Information Technology

THE information and communications technology ministry has laid over 2,118km of the fibre optic cable, a top official said last week. Dr. Jimmy Saamanya, the permanent secretary, told ICT stakeholders at the Sheraton Kampala Hotel that the ministry was embarking on phase two of the project that links upcountry towns.  

Drug approvals are taking just as long as they ever did despite increased expenditure on new information technology at the Food and drug Administration. So says a statistical analysis of approval intervals from 1997 to 2006, published in the International Journal of Electronic Healthcare.  

Martin Courtney, Computing, Monday 23 November 2009 at 10:06:00 Recession is a good time to renegotiate ICT contracts Most companies will maintain or expand investment in information and communications technology (ICT) in 2010, say analysts. The current downturn in spending means IT managers have a significant opportunity to renegotiate existing deals with telcos, service providers and equipment vendors. Many firms are looking at ICT to help...  

Kotu Senior Secondary SchoolÂ's Information and Communication Technology (ITC) club, on Thursday organised an inter-school quiz for ten seinor schools in the Greater Banjul Area and Western Region at Kotu Senior Secondary School ground. Speaking at ...  

Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship (QRCE) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Assintel, Italian association of ICT companies, under which both parties will be cooperating to enhance ties between the two countries in the information and communications technology field.  

Moving away from the shadow of Satyam's scam history, software exporter Mahindra Satyam on Tuesday said the Indian company would be repositioned as a complete Information and Communications Technology (ICT) firm from just an IT outsourcing player.  

Tunis — As part of the celebration of the 22nd anniversary of the November 7 Change, a videoconference with the Japanese "Tsukuba University" was held in Kairouan. The Tunisian-Japanese cooperation in information technology and communication (ICT ...  

(MENAFN - Jordan Times) Jordan Exporters Association (JEA) has recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Information Technology Association (int@j) to implement the JEA-branded Export T...  

I recently co-authored a study for Harvard’s Berkmans Center on the impact of new Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on Democratic Tendency. The study was presented at the 3rd International Conference on ICT for Development (ICTD2009) in Doha, Qatar, earlier this year. The study asks whether the rapid increase in global Internet access has any democratizing [...]  

SYS-CON Media (press release)Nebula Launches – the US Government Gets Cloud Computing RightSYS-CON Media (press release)Vivek Kundra presented these questions, following with a high level briefing on how the US government will leverage cloud computing and modern Platform ...  

InquirerNvidia Launches Next GPU Computing ArchitecturePC MagazineNvidia launched its second-generation GPU computing architecture on Wednesday, code-named "Fermi". Oak Ridge National Laboratory will design ...Nvidia pushes further into mainstream computingReutersSupercomputer to use new Nvidia 'Fermi' chipCNET NewsNvidia says Fermi speculation is "insane"TG DailyHPCwire -DailyTech -Inquirerall 279 news articles »  

Indian ExpressIBM to launch cloud computing offering LotusLive iNotes next weekdomain-BIBM is all set to launch take on Google in the next wave in computing – cloud computing or utility computing. Big Blue will unveil a basic 'cloud computing' ...IBM To Launch Web-Based E-Mail ServiceInformationWeekIBM Takes On Google, Microsoft Cloud Email ServicesMediaPost PublicationsIBM undercuts Google with discount e-mail serviceThe Associated PressWhite...  

TG DailyNvidia and "Starting the Next Age of Personal Computing"TG DailyThey are talking about supercomputing for the masses like we used to talk about computing for the masses before Steve Jobs and the Woz ever created the ...TopCoder and NVIDIA Announce Winners of CUDA Superhero Challenge ...PR Newswire (press release)Nvidia unshackles Visual Studio with Nexus GPU integrationTG Dailyall 16 news articles »  

Elbert: Cloud computing, at your service wherever you areDesMoinesRegister.comTo a casual observer, the cloud computing movement seems a bit ironic. For years, a chief focus of information technology was to compress computing capacity ...Cloud computing gathers steam with mobile devicesPost-Bulletinall 2 news articles »  

COMMENT: Orcon launches NZ's first locally-developed cloud ...National Business ReviewOrcon, under its iServe brand, has launched New Zealand's first locally-developed cloud computing service for small to medium-sized enterprises. ...and more »