Peter Sayer

Search engines are directing visitors to a subtle parody of the Web site of the World Trade Organization (WTO) instead of the real thing

Search engines are directing visitors to a subtle parody of the Web site of the World Trade Organization (WTO) instead of the real thing

The French government has cut the license fee it will charge French mobile network operators to operate UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) networks in an effort to attract bidders for the two licenses still not attributed.

France plans to make all its public administration functions remotely accessible to citizens by phone, Internet or local kiosk by 2005, but remains wary of commercial personal identification technologies, Michel Sapin, the French minister for the civil service and administrative reform announced yesterday.

France plans to make all its public administration functions remotely accessible to citizens by phone, Internet or local kiosk by 2005, but remains wary of commercial personal identification technologies, Michel Sapin, the French minister for the civil service and administrative reform announced in August.

Nortel Networks Corp. forecasts a quarterly net loss of around US$19.2 billion and announced it was looking to cut a further 10,000 jobs, Nortel said Friday.

European business leaders see investing in technology as their most important concern, with almost 80 per cent of them citing it as the key driver to their continuing business success, according to research conducted by International Data Corp. (IDC) and sponsored by Microsoft Corp.

Antivirus software manufacturers are reporting the appearance of the first virus to infect applications on systems running either Linux or Microsoft Corp.'s Windows