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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
Asia mobile recycling yield beats Europe
News Low labor cost in region allows mobile phone recycling plant to recover nearly 100 percent in recycling process through manual labor, says Nokia.
Tags: Green IT, Nokia Corp., Phone, cell phone, mobile, handset, Green IT, Asia, Singapore, Europe
Google plug-in builds Chrome browser into IE
News Google Chrome Frame lets Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6, and above, display pages with features and performance of Chrome browser.
Tags: Web browsers, Browser, Plug-in, Web Browser, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer plug-in, Microsoft Internet Explorer, performance, Web Site, Web Developer
Barnes & Noble hit with suit over Nook
News A Cupertino, Calif.-based start-up claims the bookseller misappropriated its trade secrets in its design of a similar e-reader.
Tags: Copyright, Barnes & Noble Inc., e-reader, Nook, Alex, California, Amazon.com Inc., E-book, Cupertino, marketing
Yahoo veteran named to MySpace CTO spot
News Alex Maghen, who previously served as the head of technology for MySpace Music, has tough road ahead of him, as News Corp.-owned site has fallen from favor in Silicon Valley.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Web 2.0, MySpace, entertainment, chief technology officer, Facebook, CTO, exec, News Corp., Web 2.0
Facebook Connect branches out
News Aiming to make its universal-log-in product more ubiquitous, company announces a three-step integration wizard and a translation tool to automatically convert a site to a Facebook user's native language.
Tags: Web 2.0, entrepreneur, network, U.S., Hitwise, social Web, crowdsourcing, Connect Wizard, Social Networking, MySpace
Twitter gets the munchies again, eats user avatars
News It's temporary, Twitter says, and due to a caching problem, but many users' Twitter icons have been gone for over a day now.
Tags: Web 2.0, photograph, blog, Web 2.0
Developers look past Apple's jammed iPhone App Store
News Software programmers are designing apps for Google-backed Android operating system, fired by frustration with Apple's rejections and delays.
Tags: Mobile applications, Mobile platforms, Business applications, Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Ideaworks, Apple App Store, Iconfactory, Operating System, App
MMS, video calls still going steady in S'pore
News Use of multimedia messaging service and video calls remain stable in Singapore, and expected to continue growing, say local telcos.
Tags: Network infrastructure, Mobile platforms/communications, Telecommunications Company, tariff, multimedia, network, mobile, Video Call, video, Mobile platforms/communications
Sad saga of GSIS and IBM
Blogs The pitiful battle between pension firm GSIS and tech giant IBM is nothing short of tragic. But, it's something that c...
S'pore SMBs see disaster recovery plans as luxury
News Local small and midsize firms diligent in data backup but still need to do more to safeguard business and customer data, survey finds.
Tags: Disaster recovery, Security, Business, Disaster Recovery, Survey, H1N1 flu, Disaster Recovery Planning, Singapore, Small And Medium Business, Indonesia
App stores unfazed by proprietary threat
News Arrival of proprietary mobile app stores such as Windows Marketplace won't topple third-party stores that can still differentiate, say MobiHand and Handango.
Tags: Mobile applications, Windows Mobile, Phone, App, MobiHand, Microsoft Corp., mobile, Mobile applications, Spokesperson, Developer
S'pore e-health records roadmap 'pragmatic'
News Singapore and other Asian countries have ingredients for successful implementation of e-healthcare services, say executives from GE Healthcare.
Tags: Data Management, Local Government, Regulations, GE Healthcare, General Electric Co., Asia-Pacific, Spokesperson, Singapore, E-health, health care company
Perils of mobile cloud
News As consumers store addresses, e-mail, and other data from their mobile phones via online services, the potential for lost data is rising.
Tags: E-mail servers, Business applications, Business development/management, Phone, Microsoft Corp., mobile, Business applications, Smart Phone, Backup, Storage
S'pore revs up again for F1 night race
News Singapore's F1 track features several alterations this year, but race teams have suited up with new tools to support backend IT systems and communications.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, Data Management, Race, SingTel, Storage, AT&T Corp., telephony, team, car, Mobile platforms/communications
