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Veritas to expand Asian workforce
News Veritas Software Corp is set to increase its headcount in the Asia-Pacific region, in line with an ambitious plan to win new customers.
Week in review: In the hot seat
News How do you right a listing ship? Hire a good captain. Yahoo hopes a new chief will get it back on track, and auto megamarketplace Covisint grabs a new leader.
Search specialist stakes its claim on names
News Language Analysis Systems plays the terrorism card to pitch tools that make sense of "Smith," "Smythe," "Smits" and "Schmidt."
Tags: Security, Software integration, Search
Google backs character-recognition research
News Ocropus, an open-source project based in Germany, aims to develop advanced handwriting recognition for e-library creation.
Tags: Business applications, Open source
India's Rediff.com to buy firms in US, UK, S'pore
News Rediff.com India Ltd, the first Indian shopping and news Web site to trade on the Nasdaq, said it will buy companies in the US and elsewhere by September to boost revenue from advertisements and electronic commerce.
Sri Lanka reports strong PC sales
News PC shipments grew by 18.5 percent during the first quarter, although notebook computer sales remain low, latest IDC report shows.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Analyst reports
Last week in mobile
News San Francisco selects joint bid by EarthLink and Google to provide city with a wireless network. Also: Microsoft wins U.S. Census Bureau deal.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Mobile platforms/communications, Web sites
Gadgets comes to Google Docs
News Google adds sophisticated visuals to Spreadsheets through "Gadgets" and offers developers a new way to distribute data and develop apps.
Tags: Web 2.0
Ad groups lobby for antispam law
News A triumvirate of influential advertising groups is pushing Congress to pass a federal spam law before the holidays, cautioning that without it, unwanted e-mail will hamper e-commerce.
Home is where the Net is
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Fumbling fingers drive VeriSign traffic surge
News VeriSign soared into the top 50 most visited U.S. Internet properties in September, a substantial improvement from its 135th ranking the previous month, according to results released Tuesday by ComScore Media Metrix.
Wanted: One online survivor for housemate
News It's not the far reaches of the Australian outback or the South China Seas; the setting for this "Survivor" story takes place in the San Francisco Bay on Treasure Island.
Beware of data warehousing death knells
Insight The client can have a detailed proposal prepared and the users can be thrilled with the prospect of data warehousing, but if you notice one of these three warning signs, your warehousing project is probably on the path to failure.
Linux ensnares another European city
News Norwegian municipality says Windows is too expensive and unreliable, so open source it is!
Manage successfully in today's diverse workplace
Insight The ability to manage within the framework of a diverse workplace today is rapidly becoming as much of a key success requirement as knowing how to manage projects.
