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Marketing matters to Asian tech firms
News Technology brands from Asia have strong technical capabilities, but need to work on marketing and connecting with customers to perform overseas, say experts.
Tags: Strategy, Branding, Pricing, Market research, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Asia, Gartner Inc., Chinese company, Pricing, China Market Research
Why your business should embrace Web 2.0
Insight Web 2.0 technologies can be a boon to businesses--find out how in this excerpt from Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom by Matthew Fraser and Soumitra Dutta.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Internet advertising, Wiki, Tool, Enterprise 2.0, Harvard Business Review, Alvin Toffler, social networking, vision
Consult HR when making disaster recovery plans
Techguide The HR department can help identify the individuals in business units whom you need to consult, and assist in training end users on DR policies.
Tags: IT Management, Business Strategies & Functions, IT training, Disaster recovery
Microsoft taps RFID for Tech.Ed delegates
News RFID tags will be embedded into badges at the annual conference in Sydney as part of a tracking experiment. Those who opt out will have less access to conference info.
Tags: RFID, Networking, Microsoft Corp., Delegate, Conference, RFID Tag, Australia, software company, Sydney, social networking
Code concepts: .NET's lambdas
Techguide In this instalment of Code concepts, Justin James provides an overview of what lambdas in .NET are and explains how to use them.
Tags: Protocols and platforms, Microsoft Visual Basic.Net, Variable, C#, Justin James, network management, Microsoft .NET, blogging, TechRepublic Inc., Microsoft Visual Basic
Using pluggable look-and-feel in Java Swing APIs
Techguide The Java Swing API provides a pluggable look-and-feel (PLAF) capability, which allows Swing GUI widgets to change appearance based on the programmer's customized look-and-feel setting.
Tags: Software engineering/development, Java
MDeC CEO's take on WCIT 2008
Blogs The 16th World Congress on Information Technology will be held in Malaysia from May 18 to 22. The response has been o...
Delegate privileges to users with sudo
Techguide Sudo allows for flexible delegation of user privileges, and the ability to fine-tune those privileges to provide different levels of access.
Tags: Open source, Networking
Lack of boardroom credibility dogs IT directors
Insight Lack of recognition and boardroom credibility top the concerns of U.K. IT chiefs aiming to make a strategic impact on the business.
Tags: IT Management, IT Governance
Microsoft security guru: Jot down your passwords
News Jesper Johansson says the security industry has been giving out the wrong advice on passwords for 20 years.
Tags: PC security, Data security, Security Management, Policy and management, Privacy
Malaysia wants rural communities to be wired immediately
News Malaysia wants the Internet revolution to swiftly fan across the country to ensure the goal of equitable access to information and communications technology (ICT) is achieved as soon as possible.
Secure remote tasks with ssh and keys
Techguide If you want to set up another administrator on your server or execute remote tasks securely, learn to use ssh with keys.
Tags: Servers, Security, Linux
Don't pursue maximum efficiency at all costs
Insight Organisations need to be less focused on efficiency so they can respond to change and embrace innovation, argued project management guru Tom DeMarco.
Help your team learn to train users with this seminar presentation
Insight Take the pain out of educating end users by teaching your team how to approach these training sessions. This presentation will help you bridge the communication gap between IT and your organization's users.
Building wireless bridges
Techguide In this second instalment of wireless networks, George Ou looks at wireless bridging in greater detail.
Tags: Wireless e-mail devices, Wireless LANs, 802.11/Wi-Fi
