SK Telecom invests in Chinese game developer
South Korean Telecom company invests US$30 million in Qu Wei Di Yi for them to expand into the international market.
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Piracy problem sails to rural China
While software piracy dropped in 11 Asian countries, an increase in PCs shipped with pirated applications in China has kept numbers up, study finds.
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Beijing Olympics IT gets ready for the big freeze
As the Olympics draws near, the technical team says no more changes to the software infrastructure and looks set to be operationally ready.
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UK should 'abandon' software market to China
UK software sales are asked to carve a niche of high-end software demand as they lag far behind China and India booming software revenues.
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Kingsoft not lost in translation with Google's Chinese software
The two join forces on the Google Kingsoft Powerword, a Web-based dictionary that touts new features and Google technology.
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Microsoft sets up R&D center in China
The software giant invests US$280 million to build its largest R&D facility outside of the United States. The Beijing center can accommodate 5,000 staff.
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SAS and Singapore university set up training lab
The business intelligence vendor pairs with Singapore Management University to set up a BI laboratory and scholarship program.
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Open source big names help attract new users
Participation from big open source vendors in smaller user community settings is helping incite new interest in Linux user groups in Asia.
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Salesforce teams up with Google
Salesforce and Google team up to fulfill their promise to free businesses from their maintenance woes.
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Microsoft, Novell to convert Chinese Linux users to Suse Linux Enterprise
Their collaboration in China will focus on joint marketing and training to tap into two emerging areas of interoperability demand: high-performance computing and virtualization.
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Asia behind peers in BPM, but catching up
Asian companies are 18 months behind Western peers in business process management deployment, but will catch up in six months due to competition, says Software AG.
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Autodesk commits to China's digital design education
The company provides free digital design tools for use by the country's students.
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Smaller SaaS players capture Asia-Pacific
Small and local providers secure dominance in Asia's software-as-a-service gameplay, capturing some 54 percent of the market, finds new study.
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Microsoft gives S'pore schools developer tools
The software giant announces a plan to give students in all schools island-wide free access to its developer tools, starting with tertiary institutions.
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Red Hat taps Singapore schools for mindshare
The open source vendor unveils four partner programs to encourage Red Hat competency in Singapore, three of those targeted at tertiary institutions there.
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Reports: Malaysia unmoved in OOXML vote
Industry players say country maintained "abstain" vote, amid claims that the tech minister ignored calls for Malaysia to veto Microsoft's ISO bid.
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Philippines changes OOXML vote to 'yes'
Philippine government now gives its seal of approval, reversing its earlier decision to vote against awarding the Microsoft document format ISO certification.
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Asian Linux user groups aim wide
Several of Asia's Linux user communities are planning various public events to raise awareness of open source technology and rope in more members.
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Oracle introduces social networks to CRM
News update Its new software offering lets businesses bring social networking and online collaboration into their CRM infrastructure.
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India still thumbs-down on Open XML
With a week to go before an important vote count, India votes against Open XML as a standard and lobbying intensifies.
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