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Virtual currency small but growing threat
News Online money is still small threat to real-world economies, but its growth could translate into numerous issues for countries, says analyst.
Tags: Banking, Legal, PayPal, Money, e-mail, payment, research director, Tencent, Second Life, Legal
Give workers a say in corporate IT
Insight perspective Don't fear employees' involvement in workplace tech, according to an analyst. Just learn to manage it appropriately.
Tags: IT Management, Handhelds, Personal Computers, Security, Mobile Device, research director, workplace, online application, Web, PC
Survey: User optimism for SaaS high
News Ninety percent of organizations intend to maintain or grow their application deployments based on the software-as-a-service model, says Gartner.
Tags: Utility computing, ROI/TCO, Asia, Survey, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Gartner Inc., ROI/TCO, performance, research director
Online newspaper readership climbs 16 percent
News Top 10 online newspapers post double-digit increase in December Web traffic, offering the newspaper industry encouragement amid bleak times, according to a new report.
Tags: Web sites, Domain names, Web 2.0, Increase, Washington Post Co., New York Post, Los Angeles Times, Bankruptcy, USA Today, research director
Online retailers see drop in visitors
News Reflecting consumer pessimism toward the current economic climate, online retailers experienced a decline in visits for the eighth straight week, according to a report by analyst Hitwise.
Tags: E-commerce, Web sites, Sales, music retailer, online music, online retail company, research director, retail company, News.com, Hitwise
Twitter steps up its antispam moves
News Microblogging service posts a position for a spam engineer and tweaks the handling of suspended accounts as it suffers from an outbreak of spam.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web logs, Twitter, Security, Spam, Anti-spam, research director, e-mail company, job posting, job
Mobile to drive 3.8B voice connections
News New study shows mobile will account for 83 percent of voice market in Asia, boosting connections from 2.2 billion this year to 3.8 billion by 2017.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, Mobile, India, Voice Connection, Europe, phone, telephony, research company, Emerging Market, research director
Cutting data center costs main driver for virtualization
News IDC research claims 90 percent of European companies that have adopted virtualization have done so to cut data center costs.
Tags: Virtualization, Business applications, Software, Data centers, Budgeting/cost control, Cost control, International Data Corp., business application, Environment, performance
APAC IPTV subscribers to hit 8.7M in 2012
News Revenues from Internet protocol TV services in the Asia-Pacific region will reach US$3.5 billion, accounting for over 70 percent to global revenues, says new report.
Tags: TVs, Web sites, IP Television, Philippines, Gartner Inc., device manufacturer, social networking, Facebook, research director, network
Number of IT venture deals falls to 10-year low
News Venture capitalists pull back sharply, shrinking U.S.-based tech deals to a level not been seen in more than a decade, according to Dow Jones VentureSource.
Tags: Venture capital, Quarter, information service, software, research director, Dow Jones & Company Inc., News.com, Web 2.0, Internet, information technology
Asia server market set for slowdown
News Credit crunch will cause server demand in the Asia-Pacific region to drop this quarter and "shave a few" percentage points off growth next year, says analyst.
Tags: Servers, Sales/revenue, Infrastructure/architecture management, IT budgeting, Region, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, Gartner Inc., Server Market, Server
One billion PCs now in use worldwide
News There are now over a billion PCs in active use, according to analyst firm Gartner, with the number predicted to double by 2014.
Tags: Personal Computers, PC Company, Gartner Inc., Broadband, Japan, research analyst, Emerging Market, research director, U.S., analyst
PayPal: Risky for eBay and users alike?
News As eBay continues to promote its move to a single payment system--PayPal--as being in the best interests of its users, one security specialist believes it may be asking for trouble.
Tags: E-commerce, PayPal, Security, eBay Inc., Conference, Gartner Inc., online auction company, payment, online auction, research director
Innovation essential despite downturn
News Asia-Pacific CIOs must balance innovation with frugality, while creating a direct link between IT and the organization's revenue in 2009, Gartner says.
Tags: Innovation, Business models, Decision-making, Cost control, Green IT, Virtualization, Asia-Pacific, Innovation, Cloud Computing, Gartner Inc.
P2P music sharing needs regulation to work
News Government legislation and a reliable royalty system must be implemented for peer-to-peer music file sharing networks to work in Asia, say industry watchers.
Tags: Peer to peer, Digital rights management (DRM), Music, Regulation, BayTSP, P2P, Japan, research director, digital-rights management, network
