Business Development
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Indian passports to go digital next year
News Country preps for e-passports and overhaul of backend infrastructure to enable better security, easier access and faster issuance of travel documents.
Tags: Local Government, Data security, Traveller, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., E-passport, Security, India, Chip, Infineon Technologies AG, Passport
Satyam bullish under 'umbrella of governance'
News update Rebranded Mahindra Satyam, and armed with new governance model, Indian IT services firm guns for new contract and client wins in the Asia-Pacific.
Tags: Services, Business applications, Manufacturing, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, BPO, business development, Telstra Corp., financial, marketing
Social networking site plans mobile service
News Multiply.com will launch mobile alert service in the Philippines, its first worldwide, and also open its first office outside the United States in the Asian market.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Mobile, Online Advertising, Philippines, Photo-sharing, broadcasting, photograph, social networking, Social Networking Site
Microsoft open to SearchMonkey, other Yahoo tech
News Top Microsoft online exec says his company likes Yahoo's open approach, but will have to see which of Yahoo's technologies make sense to add to Bing.
Tags: Search, Web sites, Web 2.0, Yahoo! Inc., Advertisement, business development, CEO, financial, senior vice president, partnership
Doing more with less: UK CIOs disclose their plans
News When asked what their top business or strategic issue is this year, cost cutting was the subject mentioned most often by U.K. IT chiefs.
Tags: IT budgeting, Priority, Virtualization, Information Security, Microsoft Windows 7, Steve Ranger, CIO, WAN, Silicon.com, business development
IT vendors ready partners for new tech
News Beyond providing online and physical training facilities and support mechanisms, companies like IBM and HP, also subsidize training costs of their partners.
Tags: Business, Business development/management, Growth strategies and tools, Channel management, Sales, Partner, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Training, HPSS
Open source traits lead to secure applications
News A disciplined community effort and its unfettered characteristic allow open source to provide a level of security assurance, say Sun executives.
Tags: Security, Open source, Support, Vietnam, Philippines, Singapore, Sun Microsystems Inc., Indonesia, Roman Tuma, Open-source Community
Small is beautiful for green-tech newbies
News Even amid the economic gloom, smaller clean-tech start-ups in efficiency and renewable energy are being funded because demand for their products remains strong.
Tags: Green IT, Best strategies, Business, Clean Technology, Investor, Bankruptcy, British Petroleum Co plc, Advanced Electron Beams, Wall Street, business development
Yahoo licenses neighborhood map data
News Urban Mapping's neighborhood boundary data is expected to improve geographic-related search results on Yahoo.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Search, Yahoo! Inc., Database, Photo-sharing, business development, Flickr, News.com, U.S.
Open-source tool creates OOXML docs for the blind
News Microsoft has helped develop an audio file format called Daisy that translates Word files into a 'talking' digital book format, making documents more accessible for users with impaired vision.
Tags: Open source, Corporate responsibility, Disability, Office Open XML, Tool, Australia, consortium, software, business development, vision
The German rule of order
Blogs I'm back in Germany for another stopover this week, after catching a quick flight from Vienna, and staying with some fri...
IEEE pact to foster development of patent pools
News Technical standards developer IEEE is collaborating with Via Licensing to encourage intellectual-property holders to form patent pools.
Tags: Patents, Patent Pool, RFID, IP, IEEE Standard, intellectual property, business development, News.com, blog, collaboration
NXP to open up Mifare APIs for mobile software
News The chip company will offer royalty-free APIs to developers to write software for mobile devices that have embedded NXP Mifare RFID chips.
Tags: Cellular phones, Mobile processors, Software engineering/development, Security, Mobile, mobile software, Bot, Chip, API, RFID chip
IBM invests in business partners' training
News Big Blue's business development fund aims to encourage its largest partners to take up more skills training around data centers.
Tags: Servers, Storage, Data centers, IT training, IBM Corp., Virtualization, Training, energy efficiency, business development, marketing
S'pore transport regulator partners Google Maps
News Country's Land Transport Authority hopes to make public transport "choice mode" by offering Google Maps as part of travel planning service.
Tags: Location-based services, Transport, Google Inc., CEO, partnership, Singapore, ERP, Southeast Asia, Regulator, data-processing
