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Location-based services expected to rocket
News Gartner claims global subscribers are set to rise by nearly 168 percent this year, with mainstream adoption just two to five years away.
Tags: Location-based services
Ovum: China lacks IT services powerhouses
News Despite government push in IT and business process outsourcing services, Chinese equivalents of TCS and Infosys will not emerge in "foreseeable future", report says.
Tags: Outsourcing, Offshoring, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Infosys Technologies Ltd., Outsourcing, Ovum, software, Information Technology, IT Services, India
Nokia targets 300M services users by 2011
News Finnish phone maker looking beyond selling devices and wants 300 million users on its devices pulling cloud data within two years, says its corporate strategy chief.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Data services, Mobile platforms, Facebook, Nokia Corp., London Business School, mobile, Broadband, chief development officer, device manufacturer
APAC mobile multimedia services to dethrone SMS
News Mobile multimedia services will surpass short messaging service in revenue contribution to Asia-Pacific region excluding Japan by year-end, reports IDC.
Tags: Mobile applications, Mobile platforms, Development/design, Mobile Multimedia Service, cell phone, multimedia, revenue, network, mobile, Mobile applications
S'pore gets location-based mobile ad service
News Local carrier StarHub debuts Singapore's first nation-wide location-based mobile advertising service, which it says, will allow targeted marketing.
Tags: 3G (Third Generation), Mobile platforms/communications, Location-based services, Mobile commerce, Starhub, Mobile, Google Inc., Advertising Service, Advertisement, phone
Tata targets high-end network services
News Tata Comms touts slew of varied investments in Asia-Pacific, in effort to beat competition from operators and content-delivery service providers.
Tags: LANs and WANs, Network security, Data centers, network, Amazon.com Inc., Akamai Technologies Inc., Singapore, Cooper, content delivery, managed services
Developed SMBs to increase IT services spend
News IT services expenditure among small and midsize firms in Australia, Korea and Japan will grow 10 percent from 2009 to 2013, says AMI.
Tags: Business, Services, Business, Information Technology, IT Services, Services, Small And Medium Business, Australia, Japan, Korea
Google tries its own take on customer service
News Not surprisingly, the search giant thinks automation and innovation are important. But as CEO Eric Schmidt says, everyone wants to wring a neck when things go wrong.
Tags: Customer support, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Services, Google Inc., Phone, sales team, Customer support, Services, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Sales
Facebook's mounting customer service crisis
News It's unclear how many members still can't access their accounts after Facebook acknowledged a database issue, but one thing's for sure: the ones locked out are steaming mad.
Tags: Web 2.0, Facebook, Web 2.0, Robert Scoble, screen name, Plaxo Inc., Cable, e-mail, IM, customer service
Xerox to acquire Affiliated Computer Services
News Dcument company has said it will buy ACS, a major American public-sector business-process contractor, in a US$6.4 billion deal.
Tags: Hardware, Business Strategies & Functions, IT project management, Xerox Corp., Asia, Outsourcing Company, BPO, managed services, South America, solution provider
Twitter tweaks terms of service
News Microblogging site assures users that they own their tweets while leaving "the door open for advertising" opportunities.
Tags: Web 2.0, Terms Of Service, photograph, API, Facebook, co-founder, blog, Web 2.0
S'pore startup to plug managed services hole
News Value Advantage wants to help managed services providers penetrate SME market, and address "disconnect" in how technology is packaged and sold.
Tags: Infrastructure/architecture management, Service level management, Services, Business, Canadian company, Greg Lipper, Small And Medium Enterprise, CEO, COO, Asia-Pacific
Google offers easy translation service for Web pages
News In honor of International Translation Day (you forgot?), Google is publishing code that Webmasters can use to detect the preferred language of their visitors.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Data mining & analysis, Database management, Page, Google Inc., Web Site, Hallmark, Webmaster, Web Page
Software, services set to drive Vietnam IT
News Country has won over global IT players for its domestic demand and low-cost labor, but its software and services looks set to power its next wave of growth.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Strategy, Hewlett-Packard Co., Alcatel, Vietnam, Telecommunications, Southeast Asia, 3G, IT outsourcing, software service
McAfee launches online backup service
News For US$69 per year, McAfee's new online backup service offers you an unlimited amount of online storage space.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, PC security, Data security, Computer, Security, software, Carbonite, Memeo, Authentication and encryption, Backup
