Developers are Nokia's path to emerging markets
Mobile maker is placing renewed focus on app creators, in hope that developer-centric strategy will drive its push into Asia's emerging markets, say top execs.
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Open source needs successful champions
Open source industry needs profitable proponents to illustrate success, attract funding and encourage participation, says Red Hat CEO.
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Singapore gets Microsoft hosted suite
Country is first in Asia to get Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite, already launched in U.S. and Europe, at monthly fee of US$10 per seat.
Find more stories in: Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Cloud computing, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., network, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, Broadband, business productivity, Indonesia
Windows 7 to fulfill 'unsated demand' for next OS
Lack of Vista deployments will prompt most businesses to upgrade to Windows 7 from XP, says Microsoft executive.
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APAC SaaS spend to hit $2.3B by 2012
Asia-Pacific businesses choose software-as-a-service after evaluating on-premise apps, indicating SaaS software has "begun to eat into on-premise" market, says new study.
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Asian enterprises want 'packaged clouds'
Enterprises looking to go to cloud quickly are not keen on piecemeal components. Instead, they want cloud offerings that come packaged, says virtualization vendor.
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S'pore govt, Razer unveil games R&D lab
New US$21 million initiative aims to mentor local game startups and allow them to learn from, and exchange ideas with global game powerhouses.
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Funding boost for Malaysia's mobile developers
Country's mobile app makers can receive funds and related support from new initiative between two government agencies and Nokia.
Find more stories in: Applications and tools, Symbian, Training, Asia-Pacific, digital content, Developer, Kuala Lumpur, collaboration, Symbian, Lee Min Keong
Google, Zoho challenge Microsoft abroad, too
In India and China, upstarts aim to erode Microsoft's dominance by delivering business productivity software that's cheaper and more accessible.
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Cloud floats among India's large firms
Large enterprises in India are opting for cloud computing, choosing hybrid and private clouds to resolve concerns over data security and regulatory compliance.
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More enterprise users demand search
Singapore's workers are demanding enterprise search tools similar to what they are used to on the Web, says local systems integrator, NCS.
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Cloud has huge potential in India's SMBs
India's large number of small and midsize businesses and platform's low cost, high operational efficiency and scalability will drive cloud use there, say Nasscom members.
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China biz software sector to be Asia's largest
Country's enterprise software market is projected to expand at annual growth rate of 18 percent to reach US$9.4 billion in 2012, new study reports.
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Checker eases app programming flow
Managing software development process allows one Singapore software vendor to diversify offerings and keep customers coming back, says founder.
Find more stories in: Software engineering/development, IBM Corp., Programmer, Singapore, Software Update, development environment, Programming, IDE, Vertical industries, application development
Social networks to augment analytics
Relational links between people are being applied to refine business analytic findings and reduce rate of false positives, says SAS executive.
Find more stories in: Data mining & analysis, Strategic analysis, Data warehousing/business intelligence, SAS Institute, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, business analytics, public sector, business intelligence, social networking
Red Hat takes developer efforts to Malaysia
CEO Jim Whitehurst lauds country's open source deployments in public sector, and launches Red Hat program to drive adoption and innovation.
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Microsoft: Asia faster to embrace hosted services
More companies in region expected to take up Microsoft's hosted messaging and collaboration products than those in United States, says company exec.
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Red Hat to step up developer efforts
CEO Jim Whitehurst pledges to boost open source vendor's efforts to drive developer activity, and says company is unfazed by desktop competition.
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Open source movement spreads across Asia
This ZDNet Asia special report looks at what's moving open source adoption across four Asian economies--Singapore, Malaysia, India and the Philippines.
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Open source adoption 'anomaly' in Philippines
Country's private sector is unexpected early adopters of open source, which analysts say will be further boosted by entrance of Google's upcoming Chrome OS.
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