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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SURGE in research and development sparked by the 1995-8 slump in the semi-conductor industry will create an unprecedented boom in sales of chip-based products, the latest World Commodity Survey from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, (UNCTAD, has claimed.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
TRUST SERVICES provider VeriSign has announced that its managed PKI, (public key infrastructure), services will meet the criteria set out by the EU Commission’s Directive for digital signatures. The Directive aims to accelerate the acceptance of digital signatures to provide secure e-commerce and communications.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GROWTH in the high technology sector means big profits for those that succeed in the race to market ‘the next big thing,’ but that also means high tech criminals are hot on the trail of consumers and manufacturers unaware that their new gadget is a fraudsters new scamming device, reports Monica Dobie, in Montreal, Canada.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GROWTH in the high technology sector means big profits for those that succeed in the race to market ‘the next big thing,’ but that also means high tech criminals are hot on the trail of consumers and manufacturers unaware that their new gadget is a fraudsters new scamming device, reports Monica Dobie, in Montreal, Canada.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A CALL has been made at a meeting of the parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer, for developing countries to be given less time to phase out the CFC substitute HCFC’s, which also damages patches of the gas in the high atmosphere.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTENATIONAL organisation committed to developing a workable fusion reactor has formally decided to move ahead with the next stage of its plan to develop the first fusion device to produce thermal energy at the level of a commercial power station.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Space Agency has been battling to save face after the launch of its most sophisticated navigation and mobile communications satellite went wrong, sending Artemis into an unplanned orbit that would prevent its auto-related technology from working properly.…

Keith Nuthall
THE UNITED States has lifted its retaliatory 100 per cent duties on EU exports of cotton bed linen, following the solution of the years-long row with the European Union over its import procedures for Caribbean bananas. The duties had been authorised by the WTO, which had concluded that the EU had broken global trading laws by offering preferential access to its markets to Caribbean bananas.…

KEITH NUTHALL
GLOBAL consumption of textiles is “continuing on its upwards trend,” the latest World Commodity Survey from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development has said. Consumption volume is predicted to rise from 48 million tonnes to between 56 and 58 million tonnes by 2005, said the report.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Space Agency has been battling to save face after the launch of its most sophisticated telecommunications satellite went wrong, sending it into an unplanned orbit that would prevent its technology from working properly.

Artemis has had US$850 million lavished upon it, so that it would provide sophisticated communications and global positioning navigations services, especially to transport operations.…