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No buying sprees ahead for social networks?
News Consolidation will be part and parcel of still maturing social networking, but content partnerships and alliances may be way forward, say industry watchers.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Web services, Personal applications, MySpace, Site, International Data Corp., digital content, social networking, monetization
Funding boost for Malaysia's mobile developers
News Country's mobile app makers can receive funds and related support from new initiative between two government agencies and Nokia.
Tags: Applications and tools, Symbian, Training, Asia-Pacific, digital content, Developer, Kuala Lumpur, collaboration, Symbian, Lee Min Keong
M'sia mandates local software use for govt
News Malaysian government agencies urged to use local applications, in move that can boost country's software market but send wrong signal to foreign players.
Tags: Local Government, Software engineering/development, R&D, Content management, Twitter Inc., Najib, Microsoft Corp., software, Information And Communication Technology, digital content
Will PSP Go keep pirates at bay?
News Like all of Apple's portable devices, the PSP Go will have a sealed in battery that's non user-replaceable. An integrated battery helps save precious space, but in the case of the PSP Go, it was also designed to thwart pirates.
Tags: Game players, Battery, Security, Piracy, Sony Playstation, Sony PlayStation Portable, digital content, firmware upgrade, disc, firmware
Gartner: Enterprise-software sales to drop in Europe
News Enterprise software sales in Europe are predicted to fall by 5.6 percent this year, slipping from US$81.2 billion to US$76.7 billion.
Tags: Business applications, Virtualization, digital content, Europe, Gartner Inc., Sales, software, software-as-a-service, revenue, enterprise software
Higher bit-depths from ATI
News One of the fruits of the AMD-ATI merger, the graphics chip-maker's new FirePro brand signifies a fresh start for its professional line-up.
Tags: Digital media, Business applications, Operating systems, Graphics, Singapore, Card, digital content, Radeon, 3D, FirePro
EC wants software makers held liable for code
News After identifying gaps in EU consumer protection rules, the European Commission is proposing that software makers give guarantees about the security and efficiency of their code.
Tags: Open source, Business applications, Apple Inc., Security, Business Software Alliance, European Union, digital content, software company, performance, software
Google moves toward micropayments for newspapers
News Is it an olive branch for the beleaguered (and Google-bashing) publishing industry, a move to encroach upon Facebook's turf in the micropayment wars, or a bit of both?
Tags: Web 2.0, Google Checkout, micropayment, digital content, payment, Facebook, America, Adobe PDF, credit card, Web 2.0
Sony's Crackle expands movie lineup
News The site, which competes with Hulu, is targeting men aged 18 to 34 with a now-heftier list of full-length films. What's unclear is whether the same flicks will head to YouTube.
Tags: Video, TV, Sony Pictures, digital content, News Corp., YouTube Inc., movie, senior vice president, NBC Universal Inc., Video
E-books won't reign over traditional books
News Readers have access to soft versions of books and other reading materials but such options remain only as alternatives, says Singapore's national library.
Tags: Consumer Technology, Mobile, E-book, Spokesperson, Mobile Device, Singapore, digital content, SIM Card, Internet, digital media
Customers have say in marketing, too
News Consumers should be given role in company's marketing efforts as social networks take them to forefront of product branding and innovation.
Tags: Business development/management, Innovation, Marketing, Web 2.0, Conference, Branding, Social Media, digital content, Procter & Gamble Co., Pacific
In remembrance: DRMs
Blogs Last week, I was at a WIPO-organized forum on copyright and related rights in Singapore. Several persons spoke about...
Pacnet increases network capacity by 50 percent
News Telecommunications service provider boosts its subsea cable network with largest capacity upgrade to date, to meet Asia's growing demand for broadband.
Tags: Bandwidth, Optical networking, Business broadband, Pacnet Ltd., network, Asia, cable network, Hong Kong, Singapore, Stock
India's schools to enjoy IT spending boost
News Educational institutes are set to double spending on IT from this year to 2012, particularly on new software and infrastructure purchases.
Tags: Budgeting/cost control, IT budgeting, IBM Corp., India, IT-spending, ERP, network, leader, network infrastructure, IT budgeting
E-reader trend needs common standards
News More players eye piece of e-reader market, but consumers benefit only if readers are built to support one common standard, say industry players.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Standards, E-book, Spokesperson, Standards, Korea, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., digital-rights management, public domain, Notebooks and tablets
