David Legard

So many American citizens are demanding access to government services online that a Web presence is now necessary for government bodies at all levels in the United States, according to a study released Thursday by Pew Internet and American Life Project.

Singapore and Ireland will cooperate to promote electronic commerce in their two countries and to develop a clear and transparent regulatory and legal framework for e-commerce, government representatives from the two countries said in a statement Thursday.

Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Compaq Computer Corp. are to jointly build the infrastructure for Singapore's new Bioinformatics Research Centre (BIRC), the parties announced in a statement Tuesday.

Worldwide PC shipments will grow three per cent in 2002 to 125.5 million units, faster than previous estimates of 1.8 per cent growth, market researcher IDC said Wednesday.

Corporate end users of Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) and Compaq Computer Corp. systems are split almost equally for and against the merger of the two companies. But almost half of the 243 IT managers surveyed said they were undecided and would give the merger the benefit of the doubt, research company Technology Business Research Inc. (TBR) said Wednesday.

Developed IT countries are exporting huge quantities of hazardous electronics waste to Asia where they are processed in operations that are very harmful to human health and the environment, a group of environmental organizations have charged.

The Singapore government's Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) has identified photonics, which uses light rather than electronics for all aspects of communications and networking, as a key technology for the future, IDA announced Thursday.

Markets which have good infrastructure and an educated user base are giving enough business to ASPs to make the market sector viable in the Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan) region, according to market analyst International Data Corp.