Pharmaceutical Company
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Global drug firm opens M'sian IT center
News GlaxoSmithKline sets up US$17.7 million tech center in Malaysia, its first in Asia, to support company's global operations and networks across 85 countries.
Tags: Services, Data centers, Outsourcing, GlaxoSmithKline Plc., U.K., Information Technology, revenue, GSK, Pharmaceutical Company, Manufacturing
Linux on desktop will be 'cheaper and more secure'
Insight At the recent ZDNet UK IT Priorities conference, vendors and users debate the pros and cons of using Microsoft, or not.
Tags: Desktops, Cost control, Linux, Open source
Relaxed rules for U.S.-China tech dealings spark controversy
News Last summer, the Bush administration changed its policy for exporting technology products that the Chinese could use for military purposes. Critics say the move could imperil U.S. security.
Tags: Politics, Security, Defense/military
Pharmaceutical giant strikes US$550M outsourcing deal with Accenture
News Under the 10-year deal, Bristol-Myers Squibb will outsource its application development and maintenance, as well as a range of finance and accounting support services across the company.
Tags: Outsourcing, IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., Pharmaceutical Company, accounts payable, Accenture Ltd., Europe, AstraZeneca Plc., outsourcing agreement
Is Tamiflu 'better' than Relenza?
Blogs I can find no clinical evidence that Roche's Tamiflu is more effective than GlaxoSmithKline's less-prescribed Relenza ag...
Swine flu e-mail in Spanish links to data-stealing Trojan
News Security firm SonicWall says a new swine flu-related e-mail in Spanish includes link to Trojan designed to steal log-in data if the user tries to access certain Mexican bank Web sites.
Tags: PC security, Viruses and worms, Security, Pharmaceutical Company, SonicWall, computer, e-mail, security company, bank, trojan horse
Cambridge takes supercomputing to the cloud
News The democratization of high performance computing gets underway later this year, when Cambridge University begins leasing processing time on its Darwin supercomputer.
Tags: Supercomputing, Business, Small And Medium Enterprise, Pharmaceutical Company, Server, Hardware, processor, supercomputer, high-performance computing, Cambridge
Security experts advise caution in the cloud
News Cloud computing is on the rise, but handing responsibility for your data over to a third party brings new security considerations, experts say.
Tags: Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Data security, Network security, Security Management, Business security, Security, IT Professional, Europe, ERP, chief security officer
Red Hat finds home in heart of capitalism
News Red Hat's chief executive Matthew Szulik was on hand to ring the Exchange bell to announce that his company was now listed on the NYSE, rather than its previous home on the Nasdaq.
Tags: Linux
MESDAQ in the dark about high profile companies' plans
News MESDAQ is still in the dark as to when prominent companies like satellite service provider Measat and Internet ISP Time dotCom might list on the fledgling index.
Linux company plans German lab
News Linux NetworX inks a deal with Germany's Fraunhofer Institute to develop new technology and increase its European presence.
Beware the bird flu spammers
News An international pharmaceutical firm has warned Web users to be cautious as spammers see a profit in the potential flu pandemic.
Tags: Spam and phishing
IBM expands corporate search ambitions
News Serrano release of WebSphere Information Integrators aims to untangle and make sense of complex company networks.
Tags: Search
MESDAQ's new trading system MORE! up and running
News The Malaysian Exchange of Securities Dealing & Automated Quotation Bhd (MESDAQ) today kicked off its new e-trading system called MESDAQ Order Routing and Execution System (MORE!).
Economic crunch brings revamped hiring strategies
Insight Just because you have more job candidates to choose from, hiring isn't easy; tightening budgets leave little wiggle room for poor hires. Discover the new strategies tech managers are using to hire needed expertise.
