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Mobile banking picks up in Asia

News Banks that are on mobile banking bandwagon report strong growth, while analyst says those that lack such a service today are at risk of losing customers.

Monday, August 31 2009 11:10 AM

Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Business applications, Mobile applications, Hong Kong, Mobile Banking, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, Citigroup Inc., Indonesia, financial

Velvet Puffin: the next MySpace?

News New integrated Internet service is "social networking meets instant messaging", says its creator, a Singapore-based mobile software provider.

Monday, March 05 2007 03:36 PM

Tags: Web sites, Peer to peer, Instant messaging, SMB

Budget sufficiently for cloud, SaaS user warns

News Companies rolling out their software-as-a-service projects need to allocate sufficient budget for licenses and pay attention to user acceptance and training.

Wednesday, May 27 2009 06:38 PM

Tags: Cloud computing, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), IT budgeting, Budgeting/cost control, Positioning, CRM, Singapore, Sales, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Cloud computing

Ingres, Red Hat team on developer stack

News The open source developer stack combines the Ingres database with JBoss packages from Red Hat and is meant to measure up to proprietary tools from IBM, Oracle and others.

Monday, June 01 2009 10:37 AM

Tags: Open source, Linux, Cloud computing, Red Hat Inc., Berquist Co., Database, Ingres, JBoss, Developer, Cloud computing

Google, Microsoft vie for Earth domination

News A new version of Google Earth is imminent, but Microsoft has plans to beef up its rival application Virtual Earth.

Wednesday, September 13 2006 11:05 AM

Tags: Web sites

Gartner: Internet-based e-mail to fuel cloud uptake

News The use of Internet hosted e-mail services--such as Microsoft's Hotmail and Google Mail--will fuel the business uptake of "cloud services".

Thursday, July 03 2008 10:58 PM

Tags: Utility computing, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Gartner Inc., Environment, VP, e-mail, MSN Hotmail, Silicon.com, Internet

Clearpace puts archived data in the cloud

News The software vendor introduces Rainstor, which uses Amazon's cloud tools to store customers' legacy data in the cloud.

Monday, May 25 2009 11:45 AM

Tags: Data centers, Services, Cloud computing, Database, Archiving, EMC Corp., Storage, Service, Cloud computing, Amazon.com Inc.

Ballmer on PC's role in Web services world

News As the world shifts from pre-Internet software to hosted services, Microsoft's CEO says, the PC is still a player.

Wednesday, October 11 2006 10:52 AM

Tags: Personal Computers, Utility computing

Google kicks offline Web apps into gear

News Search giant launches Google Gears, open-source software that brings offline access and local storage to the Web browser.

Thursday, May 31 2007 09:31 AM

Tags: Programming languages, Business applications, Web 2.0

Amazon storage 'cloud' service goes dark

News Some Web 2.0 start-ups get cranky after Amazon's Simple Storage Service goes offline for a few hours.

Monday, February 18 2008 11:16 AM

Tags: Web services, Storage management

Amazon's hosted storage service hits bump

News Performance glitches make some customers of Amazon's nascent Web service for storage grouchy.

Tuesday, January 09 2007 09:23 AM

Tags: Web services, Storage software

P2P bill could regulate Web browsers, FTP clients

News Legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives to regulate peer-to-peer networks goes a bit further than its sponsors may have intended.

Wednesday, May 06 2009 11:32 AM

Tags: Peer to peer, Web browsers, Legal, Web Browser, P2P, computer, software, IM, network, East Coast

S'pore ups investment in wireless, ICT manpower

News update Government extends free wireless service for another four years, and unveils two new manpower training schemes for graduates and ICT professionals.

Tuesday, June 16 2009 09:15 AM

Tags: IT training, Government, CommunicAsia 2009, Investment, Fiber, Training, Wireless Broadband, Information, Wireless, Information And Communication Technology