Limelight
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The digital Olympics: beyond the TV
News Players in the online ecosystem are conspiring to get viewers to abandon their TVs for the Olympics by offering more comprehensive coverage of the event.
Tags: Video, Bandwidth, 3G (Third Generation), Starhub, Event, Mobile, TV, India, Akamai Technologies Inc., Live Streaming
Why are IT systems so unreliable?
Insight perspective IT systems are notorious for failing just when they're needed most. Can organizations do anything to fix this?
Tags: Virtualization, Security Management, Business security, Application Availability, Service Availability, application virtualization, Tony Lock, performance, Hardware, software
Malaysia: Growth in IT spending to be negative?
News For first time in decade, IDC expects IT spend in country to shrink between 1.8 percent and 3 percent this year, but adds a recovery is likely as early as 2010.
Tags: Investments, Business Strategies & Functions, Business, IT-spending, International Data Corp., Small And Medium Business, Broadband, Malaysia, Government, Hardware
Changing of the IT guards
Blogs There's another strong storm coming to the Philippines this weekend, but I won't go into this topic again just like what...
Chrome OS security: 'Sandboxing' and auto updates
News Google operating system will feature many of the same security features as the Chrome browser, including "sandboxing" of applications, auto updating, and antiphishing.
Tags: Operating systems, PC security, Data security, Security implementation/standards, Security Management, Phishing, Google Inc., Security, Computer, Operating System
Steve Jobs' health memo to employees
News Jobs shares his rationale for taking a medical leave of absence: "to take myself out of the limelight and focus on my health".
Tags: Components, Handhelds, Notebooks and tablets, Apple Inc., e-mail, CEO, News.com, blog, health care, board of directors
DTrace gets guernsey in new FreeBSD
News The FreeBSD Project has released a new stable version of its popular Unix operating system, officially incorporating for the first time Sun Microsystems' flagship DTrace performance analysis and debugging tool.
Tags: Operating systems, Open source, CPU, Database, Unix, operating system, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., DTrace, Environment
Report: Jobs weighing liver transplant
News Another day, another Steve Jobs rumor. This time, Bloomberg says that Apple's co-founder is weighing the move as a result of complications from earlier surgery.
Tags: Processors, Handhelds, Desktops, Notebooks and tablets, Employee communications, Crisis communications, Apple Inc., Google Inc., Bloomberg L.P., Celebrity Obsession
Before and after: IT snapshot
Blogs Yes, yes, I finally updated my photo byline. It's long overdue, especially since the previous one was taken when I first...
Azure evangelist tackles cloud doubts
Insight newsmaker Microsoft's Mark Taylor talks about issues ranging from risk and resilience to private clouds and interoperability.
Tags: Business applications, Cloud computing, Service level management, Cloud, Akamai Technologies Inc., Database, Azure, SLA, Community Technology Preview, Cloud computing
Who's hot, who's not in upcoming IPOs
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Is Super 3G really about fending off WiMax?
Techguide Just when most operators in the region are finally getting a grip on 3G and readying their assault on the mass consumer market, along comes Super 3G.
Key Netscape exec Ariko stepping down
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Gates may take wraps off "X-box" plans soon
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Every device has its own place
Blogs In the last year or so, ultramobile PCs (UMPCs) have hogged much limelight as an upcoming segment of personal computing,...
