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Downturn chops, delays HK IT projects
News One in five businesses have canceled IT projects that were underway, while over 80 percent are cutting or freezing IT investments, new survey finds.
Tags: IT Governance, Business Strategies & Functions, Infrastructure/architecture management, Budgeting/cost control, Survey, Hong Kong, business strategy, IT governance, accountability, monitoring
CIOs to report to CFOs by 2013
News A strong CIO-CFO team may exert greater boardroom influence and lead to the exec team considering more strategic IT investments, says analyst.
Tags: CFO, CIO, Silicon.com, enterprise architecture, information technology, analyst, leadership, team, board, senior executive
People, documents must tie in with BPM
News Business process management should be integrated with people and documents, as well as Web 2.0 tools, to be relevant, says BPM exec.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Business applications, Business, Global 360 Inc., job, Business applications, Business Strategies & Functions, Training, Enterprise 2.0, Business Process
Reflections of an eternal optimist
Blogs We are left with very few hours of 2008--a rather volatile and difficult year for most of us. I have been meeting quite ...
Don't let gray areas delay your projects
Techguide If it's under US$1,000 to solve an immediate need, it may be worthwhile doing it as projects can get delayed.
Tags: IT project management, Project management, Inkjet Printer, help desk, Stock, leasing, printer, information technology, analysis, business case
AMD shuffles executives, creates new engineering group
News Randy Allen will now run Advanced Micro Devices' processor group, as Mario Rivas pays the price for the Barcelona debacle.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Business models, Leadership, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Quad-core, Stock, Server, processor, leader, Barcelona
Satyam: India Inc.'s rude wake-up call
Blogs In Sanskrit, Satyam means truth. But what we saw today was quite the contrary. We saw how one lie led to another, result...
Seagate announces 800 job cuts, new CEO
News The storage supplier has said it is shedding one-tenth of its U.S. workforce, and losing its two most senior executives.
Tags: Storage, Global strategic management, Supplier, Seagate Technology LLC, Workforce, Worker, chief technology officer, CEO, job, chief operating officer
Senior execs turn to social networks for job hunting
News Professional social-networking sites such as LinkedIn and Plaxo are rivaling executive online job boards as a tool for senior executives wanting to progress their careers and find out about new jobs
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Executive recruiting, Plaxo Inc., job board, social networking, Silicon.com, Facebook, career, job
CIOs not taking security breaches seriously
News CIOs and internal auditors don't feel IT fraud and data privacy is a serious threat to their business despite the spate of high profile data losses and privacy breaches.
Tags: Security, Privacy, Data Privacy, IT Security, compliance, CIO, Silicon.com, audit, information technology, strategy
Tiered AT&T pricing to target heavy data usage
News Wireless chief Ralph de la Vega says the company will soon offer new pricing for wireless-data services to curb heavy usage.
Tags: Next-generation technology/networks, Data Usage, Smart Phone, network, mobile, Wireless, AT&T Corp., New York, FCC, broadcaster
Learning to embrace Net without fear
Blogs Like some others out there, I was terrified of the dark and avoided watching horror flicks growing up. But, as I mat...
US govt sets Internet regulation in motion
News Federal Communications Commission votes unanimously to gather data that will be used to determine regulations to keep the Net open.
Tags: Regulations, Web sites, Commission, Verizon Communications Inc., Republican, network, Web sites, Regulation, Wireless, Broadband
APAC HPC users eye solid-state drives
News update Some supercomputing users in the region are trialing flash memory for added boost, says a vendor, but an analyst notes SSDs won't be common "anytime soon".
Tags: Supercomputing, Memory, NEC Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Computing, e-mail, I/O, hard drive, high-performance, flash memory
SAP reveals SaaS makeover
News Feature Pack 2.0, which enhances integration of CRM tools with processes such as automated billing and project profitability, aims to add lustre to Business ByDesign.
Tags: Business applications, SAP AG, Tool, business software, payment, QA, decision-making, billing, software-as-a-service
