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Banyan Tree invests $1M in talent management
News Singapore hotels and resorts operator employs SAP in bid to better nurture and manage talent pool of over 10,000 staff, according to company executives.
Tags: Business development/management, Personnel management, Recruiting, Banyan Systems, Database, SAP AG, Talent Management, Human Resources Inc., Training, Bangkok
eSolar bets on software to make solar cheaper
Insight newsmaker Bill Gross, the head of start-up incubator Idealab and CEO of eSolar, uses a background in Internet entrepreneurship and software to bring down the cost of utility-scale solar.
Tags: Green IT, Growth strategies and tools, Bill Gross, Renewable Energy, Idealab, CEO, Internet, U.S., California, solar energy
M'sia gets new Skype payment mode
News Malaysians can now purchase Skype credits with points from local payment services provider MOL AccessPortal, bypassing need for credit cards.
Tags: VoIP/IP telephony, E-commerce, Skype Technologies S.A., Asia, Internet Banking, IP Telephony, online banking, 7-Eleven Inc., M'sia, MOL AccessPortal
Texting and tweeting through Obama's swearing in
News Inauguration planners are turning to Twitter and text messaging to keep things organized when President-elect Barack Obama is sworn in January 20.
Tags: Web sites, Politics, Location-based services, Apple Inc., Twitter, Ceremony, Text Messaging, District of Columbia, Emergency Management, Washington
GE inks deal for 'cleaner coal' in China
News Timed with Obama's visit, General Electric announces deals in China around high-speed rail, hybrid locomotives, and coal gasification plants with underground carbon storage.
Tags: Green IT, Department Of Energy, Gasification, U.S., Green IT, General Electric Co., Storage, electric vehicle, memorandum of understanding, carbon dioxide
OpenOffice Beijing Conference is open
Blogs The 6th OpenOffice Annual Conference 2008 in Beijing is almost ready. I just got a nice entry pass from the organizing c...
Superhighway to heaven
Blogs It's that time of the year again when Filipinos troop to cemeteries to remember their departed loved ones. It's fascinat...
Bringing online marketing to life
News Dream Axis founder, Winne Soh, talks about the marketing green field of virtual spaces and her hopes for growing Singapore's 3D talent.
Tags: Entrepreneurship, Digital media, Training, Singapore, 3D, Digital media, career, marketing, founder, Second Life
Customers reap gains of ERP implementation
News Malaysian manufacturer Dunham-Bush's maiden ERP use enhances customer service as interaction between engineering, production, sales departments gets better.
Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Manufacturing, Sales, ERP, Malaysia, ERP system, Epicor Software Corp., HVAC, Dunham-Bush Holdings, Oracle Corp.
M'sian WiMax operator pushes for 2010 rollout
News YTL e-Solutions sets aside US$687 million over five years to build mobile broadband network, but won't be ready to launch services before July next year.
Tags: Mobile Broadband, Mobile, International Data Corp., YTL e-Solutions, Malaysia, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., network, multimedia, WiMAX, partnership
Siemens eyes RM8m from call-center solutions sales
News Siemens Malaysia Sdn Bhd aims to sell RM8 million worth of call-center solutions locally through two distributors next year, vice president of enterprise networks David Toh said today.
IBM wins national technology medal
News IBM was named this year's corporate winner of the National Medal of Technology, the nation's highest science and technology honor, President Clinton announced Monday.
Ericsson, GMCC launch GPRS network
News Ericsson has been working with Guangdong Mobile Communication Co Ltd (GMCC) to launch what it said is the world's largest pre-commercial General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) network in the Chinese cities of Guangzhou and Shenzhen.
China signs up for antispam push
News China will join international enforcement efforts against spam by adopting the London Action Plan on Spam Enforcement Collaboration.
Tags: Spam and phishing
Cisco names new Malaysia head
News The networking equipment giant appoints a new managing director for Malaysia following the sudden departure of its former country head.
