Govt, telcos, financial firms to lift M'sia IT sector /Banks drop, tech firms rise in privacy trust rankings

Govt, telcos, financial firms to lift M'sia IT sector Banks drop, tech firms rise in privacy trust rankings Red Hat gives away JBoss to APAC Yahoo puts meat on Open Strategy bones Gartner reveals top 30 offshoring hotspots Survey: Keyboards, DRM to become scarce in 2012 Andy Grove urges Intel to build car batteries Nortel faces delisting from stock exchange HP to offer Suse desktop Linux to small businesses   Govt, telcos, financial firms to lift M'sia IT sector These three sectors are expected to spend most on technology in Malaysia, thus helping its infocomm technology industry to grow in 2009 despite a slowdown. Monday, December 15 2008 03:08 PM Find more stories in::  Sales/revenue, Acquisitions, Government, Telecommunications, International Data Corp. Banks drop, tech firms rise in privacy trust rankings American Express takes top place in new privacy survey, though most financial firms fall down the list and tech companies, including Facebook, climb. Tuesday, December 16 2008 08:58 AM Find more stories in::  Authentication and encryption, Network security, Security Management, Web sites, Domain names Red Hat gives away JBoss to APAC The open source vendor will give away 5,000 JBoss Developer Studio subscriptions to Java developers in the region, valued at US$500,000. Monday, December 15 2008 06:44 PM Find more stories in::  Open source, Java, Software, JBoss, Red Hat Inc. Yahoo puts meat on Open Strategy bones After months of teasers, the Internet pioneer begins injecting a social element to Yahoo Mail, My Yahoo and other sites. Will the money follow? Tuesday, December 16 2008 08:46 AM Find more stories in::  Web sites, Domain names, Email marketing, Internet advertising, Direct marketing Gartner reveals top 30 offshoring hotspots The analyst house's 2008 list of the top offshoring destinations reveals new contenders challenging the dominance of India and China. Tuesday, December 16 2008 08:32 AM Find more stories in::  IT Management, IT Governance, IT strategy, Employee policy/training Survey: Keyboards, DRM to become scarce in 2012 Survey of more than 1,000 Internet activists, journalists, and technologists about tech life in 2020 finds expectations of haptic and voice interfaces. Monday, December 15 2008 12:46 PM Find more stories in::  Keyboards and mice, Wireless e-mail devices, Internet appliance, copy protection, Cell Phone Andy Grove urges Intel to build car batteries Former Intel CEO--now a plug-in vehicle advocate--says the chip giant should make electric car batteries to diversify and jump-start the alternative-energy field. Monday, December 15 2008 02:51 PM Find more stories in::  Green IT, Battery, Intel Corp., Conference, car battery Nortel faces delisting from stock exchange Telecommunications equipment maker's stock is in jeopardy of being delisted from the New York Stock Exchange as the share price trades below US$1. Monday, December 15 2008 02:44 PM Find more stories in::  RFID, VoIP, Network infrastructure, Nortel Networks Corp., Alcatel HP to offer Suse desktop Linux to small businesses HP will offer Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop to business and education customers in the United States for US$519. Monday, December 15 2008 12:43 PM Find more stories in::  Business applications, Linux, Software, Web browsers, Hewlett-Packard Co.