Stories about: Department of Trade and Industry

Advocates of free and open source software (FOSS) in the Philippines are aspiring for a larger and active local community with the upcoming Philippine Open Source Summit (POSS) slated on June 23 to 24 in Cebu City.

Providing high school students with PCs is seen as a first step to preparing them for a technology-literate future, but in the Philippines many schools cannot afford to provide computing facilities so after a successful deployment of 13,000 Fedora Linux systems from a government grant, plans are underway to roll out another 10,000 based on Ubuntu.

Australia, the US and UK have joined forces in the fight against spam with the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in Washington over the weekend.

Both the United States and European Union are drafting legislation to battle the growing menace of spam.

IT security breaches cost U.K. businesses billions of pounds last year, with 44 percent of U.K. companies reporting at least one "malicious" security breach in the past year, according to a study published Tuesday by the U.K. Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).

The U.K. government's e-minister, Douglas Alexander, on Thursday urged the government to rethink its policy on voting over the Internet and called on the business and Internet communities to work together with the government to make online voting a reality in the near future.

U.K. trade group The Infrastructure Forum (TIF) confirmed Monday that it has requested that the U.K. government's Office of Fair Trading (OFT) launch an investigation into the software pricing policy for Microsoft's upcoming Windows XP operating system.

The U.K. government on Tuesday named Douglas Alexander as its new e-minister, replacing Patricia Hewitt, who has been promoted to the position of Secretary of State for Trade and Industry.

Sprint Corp. will build out its global IP (Internet Protocol) network across Europe and Australasia as part of its revamped international strategy, the US telecommunications company announced Tuesday. Sprint plans to expand its IP network to connect 15 cities in 13 European and Asian countries by the end of the year, said Wil Wilhelm, Sprint vice president and general manager for the company's international's offshore operations in a telephone interview with the IDG News Service.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Tuesday listed the top ten type of Internet scams consumers complain about, dubbing them "dot cons", and warning that scam artists can be just a click away.

Online banking in the Philippines may have hit a hump following reports that the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has suspended applications for e-banking. The reports, unconfirmed as this issue went to press, were discussed during a meeting of the Information Technology and E-Commerce Council (ITECC) late last month. The consensus at that meeting was that any move in this direction would go against the spirit of the E-Commerce Act.