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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
Schmidt sings praises of iPhone
News Apple board member and Google chief executive Eric Schmidt claims the iPhone will be the perfect mobile platform for Web-based applications.
Tags: Handhelds, Web services, Mobile applications
Microsoft to fight phishers in Europe
News Will sue fraudsters who spoof MSN and other Web properties, expanding a legal campaign already under way in the United States.
Tags: Spam and phishing
FBI's 'Operation Phish Phry' snares nearly 100 people
News U.S. and Egyptian authorities have charged almost 100 people involved in a phishing scam designed to swipe personal information and use the data to defraud banks.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Lawsuits, Phishing, U.S., bank, Egypt, FBI, Financial Company, credit card company, financial
Damaged undersea cables disrupting service
News Phone and Internet users in parts of Asia, the Middle East, and Europe are affected. How the cables were damaged is unclear.
Tags: Optical networking, Networking technology, Egypt, India, Bloomberg L.P., Europe, Cable, phone, Alexandria, Middle East
Crunch makes cheap BPO more popular
News Gartner says the recession is spurring the growth of demand for cheap business process outsourcing from India.
Tags: Outsourcing, IT outsourcing, Egypt, India, Outsourcing Company, Gartner Inc., Business Process, BPO, Indian Company, North America
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
What EMC is doing in India
News The information management technology giant plans to spend US$1.5 billion on building up capabilities in India over the next five years.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, IT Management, Infrastructure/architecture management, Egypt, Conference, India, EMC Corp., Israel, Russia, technology company
Orange launches managed videoconferencing
News Open Videopresence is a managed service that allows interaction between different kinds of videoconferencing kit and across various networks.
Tags: Multimedia, Services, Business applications, Egypt, Video Conferencing, Portal, Service, Web portal, online support, network
Thailand enters Gartner's Top 30 offshore service providers
News However, there are several urgent steps that the Thai government should take if Thailand is to fully take advantage of the country's outsourcing potential.
Tags: Newbie, Personal broadband, Business broadband, Change mangement, Entrepreneurship, Politics, Outsourcing, India, Thailand, Information And Communication Technology
Offshore outsourcing upstarts bite at India's heels
News 'Nearshore' countries such as Egypt increasingly want to get a piece of the action.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing
Malaysia's press freedom ranking plunges
Blogs Last year when the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) World Press Freedom Index was announced, it showed Malaysia jumping 2...
Incredible undersea cable scenario
Blogs You'd be laughed out of the room if you made up this scenario for a tabletop exercise: At 08:00 on Wednesday morning ...
Fujitsu to boost Asian undersea cable capacity
News Japanese electronics giant Fujitsu has clinched a contact to vastly increase the capacity of a Europe-to-Asia submarine cable, and will do so without replacing the cable itself.
Clashes precede Net governance slowdown
News Days before a global Internet summit begins in Tunisia, watchdog groups report rocky encounters with authorities.
Tags: Domain names, International governments, Crisis communications, IT Governance
