18 June 2008
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• Source: Kyodo News

Major news agencies from the Group of Eight nations renewed their resolve Wednesday to redouble their efforts to deal with various challenges such as how to make better inroads into areas such as online news in the face of continuing sluggish sales of newspapers. (more…)

Filed by Nicole Cargill under The New Electronic Economy and Information Technology

12 June 2008
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• Source: BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union, Interfax news agency, Moscow

Tokyo, 12 June: Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev has said that it is necessary to draw up common mechanisms to stop cyber-terrorists using the global information and telecommunications space.

“We can see today how actively terrorist and extremist organizations use for their criminal purposes the opportunities provided by the internet. Legal regulation, censorship and other forms of control are absent in its segments,” the Russian interior minister said at a meeting of G8 interior ministers in Japan. (more…)

Filed by Vanmala Subramaniam under The New Electronic Economy and Information Technology, Transnational Crime, East-West Relations and Russia

21 May 2008
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• Author: Eric Auchard
• Source: Reuters News

International Business Machines Corp is optimistic it can hit its 2010 profit target as the focus on emerging markets helps insulate the world’s top computer services provider from the global credit crunch, its chief financial officer said Wednesday.

“I think we are well on track,” International Business Machines Corp CFO Mark Loughridge told the Reuters Global Technology, Media and Telecoms Summit in New York.

“I’m not going to reintroduce a forecast today, but if you look at the performance, we have had some pretty encouraging signs,” he said, when asked if IBM could beat its earnings goal of $10 to $11 per share by 2010.
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Filed by Nicole Cargill under Global Financial Crises, The New Electronic Economy and Information Technology

20 March 2008
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• Source: Asian News International

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will meet Indian political and business leaders here today to convince them to push for clean technologies and cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Blair’s focus is expected to be on the public-private partnerships and how they can facilitate the transfer of clean technologies to bridge differences between developed and developing countries on the setting of new targets for reducing carbon emissions post the 1997 Kyoto protocol.
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Filed by Anita Li under The New Electronic Economy and Information Technology, The Environment, Climate Change

20 March 2008
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• Author: BRUCE CHEADLE
• Source: The Canadian Press

The controversy over whether cutting-edge, taxpayer-subsidized Canadian space technology should be sold to an American arms-maker will rage for another month.

Industry Minister Jim Prentice, facing a Saturday deadline to approve or reject the sale of the Radarsat 2 satellite and the iconic Canadarm, has decided to exercise a 30-day extension.
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Filed by Anita Li under The New Electronic Economy and Information Technology, Arms Control, Proliferation and WMD

29 October 2007
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• Author: Nouriel Roubini
• Source: The Edge Singapore

The recent turmoil in global financial markets — and the liquidity and credit crunch that followed — raises two questions: How did defaulting subprime mortgages in the American states of California, Nevada, Arizona, and Florida lead to a worldwide crisis? And why did systemic risk increase rather than decrease in recent years? (more…)

Filed by Amadeus Domaradzki under Global Financial Crises, Financial Supervision, Corporate and Public Governance, The New Electronic Economy and Information Technology, Investment and Competition Policy

20 August 2007
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• Source: Xinhua News Agency

JOHANNESBURG - A high-level conference aimed at providing Africa with greater access to information and communication technology (ICT) will be held in Kigali, Rwanda, in late October, the United Nations said on Monday.

The Connect Africa Summit scheduled from October 29-30 aims to mobilize the human, technical and financial resources needed to close the major gaps in Africa’s ICT infrastructure, including broadband, the UN’s South African office said in a statement. (more…)

Filed by Egor Ouzikov under The New Electronic Economy and Information Technology, Development