Italian antitrust group examining Google News

Competition regulators in Italy have opened an inquiry into Google News at the behest of publishers who allege they were banned from search results unless they agreed to be part of Google News. According to reports, Google's offices in Italy were searched...

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China biz software sector to be Asia's largest

The enterprise software market in China is set to emerge as the sector's largest market in the Asia-Pacific region, reaching US$9.4 billion by 2012, said Springboard Research. In a report released Thursday, the research firm said the Chinese market...

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Symantec eyes easier cloud security

Protecting enterprise data in the cloud is not "straightforward" enough, according to a Symantec executive. Ken Berryman, Symantec's senior vice president of strategy and emerging businesses, said Thursday in an interview with ZDNet Asia that the cloud...

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Not all employees are created equal

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." I read that famous line in George Orwell's Animal Farm when I was a child, so it wasn't until years later that I fully appreciated how accurately it reflected the real world. That...

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Is censorship the answer?

Mention the "c" word in Malaysia these days and all hell breaks loose. Censorship is indeed a highly charged word today, given that the country has gone through another iteration of what appears to be an attempt to censor the Internet. Two weeks ago,...

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Checker eases app programming flowdoption of a new software development process framework

SINGAPORE--For Digital Scanning Corporation (DSC), the adoption of a new software development process framework has helped the company sell its software to a wider variety of customers. Seah Liang Chiang, CEO and founder of the Singapore-based company,...

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Can cable faults ever go away?

Telcos in Asia have stepped up investments over the last few years to enhance redundancy, cable routes and re-routing efforts, but the region is still not safe from cable disruptions. Users located in the Asia-Pacific region were subjected to slow connections...

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Microsoft coy on apps for Zune HD

While confirming that the Zune HD now sports an Apps menu, Microsoft is being circumspect on just how extensive the collection of programs it plans to offer for the media player will be. An eagle-eye user this weekend spotted an Apps menu on some of...

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Dell shows prototype at China Mobile platform launch

China Mobile introduced a new mobile platform Monday, and one of the presenting partners on hand has raised a few eyebrows. Details of a Dell phone, reportedly called the Mini 3i, began to circulate on the Web almost immediately after being presented...

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'I haven't changed my mind on SaaS': DebesHarry

Harry Debes hasn't changed his mind about software-as-a-service (SaaS). Last year, Debes, CEO of ERP (enterprise resource planning) software maker, Lawson, told ZDNet Asia he foresaw the SaaS market "collapsing" in two years, because the SaaS model...

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Microsoft Engineers' Response to Diggers' Calls to Kill IE6

Engineering POV: IE6The topic of site support for IE6 has had a lot of discussion on the web recently as a result of a post on the Digg blog. Why would anyone run an eight-year old browser? Should sites continue to support it? What more can anyone do...

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Enterprise guide to saving on wireless

As mobility is increasingly being elevated from a "nice to have" feature to a "must have" for companies, businesses stand to benefit by diligently managing wireless service costs. The stakes are high: mobile phones are becoming entrenched as a...

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Facebook jumps on real-time bandwagon

The race to real-time search is on. Facebook has started sending out invitations to selected users to beta test a trimmer version of the page it terms Facebook Lite, according to online reports. The new version allows users of the social networking...

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URL shortener Trim reopens 'indefinitely'

URL shortening service Trim is reopening its doors, restoring service to both existing Trim links and the core of the site that lets users make new ones. A company blog post that details the change of plans says that the company will continue to run...

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Non-traditional cures to keep projects on schedule, on budget

Telling a client the project is late and running over budget is unpleasant and possibly humiliating. Two nontraditional methods for involving in-house personnel from the project's inception, can help keep things on track. When your client's in-house...

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Sony laptops can't use Windows 7 XP mode

Sony has said that it will enable Intel's Virtual Technology, which supports Windows 7's "XP mode", only on select Sony Vaio models in the future, according to a report by The Register in the United Kingdom. There will be 10 Vaio PC models that will...

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Java gets new math know-how

Apache Commons developers have released a major update to the Apache Commons Math project, which is designed to extend Java with specialized mathematical and statistical components. Apache Commons was formerly a part of the Apache Foundation's Jakarta,...

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Nokia: Symbian has smartphone 'heritage'

Nokia's experience as a smartphone maker for enterprise users is its best defense against the competition in that space, said the world's largest phone maker. Kenny Mathers, Nokia's Asia-Pacific head of developer relations and marketing, told ZDNet...

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Tech Mahindra Launches Interoperability Test (IOT) Lab Services for Next Generation Networks (NGN)

BANGALORE, India , August 11: - The Company Sets up an IOT Lab in Bangalore, India - To Support TEMs, TSPs & ISVs for Voice & Video Domains Tech Mahindra, a global systems integrator & technology solutions provider to the telecom industry...

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Green electronics EPEAT registry goes global

The Green Electronics Council said Monday it is making its EPEAT rating system, now mandated in U.S. government agencies, available for computer gear sold in other countries. Products certified by EPEAT--which stands for Electronic Product Environmental...

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M'sia to censor Internet content

Malaysia reportedly has plans to censor Internet content viewed in the country. According to latest news reports from AFP and Reuters, the country intends to impose an Internet filter to block "undesirable" content. From sources, ZDNet Asia understands...

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Culprit found for latest LHC leaks

The latest delays to the restart of the Large Hadron Collider are likely to have been caused by a faulty hose, according to Cern, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. Liquid helium leaks in the world's largest particle accelerator were probably...

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Intel grid-computing app helps scientific research

Chip company Intel has launched a beta application that lets people contribute their spare processor power to humanitarian scientific projects. The grid-computing application Progress Thru Processors, which people can download from social-networking...

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Microsoft: Asia faster to embrace hosted services

Asian businesses will take to Microsoft's hosted messaging and collaboration products more quickly that those in the United States, according to the IT vendor's top executive. Allison Watson, corporate vice president for Microsoft's worldwide partner...

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A Google Wave reality check

Lars Rasmussen sighed, half an hour into a demonstration of Google Wave, the company's audacious attempt to reinvent Internet communication: we'd found another bug. Rasmussen had patiently worked around other minor bugs during the demo Tuesday at Google's...

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Microsoft's Bach on Zune, Natal and Windows Mobile

Microsoft has long talked about a vision in which people can buy content like movies just once, and then watch them on a variety of devices. That vision will finally start to become a reality this fall, Microsoft's entertainment unit president told ZDNet...

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Netizens driving firms' social responsibility

Online communities are making a bigger impact on corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the Asia-Pacific region, a new study has revealed. According to CSR Asia's The Future of CSR: 2009 Report, the Internet and online community emerged No. 10 on the...

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