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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
IT execs urged to take MBA path to CIO's chair
News Frameworks, concepts, strategic thinking and business vocabulary taught in MBA programs are useful en route to senior management post, says academic.
Tags: Personnel management, Communication skills, Certification, Business, Nanyang Technological University, Banking Industry, business management, e-mail, teamwork, professor
M'sia wins votes for green IT incentives
News Industry players welcome US$443 million fund in 2010 budget to drive green IT, but opposition party unimpressed with government's initiatives to boost broadband.
Tags: Local Government, Taxes, Business broadband, Personal broadband, Funding, Business, Green IT, Small And Medium Enterprise, Information And Communication Technology, Broadband
IBM makes the world its lab
News Convincing countries and companies around the world of need to innovate during the economic downturn, has resulted in new cutting-edge partnerships for Big Blue.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, IBM Corp., University, Chip, Samuel J. Palmisano, intellectual property, Switzerland, China Telecom, China, strategy
UC Berkeley computers hacked, 160,000 at risk
News Attackers access public health center Web site, then break into secured databases on the same server, stealing some 97,000 Social Security numbers.
Tags: Hacking, University, Database, health service, computer, Server, insurance, health insurance, Web Site, health care
IBM teams up with universities on cloud project
News The company joins forces with Carnegie Mellon, Qatar and Texas A&M universities to develop one of the first cloud computing platforms in the Middle East.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Software, Programming languages, IBM Corp., University, biology, Cloud Computing, Apache Hadoop, financial modeling
The link between academia and outsourcing
Blogs One of the surest signs that an industry or profession is maturing is its entry into the university realm. This can be e...
Google Apps bug: You've got (my) mail
News Brown University students and a few other Google Apps customers found other peoples' e-mail in their in-box due to glitch in migrating from old e-mail to Gmail.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Director Of Information Technology, Tool, Support Services, e-mail, spokesman, Google Apps, Google Gmail, Web 2.0
Aust kicks off free bus wireless trial
News State transport authorities in Australia has kicked off six-month trial in South Australia to outfit one bus with a raft of multimedia equipment and free wireless Internet access.
Tags: IT Management, 802.11/Wi-Fi, WiMax, Trial, Cisco Systems Inc., Wireless, Australia, Internet Connection, technology company, wireless Internet
eBay ex-CEO to make Calif. gubernatorial bid official
News Former CEO of eBay is expected to officially declare her candidacy for governor of California on Tuesday.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, eBay Inc., Republican, Governor, Internet, Sen.
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.
Broadband over power lines? Don't count on it, yet
Blogs Dominant carrier PLDT, as well as its high-profile chief executive Manny V. Pangilinan, have been in the news lately bec...
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
US on hunt for 1,000 cybersecurity experts
News US Department of Homeland Security has been given the go-ahead to hire the staff in a push to improve the country's response to cyber incidents.
Tags: Data security, PC security, Security, Network security, Cybersecurity Expert, Cybersecurity, network, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Internet Attack, Information Security
Researchers devise way to deny denial-of-service attacks
News Engineers at Auburn University in Alabama have developed a filter that could protect government, commercial and educational servers from being attacked.
Tags: Network security, Business security, IDS (Intrusion Detection Systems), Authentication, Computer, network, Filter Value, Cloud Computing, distributed denial of service, Server
