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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
IT execs urged to take MBA path to CIO's chair
News Frameworks, concepts, strategic thinking and business vocabulary taught in MBA programs are useful en route to senior management post, says academic.
Tags: Personnel management, Communication skills, Certification, Business, Nanyang Technological University, Banking Industry, business management, e-mail, teamwork, professor
How tech firms float despite a Watergate
News update Expert involvement, admission of guilt and transparency are some elements that help keep IT brands alive after major scandals, say academia.
Tags: Crisis communications, Corporate responsibility, Computer Associates International Inc., Nanyang Technological University, Chinese company, Crisis communications, phone, professor, brand, accounting
Why don't we want to pay our teachers more?
Blogs In March 2007, I got the opportunity to visit the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai. It was interesting to visit ...
Web-science pioneer is made a dame
News The New Year's honors list included a damehood for Professor Wendy Hall, a seminal figure in the research and development of web libraries, hypermedia, multimedia and the semantic Web.
Tags: Web sites, Government, Benefits, Semantic Web, Hypermedia, Information And Communication Technology, Tim Berners-Lee, Association for Computing Machinery, Computer, Wendy Hall
Businesses urged to devise digital-forensics plans
News A report from the Information Assurance Advisory Council says, businesses need to have a forensics strategy to support their position in legal proceedings.
Tags: Security Management, Business security, Disaster Recovery, Evidence, Security, Organization, Disaster Recovery Planning, London School of Economics, Computer, professor
Tech to cure crop failure and look inside Einstein's mind?
News The British Computer Society has laid out the most pressing economic, environmental and social issues facing the world that it feels could be solved with technology within the next two decades.
Tags: Virtualization, Conference, computer science, motivation, computer disc, computer, Artificial Intelligence, virtual reality, information system, U.K.
Crypto pioneers differ on cloud-computing risks
News During an RSA panel, world's top cryptographers disagree on the risks inherent in cloud computing and downplay the possibility of a digital Pearl Harbor.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Cloud computing, Security, Cybersecurity, computer science, 9/11 commission, computer, Cloud computing, phone, virus
International open source communities focus on China
Blogs The OW2 Consortium, an independent industry community dedicated to developing open source middleware announced the launc...
Has in-flight entertainment got wings in the iPod era?
News Airlines should scrap in-flight entertainment systems because they cannot compete with the thousands of songs and scores of movies that can be stored on modern media players, according to an aviation expert.
Tags: MP3 players, Mobile platforms/communications, Smart phones, Digital media, Airline, Media Player, Storage, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, wireless Web, entertainment
Group seeks blinders on Google Street View in Japan
News Google's Street View is "openly violating privacy rights," according to the head of an anti-surveillance state group in Japan. Google says it respects privacy.
Tags: Search, Privacy, Google Inc., Japan, photograph, Tokyo, News.com, professor, blog, information technology
Wearable bot said to make the weak stronger
News The Hybrid Assistive Limb out of Japan promises to "expand and improve physical capability" up to tenfold, and could assist in rehabilitation and heavy labor.
Tags: Hardware, Business applications, Battery, Suit, Muscle, Manufacturing, Isaac Asimov, Bot, Cyberdyne, computer
Mashups changing the face of copyright laws
News Copyright laws have to evolve to catch up with the rise of user-generated content and mashups from the digital generation, says law professor.
Tags: Copyright, Creative Commons, Asia, Singapore, intellectual property, printing, copyright law, mashup, professor, broadcaster
IT security needs to be 'more progressive'
News Infocomm security needs to be user-friendly and yet be tapped upon to power new business models, says Singapore government official.
Tags: Security, IT Security, Singapore, software company, public sector, software, professor, revenue, partnership, information technology
China's Skype service censoring messages
News University of Toronto researchers say they uncovered "targeted surveillance" of TOM-Skype users in China. Text chats are blocked if they contain certain words.
Tags: VoIP/IP telephony, Privacy, Skype Technologies S.A., Security, Report, E-mail Message, Server, New York Times Co., Canada, professor
