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The CIO with 'street cred'
Insight Having been a user of IT for many years, Mercury Interactive CIO Cecilia Claudio finds that customers are more willing to hear her testimony.
Tags: Business applications, Leadership, Leadership techniques, Change mangement, Decision-making
Racing ahead with IT
Insight Running IT like a business is the best way to inculcate a healthy competitive spirit among your IT staff, says Hong Kong Jockey Club's executive director of IT.
Tags: IT Management, Human resources, Leadership
S'pore IT job market looking up, specialized skills wanted
Insight The IT job scene in S'pore is looking up, but HR experts say candidates fluent in both tech and business speak are still hard to find.
Tags: IT Management, IT outsourcing, IT training, Outsourcing
Code concepts: Visual Studio's T4 templates
Techguide The T4 templating system is used to programmatically generate artifacts. Here's an overview about why the templates are useful and how to work with them.
Tags: Protocols and platforms, Business applications, Microsoft Visual Basic.Net, T4, Directives, Levit & James Inc., File, Business applications, Directive, Tool
Making the case for dynamic languages
Techguide Justin James presents reasons why developers should consider using dynamic languages. He also discusses how these languages trip up some developers.
Tags: Programming languages, Software engineering/development, Ruby, Language, C, Developer, C#, C++, Justin James, API
WAP's imminent makeover
News WAP hasn't exactly had the best of times. But it may be time for businesses to take a second look at it. Here's why.
Wireless rocks
News Hard Rock Cafe Singapore faces the same business and market challenges of any small homegrown F&B business—rising operational costs and competitive pressures. This time, it’s taken the high tech route to success.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, SMB
Beating Microsoft to the punch
Insight Russian developer Ilfak Guilanov explains why he created an unofficial Windows patch that is drawing rare backing from antivirus companies.
Tags: Data security, Security applications/tools, Microsoft Windows
Microsoft security chief looks beyond Vista
Insight A tech geek who spent the last eight years in Microsoft working on file systems, Ben Fathi says he will be assessed on his ability to build a "fundamentally secured platform".
Tags: PC security, Data security, Security, Leadership
Getting smart about identity
Insight Gemplus President and CEO Alex Mandl predicts the company will triple its identity business worldwide over the next three years, as greater scrutiny is placed on security and access.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Security implementation/standards
Google goes head-to-head with Microsoft
Insight In its bid to expand, Google appears to have no choice but to take on Microsoft, says an industry observer. Will it be able to succeed where so many others have failed?
Tags: Web services, Business development/management
S'pore draft spam bill is 'not perfect' yet
Insight The second draft proposal could penalize law-abiding marketers while errant spammers slip through the cracks, says a local IT lawyer.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Regulations
Get reusable CSS at no cost from Yahoo
Techguide The Yahoo User Interface Library offers CSS Tools, which allow you to easily integrate CSS-based designs in Web applications. Get more details on this useful resource.
Establishing a server triage policy
Insight The aftermath of an IT disaster is usually chaotic, with every department arguing for the right to be brought back online first. Which gets the nod?
Tags: Infrastructure/architecture management
Hacking: Pros now rule?
Insight tech dialogue The chief scientist of ISS believes that this year will be a watershed one for hacking--because for the first time, hackers are doing it for outright financial profit.
Tags: Hacking
