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User community growing influence on business
News As social networks play increasingly important role in a company's growth strategy, so will their impact on how business policies are formed, say experts.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Privacy, Customer support, Best strategies, User Community, Social Media, Privacy Policy, Terms Of Service, business strategy
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
US government finally lets ICANN go
News update In surprising move, U.S. government says it is ready to relinquish power of organization that oversees global Web traffic to "Internet users everywhere".
Tags: Web sites, Domain names, Politics, International governments, Domain Name, ICANN, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, accountability, U.S. Department of Commerce
Yahoo CEO eyes Asia, mobile for growth
News Internet company sees strong potential to expand its footprint via Asian markets as well as mobile platform, says Yahoo head Carol Bartz.
Tags: Search, Mobile advertising, Internet advertising, Yahoo! Inc., advertisement, CEO, U.S., mobile, Asia, Singapore
Get agile requirements by asking for user stories
Techguide Having trouble gathering agile requirements from a nontechnical client? Consider asking for user stories, which are simple and outline tasks users plan to do when they sit down at the keyboard.
Tags: IT project management, Project management, IT Professional, Rick, Environment, Use Case, job, technique, natural language, team
Google won't run all Wave servers
News Company clarifies new real-time communications platform will be federated, so anyone will be able to run their own Wave server.
Tags: E-mail servers, Servers, Google Inc., data retention, Server, e-mail, e-mail server, auditing, Internet, health care
Fake reviews prompt Belkin apology
News The networking equipment maker says sorry after it admits an employee had offered to pay for good Amazon reviews.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Personal broadband, Business broadband, Public relations, channel partner, Mechanical Turk, Amazon.com Inc., Worker, payment, Belkin Corp.
10 qualities of IT greatness
Techguide CIO success depends on connecting the chaotic IT environment to high-level strategic and business priorities that matter to the broader organization. Here are 10 qualities of IT units that have successfully bridged the strategic gap.
Tags: Strategy, Security Team, Successful IT Group, Ace Hardware, Paul M. Ingevaldson, Michael Krigsman, CIO, software, allocation, CEO
Users report 30GB Zunes seizing up
News Many users are reporting their Microsoft music players are rebooting then freezing up. Some dub the problem "Z2K."
Tags: Music, Music devices, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., discussion board, Symptom, PST, Microsoft Zune, Apple iPod
Google may be close to sealing Digg purchase
News The search giant is close to acquiring the U.S.-based social news aggregator for around US$200 million, according to reports.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Google Inc., Digg, Advertisement, Reddit, Google News, TechCrunch, entrepreneur, Internet
Photo sharing Web 2.0 style
Blogs In previous weeks, I introduced several Web 2.0 companies in Hong Kong. It so happens that they all used AJAX-based arch...
Bug hunter gets bounty from Mozilla
News A Firefox guru receives a US$2,500 reward for finding flaws in Mozilla's browser.
Tags: Hacking
Ubuntu takes community ideas from Dell
News The Ubuntu Brainstorm Web site is based on Dell's IdeaStorm site, which led to Ubuntu being preinstalled on many Dell PCs and laptops.
Tags: Web sites, Open source
Open source confusion must end, vendors told
News Users should demand the right to modify code and redistribute software without restriction when vendors attempt to enforce their own definition, urges analyst Gartner.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Open source
Yahoo speaks in new languages
News Internet giant introduces sites with localized language and content for Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam.
Tags: Web sites, Search, Web services
