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Shanghai targets Internet-based economy by 2010
News Shanghai is to become a key Asia-Pacific telecom hub with an Internet-based economy by 2010, according to the city's leaders. This marks one of the few statements by China's leaders showing strong enthusiasm for the Internet.
[August 4, 2003, 9:25]
A Year Ago: UK could face Net skills shortage
News A new report ranks the UK's Internet economy first among European countries, but warns continuing growth may lead to a widespread dot-com skills shortage here. New-economy businesses say there's a need for more intensive, technology-oriented...
[June 10, 2001, 6:28]
Internet startups flock to AOL
News America Online is emerging as one of the biggest stakeholders in the Internet economy, turning itself into the Web's most desirable partner for fledgling online companies. Moreover, its pending purchase of America Online is emerging as one of the...
[April 3, 2000, 13:23]
UK could face Net skills shortage
News A new report ranks the UK's Internet economy first among European countries, but warns continuing growth may lead to a widespread dot-com skills shortage here. New-economy businesses say there's a need for more intensive, technology-oriented...
[June 9, 2000, 16:32]
Intel christens Merced family
News Dumping its Merced codename, Intel on Monday christened its IA-64 family of processors Itanium and aimed them squarely at the Internet Economy. The Intel Itanium processor represents a new level of processor capability that will be the driving...
[October 4, 1999, 15:54]
NetWorld+Interop: Intel outlines 'intelligent network'
News In a keynote address in Atlanta on Tuesday at NetWorld+Interop, Intel Vice President Mark Christensen described his company's vision of where the Internet is going, what impact it will have on the economy and the role that chip technology will...
[September 15, 1999, 16:24]
Internet innovation may be under threat
News Far from having an advantage over the more sluggish old-economy companies, Internet pure-plays are now perceived to be crippled by their lack of a "real-world" presence. While the wave of uninformed investor enthusiasm that swept so many Internet...
[January 16, 2001, 10:49]
Europe threatened by Nasdaq
News The decision of Nasdaq, the US' technology-oriented stock market, to launch a sister market in Europe has experts worried that Europe will lose out in the battle to dominate the Internet economy. Nasdaq's dominance of the venture capital landscape...
[October 29, 1999, 14:59]
Wireless trends: Looking ahead at 2003
News It's not difficult to see that wireless products, like the personal computer 20 years ago and the Internet a decade ago, are obviously the best candidates to lead the economy back from stagnancy. Still, suppliers are already gearing up for the next...
[January 22, 2003, 14:07]
Symantec sheds light on cybercrime economy
News Having a botnet at your fingertips will cost you $225, and a tool that exploits a vulnerability on a banking site costs, on average, $740, and runs as high as $3,000, according to Symantec's Report on the Internet Underground Economy, released on...
[November 24, 2008, 14:38]
Civil liberties groups attack file-sharing bill
Blog Civil liberties and digital rights organisations have strongly criticised Lord Mandelson's Digital Economy Bill. Digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) also criticised the government plans, saying that the legislation could...
[December 3, 2009, 17:13]
Digital Economy Bill: Industry disputes gov't claims
News ISPA members are extremely concerned that the bill, far from strengthening the nation's communications infrastructure, will penalise the success of the internet industry and undermine the backbone of the digital economy," the industry group said.
[November 20, 2009, 16:06]
US Report: Clinton's Web plans hang in balance after summits
News Irving, interviewed by ZDNN following his address at the White House-sponsored Conference on Digital Media Content for Children and Teens, said the administration is well aware how important the Internet will be to the world economy over the next...
[June 12, 1998, 9:50]
Local gov't online services help save planet
News Parmjit Dhanda, the e-government minister, said on 17 January, 2008: "The Best Foot Forward study supports government plans for a low carbon economy and debunks the received wisdom that increases in IT server capacity negate any CO2 savings...
[January 18, 2008, 9:20]
The Day Ahead: Economy at a crossroads
News Namely, how do you gauge when an economy is overheating or destined for a stall when the parameters for measuring the economy change at Internet-like speed? There's been a lot of talk in recent days about the complexities of the "new economy...
[March 8, 2000, 11:33]
E-currency firm joins list of has-Beenz
News After the Internet bubble burst, E-currency companies tried to evolve by concentrating on business customers, but the collapse of a high-profile trailblazer such as Beenz shows that the "old-economy" credit card firms have probably won the online...
[August 16, 2001, 17:01]
eBay providing unseen economy boost
News Households which use Internet auctions to get rid of their unwanted items can make up to £3,000 per year, according to new research, and this activity could be a major boon to the UK economy. The government doesn't currently include the trading...
[August 15, 2005, 17:50]
No remedy in sight for denial of service attacks
News I hope it is becoming clear to everyone reading this," he wrote in the posting, "that we can not have a stable Internet economy while 13-year-old children are free to deny arbitrary Internet services with impunity.
[June 4, 2001, 9:13]
ZDNet UK News interviews e-Minister Patricia Hewitt
News Tony Blair courts new Internet companies and hypes up the key role e-commerce will play in the UK economy as we enter the 21st century. In a free market economy, what role can government play in forcing change?
[February 18, 2000, 8:50]
A Year Ago: Europe catching US in e-commerce says IDC
News Patterns of Internet commerce are the opposite of those in the economy in general, says Gens. Sixty-six percent of Web commerce is business-to-business, compared to only 39 percent in the general economy.
[September 7, 1999, 7:00]
