The Commonwealth Cybergovernance Model adopted by ICT ministers from the 53-country Commonwealth of Nations this week could encourage African nations to move forward on controversial proposals to combat cybercrime and develop common ...
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Peas and carrots, strawberries and cream, risk management and supply chain management. OK, that last pair doesn’t have the same ring to it, but I’m sure supply chain professionals are more than aware of the intrinsic ...
Microsoft soared to record revenues in the last quarter the company said Thursday, confounding Wall Street forecasts on the back of strong demand for Xbox consoles, Surface tablets and Internet "cloud" services. The US-based technology ...
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When Israel founded the Talpiot program to give the Israel Defense Forces a technological edge, it spawned new classes of tech-savvy warriors who went on to build the nation's booming tech sector. Now South Korea hopes to mimic the Talpiot ...
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A US appeals court Tuesday struck down as unconstitutional a "Net Neutrality" rule that bars broadband Internet providers from blocking or playing favorites for online services. The court ruled that the Federal Communications Commission ...
The price of bitcoins may be soaring, but China isn’t too thrilled with the virtual currency. On Thursday, it moved to regulate use of bitcoins, stating that its financial institutions could not deal in the virtual currency. ...
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Each year, CHTF is co-hosted in Shenzhen by ten ministries and commissions namely Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and National Development and Reform Commission ...
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Tech companies are hanging onto record amounts of cash, and industry watchers want to see more of it reinvested in the companies or distributed to shareholders. FactSet, a financial research firm, tallied all the cash and marketable ...
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The UK's GCSE results came out this week and, on the whole, it's been positive news for the IT industry, with a 38 per cent year-on-year rise in students aged 14-16 taking the ICT exam - 73,847 exams sat this year compared to 53,197 last ...
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China and the US are the top two countries with the greatest potential to drive technology breakthroughs and likely to have a global impact in the next four years, said KPMG that released results of a survey recently. KPMG’s 2013 ...
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Manufacturing giant Foxconn Technology Group is on track with its goal to a create a "million robot army", and already has 20,000 robotic machines in its factories, said CEO Terry Gou on Wednesday. Foxconn headquarters in Taipei. ...
Hints that the Federal Reserve could pull back on its easing efforts later this year sent stocks broadly lower, with high-dividend-yielding stock sectors leading declines. After falling modestly in the initial minutes following the ...
Despite dismal forecasts for PCs and servers, tech stocks have been doing well on optimism about cloud technology and mobile devices. A fresh batch of dire forecasts for the hardware market came out this week, yet tech stocks have ...
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Increasing confidence in the economy and a rising stock market could lay the groundwork for a revival in tech-sector mergers and acquisitions as companies embrace cloud technology and pursue game-changing software, particularly for the ...
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In daily life Around the turn of the 20th century, bicycles reduced crowding in inner-city tenements by allowing workers to commute from more spacious dwellings in the suburbs. They also reduced dependence on horses. Bicycles allowed ...
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