23.02.2006
The Ministry of Company Affairs in India formally launched MCA-21 early this week.The ministry claims it to be India's largest e-government programme.
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23.02.2006
World's GSM umbrella body, the GSM Association, and Intel are jointly providing laptop computer users with automatic access to HSDPA and other GSM-based technologies and the ability to connect and roam across global mobile networks.
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23.02.2006
UNAIDS has launched a new version of its website complete with a new navigation, branding and logo (www.unaids.org).
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[health & ICT]
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23.02.2006
In what could spell bad news for the use of copyrighted material on the Internet, a US District Court judge, A Howard Matz, has ruled that the free availability of Perfect 10's adult entertainment thumbnail images on Google's image search "likely" amounts to copyright infringement.
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[content]
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23.02.2006
To coincide with the one-year anniversary of the Kyoto Protocol, the UNFCCC secretariat is launching two new online tools designed to inform about progress in the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol.
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23.02.2006
FAO has created a new online database and website about invasive species introduced from foreign ecosystems which can negatively impact forests as a tool to help foresters deal with this growing problem.
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[Internet]
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23.02.2006
As African governments begin to implement e-government and e-commerce initiatives, the new terrain will be a haven for malicious hackers, who want bragging rights for bringing these sites down, cautioned Michael Bitz, a consultant who facilitated discussions among ECA staff at a workshop on the Economics of E-security, held from 6-8 February 2006.
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