government

• Article | 16/02/2012 Telenor seeks compensation from Indian partner for loss of 2G licenses

  Norwegian mobile operator Telenor said Wednesday that it has issued a notice to its Indian joint venture partner seeking indemnity and compensation af...
• Article | 16/02/2012 EU IT companies to get guidance on human rights issues

  Just as European surveillance and mobile-message filtering companies come under increasing pressure to safeguard human rights, two Irish companies hav...
• Article | 16/02/2012 SEC denies carrier attempts to block shareholder net neutrality votes

  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has rejected attempts by three telecom companies to block shareholder votes on whether they should commit ...
• Article | 15/02/2012 Ordinary Chinese divided on iPad trademark dispute

  Ordinary Chinese people are taking sides in the iPad trademark battle between Apple and local display vendor Proview, with some thinking the U.S. tech...
• Article | 15/02/2012 Apple's iPad 3 could face customs ban in China

  Apple's much speculated iPad 3 has emerged as the latest target in an ongoing trademark dispute in China, after a little-known Chinese firm said on We...

• Article | 21/05/2009 Lost hard drive and other government data blunders

  The U.S. government says it's lost - yes, lost - an entire hard drive full of sensitive data. The external drive, stored at the U.S. National Archives...
• Article | 3/11/2008 Are design issues to blame for e-vote 'flipping'?

  Are some touch-screen voting machines really "flipping" votes from one candidate to another, or are the voters who claim their votes are being changed...
• Article | 16/10/2008 Eight ways technology has shaped the US elections

  Technology has played a particularly prominent role in the 2008 US elections -- and it isn't just the typical silliness over whether a candidate reall...

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