Demographics
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Social games widen Asian audience
News Online games with easier gameplay and lower hardware requirements open Asia's games market to new demographics, say industry watchers.
Tags: Games, Game players, Gamer, Facebook, Apple Inc., revenue, Gamer, International Data Corp., Singapore, Online Game
ARM targets Intel with 2GHz multicore chips
News ARM is preparing new enterprise partnerships as its Cortex-A9 processor goes fast and multicore, pitting it against Intel's x86 and IBM's PowerPC chips.
Tags: Processors, ARM, Intel Corp., Chip, Dual-core, JIT, performance, processor, high-performance, Processors
Mobile banking picks up in Asia
News Banks that are on mobile banking bandwagon report strong growth, while analyst says those that lack such a service today are at risk of losing customers.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Business applications, Mobile applications, Hong Kong, Mobile Banking, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, Citigroup Inc., Indonesia, financial
OpenAmplify developer's diary - part 2: Author comparisons
Techguide Justin James chronicles his process of using Hapax's OpenAmplify Web service to create an application that can match documents with content that is similar or identical to the source document.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Microsoft Visual Basic.Net, Microsoft SQL Server, Comparison, Demographics, LINQ, OpenAmplify Developer, OpenAmplify, Web sites
The lowdown on India's Web 2.0 generation
Blogs India's demographics (50 percent of India's population is below the age of 25 years) has been perceived as both a boon a...
Checkmate, Twitter: Facebook 'status tagging' live
News Much like Twitter's @-replies, this will let Facebook members link to one another in their profiles, with big implications for Facebook-Twitter turf wars--and marketers.
Tags: Web 2.0, tagging, Dashboard, San Francisco, analytics, Facebook, marketing, blog, brand, acquisition
OpenAmplify developer's diary Part 1: Making the request
Techguide Justin James chronicles his process of using Hapax's OpenAmplify Web service to create an application which can match documents that have similar content or is identical to the source document.
Tags: Web services, Protocols and platforms, LINQ, Simple Object Access Protocol, OpenAmplify Developer, WSDL, Web Browser, Dividend, client system, Developer
Siemens offers govts a peek into future
News Firm unveils Singapore platform for officials worldwide to share best practices and learn about technology for city management and sustainable living.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Business applications, Infrastructure/architecture management, Data Management, Siemens AG, Singapore, Europe, Touch Screen, KPI, decision support system
Will 2FA use transcend online banking?
News Singapore firm set to demo two-factor authentication for online services such as e-commerce and Web mail, but analysts say it may take some time to gain acceptance.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Web sites, Web 2.0, Web services, Authentication, Security, VASCO, online banking, BetterThanPin, BetterThanPin Service
A pricing revolution looms in online advertising
News Demographic profiling and behavioral targeting by such companies as Google, Quantcast, and ValueClick is slashing ad costs and threatening Web publishers.
Tags: Internet advertising, Cookie, Advertiser, Online Advertising, Audience, behavioral targeting, banner advertisement, online publisher, Advertisement, Quantcast
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
Google unveils new Internet measurement tool
News Ad Planner, which competes with offerings from ComScore and Nielsen Online, is designed to let advertisers find Web sites with particular demographic characteristics.
Tags: Web sites, Internet advertising, Google Inc., Tool, Advertisement, ComScore Networks Inc., Google AdWords, DoubleClick Inc., network, Internet
Are Mac users smarter?
News A new study compares Mac-using Web surfers with their PC-wielding counterparts. If you're reading this on Windows, feel free to take your time on the big words.
SAP, Teradata team up to streamline data
News Enterprise software maker SAP and data warehousing specialist Teradata are teaming up to build a set of applications that aim to help industries streamline their data.
Tags: Databases
Social apps still in solitary
News The CEO of social application developer TheBroth.com says he has yet to see interoperability advantages from OpenSocial, Google's common API for social networking applications.
Tags: Web 2.0, Business applications
