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- US puts China, Russia on copyright watch list
- The Bush Administration put China, Russia and 10 other countries on a "priority watch list" for copyright infringement, a status that makes it more likely the US could bring trade cases against them in the World Trade Organization, the Washington Post reports. "We must defend ideas, inventions and creativity...
- Tags: Government technology, International
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- State rejects privatization of AsiaSat
- The State Department has rejected a bid by GE and Beijing-controlled Citic Grouptogether to take private Asia Satellite Telecommunications, which operates the AsiaSat satellites, The Financial Times reports. The State Dept. has veto power over the suggested restructuring because of the Cold War-era US International Traffic in Arms...
- Tags: International, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-25
- Net crackdown in China continues
- Further signs that China will continue censoring the Internet in China: President Hu Jintao was reported as saying that "unhealthy" content should be purged from the net and replaced with Communist doctrine, the BBC reports. The comment came at the Communist Party Politburo, which pledged to impose firmer...
- Tags: International, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-25
- Politicians struggle to make Net impact
- While presidential candidates are trying their best to stay hip with the Internet, with blogs, social networking, YouTube videos, and SecondLife spaces, theyre not quiting "getting" the heart of Internet culture, Reuters says. "They havent been very innovative," said Professor Helen Margetts, director of research at the Oxford...
- Tags: International, Elections, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-19
- House looks into 'bad' Chinese attacks on State, Commerce systems
- A House subcommittee is holding a hearing tomorrow to try to understand "how deeply" US government computers have been penetrated by foreign forces and whether the governments IT response so far is adequate, ComputerWorld reports. "The purpose of this hearing is to afford [House members] the opportunity...
- Tags: Security, International, Government technology, Congress
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- Frank calls for repeal of net gambling law, coordinated US-EU regs
- Calling an online gambling ban "one of the stupidest things I ever saw," Rep. Barney Frank called today for a lift on the ban, but said it was too early for concrete steps, The Associated Press reports. "I want to get it undone. I plan to file legislation," Barney...
- Tags: Government technology, Congress, International
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- Japanese government investment in broadband pays dividends
- How do you like these statistics? Japanese broadband customers pay about 70 cents per megabit per second of bandwidth. In the US, we pay $4.90, on average, according to Takashi Ebihara, senior director of the corporate strategy department at NTT East Corp. Why? A wide-ranging government policy on...
- Tags: Government technology, International
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- British court denies extradition for UK hacker who broke into US military computers
- The British High Court rejected hacker Gary McKinnons bid to fight extradition for pulling off the "biggest military computer hack of all time," the BBC reports. Hes accused of breaking into 97 US military and NASA computers. McKinnon argued that in the US he would...
- Tags: Law enforcement, International, Government technology, Defense
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- Mexico City to go wireless by 2008
- All of Mexico City will be one free, wireless Internet hotspot by 2008, Mayor Marcelo Ebrard announced, according to AFP. The project "will accelerate the technological development of the city," Ebrard said after signing a contract with the Chinese telecoms and networking giant ZTE. "Why connect 4,000 cameras...
- Tags: Municipal broadband, International, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- Got innovation? Partnership is the key
- Bill Gates says the US is falling behind in innovation. So what country is the best innovator? According to Forrester Research, the US is still among the tops, but other countries include Sweden, Finland, Ireland, and Switzerland, the San Francisco Chronicles Technology Chronicles blog notes. International cooperation...
- Tags: Inter-government cooperation, International, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-03-07
- Why does government hatch so many bad tech ideas?
- BBC Click reporter Chris Long offers a rant about government-initiated projects that DOA dumb on arrival. He offers a few examples from the UK, many of which have parallels in America. A national health database took too long to load, so now one shift leader logs on from...
- Tags: Government technology, IT Management, International
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
- Cuba going open source
- Cuba and Venezuela are shaking off the yoke of US hegemony by jettisoning Microsoft products for open source, AP reports. "Its basically a problem of technological sovereignty, a problem of ideology," said Hector Rodriguez, who oversees a Cuban university department of 1,000 students dedicated to developing open-source programs....
- Tags: Government technology, International, Linux/Unix, Microsoft
- Blog posts 2007-02-19
- German court rejects police use of spyware
- Porn advertisers arent the only ones interested in sneaking spyware onto PCs. It would be extremely handy for law enforcement to monitor the web activities of, say, suspected child pornographers or terrorists. In the US, thats legal if the police get a warrant to monitor the computer based on probable...
- Tags: Government technology, Law enforcement, Privacy, International
- Blog posts 2007-02-06
- W3C European symposium focuses on e-gov
- Next month the World Wide Web Consortium will host a European symposium for e-government. The meeting in Spain will address issues that e-governments around the world are confronted with - privacy, security, and better government/citizen interaction. Federal Computer Week reports that the consortium wants to understand how...
- Tags: Government technology, E-government, International, W3C
- Blog posts 2007-01-17
- Wikileaks gives an online home to repressed dissidents
- Irony is such sweet sorrow. WikiLeaks.org was not supposed to go public yet. The site, inspired by Wikipedia, aims to be an anonymous way for people in censored countries to post government documents without getting picked up by the secret police. But someone leaked its existence in a...
- Tags: Wiki, irony, Wikileaks, Wikipedia
- Blog posts 2007-01-15
- UK cuts over 500 websites in effort to streamline
- In an effort to streamline access to government, Tony Blairs government is shutting down hundreds of websites, streamlining the UK governments online operations into a handful of portals and major sites, reports the BBC. The shutdown of hundreds of government websites is part of a plan to make...
- Tags: Government technology, International, Web, government website, Web site
- Blog posts 2007-01-10
- UK ditches plan for mega ID database
- The British government is having second thoughts - serious second thoughts about plans to create a national database that would hold personal information and biometric data for British citizens, Silicon.com reports. The National Identity Register NIR was to be the giant database at the heart of...
- Tags: International, Security, Privacy, National Identity Register, biometric data, Government technology
- Blog posts 2006-12-20
- Who has the most hotspots?
- Who has the hottest spots in the world? The US has the most WiFi hotspots but the UK is more densely wireless, a thorough British study PDF of wireless connections around the world finds, according to Ars Technica. America leads the hotspot race with 26,000 access points, 25% of...
- Tags: HotSpot, 3G, Wi-Fi, International, Municipal broadband, Government technology
- Blog posts 2006-12-06
- As UN's ITU meets, concern about its limits and potential
- The International Telecommunications Union, not a union at all but the UN agency that is concerned with the Internet (and note the capital I in "Internet") and represents 191 countries and 650 companies, is meeting this week in Hong Kong but, The New York Times observes, part of the...
- Tags: Internet, I.T.U., International Telecommunications Union, International, Government technology
- Blog posts 2006-12-04
- Human rights search engine launches
- A new search engine, built from contributions from 3,000 human rights organizations, makes information about dissidents, the abuse they have suffered, and campaigns that highlight when freedoms are restricted, BBC reports. Work on the search system is being co-ordinated by Huridocs - a non-profit group set up to help...
- Tags: Government technology, International, Human Rights
- Blog posts 2006-12-01
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