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Growing demand for fixed broadband to go on
News Number of subscribers of fixed-based services in Asia-Pacific region will continue rising despite demand for mobile broadband, says Frost & Sullivan.
Tags: DSL, Network infrastructure, Next-generation technology/networks, IP Television, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, Australia, Broadband, South Korea, Japan
Bug testers: Google is clean, Bing is buggy
News Recent contest to probe search engines for bugs found technical issues with Microsoft's Bing but gave it and Google high marks for experience delivered.
Tags: Search, GUI, Bug, Survey, QA, outsource, accounting, Search
How tech firms float despite a Watergate
News update Expert involvement, admission of guilt and transparency are some elements that help keep IT brands alive after major scandals, say academia.
Tags: Crisis communications, Corporate responsibility, Computer Associates International Inc., Nanyang Technological University, Chinese company, Crisis communications, phone, professor, brand, accounting
Accounting rule change approved by FASB
News Change allows companies like Apple to recognize revenue much faster.
Tags: Business structures, Apple Inc., TV, Sales, Apple TV, financial, Apple iPhone, agreement, accounting, Business structures
Accounting rule change could boost Apple revenue
News Proposed change would allow Apple to recognize revenue for the iPhone immediately instead of over eight quarters.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Cellular phones, Apple Inc., GAAP, IEEE 802.11n, Apple TV, Apple iPod, technology company, Apple iPhone, accounting
Microsoft cuts 800 more jobs
News The latest workers to have their jobs eliminated are being notified, in what Microsoft said completes personnel reductions announced earlier this year.
Tags: Layoffs, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Money, Microsoft Corp., job, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows Live OneCare, Small Business, layoff, Silicon Valley
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
Verdict on Satyam Aust facility not out
News Victorian Premier John Brumby says it is still too early to tell if the US$63 million facility in Geelong will pan out, as Mahindra-Satyam is still considering investment.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Business structures, Services, Investment, Training, Outsourcing Company, Spokesperson, Government, Associated Press, career
Salesforce offers hosted accounting software
News Accounting company Coda and on-demand specialist Salesforce.com claim to have come up with a way for companies to handle their accounting software without having to pay for a full-scale application.
Tags: Software, Accounting, On-demand, software company, Roche Holding AG, PaaS, accounting company, financial, shareholder, Software
Proper data management key to e-discovery
News Singapore kicks off new protocol for discovery of electronic documents to be used as court evidence, which experts say reinforces need for better information management.
Tags: Legal, Data Management, IT Governance, Hewlett-Packard Co., Phone, Security, Protocol, Organization, Keystone Law, Singapore
Report: Apple's Jobs maintained stock-option ignorance
News Apple CEO Steve Jobs told the SEC in a 2008 deposition that he had no idea Apple lawyers had falsified documents nor did he understand the accounting implications of backdating.
Tags: Stock options and grants, Corporate law, Apple Inc., Backdating, CFO, stock-option backdating, Stock, Stock options and grants, job, SEC
Microsoft wants refund from some laid off workers
News Software giant sends a letter to some of the 1,400 employees it laid off last month letting them know they were overcompensated and that it would like the money back.
Tags: Layoffs, Public relations, Microsoft Corp., Letter, software company, Worker, TechCrunch, CNET Networks Inc., accounting, spokesman
How far should the govt go in rescuing Satyam?
Blogs A week after B. Ramalinga Raju made his famous confessions of committing a US$1.5 billion accounting fraud, one thing is...
What not to do after a scandal
Blogs And so the proverb goes that silence is golden--especially when you've just come off a flight with bawling kids. But ...
Sara Lee, IBM sign outsourcing deal
News Stretching seven years, contract will see IBM's Philippine delivery center as one of the locations tasked to support finance and accounting services for Sara Lee.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Sara Lee Corp., IBM Corp., Outsourcing, Business Process, Back-office, SCM, Procurement, supply chain
