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Organization of American States Secretary General Calls for Cooperation in Fight Against Cybercrime
Earlier this week the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, spoke at the inauguration of a two-day Inter-American meeting on cybercrime in which authorities and experts throughout the continent are to evaluate...
London City Hall Set for an Information Revolution
The Mayor of London Boris Johnson has fired the starting gun on an information revolution in the capital as he announced that City Hall is to release online, for the first time, huge realms of previously unavailable data for everyone to see and use free...
Ministry of Defence’s Very Own ‘Dragon’s Den’ Receives Its 1,000th Research Proposal
The Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) very own ‘Dragon’s Den’ has received its 1,000th equipment proposal as defense researchers share their ideas to help frontline troops. The Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE) was set up 18 months...
Valuing Private Life
This morning I received my second invitation to be someone’s friend on Facebook. The first one came from a former colleague; and I felt it was sufficient to reply to him politely through electronic mail, emphasizing that I continued to prefer...
Nightmare on Market Street
It has been so long since I have invoked the spirit of “immutable work practices” in attacking a really stupid human-interface design that I probably ought to quote the last time I cited the concept: Graham Button has lectured and published...
Technology And Competence
In Men, Women and Pianos Arthur Loesser’s comment that pianos “have always largely been fingered by the musically incompetent” will probably strike most as elitist snobbery. However, it has a ring of truth that probably extends far...
Launch Delayed Until December 14 for Nasa’s WISE Spacecraft
The launch of NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, spacecraft aboard a Delta II rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California has been rescheduled for Monday, Dec. 14.
Nigeria Introduces Electronic Monitoring of Petroleum Trucks
Nigeria’s Petroleum Equalisation Fund (PEF) has put in place an e-loading device to monitor the movement of trucks from depots to filling stations to reduce smuggling of petroleum products. PEF Executive Secretary Adefunke Kasali said that the development...
