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Ultimate 2012 recovery site: the moon

Posted in BCP Confidential by Nathaniel Forbes on Wednesday, November 25 2009 02:41 PM

Have you seen the disaster movie "2012"? A friend from Control Risks and I did, and we reluctantly concluded we wouldn't be able to write off the cost of our tickets as a professional development expense.

Spoiler: In the movie, China saves the human race, and all the American political leaders are black people. Selected..... Read more ť

Tags: moon recovery site, moon BCP, water on the moon, moon disaster recovery, 2012

Amendments to empower Copyright Tribunal

Posted in Tech Legal by Bryan Tan on Monday, November 23 2009 08:39 AM

As a lawyer, I often inform my clients about the need to clear licenses with the various licensing societies whenever they use works belonging to other parties. This is especially familiar to those in the entertainment industry, for example, a singer who wants to re-record a version of a song written by someone else.

The same affects the technology industry--say,..... Read more ť

Tags: copyright, tribunal, mp3, Collection Society, Internet radio

Don't CC me, I'll CC you

Posted in By The Way by Eileen Yu on Friday, November 20 2009 03:13 AM

Carbon paper fascinated me when I was younger. Write once, get two copies. What a great invention and work tool, I thought.

Then came e-mail, and making carbon copies of important notes and messages got even easier. So effortless, in fact, that CC has become one of the most abused office tools today.

There've been one too many times when I've..... Read more ť

Tags: Carbon, ROI, CC, business process, job

M'sian broadband wars heat up

Posted in Malaysia Explorer by Edwin Yapp on Tuesday, November 17 2009 12:38 PM

Consumer broadband service in Malaysia has been around for almost 10 years now, but it wasn't until 2005/2006 that the stakes of the broadband service in Malaysia were increased.

Until then, the only broadband service that consumers could count on was provided by state-owned incumbent, Telekom Malaysia (TM). But in 2005, wireless players Celcom and Maxis Communications upped the ante by..... Read more ť

Tags: 3G, wireless service, EDGE, P1, Malaysia

Where have all the bosses gone?

Posted in By The Way by Eileen Yu on Friday, November 13 2009 03:01 AM

I've had dreams of opening my own cafe or bistro...cum music store...cum music school. But, I soon gave up that dream when I realized it would require significant investment and guts to start a new business from scratch--money which I didn't have, and guts which I didn't have enough of...and still don't.

It ain't easy setting up your own shop, and..... Read more ť

Tags: Small And Medium Enterprise, Entrepreneur, Alibaba.com, Courage, medical device

NUS Enterprise: An 'incubator without walls'

Posted in Tech Podium by Eileen Yu on Thursday, November 12 2009 01:36 PM

Almost everyone has had dreams of owning their own shop, but most of us know also that it takes a fair amount of resources to open a new business, and even more to keep it going.

Needless to say, it requires guts and gumption for someone to decide they're willing to risk potential failure and strike out on their own...... Read more ť

Tags: Entrepreneurial, Start-up, Entrepreneur, Start-up Company, entrepreneurship

Will there be too many chefs cooking India's UID broth?

Posted in Inside India by Swati Prasad on Thursday, November 12 2009 12:31 PM

Today's newspapers carry a photograph of Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz offering a bouquet of flowers to India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

It wasn't just another meeting between the Indian PM and the CEO of a multinational. Like several other CEOs of MNC IT companies, Bartz offered help to India for its US$4 billion Unique Identification (UID) program.

Bartz also met..... Read more ť

Tags: Google, Cisco, Amazon, Wipro, Infosys

Are telcos new drivers of outsourcing industry?

Posted in Sourcing Insight by Michael Rehkopf on Monday, November 09 2009 03:19 PM

The recent TPI Index from TPI highlighted an interesting trend where a few very large telco-to-telco contracts--instances where one telecommunications carrier outsources its network operations requirements to another telecommunications service provider--accounted for more than 30 percent of the Broader Market's total contract value (TCV).

Given that in 2008, the telecommunications vertical was #1 in terms of ACV (annual contract..... Read more ť

Tags: Asia-Pacific, telecommunications carrier outsource, telecommunications service provider, Outsource, telecommunications

In Philippines, free ads site tops them all

Posted in The Pinoy Post by Melvin G. Calimag on Monday, November 09 2009 01:08 PM

Last September, just after typhoon Ketsana (locally known as "Ondoy") razed the Philippines, veteran IT chronicler Jim Ayson wrote in his blog that Facebook has become the most popular site in the Philippines.

Although Ayson commented in his blog that the surge of online activities after..... Read more ť

Tags: Site, Philippines, Blogger, Sulit.com.ph, Web Site

What Y2K can teach us about 2012

Posted in By The Way by Eileen Yu on Friday, November 06 2009 04:11 AM

Dec. 21, 2012. It's a big day on the calendar, particularly because some believe it marks the last day of the world as we know it. The apocalypse. Armageddon.

The end of the world prediction spawns mainly from the Mayan Long Count calendar, which terminates on that fateful December 2012 day. I would suggest the Mayans quite simply possibly ran..... Read more ť

Tags: Y2K, Prediction, Y2K bug, NASA, Sony Pictures