Provides the latest RSS feeds for Web Site Development News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page International Technology.com http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/cat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22/ en-us Thu, 23 May 2013 05:38:04 -0400 Thu, 23 May 2013 05:38:04 -0400 30 Summary: In response to U.S. Congressman allegations, European member state Ireland says it will not bow down and become America's "whipping ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214709931/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 04:16:54 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214709931/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 The Tasmanian government plans to create a AU$28 million Information Communications Technology Fund to overhaul department and agency IT across the state. Detailed in the state's budget released today, the government said that historically agencies have managed their own funding and planning for IT projects, but the government was now looking at taking a more coordinated approach for IT in ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214709930/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 04:16:53 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214709930/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Employees at NAB were saving up their annual leave days and costing the bank a mint. NAB's people and culture head of consulting, Stuart Moseley, decided to put a stop to that with the help of human resources ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214709932/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 04:16:52 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214709932/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Australia remains an unlikely target of a nation-state attack, according to Kaspersky Lab founder Eugene Kaspersky, but the country could get caught up in the collateral damage from other warring nations. Speaking to ZDNet, Kaspersky said that it was more likely that Australian infrastructure would be attacked by ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214709933/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 04:16:51 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214709933/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 "The vCloud Hybrid Service is about bridging the gap between lines of business and IT needs in a unique and powerul way," Pat Gelsinger, CEO of VMware said in a media launch ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214709934/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 04:05:15 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214709934/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 The 802.11ac WiFi standard is being rolled out in two phases, known as Wave 1 and Wave 2. Wave 1 devices are now being introduced by multiple vendors and offer the promise of up to 1.3 Gigabits per second of wireless connectivity. The future Wave 2 rollout of 802.11ac has the potential to scale WLANs up to 6 Gigabits per ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214709935/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 04:05:15 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214709935/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Local regulator will call for tenders worth S$1.2 billion this financial year, with emphasis on cloud computing and deriving insights from government data to improve organizational ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214708780/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 03:05:43 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214708780/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 South Korean firm Samsung says the Galaxy S4 smartphone has surpassed the ten million sales mark in response to high retail and carrier ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214708782/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 03:05:42 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214708782/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 banned from construction of the National Broadband Network (NBN), the company pulled in AU$368 million in revenue from Australia. In the company's local corporate report, Huawei Australia said it saw a 61 percent year-on-year growth in revenue in 2012 in Australia. Despite the NBN ban, Huawei reported working with a number of other major telco operators in Australia in 2012, including ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214708781/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 03:05:41 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214708781/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Figures released last week showed that NBN Co passed 22,100 brownfield premises with fibre in the first three months of 2013, but can the company make up the gap to meet its targets by the end of ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214706975/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 00:48:59 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214706975/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Indian CIOs say they are struggling to securely manage personal devices employees use to access corporate networks and applications, reveals a new ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214706977/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 00:48:58 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214706977/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Like many large enterprises, Germany-based Siemens AG had been suffering from numerous complexities and inconsistencies with managing its gargantuan workforce across the world. Finally putting its German practicality to good use, the electronics engineering company decided to seek out a technological solution to its human resources (HR) management woes. Siemens AG embarked on its HR ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214706976/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 00:48:57 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214706976/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: A new Windows video (presumably a TV commercial) knocks the iPad over multitasking, its lack of a PowerPoint app and the price of the 64GB ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214705827/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 23:39:45 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214705827/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Former McAfee Threat Research vice-president Dmitri Alperovitch has called for greater powers for private companies, saying that they should be allowed to make citizens' arrests and limited retaliatory action against ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214705828/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 23:39:43 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214705828/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 A new survey of 2,000 chief information officers finds only three percent believe their organization's innovation potential has been fully realized. This is even worse than last year's five ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214705829/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 23:39:42 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214705829/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Indonesian official says Taiwanese manufacturer will team up with local mobile phone distributor Erajaya Swasembada to offer locally-made handsets, and it will start constructing its factory later this ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214705830/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 23:39:41 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214705830/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Central and local-level governments in the country has spent a total of 2.16 billion yuan on legal copies of software in the past three years to combat ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214704869/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 22:28:31 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214704869/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Highlighting the fact that there are security vulnerabilities in your organisation sounds like common sense, but there is such a thing as doing it too fast, according to Foxtel CISO Kevin ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214702755/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:09:17 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214702755/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Telstra will undertake a restructure of its operations division in what is being called the 'most substantive change' to the group in 10 years, which will likely see jobs ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214702754/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:09:17 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214702754/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: For those that need a ruggedized smartphone, the Cat B15 may be a decent competitor priced at a reasonable $350 with no carrier ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214702756/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:09:16 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214702756/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 The last few days have been big in terms of mobile payments in Brazil as the government takes the very first steps towards regulating the model, with a new provisional act including a framework for products and services enforced yesterday (21). According to data from the Brazilian Ministry of Communications, it is expected that the number of mobile phone lines able to make payments will reach ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214701385/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 19:00:26 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214701385/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Whether you attended last week's Sapphire event or not, you might have missed the real story there - the story SAP should have communicated. There was lots of talk about HANA, analytics and the cloud but why should customers care and care now? Here's the rest of the story you should have ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214701387/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 19:00:25 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214701387/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Several people have recently departed HTC, but that doesn't mean the company is shutting the doors. There may be marketing strategy changes, a focus only on Asia, or some other strategy we do not yet know ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214701386/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 19:00:24 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214701386/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 HP's Whitman reiterates 'multi-year journey' amid Q2 revenue miss But for the moment, she described that the problem is balancing the "power of the past" with the "power of the future" for every enterprise unit from servers to storage. According to ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214699996/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 17:51:45 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214699996/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 IDG News Service (Boston Bureau) - By now, it's become a tired old tech industry bromide: CIOs need to be business-savvy. But while that sentiment remains true, technology trends, generational shifts in the workforce and changing demands from end users are forcing CIOs to go further and fundamentally rethink their roles, according to members of a panel at the Massachusetts Institute of ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214698999/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 17:19:52 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214698999/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 : Behance, an online social media platform for creative professionals to showcase and share their work. It looks like Thumb Labs resources (talent and products) will be merged with the unit for collective work under Adobe's Creative Cloud software suite. Here's more from Kern and ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214698643/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 16:41:35 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214698643/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: The Microsoft-Google feud continues, with Microsoft meeting some -- but not all -- of Google's terms-of-service demands around the Microsoft's recently developed YouTube ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214698646/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 16:41:34 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214698646/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 reported first quarter 2014 losses per share of $0.15 on revenue of $91.6 million, handily beating expectations of $0.18 losses per share on revenue of $87 million. Shares (WDAY) were up slightly in after-hours trading. That's a total revenue increase of 61 percent over the same period a year ago. Subscription revenues were $68.4 million, an increase of 85 percent from same period a year ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214698645/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 16:41:33 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214698645/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 ). Non-GAAP earnings were 87 cents per share on a revenue of $27.6 billion. Wall Street was expecting earnings of 81 cents a share on revenue of $28.08 billion for the second quarter. Out of the six core segments highlighted in the second quarter report, only the software group posted a positive revenue mark as the support team was up by 12 percent annually. The rest of the software unit along ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214698644/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 16:41:32 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214698644/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 is finally stepping up its game. The microblogging business is adding the option for two-factor authentication. It's quite similar to the models employed by Google and Facebook. Twitter users can simply access their security settings to find the new feature and opt-in to require a verification code to be sent via SMS each time they sign in. Jim O'Leary from Twitter's product ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214698647/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 16:41:31 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214698647/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Despite apps such as Bump on the market, there has yet to be a suitable replacement for calling cards. Perhaps Google Drive can fill the ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214698648/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 16:41:30 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214698648/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: It's funny to look back on my personal history with Linux and remember how subversive and alternative it once was. These days, it's just another operating system. That original subversive spark is ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214697164/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 15:31:07 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214697164/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: In last week's ZDNet "Great Debate," Robin Harris and I faced off on the question of whether "we need data scientists to make sense of this tidal wave of information." I think data scientists are important, but they're not the solution. What follows is my argument, in essay ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214697165/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 15:31:06 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214697165/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Xbox One operating system that is based on Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor technology -- some developers and users were left wondering whether Microsoft is going to enable any Metro-Style Windows 8 or Windows RT application to run on the next Xbox. Microsoft officials aren't talking about the Xbox One developer story yet; it sounds like they are planning/hoping to hold off until ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214697166/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 15:31:05 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214697166/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Unless data security is a fundamental concern that is considered and communicated at the start of each e-Discovery project, any small gap can quickly become a serious information management ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214697167/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:57:22 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214697167/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 In the first quarter of 2013, Acquia reported its bookings grew by 52% compared to the same quarter in 2012, the company announced at the biannual DrupalCon event this week. Acquia noted much of the growth came in the life sciences, high tech, media, government and higher education industries.Analyst firm ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214697168/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:57:22 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214697168/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 ClickTale Mobile has evolved the mobile usability and analytics program into ClickTale Touch, which allows businesses to view their mobile customers’ "True-to-Life User ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214697170/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:57:21 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214697170/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 It's that time again! We're a little over an hour away from this month's Tweet Jam on Customer Journeys — How do we define them? What are the advantages to customer journey mapping, and how do you measure their ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214697169/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:57:21 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214697169/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Enterprise social networking in business is relationship-based and favors high context communication. Western style business is rule-based and favors low context communication. When relationship-based business social networking is introduced into rule-based business communication it has the ability to produce major conflicts.The key to successfully introducing a social business network rests in ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214697171/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:57:21 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214697171/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Our industry event planner gives you the heads-up on what key industry events are coming around the corner. If we've missed something, don’t hesitate ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214697173/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:57:20 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214697173/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 This week there were quite a number of releases for mobile including new printing possibilities for mobile users from Accellion and Ricoh. SkyDrive Pro is now available for Windows, while Adobe is offering Photoshop Express for Windows 8, and Cognidox releases XtraNet for document ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214697172/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:57:20 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214697172/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Google has turned the taps on its update stream after last week's I/O event. You can now talk to your PC's Chrome browser for Google searches, while mobile users get a new version of Google+ to play with that's more in line with the card-based update of the recent PC browser ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214697174/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:57:20 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214697174/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Providing workers with Standard Issue(TM) devices and software represents an antiquated paradigm. Instead, segmenting your workforce into different classes of workers - honoring the needs of each type of worker - can help ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214695677/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:17:36 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214695677/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 in Anaheim this week with the announcement that its Grid vGPU appliance now supports integration for Citrix's XenDesktop 7 application delivery platform. Nvidia reps boasted this brings the performance, stabilitity and compatibility of hardware-accelerated graphics to virtual desktop environments. With such high-definition graphics and capabilities on tap, some of the more obvious uses ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214695676/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:17:35 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214695676/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Yesterday Microsoft lifted the lid on the next Xbox gaming console - the Xbox One - so it's time to take a look at what powers this next-generation hardware. There's no doubt that the Xbox One is a games console, but it's a games console with a twist. Here's what we know so far. 8-core AMD APU based on the Jaguar architecture AMD Graphics Core Next GPU 8GB DDR3 RAM Wi-Fi ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214695678/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:17:34 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214695678/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: By adding its DB2 database software to SmartCloud, IBM boasted that both corporate and government customers could see up to 25 times faster data ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214695679/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:17:33 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214695679/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: The PC maker boasts that these new product will cut the cost of VDI in half, adding that the portfolio includes the first dual-core and quad-core thin clients to offer virus immune endpoint solutions for enterprise ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214695680/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:17:32 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214695680/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Citrix is bring its mobile platforms to the front of its product portfolio, which revolves around collaboration, cloud and ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214695681/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:17:31 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214695681/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Problem solving McLellan noted that design changes are made to solve problems: "That problem may not affect you, but it’s very rare a site of Flickr’s size will make changes for change’s sake. Sites with a broad audience have so many different users' interests to balance that it's possible that something could even get worse for you in order to make things better ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214695682/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 13:45:35 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214695682/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 The Mac version of Jive's updated Producteev Social task management for free. That’s the appealing price tag of a rebuilt version of Producteev, ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214695683/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 13:44:48 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214695683/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 SDL bought Fredhopper in January 2010 it has been developing the technology to optimize the online shopping experience offered by retailers. Today with the release of v7.5, it has tweaked the Fredhopper technology again to offer retailers the ability to adapt an entire product catalog to target specific ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214695684/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 13:44:47 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214695684/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Online content, in store: TigerLogic's Postano on a screen at Nine West. Consumers now have access to the Net wherever they go, and their customer experience extends from everywhere to almost everywhere. With online shopping blending into offline, CMSWire.com pinged customer experience management provider Empathica and enterprise data management/app development provider TigerLogic for their ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214695685/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 13:44:47 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214695685/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 for a new scheme for promoting and advising sustainable investment strategies across emerging economies. Essentially, SAP has the tool set (thanks primarily to its flagship HANA in-memory database) while EMPEA will provide the brainpower. EMPEA already retains more than 300 fund managers and institutional investors from nearly 60 countries, representing over $1 trillion of managed assets. SAP ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214693983/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 13:04:36 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214693983/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: In light of the tornadoes in Oklahoma this past week, it is more evident than ever that ever second counts, and mobile offers more opportunities to reach more people in times of ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214693984/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 13:04:35 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214693984/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 touted to be the first commercial (and legal) platform for authors to pen fan fiction about their favorite pop culture characters and get paid for ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214693985/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 13:04:34 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214693985/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: This is the first of a three-part series where our own David Gewirtz tests and installs a full-perimeter, Internet-centric, mobile-enabled video surveillance system. In this installment, he details the approach that didn't ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214693986/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 13:04:33 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214693986/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: While Intel is enthusiastic about touch-enabled devices, even if it hits 25 percent market penetration by 2016, it will still be niche rather than a must-have feature, which doesn't bode well for Microsoft and its touch ambitions for ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214693987/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 13:04:32 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214693987/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 , we use PHP as part of our daily coding ritual. We all love to use many of the open source frameworks and code snippets to make our lives easier. However, we also feel it’s important that every developer has a full understanding of the core base PHP functions, classes and methods. Without knowledge of these, how can you begin to understand how all the frameworks out there operate? We have ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214693988/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 12:30:45 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214693988/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 The last decade has seen major disruptions in software, completely reversing the power roles between vendor and user. It’s been said many times that the customer is king, and it couldn't be ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214693989/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 12:29:56 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214693989/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 , the mobile signing and document storage company. A price was not disclosed. The value of the smaller company, which counts a million users ("and over half of the Fortune 500") in its database, plays into Barracuda's cloud data storage strategy. The company anticipates the adoption of electronic signatures--which are easier, faster and therefore cheaper--to continue to ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214692387/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 11:51:00 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214692387/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: A new study that measures app usage on Windows 8 PCs finds that Metro style apps are gaining traction slowly. But a surprising result suggests that app developers who deliberately break Microsoft's design guidelines are most likely to win users ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214692388/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 11:50:59 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214692388/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 . It took awhile, but now the device is ready to order -- and hopefully you've been saving up. That's because the Helix is priced higher than similar devices like ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214692389/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 11:50:58 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214692389/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 It’s safe to say that, for all its many joys, the internet also excels at doing things that aren’t particularly great for the wider world. It’s fantastic at making retail workers redundant. It’s great at moving the money out of individual countries and into the tax-avoiding coffers of American corporations. It’s given us spam, malware, unfunny Twitter parodies and ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214692390/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 11:18:36 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214692390/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Ever feel the need to use the apps already on on your mobile device instead of the work approved ones from your IT department? LogMeIn has developed a tool called AppGuru to help those IT teams organize ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214692391/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 11:17:49 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214692391/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 PayPal has added a fourth datacenter to its operations network in response to what the company president described as a need for more machines, more capacity and more bandwidth to meet the rapidly growing needs of the business. Given the rate at which eBay has ben expanding their datacenters, it is unsurprising that PayPal, now owned by eBay and their primary payment processor, needs to grow ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214690668/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 10:38:07 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214690668/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: I never travel overseas without Truphone and businesses will appreciate their new global shared plan offerings that include calls, text, and ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214690669/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 10:38:06 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214690669/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 this morning that they will partner to offer machine-to-machine, or M2M, services in the Asia-Pacific market. M2M is the term that describes when Internet-connected ("smart") machines can communicate with each other. It has also been referred to as "the Internet of Things," and is of particular interest to telecommunications companies, on whose networks this communication ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214690670/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 10:38:05 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214690670/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Hitachi Data Systems claims that its cloud storage service will offer businesses better control and security than the consumer orientated ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214690671/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 10:38:04 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214690671/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 The cloud-based software vendor on Wednesday announced Rapid Response 311, a mobile application that citizens can use to log and track requests for service; Mobile Communities for Government; Government Social Command Center and Mobile Platform Services for ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214690946/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 10:23:51 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214690946/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 mobile offerings — Rapid Response 311, Mobile Communities for Government, Government Social Command Center and Platform Mobile Services for Government — allow governmental agencies to respond via virtually any mobile device, and to receive reports from smartphone- or tablet-equipped citizens in the ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214690672/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 10:04:24 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214690672/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 , which specializes in big data security intelligence and analytics. The price was not disclosed. Of interest is Solera's DeepSee platform, which will give Blue Coat's existing product lineup real-time forensic capabilities and fill out its overall portfolio, which ranges from protection to remediation to governance. DeepSee, which includes both software and appliances, provides a ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214689117/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 09:20:04 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214689117/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Readers should take careful note that SiSense is a client of my company, Blue Badge Insights. This article is not commissioned or compensated by SiSense, and I intend it as an objective report on the company's new product announcement. However, my point of view is certainly subjective, and readers should bear that in ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214689116/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 09:20:03 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214689116/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 A decade or so ago, EMC was clearly a hardware company -- selling enterprise storage appliances with its proprietary kit inside. Today the company is less attached to shifting boxes it designed itself and is moving towards making software that runs on off-the-shelf components. At EMC World 2013 it was all about the software, with the firm repeatedly reiterating its goal to virtualise and ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214689118/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 09:20:03 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214689118/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Flyers have experienced slippery pricing on many airlines, not just Delta. Readers have found that the price can change mid-transaction on many other airlines. Why is this ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214689119/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 09:20:02 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214689119/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Tumblr is a very well designed mini publishing platform, but more ads, sooner, could have made it the Huffington Post of personal ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214689120/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 09:20:01 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214689120/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Throwing money at creating cyberpolice forces and technology to keep up with digital threats may not be the only tactics the U.S. will employ in the future. As a meeting between President Obama and the new president of China, Xi Jinping, draws near, former senior officials in the Obama Administration will recommend a series of steps to deter hackers from the country from stealing U.S. industrial ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214689121/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 09:20:00 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214689121/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Hacking, data security breaches and and computer viruses are preventing small companies from scaling to their full potential, according to the Federation of Small Business, which calculates its members lose £785m a year as a result of cybercrime. The Federation's report ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214689122/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 09:20:00 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214689122/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 While the tech industry at large seems to increasingly litigious, Twitter is forging a new path: it's limiting itself to defensive patent litigation unless the patent's inventor approves offensive action. Twitter has for the first time applied its Innovator's Patent Agreement (IPA) on a ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214689123/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 09:19:59 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214689123/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: The mobile and digital payment company is running a competitive trade-in under which it will help retailers get outfitted with an iPad solution in exchange for old cash ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214687701/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 08:09:05 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214687701/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Opposition Labor party leader Ed Miliband has accused Google of going to "extraordinary lengths" to avoid paying tax on U.K. soil. Ahead of next month's G8 summit -- where company tax avoidance is likely to become a hot topic -- Miliband plans to tell visitors at a Google event today close to London that he is "disappointed" that the tech giant pays so little ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214687703/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 08:09:04 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214687703/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 , has stayed true to the WIMP interface. As far as I'm concerned the latest version, Linux Mint 15, Olivia, is now not merely the best Linux desktop, it's the best desktop operating system of ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214687702/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 08:09:04 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214687702/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 data published this week (PDF) by the Spanish telecoms regulator CMT, around 1.8 million mobile subscribers changed their provider in the first three months of this year, with half a million moving in March alone - the second highest number of defections in any single month. In March, 158,000 subscribers signed up with an MVNO, leaving the virtual operators with around 10 percent of the Spanish ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214687704/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 08:09:03 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214687704/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: With firms finding cheaper alternatives to the big names such as CA and HP, a chasing group of newer entrants in IT operations management is expanding ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214687705/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 08:09:02 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214687705/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Google has announced the release of Chrome version 27, which brings faster search and quietly introduces a new dictation feature that lets people start a spoken 'conversation' with Google. Installing the latest version of Chrome on the desktop lets users ask Google what the weather is like in a particular city and get a spoken reply. As ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214686345/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 06:59:50 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214686345/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Firewalls and antivirus software bite deepest into most organisations' security budgets to the detriment of the other stages in the breach ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214686346/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 06:59:49 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214686346/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: In the first service of its kind in Singapore, online shoppers now have the added option of paying for and collecting their online purchases at convenience stores. Separately, Zalora revealed it raised US$100 million in new ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214686347/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 06:59:48 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214686347/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: To remain competitive and profitable, Indian mobile operators are gradually increasing tariff rates as lowering prices and growing subscriber base are no longer deemed beneficial tactics. But what does that mean for ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214685293/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 05:52:38 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214685293/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Ailing electronics maker Sony has lowered its future sales expectations, but says there are "encouraging" signs of recovery. At a press briefing on Wednesday, Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai said that a recent proposal by the company's largest shareholder Third Point LLC is being considered -- the potential sale of up to a fifth of its music and film ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214685294/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 05:52:37 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214685294/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Nokia has released an update for Here Maps on Windows Phone devices that integrates its augmented reality LiveSight location app. The addition of LiveSight to Here Maps will mean faster street navigation and orientation, Nokia said on Wednesday. LiveSight was previously available on the Here City Lens app -- a Lumia-exclusive app that uses Nokia's mapping data to provide an overlay of key ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214685295/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 05:52:36 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214685295/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: 3G connectivity has improved across India, with Vodafone India's 50 percent jump in data-related revenues for its latest fiscal year an indicator of the improving network ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214685296/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 05:52:35 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214685296/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Taiwan's Cloud Computing Association will be establishing a local chapter of the Open Compute Project to draw more local hardware makers to support Facebook's vision of an open data ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214684376/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 04:44:52 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214684376/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 (Credit: Logitech) We review a lot of wireless Bluetooth keyboards and keyboard cases for iPads and other tablets, but we've yet to review a wired keyboard for the iPad. It comes as little surprise then that Logitech, which makes plenty of Bluetooth keyboards, has unveiled the Wired Keyboard for iPad, which it dubs "the first iPad keyboard made specially for the classroom ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214684375/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 04:21:05 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214684375/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Microsoft is readying the public preview of its Windows Azure service in China, and will make it available on June 6 through its local partner 21Vianet, which will operate the platform on behalf of the software giant. According to the Redmond-based software vendor, this makes it the first multinational company to offer public cloud services in China. The China Information Industry Net (CNII), ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214683383/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 03:38:08 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214683383/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: China's largest internet company, Tencent, is eyeing India for further growth for its messaging platform as it ventures overseas. It will be up against an increasingly crowded market where rivals such as Whatsapp have had a ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214683384/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 03:38:07 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214683384/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 The Winklevoss twins – of Facebook fame – opened the conference with a surprising faux pas: A quote from Mahatma Gandhi that misspelled his name. The quote – "first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, and then you win" – illustrates where Bitcoin is today: people are laughing. The excitement at the conference is like a low electric ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214683386/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 03:38:06 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214683386/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: iiNet would be willing to sell more of its infrastructure, including its extensive fibre to the node network to a Coalition government, should the party win the September federal ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214683385/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 03:38:06 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214683385/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Whether the US or China started the online fight, both sides are rallying forces, and with the right spark, it could end with catastrophic ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214683387/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 03:38:05 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214683387/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Sacked iGate CEO and President Phaneesh Murthy believes there was no merit to claims of sexual harassment by the company's 31-year old investor relations head Araceli Roiz. Roiz's lawyers had filed a written complaint with the Nasdaq-listed, Indian outsourcer last week, according to ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214683389/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 03:38:04 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214683389/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: South Korean electronics giant's investment in local rival Pantech in a deal valued at almost US$47.6 million will boost cooperation in smartphone and other business ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214683388/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 03:38:03 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214683388/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: The Queensland government will begin to automatically dock the pay of health workers to recoup overpayments arising from the Queensland Health payroll debacle involving an IBM payroll ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214682441/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 02:31:38 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214682441/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 iiNet will sell the Canberra fibre to the premise (FttP) network it acquired when it took over TransACT to NBN Co in a deal worth AU$9 million, subject to regulatory approval. The TransACT network currently covers 8,500 premises, and a further 4,500 premises are planned or already under construction. iiNet announced that the deal would be settled over the next two months subject to Australian ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214682440/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 02:31:38 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214682440/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Global telecommunications networks may be a huge drain on our energy resources but technologies to combat this is in the works and should be ready for commercialisation by 2020, according to ICT consortium GreenTouch. In April, the Centre for Energy-Efficient Telecommunications (CEET), a joint-venture between Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs, the University of Melbourne, and the Victorian ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214682442/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 02:31:37 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214682442/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey has defended the party's backflip on the accounting methods for the National Broadband Network, stating that the Coalition's NBN being kept off-budget would be "more honest" than Labor's NBN. Since the last Federal Budget, both Hockey and Turnbull have accused the Labor government of engaging in a "charade" and using "accounting ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214682443/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 02:31:36 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214682443/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Google Play Music All Access to see how it compares with Spotify (and with Apple's rumored iRadio) but I've also got my eye on the unlocked Galaxy S4 that Google starts selling on June 26. Anticipating a new Android phone in my future, I've been doing some house cleaning and deleting a bunch of Android apps that I rarely use. When my Droid ran out of power, I was re-acquainted ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214681478/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 01:22:53 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214681478/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Australia will sign onto the global pledge for a more transparent government by joining the Open Government Partnership, Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus announced today. The partnership, which currently has around 47 countries signatories including the United Kingdom, the United States, South Africa, Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico and Norway, was launched in September 2011. Countries that sign onto the ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214679407/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Tue, 21 May 2013 23:04:18 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214679407/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Japan's mobile messaging platform LINE may be preparing to censor politically sensitive phrases in China, following in the footsteps of Tencent-owned WeChat. This was spotted by Twitter ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214679408/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Tue, 21 May 2013 23:04:17 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214679408/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Sumitomo, NEC, and NTT sign contract with Myanmar government to build an optical fiber network which can transmit data at 30 gigabit per second, linking three major cities in the ... http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214679409/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Tue, 21 May 2013 23:04:16 -0400 http://www.internationaltechnology.com/index.php/sid/214679409/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22