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Don't CC me, I'll CC you
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 been CCed in e-mail messages outlining issues I had no direct involvement in, or when I've seen names in the CC list that I didn't even recognize or had me scratching my head over their role in the issues outlined.
What... Read more »
By Eileen Yu in By The Way -- Friday, November 20 2009 03:13 AM
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Cloud ecosystem needs operator participation to provide single point of blame, to win businesses' confidence in moving over, says consultant.
Thursday, November 19 2009 06:18 PM
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Microsoft will only offer hosted productivity suite next year, but Office has user familiarity, trust and resources that Google may not match, say analysts.
Thursday, November 19 2009 06:11 PM
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Country's Land Transport Authority hopes to make public transport "choice mode" by offering Google Maps as part of travel planning service.
Thursday, November 19 2009 12:20 PM
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Mozilla hosts outreach programs to drive Web standards and has special version of Firefox for China, where browser landscape features IE clones.
Wednesday, November 18 2009 04:04 PM
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Web sites,
IE-clone,
Li,
IP Television
Calling contact center still preferred method for Asian customers seeking tech help, even with emergence of new media tools, says market specialist.
Wednesday, November 18 2009 05:20 PM
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Customer resource management (CRM),
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Cloud provider's push into Asia-Pacific is expected to provide a boost of assurance to companies of cloud computing's viability, says analyst.
Tuesday, November 17 2009 12:14 PM
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Web services,
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software,
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Nearly 80 percent of security tools fail to perform during initial certification tests, requiring two or more cycles of further testing, reports product testing firm.
Tuesday, November 17 2009 06:45 PM
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ICSA Labs,
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Developers in region hoping to bring apps to global audience should work on developing cleaner and more intuitive user interfaces, says Nokia exec.
Monday, November 16 2009 07:36 PM
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Mobile applications,
Software engineering/development,
Nokia Corp.,
Mobile App,
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Anti-piracy law won't be implemented in Singapore as existing laws are sufficient, and will also be difficult to implement, say industry watchers.
Monday, November 16 2009 07:02 PM
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Digital rights management (DRM),
Regulations,
environmental scan,
Sledgehammer,
Survey
Search giant sets sights on office software leader, Microsoft Office, with "30 to 50 updates" to be released for Google Docs next year, says top exec.
Friday, November 13 2009 05:00 PM
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Software-as-a-service (SaaS),
Microsoft Office,
Google Inc.,
OpenDocument Format
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Bringing back Mickey Mouse's dark side
newsmaker Well-known video game designer will get chance to show the world mischievous side of cartoon icon in Disney's Epic Mickey, a game for the Wii to be released next fall.
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BuzzCity taps 'unwired' to retain buzz
newsmaker Co-founder Lai Kok Fung views rising mobile Internet use in previously ignored markets such as Indonesia, as key to Singapore company's growth.
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After 5 years, Firefox faces new challenges
Mozilla helped reshape the Web since releasing Firefox 1.0 five years ago. Now it's got a reawakened Microsoft and Google Chrome to reckon with.
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