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Jerry Panagrossi

Consumer Electronics

As Android approaches, carriers embrace change

Mobile operators are now giving up some ground to other players. 
By Stephen Lawson | 23 Sep 2008 Tags: Mobile Telephony
Neil Liu

Green IT

Green IT more than just server virtualisation

A ‘green’ data centre strategy should include power usage effectiveness.
By Jared Heng | 01 Sep 2008 Tags: Virtualisation,Green IT,Storage
Mark Bregman

Security

Symantec builds an incubator for new ideas

Symantec is developing a startup-style Incubator division for new projects.
By Robert McMillan | 30 Oct 2008 Tags: Security
David Chadwick

Biometrics

Asia’s corporates slow on biometrics uptake: Unisys

Biometrics seen by Unisys as ideal for data centre and critical IT system protection
By Ross O. Storey | 10 Oct 2008 Tags: BioIT,Asian

Enterprise Applications

Enterprise Applications

Streamlining corporate transaction processes

HSBC is set to streamline transaction processes for corporate banking clients with the help of a major ERP vendor.
By Jared Heng Tags: Enterprise Application

ITSM

Beefing up IT service management

Improving ITSM takes more than technology deployment, not to mention a change in IT leaders’ mindsets.
By Jared Heng Tags: IT Management

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 is redefining customer service

Malaysia's financial services industry forecast to be at the forefront.
By AvantiKumar Tags: Internet,Malaysia

Hardware

Hardware Systems

Lilliputians propel sales leap

The shift is not lost on manufacturers and HP, Acer, Lenovo, Asus and Dell are just some of the companies that are racing to offer low-cost notebooks.
By Ben Woodhead Tags: Laptops

Consumer Electronics

Wearing tech: Where fashion meets technology

Technology is not just for your desktop anymore; it has the potential to infiltrate your closet.
By Ashley Laurel Wilson Tags: Consumer Electronics

Hardware Systems

New Lenovo laptop line launched in Malaysia

Package targets major small business growth.
By AvantiKumar Tags: Hardware

IT Services

Outsourcing

Avoiding the tender traps

The biggest issue for an ICT re-tendering exercise is the availability of time or, more frequently, the lack of it.
By Stewart James Tags: Outsourcing

Open Source

What outsourcers can learn from open-source communities

Enterprises using outsourcing for their programming needs could stand to learn some management and process techniques from the open-source community.
By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols Tags: Open source,Outsourcing

USA

Outsourcing vendor to move 'higher-level' IT jobs offshore

Vendor plans to increase the number of employees working offshore by 4,200 during its current fiscal year, which began July.
By Patrick Thibodeau Tags: Outsourcing

Open Source

Open Source

Key legal win for open source

The ruling in Jacobsen v. Katzer concerns an open source software program made available in source code form for download and use by the public, free of charge.
By Maureen Garde and Jeffrey Neuburger Tags: Legal,Open source

Open Source

Open source infiltrates government IT worldwide

Linux and Open Source solutions are growing. The growth is not just within commercial enterprises.
By Jim Romeo Tags: Open source,Software

Open Source

Open-source applications gaining ground across Asia

Reception toward open source technology has been very positive across Asia, the top executive of a Philippine-based global software and engineering services company said.
By Computerworld Philippines staff Tags: Open source,Software

Security

Internet Fraud

Breaking up the fraud threat

While fraud will happen, a series of solutions can help mitigate the risks, say experts at a conference
By Jack Loo Tags: Security

Security

Welcome to your new job! First things first, let’s get everything set-up for when you leave…

The process of ensuring that a company’s security is not compromised by the departure of staff needs to begin on an employee’s first day in the job.
By Marc Hudavert Tags: Security

Career Management

Investing in your IT security career in tough times

Advice for those Information Security professionals who are concerned about the future of their jobs
By Jeff Combs Tags: Career Management

Software

Windows Vista

Window of opportunity to improve the vista

Microsoft is preparing a new version of Windows that it hopes will help transform the company.
By Ben Woodhead (AFR) Tags: Microsoft,Operating system

Gaming

How Facebook changed gaming

"More people are playing games now than at any other time," says Joseph Olin, president of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences.
By Melissa J. Perenson Tags: Gaming

Cloud Computing

The wisdom of cloud computing

Depending on who you talk to, cloud computing is described variously as a form of software as a service, platform as a service or utility computing.
By Margaret Locher Tags: Cloud computing

Storage

Data Centres

Asia’s first super Internet data centre in Singapore

Regional hub to deliver AT&T Synaptic Hosting
By Zafar Anjum Tags: Data Centres

Hardware Systems

Gartner: Modernize data centres or risk energy costs

Legacy data centres made in the last decade are essentially obsolete in terms of environmentally sustainable IT, according to Gartner.
By Rafi Cooper Tags: Data Centres

Business Continuity

10 criteria to selecting the right enterprise business continuity software

This article presents 10 new criteria companies should take into account as they select and implement business continuity software that aligns with their corporate demands.
By Jerome M Wendt Tags: Business continuity

Telecoms & Networking

Recession's Impact

Economy has ‘modest’ impact on Asian mobile operations: Ovum

Sector will be more resilient than others, says consulting firm
By Subatra Suppiah Tags: Mobile Telephony

Internet

Now log on to the ‘inter-planetary Internet’

NASA successfully tests first deep-space Internet
By Zafar Anjum Tags: Internet,Space Science

Networking

Is our Internet future in danger?

There are signs of the free "broadband" ride being nearly over.
By Galen Gruman and Tom Kaneshige Tags: Networking

Feature

Carol Ko

TechHK

Goldfingers in China

Nine Shanghai banks are rolling out fingerprint recognition payment systems.
By Carol Ko | 06 Nov 2008
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