Flat Fee
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IBM simplifies online data backup for SMBs
News Company will introduce round-the-clock online data backup service for Singapore's small and midsize businesses in third-quarter 2007.
Tags: Data backup, disaster recovery, Disaster recovery, SMB
Singapore gets flat-rate mobile IM
News StarHub launches a service to tap user demand for mobile IM, which Gartner says is another application to cross over from the "fixed-line Internet".
Tags: Mobile applications, Instant messaging, Starhub, Mobile, Carrier, Mobile Internet, phone, social networking, IM, network
Windows NT 4 support to come at price in'05
News Microsoft will sell custom support to those still using the OS when extended support ceases at end of 2004.
Tags: Windows NT
Complacency has no place in IT
Blogs It was on April Fools' Day at the turn of the millennium that the Singapore telecommunications market was fully liberali...
Truphone adds Skype, Twitter to iPhone client
News The internet telephony company has turned its client for the iPhone and iPod Touch into an aggregator for Skype, Twitter, Google Talk, MSN Messenger and Yahoo Messenger.
Tags: Mobile commerce, Web sites, Skype Technologies S.A., Twitter, Voice Chat, Internet telephony company, telephony company, Apple iPod, flat fee, IM
Mobile Internet use 'rocketing in Europe'
News Europe has taken to 3G faster than any other region in the world and usage is growing rapidly as networks proliferate, according to research commissioned by mobile operator body the GSM Association (GSMA).
Tags: 3G (Third Generation), 802.11/Wi-Fi, Personal broadband, Business broadband, Mobile, European Union, Mobile Internet, Europe, 3G, flat fee
AT&T calls Google a hypocrite on Net neutrality
News In a letter to the FCC, carrier accuses Google of violating its principles by blocking certain calls on its Google Voice service.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Web sites, Web 2.0, Apple Inc., Net Neutrality, AT&T Corp., FCC, Internet, blog, telephone company
Lotus Symphony gets some OOXML support
News IBM has said it believes support for importing documents in Microsoft's office format could help convince large organizations to drop Office altogether.
Tags: Office suites, Standards, Open source, IBM Corp., Office Open XML, IBM Lotus Notes, Mail Merge, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office, data analysis
Korea Telecom to cut Internet access rates
News Korea Telecom Corp, which owns virtually all of the country's land phone lines, will cut charges for Internet access via modem by 11 percent.
Fancy TV on your phone?
Blogs Dublin-based Qtelmedia Group Ltd, which has made Malaysia (Cyberjaya, to be more precise) as its Asian hub, will be offe...
Advantages and drawbacks to hourly fees and flat rates
Insight Are consultants better off charging their clients a flat fee or setting an hourly rate? Heed these stories, and a few hard lessons, from four consultants before you bill your clients.
NTT units to halve rate of fiber-optic Net service
News Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp's regional phone units will offer high-speed Internet access via fiber-optic cables in May or June at less than half the current rate charged.
Malaysia may replace timed phone rate with flat fee
News Malaysia's government may impose a flat fee for domestic phone calls, regardless of their duration, The Star reported.
Orbitz vows to cut airlines' costs
News When booking reservations, the online company's new technology bypasses central ticketing systems.
Big Blue unveils new services-related tools
News IBM introduces new software tools--part of Big Blue's plan to to deliver software as a service over the Web to PCs, cell phones and other handheld devices.
