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IDC: UC moving mainstream in Asia
News The next year or two will see unified communications adoption among mainstream enterprise users outpace today's adoption by cutting-edge users.
Tags: Remote management, VoIP/IP telephony, Customer support, Telecommuting, Asia, International Data Corp., Video Conferencing, Survey, Asia-Pacific, Tool
What scores in the global tech league?
Insight perspective Mark Kobayashi-Hillary, a director of the U.K.’s National Outsourcing Association, shares his thoughts on cultivating a desirable outsourcing region.
Tags: Outsourcing, Offshoring, Outsourcing, Conference, India, intellectual property, international business, software, food, job
Good user experience, not choice, matters
News Too many devices and too different features are complicating the ability of mobile service providers to deliver good Internet experience for consumers.
Tags: Next-generation technology/networks, Mobile applications, Video, CommunicAsia 2008, Mobile, Mobile TV, Google Inc., TV, phone, social networking
PayPal branches out from eBay's money tree
News By year's end, PayPal will derive more total payment volumes from software it provides to third-party sites than from eBay buyers and sellers, company president says.
Tags: E-commerce, PayPal, Google Inc., eBay Inc., venture capital, payment company, international business, payment, software, China
Dell launches low-cost PCs for emerging markets
News PC maker continues its international push with notebooks and desktops made for countries such as China and India.
Tags: Personal Computers, Notebooks and tablets, Desktops, India, Ubuntu, Intel Celeron, international business, processor, Emerging Market, China
PC market surges ahead in the face of economic uncertainty
News Growth from the same quarter a year ago is 16 percent, slightly better than analysts anticipated, though slowing in the Asia-Pacific market sparks some concern.
Tags: Personal Computers, Desktops, Notebooks and tablets, Hewlett-Packard Co., International Data Corp., Asia-Pacific, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, Notebook, international business
Yahoo investors could get final say on a search sale
News Shareholders who feel their hands are tied while sitting on the sidelines of a potential Microsoft-Yahoo search transaction may get the chance to weigh in, legal experts say.
Tags: Mergers, Acquisitions, Web 2.0, Yahoo! Inc., Investor, Advertisement, international business, Delaware Chancery Court, professor, Yahoo Search
What happens to Yahoo in Asia?
News news analysis If the company spins off assets such as China's Alibaba, it could be a setback for the brand or a boon for investors.
Tags: Search, Internet advertising, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., international business, software, technology company, China, shareholder, Apple iPhone
Symantec 'under pressure' despite strong results
News The security giant has posted strong end-of-year results but faces competition from high-performing rivals, says analyst firm Canalys.
Tags: Security, Analyst reports, Trend Micro Inc., GAAP, international business, Symantec Corp., McAfee Inc., financial, revenue, principal analyst
Earnings show Microsoft needs Yahoo
News Lackluster quarterly results reinforce the software maker's need for growth through acquisitions and suggest it ought to raise a rebuffed takeover bid.
Tags: Mergers, Acquisitions, Earning reports/forecasts, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Sales, Earnings, international business
Asia winning race to patent ideas in US?
News The world’s most innovative companies go to great lengths to guard their trade secrets, but do companies with the most patents have the best ideas?
Tags: Innovation, Patents, Hewlett-Packard Co., Patent, Canon Inc., Infineon Technologies AG, Japanese company, Japan, IFI Patent Intelligence, Korea
Samsung electronics: Same CEO, new leadership team
News Korea's biggest company reorganizes hopes a reorganization of its will help it through tough times.
Tags: Sales strategy, Sales/revenue, Best strategies, Business structures, Mobile, TV, Cell Phone, Chip, Choi Gee Sung, CEO
The fraud connection in social networking
Insight A fraud ring is no different than a social network, as it's the relationships and associations that are important, says SAS co-founder and CEO Jim Goodnight.
Tags: Web 2.0, Business applications, Hewlett-Packard Co., SAS Institute, M&A, Cloud Computing, M&A Money, phone, social networking, analytics
A Web site for crushes and votes
Insight newsmaker Astute young businessman Ian Lim believes helping video bloggers become stars will also rake in money for a site he's founded.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Business development/management, TV, micropayment, Video, Singapore, Platform, blogging, revenue
Moving to the forefront of IT
Insight Technology is the bloodline of Hong Kong's immigration department, helping the government manage the information of 6.9 million people more efficiently.
Tags: IT Management, Business Strategies & Functions, Infrastructure/architecture management, IT Governance
