Product Design
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Printer vendors push green for cheap
News Printer manufacturers zoom in on design, technology and tools to offer environment-friendly machines that can also help businesses reduce costs.
Tags: Peripherals, Green IT, Business, Canon Inc., Carbon Footprint, imaging, e-mail, printer, printing, printer company
IDC: HPC gives Asian firms competitive edge
News update The region's businesses are entering an era where they cannot afford not to look at high-performance computing to compete effectively, says analyst.
Tags: Servers, Server platforms, Software, Microsoft Corp., Asia, International Data Corp., animation company, Server, phone, Microsoft Windows Server
Stronger S'pore dollar won't hurt too much
News The move by Singapore's central bank to address inflation is good as higher prices will make the country less competitive, say analysts.
Tags: Cost control, IT budgeting, IT Services, Singapore, phone, food, bank, product design, U.S., R&D
Don't let profit-making weaken e-waste efforts
Blogs I was at a local IT retail store last weekend, looking to buy a set of new ink cartridges for a multifunction printer (M...
Mozilla Labs rolls out usability 'Test Pilot' add-on
News More than a year after announcing its intention to make usability and feature testing easier and more consistent, Mozilla has released its Test Pilot browser plug-in.
Tags: Web browsers, Plug-in, Web Browser, Officer, Survey, Mozilla Corp., blogosphere, Mozilla Firefox, knowledge, product design
Customers to devise killer-gadgets of the future
News A report by the Economist Intelligence Unit predicts that within five years, 'prosumers' will be feeding their ideas straight onto company production lines.
Tags: Development/design, Apple Inc., Report, economist, London, Silicon.com, marketing, product design, analyst, Web Site
Energy independence to boost green efforts
News Countries will increasingly work on more eco-friendly design efforts, including building architecture, to help minimize their reliance on oil, says Autodesk CEO.
Tags: Green IT, Product development and design, Autodesk Inc., Carbon Footprint, Tool, Singapore, Geothermal Energy, software, plastics, software tool
Analyst: Tardiness in SSD game hurt Seagate
News Hard-drive maker's impending closure of manufacturing facility in Singapore, which includes 2,000 layoffs, was in part due to its late adoption of solid-state drives.
Tags: Storage, Memory, Sales/revenue, Western Digital Corp., Manufacturing, Seagate Technology LLC, Singapore, net income, financial, analyst
i2 Technologies buys Aspect Development in $9.3 billion deal
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3Com opens research center in India
News The facility's 35 engineers will focus on Net telephony, says the firm, which plans to double the center's head count within a year.
Tags: VoIP/IP telephony
Motorola sets up S'pore customer solutions center
News The new facility will cater to "high growth" markets including Southeast Asia and India, and is responsible for the development of customized mobile phone applications.
Tags: Workplace, Operations
i2 Technologies buys Aspect Development in $9.3 billion deal
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Wipro sees clearer skies ahead
News India-based Wipro reports that its product design services unit is stabilizing after a slump, as it and other Indian technology companies bid for a larger share of product development dollars.
UGS fires over 100; S'pore, AP unaffected
News Design software maker Unigraphics Solutions' (UGS) retrenchment of over 100 staff following its acquisition of Engineering Animation Inc last month will not affect its operations in Asia Pacific.
Can he turn Dell into a cool brand?
Insight Product design chief John Medica has a big job ahead--jazzing up Dell's image with computers that capture the public's imagination.
Tags: Marketing, Desktops, Notebooks and tablets, Leadership
