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Philippine SMS tax 'burden' and 'dangerous'
News Country's lobbyist groups and carriers strongly oppose government-proposed tax on SMS messages, saying it will increase communications cost.
Tags: Legal, Mobile platforms/communications, Taxes, Philippines, income tax, mobile company, telecommunications company, U.S. Congress, tax, Income
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
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
Could this be the most critical budget for India?
Blogs For business journalists in India, budget time is excitement time. It's like sports journos covering the Olympics. As a ...
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Google announces Project 10^100 themes
News More than 150,000 ideas were submitted following Google's call for world-changing ideas, and the company has finally identified 16 categories of ideas for further voting.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Business Strategies & Functions, Idea, public sector, strategy, sustainability, spokesman, RFP, analysis
Global drug firm opens M'sian IT center
News GlaxoSmithKline sets up US$17.7 million tech center in Malaysia, its first in Asia, to support company's global operations and networks across 85 countries.
Tags: Services, Data centers, Outsourcing, GlaxoSmithKline Plc., U.K., Information Technology, revenue, GSK, Pharmaceutical Company, Manufacturing
Paperless government not yet a S'pore reality
News Singapore's public sector makes strides in pushing online transactions, but consumer comfort with hardcopy documents impedes paper-free vision, says analyst.
Tags: Web sites, Web services, Government, Transaction, PKI, IRAS Staff, Web sites, International Data Corp., E-health, e-Service
US govt probes IBM's mainframe business
News The U.S. Department of Justice is looking into IBM's mainframe business for anticompetitive behavior, according to reports.
Tags: Mainframes, Legal, Mainframe, ATM, IBM Corp., Computer, Supplier, U.S. Department Of Justice, Associated Press, Computer & Communications Industry Association
IT will lead Asia's economic recovery
News Region's tech spending in 2009 will outpace gross domestic product, growing by 4.8 percent to reach US$300 billion in 2009, finds new IDC study.
Tags: Growth strategies and tools, Microsoft Windows, Personal applications, Business, Microsoft Corp., software, Information Technology, revenue, Asia, International Data Corp.
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...
Will green energy wilt from lack of funds?
News The financial specialists that convert tax credits into capital to build new windmills and solar farms have all but disappeared.
Tags: Green IT, Budgeting/cost control, Earning reports/forecasts, Renewable Energy, tax equity, U.S. Senate, wind energy, Renewables Player, equity, tax credit
Jordan's Internet minister on piracy, open source, outsourcing
Insight newsmaker Bassem Al Rousan talks about his plan to transform a resource-poor Middle Eastern country into a home for software, hardware, and Internet companies.
Tags: Open source, Piracy, Government, Web sites, Web 2.0, Law, Tax, telecommunications, Lebanon, Outsourcing
It's official: MySpace to acquire iLike
News CEO Owen Van Natta said in a conference call that the News Corp.-owned social network has agreed to purchase the social music site, following rumors.
Tags: Web 2.0, Acquisitions, MySpace, News Corp., entertainment, social networking, Seattle, Facebook, network, tax
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