Abundance
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S'pore wants 'digital abundance' to be reality
News Country needs its ecosystem to support bid to enable "unlimited bandwidth" and "supercomputing-on-demand", says industry regulator.
Tags: Utility computing, grid computing, Supercomputing, Digital media, Next-generation technology/networks, SMB, Abundance, Google Inc., Singapore, Cloud Computing
A nation's road to 'digital abundance'
News As Singapore continues to set its sights on a high-tech future, ZDNet Asia looks at the investments the country has made over the past year to achieve its goals.
Tags: Next-generation technology/networks, Local Government, grid computing, Abundance, Singapore, On-demand, Hardware, software, high-performance computing, high-performance
No buying sprees ahead for social networks?
News Consolidation will be part and parcel of still maturing social networking, but content partnerships and alliances may be way forward, say industry watchers.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Web services, Personal applications, MySpace, Site, International Data Corp., digital content, social networking, monetization
Getty and Flickr deepen photo-licensing ties
News Flickr photographers now can more actively try to sell photos through Getty's 60,000-image collection. Meanwhile, Toyota shows that there's a market.
Tags: Business development/management, Web sites, Yahoo! Inc., Getty Images, Toyota Motor Corp., digital photography, partnership, Web sites, Business development/management, Stock
Google: Computer memory flakier than expected
News After studying most of its servers for more than two years, Google finds that computer memory failures are much more common than expected and debunks some other myths.
Tags: Memory, Error Rate, Google Inc., Error, Memory Module, Computer, Operating System, Envisioneering Group, University of Toronto, Error Correction Code
Salesforce jumps on the Twitter-for-CRM bandwagon
News The software-as-a-service company has added Twitter to the lineup of social media sites that clients can keep tabs on using its Service Cloud product.
Tags: Cloud computing, Web services, Web 2.0, Twitter, Blogger, CRM, Cloud computing, Facebook, customer service, senior vice president
Systems administrator's role changing via the cloud
News Commoditization of e-mail services, instant messaging. document storage and backups via the cloud is rendering many systems-administrator functions obsolete, says Google's sysadmin.
Tags: Desktops, Help desk, Web 2.0, Google Inc., Search Engine, Cloud Computing, system monitoring, Computer, Help desk, Nintendo Wii
Smartphone roulette for app makers
News The market for business apps is booming, but makers of such applications face make-or-break choices among BlackBerry, iPhone, Palm and others.
Tags: Smart phones, Mobile applications, Apple Inc., NetSuite Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Mobile, Smart Phone, Research In Motion Ltd., Developer, Microsoft Windows Mobile
Microsoft Encarta Reference Library 2002
Product Reviews Microsoft Encarta Reference Library 2002
Tags: Microsoft Corp., 3D, Encarta.com, Reference Library, Afghanistan, multimedia, Web
When IT and healthcare come together
Insight CIO 1-1 SingHealth's Dr. Low Cheng Ooi shares his views on how IT and healthcare are colliding to bring forth the future of medicine for patients and practitioners.
Tags: IT project management, Data Management, Leadership, Technology, EMR, Clinician, globalization, analytics, information technology company, chairman
New Year resolutions
Blogs How appropriate it is that this column is kicking off at the start of a new year, allowing a quick goodbye to 2006 and a...
Dell 2400MP
Reviews Able to match the brightness, image quality and feature sets of much more expensive models, the Dell 2400MP resets the bar for what you can expect from a mainstream budget projector.
Pakistan reduces high-speed data transmission charges by 76%
News Pakistan has cut charges for high-speed data transmission lines by 76 percent to attract overseas investment and boost software exports, said Atta-ur- Rehman, minister for science and technology, on state television.
European tech acquisitions hit US$337B high
News The level of European technology merger and acquisitions hit a new high in 2006--with more than 3,000 deals being done, totaling US$337 billion.
Tags: Acquisitions, Mergers
Move over, China and India?
Blogs weekly roundup If the news this week is anything to go by, it's not a question of whether you should outsource; it's whe...
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing
