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Korea, China, Japan Start Open-source Collaboration
News In a statement, the Korean Ministry of Information and Communication said the trio hope to reach agreement about the cooperative principle, and the methods they will use. Thousands of computers in ministries, government-linked organisations and...
[April 1, 2004, 12:30]
South Korean Govt Goes Open Source
News Thousands of computers in ministries, government-linked organisations and universities in South Korea will replace the Microsoft Windows operating system and Office productivity suite with open-source alternatives under the plan, according to the...
[October 1, 2003, 9:30]
Beleaguered EDS Signs Belgian Deal
News The Ministry of the Flemish Community estimates it will spend $513m on information and communication technology during that time, according to EDS. The Ministry of the Flemish Community is a Belgian government agency representing the country's six...
[June 30, 2003, 9:12]
Does E-Government Pay Off?
White Papers Under the authority of the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations a research has been carried out into the effective use of information and communication technology (ICT) in the public sector in Europe.
[August 22, 2005, 6:00]
Austrian Ministry To Reduce TCO By € 7.26 Million With Windows Server 2003
White Papers The Austrian Ministry of the Interior, responsible for public security throughout Austria, consists of central management, the Central Gendarmerie Command, and the Austrian police. Realizing that it needed to create a more integrated communications...
[December 3, 2003, 15:44]
Consumer Electronics 'needs Standards'
News This was the thrust of a lecture delivered by Hidetaka Fukuda, director of the Information and Communication Electronics Division of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry during the Digital Home Appliances Forum 2003 in Tokyo.
[October 20, 2003, 10:55]
MoD: Tech Scheme Not 'unmitigated Disaster'
News The Ministry of Defence has moved to quash claims that its £4bn Defence Information Infrastructure programme is an "unmitigated disaster". The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has responded to a joint investigation by Channel 4 News and Computer Weekly...
[November 19, 2007, 10:49]
Thai Hackers Ordered To Work For Victim
News According to the daily newspaper The Bangkok Post, the ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) ministry's portal was breached recently. The hackers had last month planted a bogus news flash on the ministry's site, detailing plans to set up...
[June 12, 2003, 12:34]
South Korea Plans 'Linux Showcase City'
News Korea's Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) will choose which local government agencies and which university will be used for the showcase by the end of March, according to a report in The Korea Times.
[February 21, 2006, 11:10]
Spammers Hit By Government Fines
News South Korea's Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) announced on Monday that penalties of between 4m Korean won (£2,176) and 5m Korean won (£2,721) are being imposed on the six companies. The Korea Times has reported that Korea.com has...
[July 22, 2002, 11:25]
Korean Homes To Gain Smart Makeover
News According to a report in the Korea Times, the project run by the Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) will begin in a month's time and will be completed in 2007. Next month, the ministry will select two consortia consisting of...
[October 22, 2003, 10:55]
China Clarifies Online-video Ruling
News The original announcement by China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) and the Ministry of Information Industry stated that all online audio and video service providers would need to apply for an "online audio-visual...
[February 7, 2008, 10:50]
Autonomy To Power Olympic Surveillance
News These include a command and decision support system, a communication and information system, a digital trunked radio system, a port security system, and fixed and mobile command centres for the Greek police and firefighters, the coast guard, the...
[April 23, 2004, 15:20]
'Phone Number' Internet Addressing Gains Support
News According to the Korea Herald, the country's Ministry of Information and Communication planned to commercialise Enum technology earlier this year, but was delayed due to technology problems. This project is part of the ministry's efforts to catch...
[August 14, 2003, 11:15]
Tech Shortcomings Endanger Troops
News A report from the Commons Public Accounts Committee says that British soldiers are at risk of death and injury from "friendly fire" because the Ministry of Defence has failed to develop a technological solution to identify friend or foe.
[May 2, 2007, 10:55]
Encryption U-turn Slammed As Naive And Foolish
News This is an absolute disaster" according to Brian Gladman, an independent information security consultant with thirty years experience working for the Ministry of Defence. But Yaman Akdeniz of the UK's civil liberties organisation Cyber-Rights and...
[April 28, 1998, 15:05]
A Year Ago: Encryption U-turn Slammed As Naive And Foolish
News This is an absolute disaster" according to Brian Gladman, an independent information security consultant with thirty years experience working for the Ministry of Defence. But Yaman Akdeniz of the UK's civil liberties organisation Cyber-Rights and...
[April 28, 1999, 7:03]
Experts Question Plans To Ban Hate Email
News Brian Gladman, ex-ministry of defence computer security expert and cryptographer, says that the technology exists to send anonymously. A Home Office spokesman explained that legislation had to be updated to reflect electronic communication.
[February 23, 2001, 9:12]
Bird Flies High In China
News The Zhejiang province-based company garnered a slim lead with 15 percent of the market share in the first half of this year, while Motorola followed in second place with 14.2 per cent, according to figures from the country's Ministry of...
[September 2, 2003, 8:59]
Will There Be A Beagle 3?
News There have been lots of big projects recently because the Ministry of Defence is spending a lot of money on digitisation. Logica was involved in providing a lot of the software for the Beagle 2 project, including programs that support the probe's...
[February 6, 2004, 15:35]
