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Businesses hunting for gold with data mining
News Companies are gathering more data and using increasingly sophisticated tools to use data mining and modeling to improve their businesses.
Tags: Data mining & analysis, Data, data mining, Fiat, RSA Security Inc., insurance, Prague, Customer, Web, car
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
Microsoft to confide security woes to governments
News Company's decision to share information about security issues is part of its effort to blunt the appeal of open-source software.
Tags: Microsoft Windows
Google Translate speaks 10 new languages
News The translation service adds Swedish, Hindi, Danish, seven other languages, and the ability to guess the language that text needs to be translated from.
Tags: Search, Web 2.0, Language, Google Inc., India, Prague, News.com, blog, blog posting, Search
Shooting linked to Nigerian e-mail fraud
News One of the most notorious scams operating on the Internet has been blamed for the death of a Nigerian diplomat in the Czech Republic.
Slowboat to ITIL v3 take-up?
News Industry players disagree over how long it will take for latest revision of the IT Infrastructure Library to make a real impact on businesses.
Tags: Service level management, IT Governance
Malaysiakini refutes allegation of Soros "funding" 
News Online media Malaysiakini.com refuted government-led allegations that it had received funding--directly or indirectly--from billionnaire George Soros.
Google, BEA in enterprise portal mashup talks
News BEA's chief says businesses understanding that "culturally, there is a new generation of communications".
Tags: Business applications, Business development/management, Strategy
Malaysiakini refutes allegation of Soros "funding"
News Online media Malaysiakini.com refuted government-led allegations that it had received funding--directly or indirectly--from billionnaire George Soros.
Borland opens new development center in S'pore
News The first one in the Asia-Pacific, Borland's new facility will focus on developing new application middleware.
Tags: R&D, Software engineering/development, Business applications
Czech gov't approves 20b-koruna plan for phone licenses
News The Czech government approved a plan to raise at least 20 billion koruna (US$533.8 million) from selling four high-speed mobile phone licenses this year.
Czechs to show Nazi loot on Web to find owners
News It's an art exhibition with a difference, not just in the use of the Net as a medium, but also for its purpose. While many art shows aim to sell the works, this one hopes to give them away.
Borland gets TogetherSoft for US$185 million
News The software maker says acquiring TogetherSoft will help Borland bolster its programming tools lineup.
BMC plans a 'simple' attack on the mid-market
News The software vendor is on a long term strategy to make our products faster time to value and easier to install, says its CEO Bob Beachump.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Infrastructure/architecture management, Business applications, IT Governance
Privacy: The ugly truth
News Issues involving our personal privacy affect our day-to-day lives much more than you might think, says columnist Scott Wright. Is there information in a database somewhere that you wouldn't want everyone to look through?
