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Net community mourns former Philippine leader
News Filipinos turn to social networks and blogs, including Facebook "virtual wake", to pay last respects to former president Corazon Aquino who died Aug. 1.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Twitter, Philippines, Video, social networking, Facebook, network, leader, Joel D. Pinaroc
S'pore SOEasy to roll out this month
News Mega project to standardize desktop, network and messaging elements across government agencies begins in July, but authorities are sketchy on details.
Tags: IT budgeting, IT outsourcing, Infrastructure/architecture management, Government, Officer, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Spokesperson, Information And Communication Technology, Singapore, consortium
Manila's metro rail adopts SMS ticketing
News Mobile ticketing system aims to cut long queues at Manila's main public transportation line which serves 200 million passengers a year.
Tags: Network infrastructure, Mobile, Mobile/Wireless, Mobile applications, Mobile commerce
Weirdest IT story I've written
Blogs In my almost a decade of covering the IT beat here in the Philippines, I've written different sorts of stories--some of ...
Up close and personal with a merger
Blogs What can you get for 13.9 billion buckaroos? For Hewlett-Packard, US$13.9 billion would allow you to buy your way into b...
HP further cuts EDS salaries
News Hewlett-Packard tells employees of EDS, which it acquired last year, that their salaries will temporarily be cut by 10 percent more than was announced last month.
Tags: Business development/management, Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Puerto Rico, employee benefit, Salary, Worker, CEO, U.S., Business development/management
HP dismisses cloud 'hype'
News Top HP software execs say that, while the computing models represented by 'the cloud' are important, they don't like the name or associated hype.
Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Enterprise risk management, Web services, Hewlett-Packard Co., Google Inc., Conference, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Cloud Computing, Europe, Amazon.com Inc.
New HP Thai chief optimistic after EDS acquisition
News Despite the economic downturn, Hewlett-Packard Thailand plans to aggressively penetrate the software and outsourcing services markets, and is optimistic about business growth in 2009.
Tags: Business applications, Services, Service level management, Storage, Servers, Hewlett-Packard Co., Outsourcing, Thailand, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Storage
Are the days of megadeals numbered?
News Even though Sears has cut short its outsourcing contract, there is no conclusive evidence that single-sourcing is losing momentum.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing
HP-EDS merger gets OK in Europe
News Hewlett-Packard's US$13.9 billion acquisition of the computer services company has now won approval from both U.S. and European antitrust authorities.
Tags: Mergers, Acquisitions, Corporate law, Legal, Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Europe, antitrust, outsource, European Commission
SOEasy to stay on target for 2010
News The Singapore government has said its standard operating ICT environment (SOE) project is well on the way to meeting its goal for full implementation across 74 government agencies by 2010.
Tags: Desktops, Asset/resource/knowledge management, IT Governance, Hewlett-Packard Co., consortium, public sector, network, Lucent Technologies Inc., data center, desktop
EDS shows chief Brown the door
News The troubled IT services giant ousts Dick Brown as chairman and chief executive, replacing him with Michael Jordan, the former CEO of TV network CBS.
HP expands IT deal with Delphi
News Hewlett-Packard has landed a contract to manage business-software systems for automotive supplier Delphi, HP said Thursday.
Michael Dell talks Netbooks, services, green IT
News The smallish devices known as Netbooks may be all the rage, but the CEO still needs some convincing.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Services, Green IT, Hewlett-Packard Co., Green IT, Google Inc., Microsoft Windows Mobile, phone, CIO, Google Android
