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Growing biz apps give mobiles enterprise boost
News Increase in business applications for non-conventional enterprise phones like the iPhone, are helping devices become more suited for enterprise use, notes analyst.
Tags: Business applications, Mobile platforms, Policy and management
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.
Huawei: Don't skip 3G for 4G
News Operators intending to leapfrog their 2G networks straight to LTE (long term evolution) may end up with higher cost and risk, warns Huawei exec.
Tags: CommunicAsia 2009, 3G (Third Generation), Next-generation technology/networks, Operator, Telecommunications Company, QoS, UMTS, 3G (Third Generation), LTE, Next-generation technology/networks
Quantum holographic storage: It works
Techguide Feat shatters long-held assumptions about the information limits of matter.
Tags: Storage, R&D, Electron, Storage, Quantum Corp., Hologram, 3D, Robin Harris, Robin, laser
Windows Server 2008 iSCSI multiple connected session modes
Techguide For administrators using Windows Server 2008's iSCSI initiator, selecting the right connection policy is critical. Rick Vanover explains the options for the ease-of-entry storage protocol.
Tags: Storage software, Microsoft Windows, Configuration Policy, Information Technology, network, Windows Server 2008 R2, Path, Policy, Storage, Rick Vanover
Twitter hits 5 billion tweets
News Twitter hits landmark tweet amid recent explosion of mainstream and celebrity use of the microblogging service.
Tags: Twitter Inc., dot-com, Bay Area, San Francisco, co-founder, valuation
Microsoft snaps up Office.com domain
News It could serve as a handy address for Microsoft's Web-based productivity suite, but the software maker isn't saying just how it will use the domain.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Business applications, Microsoft Windows Live, Domain, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, e-mail, Apple Safari, TechCrunch, Microsoft Office
Baidu CEO touts growth of China's search engine
News Robin Li tells Stanford students to embrace tough decisions when running a startup, in discussion that centered on entrepreneurship in the tough Chinese market.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Search, Palo Alto, venture capital, Baidu.com Inc., Search Result, China, Internet, Internet company
RIM records all employee calls
News BlackBerry maker Research in Motion concedes it recorded all staff conversations in order to keep control of intellectual property.
Tags: Privacy, Generation Y, RIM BlackBerry, Chief Information Officer, Research In Motion Ltd., Device, Sydney, intellectual property, CIO, internal network
Asia sees strong broadband, IPTV growth
News Broadband and Internet Protocol TV are clocking strong growth in Asia in spite of economic downturn, with China leading the way, according to Broadband Forum.
Tags: Video, TVs, CommunicAsia 2009, IP Television, Growth, Asia, Vietnam, Asia-Pacific, Broadband, South Korea
Gartner: Low-cost PCs to go big by 2012
News Research firm says 30 percent of mobile PCs will be priced below US$300 by 2012, with telcos finding new revenue streams in these systems.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Handhelds, 3G (Third Generation), Data services, Hardware, Mobile, Telecommunications, Cell Phone, Wireless, Gartner Inc.
Baidu.com CFO dies in accident
News Shawn Wang, chief financial officer for Baidu.com, the leading search engine in China, died in an accident while on vacation during the holidays.
Tags: Business development/management, Personnel management
Disable round robin DNS resolution in Windows Server 2003
Techguide You may be accustomed to striking a balance in your Windows Server 2003 using round robin, but sometimes you might want to concentrate all that load on one IP address. Here's how to disable round robin and free up the other server addresses at the same time.
Increase performance of Exchange with clustering
Techguide E-mail is such a mission-critical task, chances are you can't afford to have it down for even a minute. Here are tips on how to properly cluster Exchange servers.
Asia-Pac CRM growth to hit $3.4bn: IDC
News Investments in customer relationship management (CRM) software in Asia-Pacific will grow to US$3.4 billion by 2007 as globalization and increased competition force companies to perform better.
