Consciousness
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Technology is a 'double-edged sword'
Insight newsmaker Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil weighs in on human vs machine intelligence, and the dangers of advanced technologies.
Tags: Supercomputing, Personal Computers, Data warehousing/business intelligence, Intelligence, Gene, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Computer, RNA, emotional intelligence, voice recognition software
Virtual currency small but growing threat
News Online money is still small threat to real-world economies, but its growth could translate into numerous issues for countries, says analyst.
Tags: Banking, Legal, PayPal, Money, e-mail, payment, research director, Tencent, Second Life, Legal
Open source adoption 'anomaly' in Philippines
News Country's private sector is unexpected early adopters of open source, which analysts say will be further boosted by entrance of Google's upcoming Chrome OS.
Tags: Open source, Support, Open-source Software, Philippines, Google Inc., International Data Corp., Survey, Asia-Pacific, Springboard Research, Open source
Steve Jobs on the greening of Apple
News In one of his first post-leave interviews, Apple CEO Jobs says the impact of products, not the emissions of factories, is what counts, and that it's time to focus on a company's results, not its lofty goals.
Tags: Green IT, Apple Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Supplier, Carbon Footprint, energy efficiency, hiring, Dell Computer Corp., PC, Steve Jobs
Mobile features that could succeed in 2009
News 2008 already proved the success of open mobile operating systems, GPS and touchscreens, but next year's recession-hit scene is likely to show only incremental advances.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Development/design, Mobile applications, Mobile platforms, Mobile commerce, Mobile advertising, Mobile, Google Inc., mobile industry, Touch Screen
S'pore data protection enforcement needs bite
News The Singapore government needs to appoint an agency with adequate authority and funds to effectively enforce its data protection guidelines, says consultant.
Tags: Security Management, Security implementation/standards, Business security, Data security, PC security, Data, Data Breach, European Union, Hong Kong, Singapore
DPM ticks off govt staff for poor maintenance of Web sites
News The Deputy Prime Minister ticked off government departments and agencies for not regularly updating their Web sites and promptly replying e-mail queries from the public.
Salesforce: Software is hand-to-hand combat
News Company wants the world to take up its software-as-a-service model, and company president Marc Benioff says he will "change the consciousness of the industry" to do it.
Tags: Business applications, Customer support, Best strategies, Sales force management, Marc Benioff, Server, PaaS, performance, software, journalist
Will biometrics replace passwords and PINs?
Insight Yes, say U.K. IT chiefs. New security technologies provide more reliable authentication.
Tags: Business security, Biometrics
Where's the money in security?
News While the C|Level Asia Executive Insights discussion in Singapore touched on the threats of phishing scams and e-mail spam, participants at the roundtable dialog in Malaysia debated over the real value of investing in information security.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Security Management
A new telco in town? Maybe not
Blogs A few days ago, an e-mail with a subject line "Invitation to the exclusive launch of a new telco" greeted me as I opened...
What does your e-mail say about you?
Insight Author Paul Glen discusses how little mistakes in your e-mail messages can give the impression you're lazy, incompetent, inattentive, mistrustful, or unprofessional.
Tags: E-mail clients, Microsoft Outlook
Gartner: PC hardware getting more reliable
News Parts are going wrong in notebooks less often than before, but they still lag behind desktops.
Tags: Personal Computers, Desktops, Notebooks and tablets, Development/design
At PayPal, fending off phishers and Google
Insight Chief technology officer Scott Thompson says new security measures should help people avoid spam security scams.
Tags: Data security, Security, Spam and phishing
Hoax victims on road to recovery
News A hoax e-mail warning people that their PCs might contain a virus tricked an untold number of people into deleting a beneficial Windows application--and now they're scrambling to get it back.
