Communications & Telecom

Decentralized systems, such as those used by electronic communications networks (ECN) to trade securities, are a good model for protecting systems from catastrophic attacks such as Sept. 11, financial executives told a U.S. House subcommittee.

Job pickings are slimmer than they have been in recent years, but jobs are out there for IT workers who can add value to a company

Buyers of software, telecommunications, electricity and other services in New Zealand should see their consumer rights safeguarded by mid-2002.

Telecommunications and computer companies have posted the largest number of job cuts since January, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc.

U.S. public-safety organizations pressed the FCC to stop granting waivers and extensions to cellular communications companies that would allow them to miss the Oct. 1 start date for Enhanced 911 wireless location services.

While the number of women going online is increasing in the Asia-Pacific region, efforts are still needed to promote greater Internet awareness, especially among housewives and the older generation, a panel of women technologists at a worldwide forum said.

A court in Ho Chi Minh City sentenced a U.S. company executive to 13 years in jail last week for stealing phone time worth 60 billion dong (US$4 million), according to an official government report.

The big city on the right bank of the Rio de la Plata has many nicknames: the Queen of the Plata, Capital City of Tango, the New York City of the Southern Cone, or simply the Port. Call it what you will, Buenos Aires, Argentina, is among the world's biggest capitals and busiest IT and telecommunications centres.