you a great deal of control over Apache processes, and can be used to debug or test configurations.
Tags: Open source, Web servers, Apache Software Foundation, Directive, Mandriva, Vincent Danen, Apache Web server, Server, server software, Canada
Europe to allow 3G services over 2G spectrum
News European Commission has announced agreement over the issue of 'spectrum refarming', which could let operators run rural mobile broadband services more economically.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, Mobile Broadband, Spectrum, European Union, Europe, 2G, Analysys, 3G, GSM, Mobile platforms/communications
UK high court cracks down on WEEE waste dodge
News Schemes that collect electronics waste for manufacturers that want to comply with environmental laws cannot deliberately amass more than their fair share.
Tags: Green IT, Electronics, European Union, Regulation, financing, Environment, compliance, London, manufacturer, Green IT
US Homeland Security continues laptop seizures
News New guidelines are announced to clarify the U.S. border department's practice of seizing laptops and electronic gadgets indefinitely.
Tags: Consumer Technology, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, American Civil Liberties Union, electronic media, phone, agent, Laptop Computer, Homeland Security, Adobe PDF, disk
Shhh, but I ain't no Apple fanboy
Blogs Clearly, I ain't no boy. And unlike the millions of people worldwide who proudly carry an iPhone in their pocket, I'm al...
US$39M cost of tracking e-mail and phone calls
News U.K. Home Office reveals multimillion-pound cost of monitoring kingdom's communications.
Tags: Security, Privacy, Government, data retention, communications service provider, Internet Service, phone, e-mail, electronic communication, Internet Service Provider
Subversion with ViewVC
Techguide Here's a walk-through of the basics of Web-based ViewVC, which is a Web-frontend to both subversion and Concurrent Versions System.
Tags: Open source, Software engineering/development, Repository, Apache Software Foundation, Web Browser, Concurrent Versions System, Tool, ViewVC, Subversion, HTTPS
Pirate Bay to offer cheap, unlogged VPN
News A new service from The Pirate Bay hopes to provide a low-cost, trace-free VPN to file sharers.
Tags: VPNs, Citrix GoToMyPC, Service, LogMeIn, VPNs, Pirate Bay, IPRED, VPN, Web
All data breaches must be made public
Insight perspective European legislators seem to be about to pass a directive that could make it obligatory to disclose data breaches--but not in every case. That selectivity is a mistake, says EU data tzar.
Tags: Security Management, Privacy, Data security, E-business, Security, Data Breach, European Parliament, e-commerce company, phone, electronic communication
