In the week the DTI's Patricia Hewitt promised to increase the number of people accessing government services online, a study has slammed the current condition of many government websites - with Hewitt's own coming in for particular criticism.
However, following pressure from customers, Nokia announced in May that it would provide a software upgrade in "the summer" but did not set a firm date for its release. On Thursday, Nokia confirmed that it had released updates for five of its...
Although the programme was mostly designed for large developing nations like China, 36 national governments have signed up for the programme and three more will be announced soon, said Microsoft. The company has also created educational programmes...
Most of the phishing attacks on the credit card company were hosted by sites located in the United States (47 per cent), and other nations from Europe, the Middle East and South Asia. MasterCard International has shut down about 1,400 phishing or...
Unfortunately, per capita income on average is also far lower in most of these nations, so lowering costs is a key part of the strategies of all these companies. Ideas developed in one region will, when relevant, migrate to other regions.
Often tired and over-discussed, the debate of open source vs proprietary software has over the summer, opened a second front: interoperability. Just as importantly, we need to judge how apparently opposing technologies can cost-effectively and...