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Privacy experts from afar afield as the United Kingdom met with the federal government this week to examine weaknesses in the Privacy Act which is currently under review.

The debate on future governance of the internet is heating up, with a United Nations ICT taskforce convening a “global forum” late last month on the subject and those prominent in the IT and political worlds having plenty to say around the edges.

As Sun Microsystems prepares to kickoff its first major European conference in Berlin this week, analysts signalled that if the company wants local users to bask in its particular brand of computing, Sun needs to shed light on how its new low-cost turnaround strategy fits in with an increasingly varied product line.

Helios Software GmbH has made available a beta version of a major upgrade to its suite of network and prepress server software with the final version due in September.

A nasty spitting match between rival e-commerce value-added networks has corporate users crying foul and worrying about the long-term status of their online links to supply chain partners.

Compaq's subsidiary in India, Digital GlobalSoft Ltd., has introduced a new version of its electronic data interchange (EDI) software, called DEC/EDI. The new version 4.0 of DEC/EDI supports clustering and EDI traffic over the Internet, as well as XML (Extended Markup Language) mapping and Web-based management of the EDI system.

Australian telecommunication vendor Davnet Ltd. has ceased operations in Hong Kong and Canada, while its Singapore subsidiary is "continuing to review its alternatives," the company said in a statement Monday.

Authorities have arrested two individuals in Switzerland and another two in San Francisco in connection with an Internet banking scam worth some $US3.9 billion, said the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), which monitors banking fraud.

Frontline Systems has "entered the 'brave new world' of national coverage" following an alliance with Brisbane-based company ICC.

In scarcely three years, Cameroon has out paced its African neighbors in telecommunications and IT, going from having one ISP (Internet service provider) to having seven, with tremendous growth in urban Internet users, direct foreign investors and mobile telephony. At the same time, several local software development firms have launched.

The days of galley proofs and last-minute changes at the printer are gone forever in modern print publishing: the name of the game today is direct-to-press, which requires near perfect preparation of documents to ensure the printer won't have trouble generating output from your electronic files. Serious problems, such as a missing font, can render printed results unusable; even subtle errors, such as trap misregistration, can dramatically reduce final print quality. Adobe Systems Inc.'s InProduction 1.0 aims to give your prepress files a good once-over before you launch them to the Heidelberg.