eBay wants to spin off telephony service Skype into a separate publicly traded company, but something's standing in the way: Skype's founders are threatening to take back some of the technology in the midst of a licensing dispute.
The auction giant's...
Storage in the cloud: Availability and SLAs
Storage and the associated planning process are critical for an organization to consider any cloud technology. An expert outlines one solution that may be attractive for availability.
I will admit that cloud technologies are a buzzword.
Primarily because...
IT risk high up on banks' agendas
Banks are putting IT risk high on their agendas, and are paying more attention to assessing vendor risk as a part of overall operational risk, according to a consultant at IDC.
Michael Araneta, senior consulting and research manager, IDC Financial...
Open source evangelists lock horns with Nasscom
Proponents of the open source and proprietary software sectors have clashed over a proposal to support multiple standards for the country's e-government projects.
Last year, the Indian Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MCIT) released...
Social attitude key to today's connected world
I'm a huge fan of The Sims games franchise, but I don't consider myself a serious gamer. Fans of Razer, on the other hand, are probably gamers who don't take their art lightly.
Razer manufactures games peripherals, including mice, keyboards and built-for-gamers...
Extending the job hunt to Web world
Over the past month, I've been scouring resumes of job applicants and have yet to come across one that points me to a social network for more information on the candidate.
Perhaps it's still too early for this generation of applicants, mostly in their...
Indian outsourcers using slump to get bigger
Take a walk through the sprawling Infosys Technologies campus on the far edge of Bangalore, and you'd never think the outsourcing industry is in a funk. At all hours, buses disgorge hundreds of software engineers too young to buy a beer, the sidewalks...
Microsoft offers EU 'browser ballot' compromise
In a reversal, Microsoft last week said it is now open to allowing users in Europe to select competing browsers in Windows 7.
Essentially, Microsoft is offering to put into Windows a way for consumers to easily install a rival to Internet Explorer. PC...
S'pore developers create open source buzz
SINGAPORE--Local developers are helping to drum up market buzz to boost interest and expertise in open source technology across the country.
Development in the mobile arena is particularly hot at the moment, among both individuals and software houses,...
Agile project management: Estimating the unknown
Rick Freedman explains why estimation in an agile environment is not as mysterious as many project managers think.
Experienced project managers know the first question clients ask on any new project is "How much?" followed closely by "How soon?"
Whenever...
HP to acquire Ibrix
Hewlett-Packard last week picked up IBrix, a file serving software company, in the latest round of merger and acquisition activity. Terms of HP's acquisition were not disclosed.
IBrix provides enterprise-class file serving software designed for data...
Top execs making new contacts via Twitter
For some business leaders, using social networking tools online has become as important to their jobs as face-to-face meetings, although direct interaction remains the choice for in-depth discussions.
Following a recent study of top executives using...
S'pore govt to further adopt cloud, green IT
SINGAPORE--Driven by the country's stimulus spending, the nation's public sector will increasingly adopt cloud computing and green IT in the near future, said Springboard Research.
In a report released Thursday, the research organization noted that...
Can RIM get mojo back with BlackBerry Tour?
The summer of the smartphone is heating up as Research In Motion is set to introduce this weekend its latest BlackBerry device, called the Tour. But will it be enough to keep RIM king of the smartphone market?
The BlackBerry Tour is hitting U.S. store...
Microsoft aims for Silverlight at end of the tunnel
SAN FRANCISCO--By next year, half of all devices connected to the Internet will have Silverlight, says Microsoft's Walid Abu-Hadba.
That will still be just a fraction of the number of phones and computers that have a version of Adobe's Flash, but Abu-Hadba...
Gartner finds lukewarm response to SaaS
Businesses are showing a lukewarm response to SaaS, despite an economic climate that would seem to encourage take-up of the technology, according to a new survey by Gartner.
The survey of 333 enterprises in the United Kingdom and the United States found...
Netbooks get boost with telco deals
The recent spate of netbook and mobile broadband bundles have had a positive impact on netbook sales, but until more netbooks come with mobile broadband capabilities integrated, these promotions may not do much to increase 3G subscriptions, an IDC analyst...
'Disintegrated' IT didn't help financial crisis
Financial institutions looking to ramp up their risk management capabilities through technology must ensure their IT implementations take on a holistic approach. Doing so could also have prevented the financial crisis from erupting.
Despite having access...
Keep project scope small for success
Negativity can kill a project, but the opposite is also true: You can stuff a project with so many features that it's crushed by its own weight.
A common objection to a project plan is that it doesn't do enough--it doesn't have all the features that...
S'pore Nissan facility goes RFID
SINGAPORE--A new Nissan hub is tapping radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to help cut time for identification and retrieval of new cars, from an average of 24 hours to two hours.
Located in the Western part of Singapore, the new TC Nissan...
Cisco guns for Microsoft in collaboration market
As Cisco Systems adds more functionality to its online WebEx conferencing service, it's ratcheting up the competitive pressure against partner and rival, Microsoft.
Cisco held a press event on Tuesday to discuss how it plans to add more to its WebEx...
Recession dividing LTE and WiMax
The global economic situation may widen the rift between LTE (long term evolution) and mobile WiMax adoption between mature and emerging markets, according to Ovum.
The analyst firm said in its latest report, the recession is expected to slow revenue...
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