Data Processing
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S'pore transport regulator partners Google Maps
News Country's Land Transport Authority hopes to make public transport "choice mode" by offering Google Maps as part of travel planning service.
Tags: Location-based services, Transport, Google Inc., CEO, partnership, Singapore, ERP, Southeast Asia, Regulator, data-processing
Web 3.0 offers new customer insights
News Web 3.0 will convey customer opinions more accurately, but companies must adapt new ways to collect this data, says former Amazon.com chief scientist.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Web 3.0, Chief Scientist, Gesture, Survey, tagging, social networking, printing, data-processing
Hard drives: a pictorial history
Reviews In 1956, IBM's RAMAC used 50 24-inch platters to store 5MB. Today, you can get 8GB on a single 1-inch platter. See how the hard drive evolved over half a century.
Europe assisting US with IBM antitrust probe
News The European Commission said it has provided information to U.S. regulators looking into possible anticompetitive practices by IBM in the mainframe market.
Tags: Components, Antitrust, Commission, Mainframe, IBM Corp., European Commission, U.S. Department Of Justice, T3, Computer & Communications Industry Association, data-processing
Amazon adds Windows to its cloud
News Amazon has taken its Elastic Compute Cloud service out of beta status and added Windows to Linux and Solaris on its list of supported operating systems.
Tags: Web services, Autodesk Inc., SLA, Server, Amazon.com Inc., load balancing, Eli Lilly & Co., data-processing, management console, monitoring
Slow site? Yahoo open-sources an app for that
News Sure, rivals could profit from Yahoo's release of Traffic Server as open-source software. But overall, Yahoo bets it'll gain more than it loses by giving it away.
Tags: Web sites, Web servers, Yahoo! Inc., Open Source, Google Inc., Apache Software Foundation, Traffic Server, Microsoft Corp., software, Web sites
Short Take: IBM axes Australian workers
News IBM Global Services Australia, an outsourcing division of the computer giant, has cut 64 jobs from its data-processing units in Sydney and Melbourne, leading to a mass walkout of 150 workers.
Short Take: IBM axes Australian workers
News IBM Global Services Australia, an outsourcing division of the computer giant, has cut 64 jobs from its data-processing units in Sydney and Melbourne, leading to a mass walkout of 150 workers.
HP wins US$88 million outsourcing deal
News Hewlett-Packard has won a five-year, US$88 million deal to take over the data-processing services of the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company's Systems and Defense Electronics business unit.
Unisys to open development center in India
News The IT services company is planning on a five-year investment of US$180 million in the site, which will focus on maintenance and help desk services.
Tags: Services
International bank HSBC hit by Bangalore breach
News A worker is accused of accessing confidential account information and passing it on to criminal associates in the United Kingdom.
Tags: Data security, Security, Network security, Hacking, Security Management, Security applications/tools, Security implementation/standards
EU's high-speed research network goes global
News Géant, the super-high-speed European network for researchers and academics, is to link up with similar networks around the world.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless
"No plans for mass layoffs" in IBM Asia consulting
News IBM Asia Pacific has "no plans for mass layoffs" in its consulting business, following its parent company's decision to shed jobs in the division worldwide.
IBM has "no plans for mass layoffs" in Asia
News IBM Asia Pacific has "no plans for mass layoffs" in its consulting business, following its parent company's decision to shed jobs in the division worldwide.
IT pioneer William Norris dies at 95
News From wartime code-breaking to '60s idealism and '80s corporate clashes, Norris encapsulated the industry's history.
