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IBM warns standards bodies to shape up
News In the wake of ISO's approval of Microsoft's OOXML, IBM has joined calls for standard-body reform, threatening to bow out of standards work.
Tags: Standards, XML, IBM Corp., Google Inc., India, Office Open XML, Open Source, Standards, Standards Body, intellectual property
What the credit crunch means for IT
News news analysis The implications of the credit crunch may prove more positive for some sectors of the technology industry than for others.
Tags: Financial, Outsourcing, IT outsourcing, Bank Of America Corp., Outsourcing, India, Outsourcing Company, business intelligence, software, job
Phase change limited as flash replacement
News Technology touted as flash memory substitute will ship by year-end, but is likely to replace only NOR flash due to cost, says analyst.
Tags: Memory, R&D, Richard Gordon, Mobile, NAND flash, phone, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Nokia Corp., vice president, industry
AIS full-year profit up despite poor Q4
News Despite a 92 percent fall in fourth-quarter 2008 earnings, Thai mobile operator Advanced Info Service reports full-year net profit increase of 0.7 percent to US$462 million.
Tags: Earning reports/forecasts, Cellular phones, Handhelds, Mobile/Wireless, Mobile, Thailand, Bangkok, Survey, stock exchange, net profit
Palm still waiting for new products to end losses
News Palm's fourth fiscal quarter was just like the last few: sales of the Centro are taking off, but Palm's making little if any money on the sale of each US$99 smartphone.
Tags: PalmOS compatibles, PalmOS, Earning reports/forecasts, Financial, Palm Inc., Mobile, Google Inc., Smart Phone, Microsoft Windows Mobile, software
Gartner and UBS provide a mixed view on IT spending
News Gartner report forecasts a 2.3 percent growth in IT spending this year, while UBS Securities predicts a more dire outcome of a 5- to 15-percent decline.
Tags: UBS AG, Security, IT-spending, Security Software, Gartner Inc., layoff, Japan, software, financial, P&L
Can Microsoft catch up with Google?
News news analysis No, but the software giant has been trying some interesting new things in search. And it has the money and time to spend on startups and new search features.
Tags: Search, Internet advertising, Web sites, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Search Engine, Advertisement, Facebook, strategy
CyberWorks' India Internet venture scales back expansion
News Data Access (India) Ltd, an online service provider that Hong Kong's Richard Li hoped would spearhead his push into India, will target four cities instead of 26 after slashing its investment plan.
Weathering turbulent times
Blogs Each day and week, we continue to read about the global challenges people worldwide are facing. These challenges incl...
Telecom NZ suffering further decline
News Telecom New Zealand has reported a 43.9 percent fall in full year net profit to US$271.8 million, continuing a recent downward trend.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Telecommunications, Broadband, EBITDA, amortization, CEO, financial, network, mobile network, finance
SingTel not put off by Optus' One.Tel write-off 
News Singapore Telecommunications Ltd is not put off by Cable & Wireless Optus Ltd's A$68.3 million (US$35 million) write-off for debts owed by insolvent telco One.Tel Ltd.
MediaRing revises H2 earnings forecast for 2000
News Mainboard-listed MediaRing.com Ltd has revised its preliminary unaudited revenue for the second half of 2000 to be about S$13.5 million, from an earlier forecast S$15 million.
Write-offs point to content sector struggles
News After hyped mergers of Internet content and broadband access, the harsh lesson for Excite@Home and other companies is that running a Web portal is an incredibly expensive proposition if you're not No 1.
Write-offs point to content sector struggles
News After hyped mergers of Internet content and broadband access, the harsh lesson for Excite@Home and other companies is that running a Web portal is an incredibly expensive proposition if you're not No 1.
Gateway sticks to break-even forecast
News Gateway still expects to break even in the first half of this year, but it will come after a furious bout of cost-cutting in the first quarter, executives said Thursday.
