What's wrong with Canada? A business view.
THERE SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN A TIME, IN THE '60s, when private business was thought of as crass, polluting, exploitative, amoral, not really necessary, and likely on its last less. Business started climbing back in the '70s, with expensive advertising intended to convince a sceptical public that business cared....

IT SERVICES: GETRONICS GROUP GROWS EUROPEAN WINGS.
After 23 years in charge, Ton Risseuw, who has stage-managed Dutch IT services firm Getronics Group NV through formation, flotation to recent restructuring, is to step down as president and CEO. The restructuring, from January 1 1999, converting Getronics into a business group, provides a coda to Risseuw's reign....

AOL MOVES INTO LATIN AMERICA.
America Online Inc yesterday announced a 50/50 joint venture with the Cisneros Group, a Venezuela-based media, entertainment and telecommunications company, to offer internet and content services across the Latin American market. During a press conference yesterday, the companies said the Cisneros Group will make an initial investment of $100m...

The uses of violence: global media networks were supposed to make it more difficult for rogue states to perpetrate violence against their victims. But the age of mediatised war may have the opposite effect.
In 1993, drunk on post-Cold War triumphalism and eager to boost the ratings of his newly acquired satellite television network, Star TV, Rupert Murdoch declared that satellite television presented an `unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere'. As things turned out, the threat of satellite television was somewhat...

No easy route to market for satellite broadband: rural Americans have rushed to sign up for the early satellite broadband services, but are there enough people like them around the world to make a business for the second-generation global systems now in development? (Space).
Most of the developed world's rapidly growing demand for speedier Internet access is being met by ground-based technologies, principally cable modem and, with its ability to greatly increase the data capacity of ordinary phone links, asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL). But for reasons of geography, demography and economics, these...

SC: Garci tape ban unconstitutional; Prior restraint on media, Supreme Court rules High Court rejects warnings on media by DoJ and NTC.
Byline: REY G. PANALIGAN The Supreme Court (SC) declared unconstitutional yesterday the warnings issued by two government agencies on the airing of the alleged wiretapped conversations between President Arroyo and former Commission on Elections (Comelec) Commissioner Virgilio "Garci" Garcillano during the 2004 presidential election. In...

Globalization (1) and media: do twentieth-century concepts remain relevant?
Abstract 'Historical understanding of the emergence of modern media provides a basis for envisaging alternatives in commercialized, globalized era': on the eve of 'September 11' a colleague and I concluded a book on media and society in the twentieth century with these words. This paper asks, five...

'Wi-Fi'ght them when you can join them? How the Philadelphia compromise may have saved municipally-owned telecommunications services.
When the Mayor of Philadelphia announced his plan to provide municipally sponsored Wi-Fi Internet access, Verizon, the incumbent telecommunications service provider organized lobbyists to block the plan. The compromise eventually struck between Pennsylvania municipalities and Verizon, which allows municipalities to offer telecommunications services after giving Verizon a right of...

Structural changes in telecommunications and regulatory policy in Japan (*).
Abstract: This paper discusses and evaluates telecommunications regulatory policy in Japan taking into account the structural changes in the industry. The first section of the paper describes the basic concept of regulation in telecommunications, and is followed by an outline of privatisation, the introduction of competition in Japan and...

Is it really that bad?
It was a highly strung revelation that the hundreds in the gallery of the plenary session hall and maybe millions more watching intently the unfolding drama in their home via a "live" TV coverage distinctly heard last Monday. What gives? It was about a wholesale...