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Case study: Advance Tech taps IT expert from abroad
ABOUT three years ago, Advance Tech Communications Sdn Bhd (ATC), a mobile wireless research company, managed to entice US-based Dr Shiv Verma, a world-renowned expert in cutting-edge mobile wireless technology to come over to Malaysia to work on an exciting project.
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ICANN’s custom TLD will be a ‘nightmare’
The decision to allow custom top-level domains will be a 'nightmare' for brand managers, analysts and lawyers have warned.
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Features and Case Studies
As one of the few genuine global super-brands with over 200 businesses, Virgin faces huge challenges. To find out what role IT plays in all this, Andy McCue caught up with Virgin's group CIO Gareth Lewis.
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Florida man arrested at airport on sex charges
GREEN A 34-year-old man faces criminal charges, accused of attempting to meet a minor for sex. Douglas A. Martin of Naples, Fla., was arrested this afternoon by the local FBI Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.
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InternetNZ releases RFP for Broadband Strategy
InternetNZ (the Internet Society of New Zealand Inc) has today released a Request for Proposal (RFP) for a scene-setting consulting report to assess broadband strategy options for New Zealand. The RFP document is attached, or can be accessed at www.internetnz.net.nz.
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We didn't stuff up on school computer costs: Swan
Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan has rejected suggestions the government greatly under-estimated the cost of its computers in schools program.
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WELCOME GUEST! Global software giant Microsoft has clarified that it used the word Fiji as an internal working code name, not for an operating system, but for the Windows Media Center TV software package.
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Political novices producing attack videos
Some of the most effective Internet political attacks in the current U.S. campaign have come from political amateurs, The New York Times said Sunday,Robert Greenwald is a professional film director whose work has included the movie musical Xanadu and the TV movie The Burning Bed. This year, Greenwald has produced several unflattering videos on presumptive Republican presidential nominee John ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 4th Sep 2007 21:32 UTC
Discussion continues on the Linux Kernel mailing list about the legality and morality of re-licensing BSD/GPL dual-licensed code under only the GPL. Alan Cox replied to Theo de Raadt's comments suggesting he was encouraging people to break the law, "re-read my email and then apologize.
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Group Suggests an Exchange to Trade Internet Capacity
There are exchanges where you can buy and sell stocks, pork bellies, wine and even pollution allowances. Why not an exchange for the trading of digital bits and bytes?
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Online Tunes, in Service to Africa
, a nonprofit organization that arranges for companies to contribute a share of profits on certain products to fight AIDS in Africa, is starting a digital music service for that purpose.
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Online Encyclopedia Gets New Push From Discovery
Last fall Discovery spent $250 million buying the United States portion of HowStuffWorks; now it is striving to make the site more appealing to users and advertisers.
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Need Press? Repeat: ‘Green,’ ‘Sex,’ ‘Cancer,’ ‘Secret,’ ‘Fat’
Strategic word selection can catapult an announcement about a product or a “breakthrough” onto the evening news instead of to the spam folder or circular file.
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A Movie on Your TV at Home, Before You Can Rent It
In an industry first, Sony Pictures’ movie “Hancock,” will be available after its theater run over the Internet, directly to Sony Bravia TVs with a Web connection.
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Intel’s Dominance Is Challenged by a Low-Power Upstart
Intel, might do well to be alarmed by the computer chips being designed by Qualcomm, a maker of chips for cellphones.
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Google and Creator of ‘Family Guy’ Strike a Deal
Google will syndicate a new animation series using its AdSense advertising system to Web sites that are predetermined to be gathering spots for the show’s target audience.
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Microsoft to stop selling Windows XP on Monday
Sun, Jun 29, 2008 (4:27 p.m.) Microsoft Corp. is scheduled to stop selling its Windows XP operating system to retailers and major computer makers Monday, despite protests from a slice of PC users who don't want to be forced into using XP's successor, Vista.
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Microsoft to stop selling Windows XP on Monday
Microsoft Corp. is scheduled to stop selling its Windows XP operating system to retailers and major computer makers Monday, despite protests from a slice of PC users who don't want to be forced into using XP's successor, Vista. Once computers loaded with XP...
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Abortion debate stirred by gun video
The abortion debate has generated sparks again, with a pro-choice campaigner unrepentant about posting an internet video showing right-to-life campaigner Ken Orr with a gun pointed at his head.
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Public lives: Does the internet know too much about us?
Meet Dominic Campbell. He's white, has brown hair, brown eyes and stubble, and lives in north London. After studying geography at Manchester University, he worked in local government for five years, before setting up a consultancy a year ago. He has 1,053 bookmarked web pages. He recently took a holiday in Monte Carlo, went drinking with a guy called Ian, and attended a wedding, in that order. ...
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Microsoft to stop selling Windows XP on Monday
Microsoft Corp. is scheduled to stop selling its Windows XP operating system to retailers and major computer makers Monday, despite protests from a slice of PC users who don't want to be forced into using XP's successor, Vista.
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Telus service knocked out for customers on 73rd Avenue in Vancouver
Some 750 Telus customers living on 73rd Avenue in Vancouver are still without phone service. Phones and internet connections were knocked out when power was disrupted at a commercial building at 5 yesterday ...
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SA urged to seek more computer funds
The Opposition says the South Australian Government needs to seek extra funding to buy and install computers in secondary schools.
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ICANN adopts new Web site naming rules
The Internet organization loosens its rules to allow companies, cities, and others to use just about any suffix they want for a Web address. Compare your salary Use the IT salary benchmark wizard and know the average salary differences between different job functions. Join activeTechPros. http://www.activetechpros.com
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Yahoo tries to heal itself--again
The beleaguered Internet portal is reorganizing management ranks in what may be a last chance to prove it should remain independent.
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