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Asian employers warm up to telecommuting?
News Telecommuting provides to companies in the region, a cost-savings measure against increasiing transport costs and high office rentals.
Tags: Commuter, Employee policy/training, HR policies and procedures, Trends, Business, Telecommuting, Security, Mobile, India, phone
Green IT isn't dead yet
Insight perspective The recession is dampening many areas of IT--but not environmental impact. An analyst looks at how cost-cutting and green go hand in hand.
Tags: Green IT, Infrastructure/architecture management, Budgeting/cost control, IT budgeting, Green IT, Organization, Hosting Company, Carbon Footprint, cost savings, Quocirca
Mobile phones as railway tickets?
News Commuters in Tokyo could soon be swiping their handphones past railway station gates, thanks to a new system currently being developed by NTT DoCoMo and railway operator East Japan Railway.
Time for stricter harassment laws?
Blogs A remarkable scolding incident filmed on a handphone has appeared on Web sites. In it, a lady is seen launching a verbal...
Google opens San Francisco office
News The search giant's digs in the tech-heavy South of Market area have a view of the Bay.
Tags: Business development/management, Recruiting
Mitigate risk by replacing sensitive resources?
Techguide Risk assessment is about more than determining where you get your best security ROI. Sometimes, you need to rid sensitive resources to better manage your risk profile.
Tags: Risk Management, Security Management, Data security, Bicycle, Security, Bridgestone Corp., Raleigh, coffee shop, Japan, Security Management
Do we need a red light before going green?
Insight Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com's founder, chairman and chief executive, discusses U.S. companies' efforts in going green.
Tags: Recycling
Hutchison US$1.5b bond sale sees strong demand
News Hutchison Whampoa Ltd, Hong Kong's largest conglomerate, drew applications for twice the US$1.5 billion in debt it was selling, allowing the company to price at a lower yield than targeted.
Does Japan need the iPhone?
News The world's most sophisticated users of wireless technology may be unimpressed by Apple's high-tech gadget.
Tags: Handhelds, Mobile/Wireless
Run away from toxic negativity before you're infected too
Insight When a staff has toxic negativity, he or she is constantly unhappy. You can count on such a person to always offer the worst possible interpretation of any event.
New Transmeta chip shows Athlon64 flair
News Transmeta's TM8000 chip will feature an entirely new architecture, executives say, but it will also share some design ideas with the upcoming Athlon64 from Advanced Micro Devices.
Can Amazon's Kindle become a bestseller?
News news analysis For years the public has proved reluctant to trade in paperbacks for e-readers, but Amazon still hopes Kindle will set the world of e-books on fire.
Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Development/design
Apple's Japan iPhone strategy
News Softbank, the No. 3 mobile operator, will sell the coveted cell phone in Japan. But its deal with Apple probably won't be exclusive.
Tags: Smart phones, Apple Inc., NTT DoCoMo Inc., Touch Screen, Japan, Softbank Corp., software, revenue, Apple iPhone, strategy
Weirdest IT story I've written
Blogs In my almost a decade of covering the IT beat here in the Philippines, I've written different sorts of stories--some of ...
Spending Google's money on conscientious causes
Insight Dr. Larry Brilliant heads the company's efforts to fight global warming and poverty, and aid public health.
Tags: Web 2.0
