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IBM consulting looks downstream
News Long a competitor to smaller systems integrators, Big Blue looks to partner with regional outfits to get into medium-size businesses.
Tags: Consulting
Banking on AI for creditworthiness
News Philippine software company Vinta Systems, releases credit-scoring application with artificial intelligence capability for financial institutions.
Tags: Banking, Asia, Philippines, Tool, Financial Company, Artificial Intelligence, software, monitoring, financial, bank
Smaller SaaS players capture Asia-Pacific
News Small and local providers secure dominance in Asia's software-as-a-service gameplay, capturing some 54 percent of the market, finds new study.
Tags: Software, Customer resource management (CRM), Web services
Ads get mobile channel in Malaysia
News Malaysian carrier Maxis and Yahoo ink deal to provide platform for targeted advertising, created specifically for the mobile environment.
Tags: Mobile advertising, Mobile commerce, WAP, CommunicAsia 2008, Mobile, Yahoo! Inc., Malaysia, Advertisement, phone, software
PeopleSoft buys last J.D. Edwards stock
News PeopleSoft CEO Craig Conway is "confident" the merger will be successful, as the software maker snaps up all the J.D. Edwards shares that were not tendered in July.
IBM to bring automation to DB2
News The "Stinger" release of DB2 Universal Database, due at the end of the year, will incorporate features from IBM's research on autonomic computing for simplifying administration.
Tags: Databases
IBM to pick up data analytics firm
News Alphablox will be the fifth company company Big Blue has bought to bolster its DB2 data management products.
IBM gives Lotus a dose of Web 2.0
News New products are designed to bring consumer technologies like bookmarking and blogs to ad hoc corporate communications.
Tags: E-mail clients, Web logs, Business applications
IBM looks to cash in on software-as-a-service
News Big Blue extends partner program to encourage app providers to rely on IBM for hosting, infrastructure technology.
Tags: Business applications, Business development/management
Challengers forge into open-source integration
News JBoss and LogicBlaze assemble integration-related software to take on incumbents in integration middleware.
Tags: Software, App servers, Open source
Asian firms can gain higher software value
News If they focus on post-implementation services which is critical in ensuring companies get more out of their IT investments, says Oracle.
Tags: Business applications
VMware pushes hosted virtualization
News Company has launched a service aimed at allowing hosted providers to supply their customers with virtualized environments.
Tags: Operating systems, Web services, Services
PeopleSoft deepens ties with IBM
News Tighter integration of business applications with IBM middleware seen as having little effect on PeopleSoft's Oracle problem.
Tags: Business applications
Mobile WiMax gets green light
News IEEE approves the 802.16e standard. Product and interoperability testing will begin in the first quarter of 2006.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Mobile platforms/communications, WiMax, Next-generation technology/networks
Secure your mobile wireless device
News Worried about malware attacks on your mobile device? Discover software and tips to stop gate-crashing spyware, viruses, and thieves in their tracks.
Tags: Pocket PC compatibles, PalmOS compatibles, Smart phones, Symbian, PDA phones, Applications and tools
