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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
The German rule of order
Blogs I'm back in Germany for another stopover this week, after catching a quick flight from Vienna, and staying with some fri...
How technology has ruined relationships
Blogs Years back, I had a discussion with some friends about what defines adultery. If one fantasizes or thinks about committi...
Microsoft's data center chief headed to Cisco
News Debra Chrapaty, one of a relative handful of women in Microsoft's top technology ranks, is headed to Cisco, Microsoft confirmed.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Cisco Systems Inc., chief technology officer, financial analyst, top executive, data center, leadership, collaboration, women
Catching up with voyeurism and cybercrime
Blogs The over-the-top coverage by the mainstream media this week on the sex video scandal of a celebrity doctor here has been...
Women more affected by ID fraud, study finds
News Survey finds that more women report identity fraud, but they also do more to protect themselves afterward.
Tags: Legal, Survey, Identity Theft, phone, payment, monitoring, bank, identity fraud, post office, credit card
Xerox appoints new CEO
News In an unprecedented woman-to-woman transition, Anne Mulcahy passes the baton to Ursula Burns--whose chief challenge is to revive sales.
Tags: Corporate responsibility, Xerox Corp., Cisco Catalyst, Sales, CEO, career, talent, supply chain, leadership, women
Social networking, the new pressure group in India
Blogs On Feb. 6, I received an invitation from a friend to join a group on Facebook--A Consortium of Pub-going, Loose and Forw...
Facebook godfather groups spark mafia victims' ire
News Pages on the social-networking site pay tribute to notorious mob bosses, and relatives of mafia crime victims say such content glamorizes the perpetrators.
Tags: Web sites, Video, Facebook, photograph, U.K., News.com, Italy, blog, spokesman, women
ID fraud up, but low-tech methods still prevalent
News More consumers are becoming victims, reversing a previous trend in which identity fraud had been gradually decreasing.
Tags: Security, Phishing, phone, recession, hacking, identity fraud, U.S., industry, credit card, women
Of Facebookers and the Facebook-nots
Blogs Strange things tend to happen during a recession. A recent report by Economist Intelligence Unit (Global Economic Outloo...
A pricing revolution looms in online advertising
News Demographic profiling and behavioral targeting by such companies as Google, Quantcast, and ValueClick is slashing ad costs and threatening Web publishers.
Tags: Internet advertising, Cookie, Advertiser, Audience, Online Advertising, behavioral targeting, banner advertisement, Quantcast, online publisher, Advertisement
UK female IT workers face pay gap of one-fifth
News An equal-pay survey has found salary discrepancies are still an issue for female techies in the United Kingdom, although there are signs the situation may be improving.
Tags: Human resources, Benefits, Survey, information technology worker, London, Silicon.com, program manager, U.K., audit, industry
The business reality of being a S'pore gamer
Blogs The Beijing Olympics came to a close last weekend, and Singapore spent much of this week celebrating the nation's lone m...
SingTel 'Grid Girls' steal the Silverlight
News Singapore telco launches site based on Microsoft's Web platform, in bid to entice viewers to stay and "interact" with the ladies accompanying Formula One cars in September.
Tags: Web sites, Software engineering/development, Microsoft Silverlight, SingTel, Site, Advertisement, software, Microsoft .NET, co-founder, programming model
