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India's logistics sector to up IT spend
News Overall growth of India's logistics players is set to boost IT spending by a 20 percent compound annual growth rate over the next five years, according to study.
Tags: Supply chain, Supply chain management (SCM), India, IT-spending, RFID, logistics industry, Supply chain, Indian Logistics Industry, CIO, information technology
TNT: Risk approach pays for supply chain security
News Logistics company's nine-month labor to improve security across its Asia-Pacific operations earns it ISO 28000 certification, and lowers customer claims.
Tags: Risk Management, Security Management, Certification, Security, Asia, Thailand, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, supply chain, ISO
S'pore supply chain firm delivers on innovation
Insight Business intelligence tools need reinvention and a slower economy could be the best time to try new things, says YCH Group's CIO James Loo.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Data warehousing/business intelligence, Business applications, Leadership, RFID, Database, Innovation, SCM, CIO, business intelligence
It's down to you to save the world, IT industry
News Brussels calls on tech to cut its own carbon--and help everyone else do the same.
Tags: Green IT, Commission, Information Technology, Carbon Emission, Green IT, Video Conferencing, Information And Communication Technology, Europe, public sector, industry
UN audit finds weakness in peacekeepers' IT
News IT systems for UN peacekeeping logistics were insecure last year, according to an internal UN report, but some secure transmission standards are being deliberately avoided due to their bandwidth requirements.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Hacking, Firewalls, Defense/military, Disaster Recovery, Report, IT Security, business continuity planning, business continuity, Defense/military
Dell cuts 1,900 Irish jobs in production switch
News The company has announced restructuring that will see the loss of 1,900 jobs at the company's manufacturing facility in Limerick.
Tags: Desktops, Global strategic management, EMEA, Manufacturing, Procurement, Middle East, job, supply chain, Africa, Dell Computer Corp.
Soca socking it to cybercriminals
News The United Kingdom's Serious Organized Crime Agency has published its annual report, detailing a year of fighting e-crime.
Tags: Viruses and worms, Hacking, FBI, London, records management, U.K., marketing, bank, information technology, banking
Ten examples of SOA at work, circa 2008
Techguide In the past year, many companies have finally moved on beyond the experimentation and pilot stages when it comes to SOA. Joe McKendrick presents stellar examples of where and how SOA made a difference for some companies in 2008.
Tags: Web services, Standards, Mainframe, ITIL, SOA, CERN, Enterprise Service Bus, Lufthansa, United Airlines, AbeBooks.com
S'pore banks rush to heed e-commerce call
News With the rise in Internet shopping in the country, banks have been tying up with logistics providers to offer one-stop services to attract more credit card purchases.
Tags: E-commerce, Banking, E-business, Citigroup Inc., payment, brand name, bank, Card Merchant, Gap.com, logistics provider
Asia is going green, like it or not
News Businesses in Asia may not be as strongly bound by law to go green as Western counterparts, but economic pressures will take care of that, says ILOG chief scientist.
Tags: Green IT, Logistics planning, Inventory management, Supply chain management (SCM), Ilog, Carbon Emission, Asia, Supplier, Emission, Europe
Epson aims to cut CO2 emissions by 90 percent
News The company has pledged to cut its CO2 emissions by 90 percent by 2050, through a variety of strategies, including shrinking its printer parts.
Tags: Green IT, Recycling, R&D, Peripherals, Spokesperson, Emission, Europe, imaging, Germany, Brussels
Hong Kong police gets Cofee boost
News By tapping on Microsoft's Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, Hong Kong police deploy fewer technical experts when gathering PC evidence at crime scenes.
Tags: Business applications, Software engineering/development, Open Source, Officer, Hong Kong, Tool, Microsoft Windows Vista, Computer, software, Linux
Is your project MAD?
Techguide Forget deliverable-inspired tasks that produce little useful output. If you want your project management discipline to really shine, apply them to true business objectives.
Tags: Project management, IT project management, Project, project manager, Fortune 500, financial benefit, Patrick Gray, Prevoyance Group, CIO, financial
Paperless government not yet a S'pore reality
News Singapore's public sector makes strides in pushing online transactions, but consumer comfort with hardcopy documents impedes paper-free vision, says analyst.
Tags: Web sites, Web services, Government, Transaction, PKI, IRAS Staff, Web sites, International Data Corp., E-health, e-Service
IT essential for businesses' green success
Insight perspective IT is becoming ever more closely linked with organizations' environmental impact. An analyst offers energy-saving tips for IT managers.
Tags: Green IT, IT Governance, Accommodation, Storage, Hardware, IT administration, data center, program director, user behavior, IT Governance
