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M'sia wins votes for green IT incentives
News Industry players welcome US$443 million fund in 2010 budget to drive green IT, but opposition party unimpressed with government's initiatives to boost broadband.
Tags: Local Government, Taxes, Business broadband, Personal broadband, Funding, Business, Green IT, Small And Medium Enterprise, Information And Communication Technology, Broadband
M'sia govt breaks promise, censors Net
News Government orders Malaysian ISPs to block access to controversial portal Malaysia Today, breaking a previous pledge to "ensure no Internet censorship".
Tags: Politics, Web sites, Regulations, Security, Government, chairman, Kuala Lumpur, multimedia, Prime Minister, Internet
M'sian bloggers arrest dashes hope for change
News Recent arrest of two Malaysian bloggers signal the government's unwillingness to soften its stance on alternative online media, say industry observers.
Tags: Web logs, Local Government, Regulations, Blogger, Government, performance, leader, Prime Minister, Internet, information technology
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...
Bahasa or English? One step forward, two steps back?
Blogs A couple of weeks ago, the Malaysian government ignited a controversy when it reversed a five-year-old government policy...
British PM calls on Berners-Lee in open-government drive
News U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown enlists father of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee, to help drive opening up of access to government data in the Web.
Tags: Web sites, Privacy, Tim Berners-Lee, Government, Internet Service Provider, Prime Minister, technique, WWW, Web, Web sites
Aust govt goes public-private on fiber to home
News The National Broadband Network tender process gets terminated in favor of the Australian government establishing a public-private fiber-based partnership, to reach 90 percent of citizens.
Tags: Business broadband, Government, Personal broadband, Fiber, Telecommunications, economic activity, fiber-to-the-home network, NBN, Australia, Broadband
Dude, Putin is so not getting a Dell
News commentary At Davos, Russia's prime minister tells Michael Dell his country doesn't need help and his residents "are not invalids".
Tags: Desktops, Notebooks and tablets, Davos, PC Company, World Economic Forum, Ina Fried, News.com, founder, Prime Minister, CNET Networks Inc.
How far should the govt go in rescuing Satyam?
Blogs A week after B. Ramalinga Raju made his famous confessions of committing a US$1.5 billion accounting fraud, one thing is...
Trujillo: Australia is racist, anachronistic
News Former Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo calls Australia racist and claims the local economy only became "developed" in the last decade.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, Wireless, Innovation, Compensation, Australia, Environment, Telstra Corp., CEO, British Broadcasting Corp., job
Red tape hampering tech research
News European Commission information society and media commissioner Viviane Reding has blamed red tape for hindering Europe's efforts to capitalize on its high tech research.
Tags: IT strategy, Mobile, Information And Communication Technology, Innovation, Europe, Tape, venture capital, phone, Silicon.com, job
India's BJP chases Obama's online election magic
News Supporters of party leader L.K. Advani are blogging away and perfecting his Web site. Their inspiration: the U.S. Presidential campaign.
Tags: Web 2.0, India, Cell Phone, Bharatiya Janata Party, New Delhi, phone, leader, Prime Minister, Internet, U.S. Congress
UK launches dedicated cybersecurity agency
News New government agency will coordinate national IT security defence and response, including launching DDoS attacks and cyberespionage.
Tags: Security, Cybersecurity, IT Security, Government, Prime Minister, U.S., Cyberattack, agency, Security
Malaysian blogger Raja Petra detained
News The detention comes one day after the Malaysian government lifts an access ban to the Malaysia Today Web site which he edits.
Tags: Politics, Web sites, Regulations, Blogger, Security, Malaysia, Government, phone, Kuala Lumpur, multimedia
Blogger detention backfires on M'sian govt
News Move to keep controversial blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin in detention has spurred, rather than quell, country's vocal blogger community into further action.
Tags: Web logs, Local Government, Politics, Regulations, Blogger, Security, Malaysia, Government, phone, New York
