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ZDNet Asia goes global on local

As some of you may have noticed by now, the ZDNet Asia site has gone through a pretty intense makeover. We now sport not just a new look, but also a new framework for how visitors to our site navigate.

There are several key driving forces behind the relaunch. Topmost is the aim to enable all readers, regardless of where.....

1 days ago in B.T.W by Eileen Yu Comment

Making the case for Filipino IT entrepreneurship

Filipinos are again over the moon with the masterful performance of boxing icon Manny Pacquiao in yesterday's bout against Ghana native Joshua Clottey. This guy never ceases to give his hard-up countrymen a reason to cheer every time he fights gallantly in the ring.

Like the "Pacman", there are a number of talented Filipinos in other fields who are giving or.....

5 days ago in The Pinoy Post by Melvin G. Calimag Comment

What will social analytics say about your company?

I was finally able to set aside some time the other night to reassess my privacy settings in Facebook, following changes made to the social network's privacy policy in December.

One significant change is that the "Friends" list can no longer be hidden. Facebook believes this belongs to categories of information, along with others such as name, profile photo and.....

8 days ago in B.T.W by Eileen Yu Comment (1)

When journalists become lil' Twittering birds

It was bound to happen eventually. Love it or hate it, the entire ZDNet team is now on Twitter.

We created a general account over a year ago that we use to push out news headlines, and anyone who's following us will be updated once our stories are published. So, our tweets were pretty straightforward, carrying mainly headlines and URLs.....

16 days ago in B.T.W by Eileen Yu Comment (1)

Time fires first high-speed broadband salvo

A couple of weeks ago before Chinese New Year, local service provider Time dotCom (TdC), announced the launch of Time Fibre Broadband, what it claims to be the fastest high-speed broadband Internet service in Malaysia, touting packages that allow users access at speeds of up to 50Mbps (megabits per second).

At the launch of its service, TdC claimed its.....

22 days ago in Malaysia Explorer by Edwin Yapp Comment (1)

Don't let technology devalue life

I'd thought for a while before deciding to get a dog because I wasn't sure if I would be able to handle the grief of outliving it.

Reading news about lives lost in a devastating earthquake or flood halfway across the globe makes me tear, so I was certain losing a pet that grew up under my care would leave.....

22 days ago in B.T.W by Eileen Yu Comment (2)

IT's not in the agenda

Despite the fact that the IT and e-services sector contributes billions of revenues to the local economy--the semiconductor sub-sector is still the largest export earner for the country--I have yet to hear anyone from the current crop of presidential candidates for this year's national elections talk about their actual plans for this vital industry.

I know three of the guys--Noynoy.....

25 days ago in The Pinoy Post by Melvin G. Calimag Comment

Mindset change needed to work with Chinese developers

Home to the world's largest population, China is undeniably a potentially lucrative market that most businesses from around the globe will want a slice of. But, whether most can succeed in doing so or not, remains debatable.

From conversations with industry contacts and friends, I've been told that the Chinese market isn't easy to penetrate--several foreign businesses have tried, and.....

29 days ago in Tech Podium by Guest Bloggers Comment (1)

Reunion dinners are like project work

Merry metal Tiger year! If your family observes the lunar new year, you would have had the traditional reunion dinner over this past weekend.

As we trickled back to work after the long weekend, my friends and colleagues exchanged updates about our family reunions--always an enthralling experience for most, to say the least. Don't even get me started on mine......

29 days ago in B.T.W by Eileen Yu Comment (1)

New DR framework: all disasters are local

The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the joint DHS-HUD Long-Term Disaster Recovery Working Group are inviting comments on their proposed National Disaster Recovery Framework Draft (59 pages, 834K). Hurry to avoid disappointment: the deadline is Feb. 26, 2010. Download the NDRF draft here, and submit your comments here......

1 months ago in BCP Confidential by Nathaniel Forbes Comment

ZDNet Asia Live

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5 hours 23 minutes ago by haplog on topsy

When I create an event, I click on an approximate time during the day when I want the event to occur, then I click "edit event detail...

20 hours 72009 seconds ago by bessellbrowne on Google Calendar gets 'smart' rescheduling

ipads break alott i had one it broke three times in the month i had it so i got rid of the damn thing id just go for the laptop Top Grade...

20 hours 1 minute ago by bessellbrowne on Report: 'Hundreds of thousands' of iPad preorders

There are a number of websites that still require Internet Explorer to view and IE for Mac Stinks (it is really ies4osx which is the Wind...

20 hours 3 minutes ago by bessellbrowne on Microsoft: Only minor tweaks in Windows 7 SP1

The receivers don't transmit back to the satellite. Unless there is a phone line attached to the receiver, they don't have any wa...

20 hours 6 minutes ago by bessellbrowne on Apple to join the geolocation craze?

What to expect from open source Symbian http://is.gd/aPIGL

20 hours 21 minutes ago by rebelk0de on topsy

"Lead Cognos BI Developer Insurance in New South Wales , Australian ..." http://bit.ly/ayy19L

21 hours 1 minute ago by rhrcognos on topsy

whatever little understanding I have we 'll only progress toward end of the world if we use HPCs to lenthen life of human being. Huma...

1 day 12 minutes ago by abhi32002@gmail.com on High computing promises elixir of life

Thanks for the knowledgeable article on SDDs. Allas...when all this reasearch will happen in Indian Universities. Hope the new bill on Fo...

1 day 25 minutes ago by abhi32002@gmail.com on APAC HPC users eye solid-state drives

It was a good article. This brings a good opportunity for Indian IT firms to come up with new solutions in this field. HPC can become a b...

1 day 44 minutes ago by abhi32002@gmail.com on High computing most-wanted job in Asia

COL KR DHARMADHIKARY(RETD) its very late to reply the link, but if it is still alive and looking for opportunity, i would like to know th...

1 day 41 minutes ago by deb021280 on Education takes off in rural India, helped by PCs

It was just a matter of time until google was marginalised anyway. I'm afraid this will be forgotten in China very quickly. Still, it...

1 day 46 minutes ago by robinsmith on Report: Google to leave China on April 10

High performance computing (HPC) most-wanted job in Asia http://bit.ly/9vFC3i (via @zdnetasia) #singapore

He doesn't care if her shoes are of glass, All he wants to see is a huge rack and nice a*s. Sleeping beauty's not awoken by true ...

1 day 15 minutes ago by warlowdavies on One pair of 3D glasses to rule them all

RT @zdnetasia: EMC COO, Pat Gelsinger, on bridging gaps in the organization and its cloud ambitions in Asia. (cont) http://tl.gd/i5jjd

EMC COO, Pat Gelsinger, on bridging gaps in the organization and its cloud ambitions in Asia. http://bit.ly/9etOZW

Asian SMBs need to pay more attention to disaster recovery planning http://bit.ly/bDet08 via @zdnetasia

Asian SMBs need to pay more attention to disaster recovery planning http://bit.ly/bDet08

[TECH] URL Shorteners slow Web redirection. - http://bit.ly/bySnWK @zdnetasia

URL shorteners are great but they can slow web redirection & you pray it would never go down http://bit.ly/bySnWK via @zdnetasia

Temasek Holdings eyeing tech stocks, indicating optimistic outlook on IT sector. http://bit.ly/aM7VwU

URL shorteners slow Web redirection. http://bit.ly/bySnWK

Chinese agencies cry foul over Google. http://bit.ly/by6rwV

Philippine antipiracy drive focuses on enterprises. http://bit.ly/aWryDC

Gartner: China to become world's fastest-growing enterprise software market. http://bit.ly/bqJTtb

all of sg's isps have been practising compulsory invisible proxy for all home subscribers at their backend since many years back alre...

2 days 25 minutes ago by melvinchia on Web filters mean bad news for business

it is not to good for china.
Proactol

2 days 10 minutes ago by nathonastle on Chinese ad partners beg Google for information

RT @zdnetasia: HP touts new products and management and productivity tools to address business computing pain points. http://bit.ly/dudgA6

For those with a computer science background, or interested in the high performance computing scene: http://bit.ly/9vFC3i

IT security insiders rob casinos of $50K http://is.gd/aPIKR

3 days 41 minutes ago by rebelk0de on topsy

Very good explanation of JMX

3 days 15 minutes ago by Babith B on Managing applications with JMX

The reaction to a report issued Tuesday by Flurry Analytics managed to completely overlook some interesting news--the Android-based Motorola Droid outsold the original iPhone over the same period of time following their respective launches--to focus instead on the sales numbers for the Nexus One.

3 days 18 minutes ago by lonemavericks on diggs

Another ZTE story....

3 days 20 minutes ago by Moderate Your Greed on Philippines opens bid for final 3G license

We at www.fifosys.com have also seen a growth in IT outsourcing and anticipate it as a growing field.

4 days 54 minutes ago by sarah Jane on Companies' outsourcing spend to increase
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