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11% of M'sians access govt information online
News Eleven percent of Malaysians have accessed the Web to acquire government information, according to a new study by Taylor Nelson Sofres.
Microsoft mobile OS lands its biggest deal
News U.S. Census Bureau contract calls for a half million handsets loaded with Windows Mobile.
Tags: Pocket PC compatibles, Mobile/Wireless, Microsoft Windows, Pocket PC
Waxing optimistic on the Internet economy
News There may be portents of a recession at large, but Google's chief economist and others say e-commerce and VC funding are still holding their own.
Tags: Web 2.0, Venture capital, Internet advertising, E-business, Google Inc., E-commerce Sale, Sales, Advertisement, software, Internet Economy
Sun sheds light on its open-source future
Insight Simon Phipps, Sun UK's chief open-source officer, surveys the open-source landscape and reaffirms his company's commitment to open software development.
Tags: Open source, Java, Security, Google Inc., Ubuntu, Sun Microsystems Inc., software, system administrator, database administrator, strategy
Ancestry.com hopes to stand test of time
News Analysts wonder if buying into the latest dot-com IPO makes sense for investors.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Business plans, Facebook, Social Networking, Family Tree, Paul Allen, Business plans, Ancestry.com, Amazon.com Inc., Business Strategies & Functions
Ballmer: 'Fundamental economic reset' necessary
News Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer tells U.S. politicians that economic conditions represent a "once in a lifetime" crisis caused by too much debt and a "restart" is necessary.
Tags: Sales/revenue, Forecasting, Layoffs, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, Debt, Democrat, Stock Market, U.S. Senate, Forecasting
IT patient data to aid UK's 2011 census
Insight Data on health conditions and treatments made available by IT could render sections of the U.K.'s population census obsolete by 2011.
Tags: IT Management
Census 2000 puts confidence in online forms
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Email stunt empowers Jedi fans
News Star Wars fans in the United Kingdom are stung by an email suggesting that the forthcoming UK Census would recognize "Jedi" as a religion if enough people put it on the form.
E-mail stunt empowers Jedi fans
News Star Wars fans in the United Kingdom have been stung by an e-mail suggesting that the forthcoming U.K. Census would recognize "Jedi" as a religion if enough people put it on the form.
Census for open source apps kicks off
News The project plans to tackle the fact that a lack of traditional software licenses means there is little solid data on how much open-source software is being used by businesses.
Tags: Open source, Business applications, Software licensing
NEC to power Hong Kong ID service
News NEC Hong Kong Ltd has won a contract from the SAR's Immigration Department to digitize the records of 12 million people.
Consider algorithms other than Soundex
Techguide Oracle SQL string functions have included the Soundex function for a long time. Soundex is a phonetic normalization function that was invented for the 1880 U.S. Census to get around the problem of sorting information by last names with different spellings but similar or identical sounds, such as Smith and Smythe.
Internet shopping to figure in HK spending survey
News Internet shopping will be covered in the year-long Household Expenditure Survey conducted by the Hong Kong Government.
Add mapping to Web sites with Image_GIS in PHP
Techguide Image_GIS is a PEAR package for PHP that allows you to add digital maps to Web sites using free downloadable GIS files. Learn how to use this software.
