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Web censorship muddle can hurt Malaysia
News Confusion over government's plans to implement Web filtering system will affect foreign investment and confidence in Malaysia's policies, say industry players.
Tags: Web sites, Regulations, Politics, Censorship, Malaysia, Government, Internet Service, CEO, Internet Service Provider, Prime Minister
Exceed biometric standards, expert urges
News Organizations need to consider the business requirements instead of just meeting the minimum standards set, says member of independent biometrics group.
Tags: Biometrics, Security implementation/standards, Facial Recognition, Storage, Standards, Business Process, ISO standards, information technology, technical committee, Unisys Corp.
Google trying not to cross 'the creepy line'
News When it comes to the tricky balance between providing comprehensive information and freaking people out, Google says it tries to stay on the good side of the "creepy line".
Tags: Privacy, Google Inc., U.S. Government, Dashboard, Microsoft Corp., CEO, Internet search, Eric Schmidt, Privacy, satellite
Wozniak joins SSD start-up
News Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak will join solid-state drive firm Fusion-io as chief scientist and technical adviser, after having served on the company's advisory board.
Tags: Storage, Leadership, Solid State Disk, Steve Wozniak, Chief Scientist, Storage, mainframe computer, Computer, Fusion-io, advisory board
New national cyber adviser to report to Obama
News Obama administration releases homeland security agenda that includes plans to create a national cyber adviser position to report directly to the U.S. president.
Tags: Defense/military, Federal Government, State Government, Network infrastructure, IT training, Cybersecurity, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Arizona, Governor, State Government
Help clients make prudent IT project investments
Techguide During an economic downturn, project managers should help clients save money, prioritize their expenditures, and stay focused. Here are some tips on how to do that.
Tags: Project management, IT project management, Client, Project, Investment, Chip, competitive advantage, project manager, Environment, software
Holiday report: E-commerce dips, electronics plummet
News One of the first reports out on holiday sales shows that e-commerce was down 2.3 percent year over year, while the electronics category took a 26 percent dive.
Tags: E-commerce, Sales/revenue, E-business, Electronics, MasterCard International, Sales, Amazon.com Inc., credit card company, News.com, credit card
Outsourcer Satyam names new CEO
News The Indian outsourcer has announced that AS Murty is CEO effective immediately, following the resignation of former chairman Ramalinga Raju who admitted inflating the company's revenue.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Recruiting, Outsourcing Company, Officer, CEO, decision-making, leader, asset, advisor
Obama names science and technology team
News U.S. president-elect Barack Obama has named leaders in climate change, cancer research, and genetic research to head his science and technology team.
Tags: R&D, Defense/military, Federal Government, Politics, Science, Human Genome Project, Oregon State University, John Holdren, Eric Lander, Lubchenco
MySpace co-founder agrees to step down as CEO
News CEO and co-founder of MySpace, Chris DeWolfe, steps down from the post, but will stay on as a “strategic advisor”.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, MySpace, Twitter, COO, News Corp., social networking, Facebook, co-founder, network
Obama's CTO: Watch out for the turf wars
News news analysis The Obama administration's chief technology officer could be one of those bureaucratic positions that ends up consumed by turf battles rather than making real progress against initiatives.
Tags: Executive recruiting, Government, Google Inc., U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, chief technology officer, White House, Eric Schmidt, job, human capital, Internet
HP tailors data center tools for Oracle apps
News New templates allow companies to automatically provision and deploy Oracle applications using HP's BladeSystem Matrix all-in-one data center package.
Tags: Components, Data centers, Data Management, Data warehousing/business intelligence, Hewlett-Packard Co., BladeSystem Matrix, Cisco Systems Inc., Tool, Storage, storage system
Rich digital channels still untapped in Thailand
News Thai marketers hold an old-fashioned view of consumers and many are not brave enough to use mobile and Web advertising, says digital advertising guru.
Tags: Internet advertising, Branding, Digital media, Web sites, Marketing communications, Internet, Thailand, Advertisement, phone, marketing
Yahoo's Microsoft tab totaled US$79 million
News Yahoo ran up a double-digit multimillion dollar tab last year, paying outside advisers US$79 million in its efforts to fend off Microsoft, according to an SEC filing.
Tags: Lawsuits, Acquisitions, Microsoft Corp., Autodesk Inc., Yahoo! Inc., antitrust, SEC, Jerry Yang, shareholder, advisor
Google.org exec leaves to tackle urgent threats
News Dr. Larry Brilliant is leaving the search giant's nonprofit arm for the Skoll Urgent Threats Fund to tackle nuclear proliferation, water shortages, and other issues.
Tags: Human resources, Inconvenient Truth, Google Inc., Officer, University of Michigan, Al Gore, Global Warming, Middle East, exec, advisor
