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UAE has Gulf's highest female Internet user base
News United Arab Emirates houses most female online users in Gulf region, making Arab state potentially lucrative market for online companies, study shows.
Tags: Female, Web sites, Internet advertising, online company, Bahrain, broadband quality of service, Web sites, Female, QoS, Broadband
PayPal eyes Asian SMBs' e-commerce moves
News Citing study it commissioned, PayPal says small and midsize businesses in region are looking at e-commerce to power growth and enter new markets in year ahead.
Tags: E-commerce, Web sites, Web 2.0, Web services, E-business, PayPal, Survey, Web sites, Web 2.0, India
'Green' mobile power offers new revenue
News Alternative power supplies can prove lucrative US$2.3 billion market for mobile operators and benefit 485 million mobile users without access to electricity grid.
Tags: Development/design, Network infrastructure, Mobile platforms/communications, Power supplies, surge suppression, Green IT, Phone, cell phone, revenue, mobile, Green IT
NBN could cost Aust taxpayers US$8.6B
News The Australian government will foot about a quarter of its A$43 billion (US$33.5 billion) National Broadband Network proposal, and adds implementation study will determine private sector investment.
Tags: Business broadband, Government, Study, NBN, U.S. Senate, equity, financial, network, asset, network infrastructure
Electric cars not as green as you think
News Electric cars in Germany could pollute more than gasoline cars, and the grid there could collapse if everyone charges at the same time, a report concludes.
Tags: Green IT, Battery, Study, Plug-in, electric vehicle, electric car, Germany, carbon dioxide, U.S., car
Study: Google's search lead not matched by loyalty
News Google is more widely used than rival search engines--but only one in five people use it exclusively, a Forrester study reports.
Tags: Search, Web sites, Forrester Research Inc., Microsoft Corp., Study, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., America Online Inc., Search Engine, Stock
The lowdown on India's Web 2.0 generation
Blogs India's demographics (50 percent of India's population is below the age of 25 years) has been perceived as both a boon a...
India tops global outsourcing nations list
News Country trumps outsourcing nations ranking with six cities making the top 8 outsourcing destinations, according to global study.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Outsourcing, India, Philippines, BPO, CIO, Chennai, outsource, foreign direct investment
More Asian firms IM to communicate
News Instant messaging emerging as popular collaboration and communication tool among enterprises in Asia-Pacific region, Springboard research finds.
Tags: Instant messaging, Communications, instant messaging tool, Tencent, Instant messaging, Communications, China, small and medium business, messaging, information technology
APAC SaaS spend to hit $2.3B by 2012
News Asia-Pacific businesses choose software-as-a-service after evaluating on-premise apps, indicating SaaS software has "begun to eat into on-premise" market, says new study.
Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Cost control, Software-as-a-service, Cost control, Software, China, small and medium business, India, cloud computing
Saudi faces tough time with cybercrimes
News Government official in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia says "close to impossible" to completely eradicate "fast-developing" cybercrime techniques.
Tags: Data security, Security Management, Security implementation/standards, Commission, Cybercriminal, Malware, Saudi Arabia, e-mail hacking, network, Cybercrime
S'pore employees want 'ethical' companies
News Some 66 percent of Singapore employees consider company's ethical conduct very important factor in deciding where to work, new study reveals.
Tags: Employee communications, Recruiting, Generation Y, Employee, Worker, Generation X, Survey, Hong Kong, Asia-Pacific, Singapore
Indian SMBs to spend US$48M on UC
News Country's small and midsize businesses will spend 80 percent of unified communications budget on Web conference and instant messaging tools, notes new study.
Tags: Business, Networking technology, Communications, Open Source, India, Supplier, IP, Tool, Small And Medium Business, On-demand
Asia mobile recycling yield beats Europe
News Low labor cost in region allows mobile phone recycling plant to recover nearly 100 percent in recycling process through manual labor, says Nokia.
Tags: Green IT, Nokia Corp., Phone, cell phone, mobile, handset, Green IT, Asia, Singapore, Europe
IT will lead Asia's economic recovery
News Region's tech spending in 2009 will outpace gross domestic product, growing by 4.8 percent to reach US$300 billion in 2009, finds new IDC study.
Tags: Growth strategies and tools, Microsoft Windows, Personal applications, Business, Microsoft Corp., software, Information Technology, revenue, Asia, International Data Corp.
