Election
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Philippines completes first computerized polls
News Country successfully conducts first electronic election in Mindanao, despite threats of postponements and hostilities between government and rebel forces.
Tags: Politics, Local Government, Election, Security, Backup, Philippines, Thailand, Internet, blog, information technology
Philippine Senate approves e-polls budget
News Once formally approved by President Gloria Arroyo, US$231.7 million will be set aside to support country's first fully-automated elections in 2010.
Tags: Local Government, Politics, Election, Supplier, Philippines, Procurement, U.S. Senate, violence, chairman, U.S. Congress
Jockeying starts for Philippine automated polls
News Country's main elections body and poll machine vendors rush ahead of Philippines' first nationwide computerized elections in May 2010.
Tags: Politics, E-voting, Technology, Richard Gordon, Philippines, Spokesperson, Procurement, E-voting, chairman, leader
Observing the US automated elections
Blogs Before boarding my Philippine Airlines flight to San Francisco last Sunday night, a document inspector at the Centennial...
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...
Malaysia's new media gains credibility post-election
Blogs It's not just the Barisan Nasional government that got a shock with its worst performance in history at the recent Gener...
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...
Should India now look forward to unique ID cards?
Blogs In his book Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century, Nandan Nilekani, co-founder of Infosys, talks about how the futu...
Checkmate, Twitter: Facebook 'status tagging' live
News Much like Twitter's @-replies, this will let Facebook members link to one another in their profiles, with big implications for Facebook-Twitter turf wars--and marketers.
Tags: Web 2.0, tagging, Dashboard, San Francisco, analytics, Facebook, marketing, blog, brand, acquisition
Look what sentiments can do to an economy!
Blogs Sentiments undoubtedly play an important role in an economy. In recent times, we have seen how sentiments can swing cons...
Is censorship the answer?
Blogs Mention the "c" word in Malaysia these days and all hell breaks loose. Censorship is indeed a highly charged word today,...
Report: Google in 'late-stage' talks to buy Twitter
News TechCrunch reports Google is in "late-stage" discussions to acquire Twitter. If it pans out, Google would get better social and search features.
Tags: Acquisitions, Web 2.0, Twitter, Google Inc., search results data source, RFC, Facebook, TechCrunch, data source, revenue
How long will our politicians shy away from technology?
Blogs It is election time here in India, and there is not a dull moment on TV-–shoes are being hurled at some politician or th...
India's election campaigns get Net-savvy
News Politicians take to cyberspace to campaign and rally voters for India's upcoming elections, but online reach will be limited in country, say market watchers.
Tags: Politics, Local Government, Web sites, Web 2.0, Twitter, Politician, Mobile, India, Orkut.com, Youth
Nine charged in Hyderabad in Satyam fraud
News As elections loom, Price Waterhouse auditors, former chairman Raju, and others are accused of falsifying accounts and other crimes.
Tags: Lawsuits, Accounting, Financial statements, Leadership, Services, India, CFO, Hyderabad, Fraud, CBI
