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S'pore turns to eco-vehicles, faces obstacles
News Government taskforce aims to introduce electric vehicles next year, but industry watchers voice concerns about consumer mindset and suggest alternative solutions.
Tags: Green IT, R&D, Vehicle, Road Tax, Renault, Compressed Natural Gas, Taskforce, Green IT, Singapore, electric vehicle
Will 2008 prove the year the Web grew up?
Insight perspective After the turbulence of the browser wars and the dotcom crash, the emergence this year of open development standards hints at a new-found maturity, argues Opera exec.
Tags: Protocols and platforms, Web sites, Web 2.0, Web Browser, Document Object Model, W3C, CSS, HTML 4, HTML 5 Specification, JavaScript
Competition probe hits Qualcomm
News U.S. chipmaker and IP company hit by fresh antitrust allegations, this time in Korea.
Microsoft controlling Australian govt 2.0 funds
News Government 2.0 Taskforce has released a draft contract for fund recipients, which revealed that any funding agreements will be between successful bidders and Microsoft, not the Commonwealth.
Tags: Web 2.0, Government, Microsoft Corp., partnership, Taskforce, Microsoft Australia, Training, intellectual property, Web 2.0, blog
New global task force to fight spam
News A global taskforce has been set up to tackle the growing problem of junk e-mails.
Tags: Spam and phishing
British children are surfing the Web for porn
News One in nine children under 17 are using the Internet at home, but are increasingly using the Web to surf for pornographic Web sites.
Small European businesses don't invest enough in tech
SMB A European Commission taskforce warns of spending shortfall, as Microsoft admits software for small businesses is "just too expensive".
Tags: IT Management, Business applications, Pricing, SMB
Net safety ads star on big screen
News Hard-hitting advertisements calling for children to wise up to the dangers of Internet pedophiles are screened for the first time in the United Kingdom.
Software body slams EC taskforce over software patents
News Pressure group claims a report into intellectual property by the European Commission is biased towards big business.
Tags: Software, Patents, Government
UK to criminalize chatroom meetings
News The home secretary has accepted recommendations made by the Home Office Internet taskforce to criminalize the online "grooming" of children, making it a criminal offence for an Internet paedophile to meet a child offline with the intention of sexually abusing them.
UK to criminalise chatroom meetings
News New UK laws will make it a criminal offence for Net predators to arrange to meet a child offline.
Macau looks to cybercrime laws
News The special administrative region is planning on enforcing legislation to battle online crime and pornography, after a recent scandal involving several Hong Kong artistes.
Tags: Regulations
US Homeland Security gives cyber-protection advice
News Security advice and best practices aimed at businesses, educational establishments and end users, will be available online this month under a U.S. government initiative.
Tags: Security, IT professional, Secure Networks, Marcus Sachs, network, Homeland Security, network security, blog, Web Site, Security
Philippines mulls over cybercrime law
News Government must pass anti-cybercrime bill to prevent the Philippines from becoming a haven for hackers and child pornographers, say observers.
Tags: Local Government, Regulations, Spam and phishing, Data security, Security Management
UK may criminalise chatroom 'grooming'
News The British Home Office has backtracked on its argument that UK laws exist to protect children online, and is proposing a controversial "anti-grooming" order.
