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Government IT spend bright spot in Philippines
News Various government-led initiatives, including plans to establish credit database and grow e-learning adoption, will boost country's IT services, finds new report.
Tags: Ovum, Security, IT Services, Philippines, IT-spending, Tech Industry, Singapore, Government, public sector, information technology company
Technology bosses not afraid of a downturn
News Ninety-one percent of technology CEOs in a survey say they expect that their sales figures for 2009 will equal or even improve over that of this year.
Tags: Software, Hardware, Internet, Sector, Cobalt Networks, Telecommunications, payment, Silicon.com, CEO, recession
Cloud fever: What will it take for a breakout?
News Some of the tech industry's best and brightest gather at a roundtable discussion offering a snapshot of cloud computing's progress--and lack thereof.
Tags: Web services, Marc Benioff, Davos, Cloud Computing, dot-com, World Economic Forum, Switzerland, CTO, TechCrunch, Mountain View
The Web is still learning, but it can teach, too
News The kickoff keynote for this year's Web 2.0 Expo wasn't too surprising: the world has a ton of problems and the tech industry has a lot to offer.
Tags: web2.0, Twitter, Conference, Tim O'Reilly, Tech Industry, Show Floor, web2.0, financial system, collective intelligence, financial
Greening the Valley, one tech giant at a time
News Executives from Cisco, HP, and Sun talk at Fortune conference about how to prevent the tech industry's carbon footprint from growing to 3 percent by 2020.
Tags: Green IT, Hewlett-Packard Co., Carbon Footprint, Tech Industry, Energy Consumption, McKinsey & Co., Emission, Jonathan Schwartz, printer, network
Samsung upbeat about memory chip recovery
News The company, confident it widened its gap with rivals during the downturn, expects supply of both DRAM and NAND chips to fall short of demand in 2010.
Tags: Memory, Storage, revenue, mobile, Semiconductor, Memory Chip, Chip, NAND, Korean company, printing
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey invested in Foursquare
News Ex-CEO and current chairman is one of the startup's undisclosed angel investors, sources tell CNET News.
Tags: Web 2.0, Industry Veteran, Bay Area, New York, payment, co-founder, knowledge, SEC filing, Web 2.0
Gunning for an elephant in Silicon Valley
News Tiny Arista, started by a Sun co-founder, is challenging Cisco with superfast networking gear.
Tags: Data Management, Database management, Data warehousing/business intelligence, Google Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Equinix, software, network, Andreas Bechtolsheim, Cisco Systems Inc.
Targets for Google's merger machine
News What's next on Google's mergers and acquisitions list? Head of corporate development lists search, advertising and mobile services as "top priorities".
Tags: Search, Google Inc., Twitter Inc., David Lawee, JumpTap, advertisement, CEO, network, mobile, Search Result
Pirate Bay bidder loses chairman
News Magnus Bergman has filed documents to end his affiliation with Global Gaming Factory X, the company attempting to acquire The Pirate Bay.
Tags: Business applications, Web 2.0, Digital media, P2P, financial health, Stock, liquidity, Digital media, stock exchange, chairman
Can IT be a green hero?
News Despite its power-guzzling nature, IT could be the key to helping address environmental issues as well as help other sectors in this gloomy economy.
Tags: Green IT, Infrastructure/architecture management, Clean Technology, SAS Institute, Carbon Emission, Emission, clean-tech industry, Accenture Ltd., London, Silicon.com
What's in a name?
Blogs Plenty, it seems, especially in tougher economic times. When the chips are down and almost every company in the market i...
Indian tech riding out economic storm
News According to the country's outsourcing trade body, Nasscom, the Indian software and services industry will continue to grow despite the economic downturn.
Tags: Strategic analysis, Global strategic management, Sales strategy, Pricing strategy, IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Earning reports/forecasts, Forecasting, Green IT, Outsourcing
Washington leaders meet with tech execs
News Executives from companies belonging to the group TechNet met with congressional leaders and White House officials on Wednesday to talk innovation, immigration, and patents.
Tags: Business plans, Regulations, Executive, Republican, Broadband, U.S. Senate, Microsoft TechNet, U.S. President Barack Obama, Washington, CEO
Windows 7: An economic savior?
News Economic researcher reportedly bases chunk of his GDP expectations for the United States in the second half of 2009, on the new Microsoft operating system.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Sales/revenue, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, Hardware, financial, Microsoft Windows, U.S., analyst, gross domestic product
