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Transforming Economic Development in Asia Through Powerful Local Software Ecosystems

It’s an exciting time to be an Independent Software Vendor (ISV). Much of my days are spent talking with government officials in Asia who, without exception, understand that a key factor for the growth and sustainability of their national economy and future export earnings is the …

Hollywood’s Unpredictable Future

The media and entertainment industry is undergoing significant changes and is faced with challenges beyond the traditional erosion of prices and margins. It’s facing a shift in technology, consumer behaviour, and distribution resulting in an unstable and unpredictable environment with plenty of surprises ahead. Managing these …

Hyperion Snap Up: Oracle Driving Consolidation in BI

After spending nearly USD 20 billion over the past three years to acquire more than 25 software companies, Oracle's Chief Executive Larry Ellison is still hungry for more. After a quarter's gap of silence on acquisitions, the Redwood Shores company added performance management software solutions company …

Building graphs with Imlib2

PHP features numerous possibilities for multimedial web content and graphics creation.The most obvious choice is using the GD graphics library by Tom Boutell, which is currently in widespread use and will be a part of the PHP source distribution from PHP 4.3.0 on. GD enables the …

Key Technologies Shaping the Digital Lifestyle

The end user in the Digital Lifestyle era will be connected 24/7. Downloading music, movies, and television series from service providers seamlessly over the Internet in a mere few minutes would be possible. Remotely instructing your home system to record your favourite television program using a …

Delivering Quality Applications Through Continuous Integrated Testing (CIT)

In this increasingly pressurised environment, many IT organisations have begun to adopt new ways of structuring development, including agile development, continuous integration and modified waterfall, that seek to make the development, testing and release process more continuous and enable IT to respond faster to the business. …

Middlesourcing: The New BPO Buzzword

Middlesourcing is a term that helps to illustrate how firms in Singapore and SE Asia can benefit from the technology waves in China and India, and create a new niche area for business. As a regional hub (with similar time zones with that of India and …

The Changing Landscape of Enterprise Security Architectures

In recent years, changing business requirements have necessitated the need to open up internal applications to customers, partners, employees, and contractors with a varying degree of access to each. This has significantly changed the paradigms for application development, brought in a great deal of changes to …

Banking on Connected Systems

Introduction The effective use of IT to address changing business requirements are central to any company’s ability to compete, and this holds especially true in the banking industry today. With the advent of new technologies and the use of the Internet to achieve tighter integration with customers, …

Tips for Teleworking

Tele-networking, or telework, refers to working away from the office using remote access networking technology. It can mean working from home and working ‘mobile’ such as from a hotel room or airport lounge. Along with extranet access, which is remote access provided to partners or vendors …