The News Review:
- Are online auctions too good to be true?
- SGPC for ban on auction of relics
- Auction know-how
- The Bidder
The News Review:
- Are online auctions too good to be true?
- SGPC for ban on auction of relics
- Auction know-how
- The Bidder
[...] Tata Consultancy Says Wins Software Contract From Chrysler LLCBloomberg – Apr 5, 2008,India's largest exporter of software services, said it won a newmulti-year contract from Chrysler LLC to provide software supportfor the automaker's marketing and sales work. Tata Consultancy, based in Mumbai, gave no details on thevalue of the contract in an e-mailed statement today. The Indiancompany announced in February it had got a $120 million orderfrom Chrysler. To contact the reporter on this story:.Related: Auction know-how [...]
[...] Japan’s garrulous bloggers go strangely silentThe Age – Apr 4, 2008What is most alarming, critics contend, is the decision totarget kozensei — an ambiguous term meaning “contentthat has openness”. That would almost certainly make millions ofcurrently unregulated services, including blogs, personal websitesand bulletin boards, eligible for forcible correction orclosure. Kazuo Hizumi, a journalist-turned-lawyer who blogs prolificallyon media issues, has been particularly scathing. “If you look atthe fascist movement in prewar Japan, the dangers in the regulationof information by the Government are obvious. “That the Government is going to get involved in selecting, bymeans of filtering software, what information should be blocked— this is completely outrageous. This absolutely cannot beallowed. The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication says this isa silly overreaction… A Communications Ministry spokesman said the Government was”simply aiming to regulate the harmful and illegal online contentthat is sometimes spread on influential sites”. There is concern that if some of this content is allowed tofilter through Japan’s multitude of blogs, the result could beembarrassing for the Government. According to a State of the Live Web report by blogsearch engine Technorati, 37% of the world’s blogs are in Japanese,putting it ahead of English, on 36%, and making it theinternational language of blogging. Doubts remain over how many Japanese blogs are actually spamsites, but Chris Salzberg, co-editor of international blog round-upGlobal Voices, says that, either way, the Japanese produce adisproportionately high number of blogs. The issue, he says, is notthat the Government is trying to regulate online content, but thatno one is paying attention to the fact. Recently, Japan’s four biggest internet service providers,responding to a separate Government directive, agreed to adopt a”notice and disconnect” policy for illegal downloaders. It allsuggests the ruling party is preparing to “bring to an end the daysof the country’s largely hands-off approach to onlinecommunication, ushering in an era of increased governmentinvolvement”, Mr Salzberg wrote in The Japan Times.Related: Soap star hosts auction today [...]