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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) formally launched the Mobile Web Initiative at its WWW2005 Conference in Chiba, Japan, on Wednesday, putting out a call for participants to join two working groups focused on making Web access from mobile devices as natural and easy as making a telephone call. "Web access today is so fundamental, that it shouldn't be hampered by wires," said Philipp Hoschka, W3C's deputy director for Europe. "Through this initiative, we're committed to improving the state of the art in mobile Web content production and mobile access."

Third generation (3G) technology will be relevant to and will significantly benefit the Philippines even though local mobile operators and telecommunications companies remain reluctant to ride on the 3G mobile networks wave.

At the IT department of the well-diversified Al Ghurair Group of Companies, technology is a culture. Not only is the company leading the pack in technology research for in-house consumption, but is evolving from being a technology user to a technology builder.

As security management patterns shift to meet industry trends, several Middle Eastern organizations have outsourced security to managed security service providers (MSSPs), with the goals of cutting costs and gaining access to skilled security staff.

The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) will spearhead the development of a single national identification (ID) system that would "harmonize" the databases of several government agencies, including the National Statistics Office (NSO), Land Transportation Authority (LTO) and the Commission on Elections (Comelec).

The Western Cape has received a lot of press lately as the South African hub of call centre activity, to the degree that readers would be forgiven for assuming that is all that goes in Cape Town, IT-wise anyway. The region, however, has long been a hub of niche software development activity, and is making its mark in other sectors too.

If you're planning to attend the FIFA World Cup soccer tournament in Germany next year but oppose the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) smart tag technology, you won't get past the front gate.