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5 tips to ensure cloud data quality

zdnews-asia@cnet.com (Victoria Ho) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:34:02 +0800

Choose neutral platforms and read providers' fine-print. These are steps companies should take before leaping to cloud, say data management vendors.

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Apps to flourish on mobile, games

zdnews-asia@cnet.com (Kevin Kwang) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:25:04 +0800

Developers should bet on Android, games, navigation and music, to reap returns, suggest industry watchers, who say business apps can also prove viable.

Can Adobe beat back the hackers?

zdnews-asia@cnet.com (Aaron Ricadela) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:57:01 +0800

As its software becomes a major means of attack, security experts wonder if it can fight hard enough.

Ballmer: Windows 7 selling like hotcakes

zdnews-asia@cnet.com (Ina Fried) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:31:01 +0800

At Microsoft's shareholder meeting, CEO says the OS has sold twice as fast in its early days as any prior version of Windows. He also takes a few shots at Apple.

Yahoo adds photos, tweets to news search

zdnews-asia@cnet.com (Tom Krazit) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:13:01 +0800

Newsy searches won't just produce links to stories now on Yahoo. Searchers will be able to see photos, videos, and tweets from main search results page.

More on mobile payment front: Boku steps it up

zdnews-asia@cnet.com (Caroline McCarthy) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:02:04 +0800

Competing for market share with rival Zong and a few others, start-up says new partnerships give it access to 200 million new user accounts.

Judge sets February hearing for new Google Books deal

zdnews-asia@cnet.com (Tom Krazit) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:45:02 +0800

Schedule is laid out for second round of final approval process as preliminary approval is given to revised deal submitted last Friday.

Google has its own plan for netbooks

zdnews-asia@cnet.com (Tom Krazit) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:36:02 +0800

No, the search giant isn't saying it will build a netbook. But it sure knows what it would like one running Chrome OS to resemble, and that's a little different from the netbook of today.

Mozilla not interested in building Firefox OS

zdnews-asia@cnet.com (Stephen Shankland) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:53:02 +0800

Does Firefox backer want to turn its open-source browser into the basis for an operating system a la Google's Chrome OS? Not for now at least.

Game console makers at crossroads

zdnews-asia@cnet.com (Cliff Edwards) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:37:04 +0800

Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo are coming to terms with a dearth of blockbuster titles and increased rivalry from new gaming platforms such as smartphones.

'Best effort' insufficient for cloud

zdnews-asia@cnet.com (Victoria Ho) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:18:02 +0800

Cloud ecosystem needs operator participation to provide single point of blame, to win businesses' confidence in moving over, says consultant.

Comfort, trust give Office edge over Google

zdnews-asia@cnet.com (Vivian Yeo) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:11:02 +0800

Microsoft will only offer hosted productivity suite next year, but Office has user familiarity, trust and resources that Google may not match, say analysts.

Asian call centers target for social media

zdnews-asia@cnet.com (Melvin G. Calimag ) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:56:01 +0800

Call centers, abound in India and Philippines, need to retool and deploy social media tools to say competitive in market, say top Salesforce.com execs.

Microsoft targets biz apps with Silverlight 4

zdnews-asia@cnet.com (Vivian Yeo) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:46:05 +0800

Software giant releases beta version of technology for rich Web apps, revealing new features it says will make greater impact on enterprise software.

Microsoft told to stop some Windows sales in China

zdnews-asia@cnet.com (Joe McDonald) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:29:04 +0800

Microsoft ordered to stop selling some versions of Windows operating system in China, following licensing dispute with a local supplier.

S'pore transport regulator partners Google Maps

zdnews-asia@cnet.com (Liau Yun Qing) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:20:02 +0800

Country's Land Transport Authority hopes to make public transport "choice mode" by offering Google Maps as part of travel planning service.

With IE 9, Microsoft fights back in browser wars

zdnews-asia@cnet.com (Stephen Shankland) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:07:01 +0800

By showing first glimpses of technology in Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft also showing it's serious about building competitive browser.

Rumors of a Gphone refuse to die

zdnews-asia@cnet.com (Tom Krazit) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:02 +0800

Yet another report predicting Google is about to release its own phone raises more questions than it answers about Google's mobile strategy.

Google, Bing continue gains at Yahoo's expense

zdnews-asia@cnet.com (Tom Krazit) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:27:02 +0800

Over last several months fewer and fewer searches have been performed on Yahoo's sites, with market leader Google and upstart Microsoft seeing the benefits.

Opera Mobile 10 beta now browsing Windows phones

zdnews-asia@cnet.com (Jessica Dolcourt) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:14:02 +0800

Opera releases most recent mobile browser--complete with Speed Dial and new tabbed browsing design--for Windows Mobile phones.