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Cloud computing: Is it worth legal risks?
Insight perspective The cloud throws up a raft of legal and security concerns, but that doesn't mean firms shouldn't embrace it, says U.K.-based lawyer.
Tags: Cloud computing, Legal, Data security, Security Management, Security, IT Services, Cloud computing, Server, payment, software-as-a-service
Employers still grapple over IT pay, skills
News While employers now hold bargaining power, increase in skills pool and lower salaries relate more to tech workers with generic skills, say HR execs.
Tags: Trends, Compensation, Recruiting, HR policies and procedures, Candidate, Employer, Salary, Worker, e-mail, Human Resources
Short Take: SPH AsiaOne reports S$8.7m interim loss
News SPH AsiaOne, the Internet unit of Singapore Press Holdings, reported a net loss of S$8.7 million for the half year ended February 28.
AMD to take US$948M second-quarter charge
News Charges stem largely from chipmaker's former ATI handheld and DTV units. Company's stock falls as much as 7 percent in morning trading.
Tags: Processors, Corporate law, Legal, Graphics, Digital Television, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Security, Goodwill, Stock, payment
Google praises Microsoft's HTML 5 thoughts
News After years of silence on the emerging HTML 5 standard, Microsoft threw its hat in the ring a month ago, and Google is appreciative of its suggestions.
Tags: Business applications, Web Browser, Video, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Search, Ars Technica, HTML, HTML 5
Slow site? Yahoo open-sources an app for that
News Sure, rivals could profit from Yahoo's release of Traffic Server as open-source software. But overall, Yahoo bets it'll gain more than it loses by giving it away.
Tags: Web sites, Web servers, Yahoo! Inc., Open Source, Google Inc., Apache Software Foundation, Traffic Server, Microsoft Corp., software, Web sites
AIS full-year profit up despite poor Q4
News Despite a 92 percent fall in fourth-quarter 2008 earnings, Thai mobile operator Advanced Info Service reports full-year net profit increase of 0.7 percent to US$462 million.
Tags: Earning reports/forecasts, Cellular phones, Handhelds, Mobile/Wireless, Mobile, Thailand, Bangkok, Survey, stock exchange, net profit
What to do with dying products
Techguide Justin James discusses what companies do with applications that are no longer something they want to continue to develop or support, but are not actually dead.
Tags: Open source, Business Strategies & Functions, Business applications, Justin James, network management, Apple iPod, strategy, Open source
Telecom NZ suffering further decline
News Telecom New Zealand has reported a 43.9 percent fall in full year net profit to US$271.8 million, continuing a recent downward trend.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Telecommunications, Broadband, EBITDA, amortization, CEO, financial, network, mobile network, finance
Outsourcing trouble with Obama
Blogs I've written in this blog before about my great admiration for Barack Obama, whose sweeping message of change has catapu...
Motorola's fourth-quarter loss hits US$3.6B
News Trouble in the company's Mobile Devices segment was a significant factor in the loss. Overall revenue of US$7.1 billion was down 26 percent year-on-year.
Tags: Sales/revenue, Forecasting, Handhelds, Smart phones, Mobile, Motorola Inc., Mobile Device, Sales, Forecasting, financial
Google polishes competition charm offensive
News A month-long appeal to paint Google as a friendly face in a big Internet comes to San Francisco in a potential preview of Google's anti-antitrust talking points.
Tags: Search, Christine Varney, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., U.S. Department Of Justice, Advertisement, antitrust, revenue, Internet, Search
Despite net loss, Yahoo beats the Street
News The Internet pioneer reports a net loss, but excluding various charges, it beats out Wall Street expectations. New CEO Carol Bartz steers people toward the bright side.
Tags: Sales/revenue, Forecasting, Recruiting, Acquisitions, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Forecasting, net income, CEO
Chinadotcom's Q4 loss widens on investments
News Chinadotcom shares dropped 11 percent after the Web-site operator said its fourth-quarter loss widened because of the declining value of its investments in other Internet companies.
CA profit plunges on mainframe slowdown
News Computer Associates International, the No. 4 U.S. software maker, said its fiscal second-quarter profit fell 59 percent as corporations reduced spending on mainframe computers.
