UNITED STATES- E-GOVERNMENT: EPA
Launches New Multilingual Websites in Korean and Vietnamese
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is launching new consolidated Web sites in Vietnamese and Korean as part of its ongoing effort to provide environmental information in Spanish, Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese, in addition to English.
These new sites compile EPA multilingual publications and […]
THE BANGLADESH MONEY LAUNDERING PREVENTION ACT
Bangladesh enacted legislation aimed at controlling and preventing money laundering. Money laundering is a criminal offense in Bangladesh and can result in imprisonment for up to seven years, in addition to financial penalties. The Bank of Bangladesh is responsible for investigating suspected cases and presenting them to the courts, as […]
Does the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act Cover Internet Gaming?
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Federal law authorizes US Indian tribes to regulate gaming activities within Indian lands provided that the gaming activity is not expressly prohibited by federal law or the law of the state where the Indian tribe is located. The US Congress enacted the Gaming […]
INTERNATIONAL: Mozilla Leads Push to Reimagine Web Browsers
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Mozilla, the group that oversees scores of volunteer programmers collaborating on the free Firefox Web browser, hopes to attract more visionaries to help change the way people surf the Internet, a newspaper report said on Tuesday.
This week, the group’’s research arm, Mozilla Labs, is […]
THE MALTA DATA PROTECTION ACT 2001
The Maltese Data Protection Act of 2001 (the “Act”) was the first statute in Malta to deal exclusively with the protection of personal data. It was introduced to render Maltese law compatible with Directive 95/46/EC, even though at the moment of its introduction Malta was not a member of the […]
Monopoly Claims against E-commerce Businesses
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
The United States (US) has strong antimonopoly laws that are currently being applied to e-commerce cases. Most of these claims, though, have not succeeded but it is definitely interesting to see how the antimonopoly area of law applies to the cyber world. The Medical Supply Chain, Inc.v. […]
INDIA: India & the Internet
Sunday, August 10, 2008
As the Internet spins a web of interconnectivity around the globe, as it grows literally by the hour, India is struggling, not to catch up but to keep from falling further and further behind.
Inside India, things do seem to be improving. Five years ago there was limited Internet […]
TAIWAN IMPLEMENTATION REGULATIONS REGARDING DISTANCE LEARNING BY UNIVERSITIES 2006
Taiwan or the Republic of China (ROC), has a well-regarded higher education system, especially in the science field. Public universities are rated in the top 1% of research institutions in the world. For example, in the period from 2003-2007, Taiwan had representation in five of twenty-two categories […]
New Fed Law Mandates Internet 911 Emergency Calls Service
Monday, August 11, 2008
President Bush has signed into law a Bill stipulating that phone calls made over the Internet (called Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP service) to a 911 emergency operator, will have the same status and safeguards as traditional 911 calls. This law will be […]
LATIN AMERICA: Visa Predicts E-commerce in Latin America to surpass $16 billion this year
Tuesday, August 05, 2008
According to a new study by Visa Inc. “B2C Electronic Commerce in Latin America and the Caribbean: Beating All Odds.”, retail e-commerce in Latin America, including travel and tourism, rose to nearly $11 billion in 2007, up from about […]