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Asian tech customers still spending
News Businesses in the region are not cutting back on technology purchases even though they are reassessing their priorities, say tech vendors.
Tags: Best strategies, Vendor selection, Budgeting/cost control, Hewlett-Packard Co., CIO, technology company, financial, bank, audit, revenue
Analysts: Be cautious on Oracle-Sun merger
News Acquiring Sun elevates Oracle to "powerhouse" status, but CIOs should wait for its hardware and middleware roadmaps before deciding on license agreements.
Tags: Acquisitions, Vendor selection, Business, Hewlett-Packard Co., David Mitchell, Gartner Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., CIO, Hardware, Oracle Corp.
Mobile VoIP needs standards
News Future 4G networks will have to set proper quality of service guidelines and traffic provisioning to ensure voice over Internet Protocol succeeds, says report.
Tags: WiMax, 3G (Third Generation), VoIP, VoIP/IP telephony, Mobile, Wireless, Standards, QoS, 3G, 4G
HTML 5 drops open source video codec
News The next version of the Web-coding language will specify neither H.264 nor Ogg Theora as its native video codec, due to a lack of agreement between browser makers.
Tags: Open source, Web browsers, Web services, Vendor selection, Apple Inc., Patent, Google Inc., Video, font, video codec
OLPC spinoff in talks with four laptop makers
News Sugar Laboratories wants to put its Linux software on more low-cost PCs for the One Laptop Per Child initiative.
Tags: Vendor selection, Windows XP, Linux, Open-source Software, One Laptop Per Child Project, Open Source, operating system, developing country, ASUS, software
Fujitsu ditches US$1.77B NHS IT contract
News Company walks away from a billion dollar contract over much dispute in the amount needed to revamp UK's health IT system.
Tags: Negotiation, Budgeting/cost control, Infrastructure/architecture management, Vendor selection, British Telecommunications, Accenture Ltd., Cerner Corp., payment, software, Silicon.com
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Tags: IT Management
Outsourcers warned 'go green or get dumped'
News Outsourcers may find themselves out of favor with customers if they do not have eco-friendly policies, a new report shows.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Offshoring
Asian businesses still hesitant on SOA adoption
News Nearly half of organizations in the region have no plans for service-oriented architecture projects within the next two years, finds IDC survey.
Tags: Service level management, Web services
Hyperion joins in race for Asia’s BI market
News Competition continues to heat up in the Asia-Pacific business intelligence space as one vendor after another unveils products with wider footprint and support so as to capture a larger piece of the pie.
Tags: Data warehousing/business intelligence, Business applications
Costs vs. functionality
Insight One of the biggest challenges involved in that effort is analyzing the cost involved in ownership of computer and network technologies.
Evaluating choices and selecting the right business solution
Insight Determining the right business application requires an in-depth investigation into the issues and problems with current technology. The effort requires involvement and buy-in from all levels of the enterprise.
Cutting back the fat
Insight Less can mean more for resource-constrained organizations that want to save on costly IT solutions.
Tags: ROI/TCO, E-mail clients, Privacy, Policy and management, Employee policy/training, SMB
WiMax is hype, says Nokia
News The tech industry is getting overheated about the long-range broadband access technology WiMax, according to the mobile phone maker.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, WiMax
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