MS Monopoly Deepening in Korea

"For a nation that prides itself as a high-tech utopia, the land of fancy third-generation (3G) phones, wireless broadband and citizen-driven media, it's amazing how South Korea continues to invent new ways to be held hostage by a single corporation ― Microsoft. It's now...

RI must be cautious in cooperation with Singapore: Observer

""The Ministry of Communications and Informatics (Depkominfo) needs to take a lesson from previous agreements (with Singapore) such as the defense cooperation agreement and the extradition treaty which have been assessed disadvantageous to Indonesia," Anas Urbaningrum,...

Adoption of e-Government by Developing Countries

E-government initiatives in the Asia-Pacific region are catalyzed by three different scenarios, which take place in varying degrees in different nations. First, e-government has been driven by a vendor/consultant push that stands to benefit from increased investments in...

Germany: Spooky Private Public Partnership

A while ago, I wrote about the news in Germany, which seems pretty much "gleichgeschaltet" these days (like "leitmotiv", an intranslatable term expressing something like if media for some funny reason all write or broadcast the same story, opinionwise), and cloaked PR. One...