Technology Sector

Finnish parliament approves law on e-mail tracking

Finnish parliament approves law on e-mail tracking Helsinki - The Finnish parliament Wednesday approved controversial legislation allowing employers to track e-mails sent by employees.

The legislation was adopted 96 to 56 while 47 parliamentarians were absent at the final reading of the bill.

The so-called data protection law does not allow employers to read e-mails, but e-mails and the size of attachments can be tracked on suspicion of corporate espionage.

Second phase of weapon testing on Tejas is underway

TejasNew Delhi, Mar 4 : The second phase of weapon testing on Tejas, India’s indigenous Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), is currently underway from an Air Force base in the north-western sector.

The focus of the current phase of two-week testing is safe separation and also accuracy of weapon delivery, a Defence Research and Development Organisation statement said.

The results from the tests would validate aerodynamic interference data as well as complex weapon release algorithms in different modes of release, it said.

NASA and Cisco develop online platform to monitor global environmental conditions

NASA and Cisco Washington, March 4 : NASA and Cisco Inc. have announced a partnership to develop an online collaborative global monitoring platform called the “Planetary Skin” to capture, collect, analyze and report data on environmental conditions around the world.

Under the terms of a Space Act Agreement, NASA and Cisco will work together to develop the Planetary Skin as an online collaborative platform to capture and analyze data from satellite, airborne, sea- and land-based sensors across the globe.

Bill Gates ‘bans’ Apple products from family home

Bill Gates ‘bans’ Apple products from family homeWashington, Mar 4: Microsoft founder Bill Gates has banned his family from using Apple''s iPhone and iPod gadgets.

In an interview to Vogue magazine, Melinda Gates has revealed that Bill has barred in three kids, Jennifer, 13, Rory,
10 and Phoebe, 7 from using any of the Apple products.

"There are very few things that are on the banned list in our household. But iPods and iPhones are two things we don''t get for our kids," the Telegraph quoted her as saying.

ROUNDUP: Nuclear powers, Germany offer direct dialogue to Iran

Nuclear powers, Germany offer direct dialogue to IranVienna - The five nuclear weapons states and Germany on Tuesday offered Iran direct dialogue to solve the nuclear spat, while also calling on leaders in Tehran to obey the demands of the United Nations Security Council.

Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States - the permanent members on the Security Council - issued their statement together with Germany to the 35-country board of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna.

China sets up office at CeBIT to ease bootleg disputes

China sets up office at CeBIT to ease bootleg disputesHanover, Germany  - China's trade ministry set up a special office Tuesday at the CeBIT computing trade fair in Germany in a bid to head off disputes over alleged illegal copying of products.

Past fairs have been marred by complaints from western companies that Chinese manufacturers have used proprietary software or product designs without paying royalties to the inventors for intellectual property rights (IPR).

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