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The U.S. Department of Justice announced last week that a former education consultant from California has been sentenced to serve seven-and-a-half years in prison for rigging bids and defrauding a U.S. government program designed to help schools and libraries in poor areas connect to the Internet.

The Local Government Performance Index, an analysis by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, a western Canadian think-tank, has found that our cities are suffering from more than just a lack of attention. Poor public disclosure, archaic accounting and vast performance differences from city to city paint an unflattering picture.

The environmental pressure group, FOE (Friends of the Earth), believes carbon offsetting tactics are a smokescreen to avoid real measures to counter climate change.

The U.S. Department of Justice is pushing the FBI and its other operating units to speed up and expand their efforts to share a wide array of information with outside law enforcement agencies via a centralized database called OneDOJ.

A little-known start-up has demonstrated wireless broadband 1,000 times more efficient than WiMax -- and claims the technique could also make wireless LANs that will run for years on watch batteries.

Local IT service companies could benefit from tax changes signalled by New Zealand's finance minister Michael Cullen in the 2003 Budget, delivered to Parliament yesterday.

BT Wholesale yesterday announced plans to trial a 1Mbps consumer ADSL service this autumn.

IBM Corp. has announced a suite of service and support options for Linux on its S/390 systems...