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May 2008
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Daily Web Updates
Virtualisation
Linux delivers dramatic virtualisation performance
 Open source software firm Red Hat, together with IT hardware company HP and chip manufacturer AMD, has started delivery of enterprise virtualisation solutions.
AvantiKumar
Updated: May 12, 2008 11:49 AM
Personnel
Hitachi appoints VP for worldwide HDD manufacturing
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has announced the appointment of Thao A Nguyen as vice president of worldwide hard disk drive (HDD) manufacturing.
Channelworld staff
Updated: May 12, 2008 10:33 AM
Networking
Juniper plans big for India
The company spent 20 per cent of its total revenue in India in the last quarter, which is the highest in the industry, claims the company.
Radhika Nallayam
Updated: May 12, 2008 10:31 AM
Software
Microsoft to limit capabilities of cheap laptops
Microsoft is launching a new programme to get Windows installed on ULPCs, one effect of which will be to limit their hardware capabilities, IDGNS has learned.
Agam Shah
Updated: May 12, 2008 10:29 AM
Legal
Microsoft to appeal US$1.3 billion EU fine
Microsoft is appealing the US$1.3 billion fine imposed on it by the European Union for failing to honour a 2004 antitrust agreement, the company has said.
Elizabeth Montalbano
Updated: May 12, 2008 10:26 AM
Consumer Electronics
Toshiba eyes fuel cells, Cell-based TV by 2009
Toshiba plans to begin mass production of Direct Methanol Fuel Cells by March next year and to have a TV based on the Cell chip on sale before the end of 2009.
Martyn Williams
Updated: May 12, 2008 10:22 AM
Government
IT didn't fail Myanmar during cyclone, people did
The technology to detect Cyclone Nargis was up and running before it slammed into Myanmar, but the system still failed to avert disaster.
Dan Nystedt
Updated: May 12, 2008 10:19 AM
Hardware Systems
NEC to expand rugged laptop sales worldwide
 NEC will expand sales of its rugged ShieldPro laptop outside of Japan this year and target Europe, North America and Australia.
Chiara Castañeda and Martyn Williams
Updated: May 12, 2008 10:17 AM
Wireless Communications
Fast, untethered connectivity at the Shangri-La in Penang
 Malaysian hide-away spa offers resort-wide high-speed wireless access.
AvantiKumar
Updated: May 09, 2008 11:00 AM
Software
Four Microsoft security patches due next week
Microsoft plans to patch its security software, Word, Publisher and its Jet database engine next Tuesday.
Robert McMillan
Updated: May 09, 2008 10:21 AM
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Logging Off
Editorial
Who loves you? Really.
 Your technology and service providers often profess their love (well, some measure of it, anyway) for you, but do they follow through? 
Teng Fang Yih
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News
WCIT 2008 Preview
More than 50,000 at the "Olympics of IT"
 Chief executive officer of government agency Malaysia Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) and chair of WCIT2008, Dato’ Badlisham Ghazali, and Dan E Khoo, chief executive officer of WCIT2008, talk about their expectations of the World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT2008) to be held in Malaysia this month.
AvantiKumar
Blogs
Asia’s blogging boom
As the number of bloggers rises in Asia, paid blogging and micro-blogging trends are getting hotter.
Zafar Anjum
Broadband Services
Powered by Velchip
Local company is all set to advance its major broadband over powerline (BPL) project for 60 million users in Indonesia.
AvantiKumar
Telecom
Videoconferencing on the rise
The Asia Pacific videoconferencing endpoints market has recovered strongly from its poor performance in 2005, according to analysts.
AvantiKumar
WCIT 2008 Preview
Malaysia lights up the world
Highlights from Day One of WCIT 2008.
Teng Fang Yih
Forum: Security
Information Security to the fore
The state of the infosecurity environment in Malaysia, trends in technology development and deployment, and business process initiatives in public and private organisations in the country.
Edwin Yapp
From the print edition
News Briefs
A local IT news digest...
AvantiKumar
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Technology
Solid State Technology
Are solid-state disks going mainstream?
Announcements by key vendors about offering storage hardware using solid-state drives (SSDs) instead of traditional spinning disk drives in the past year may mean that the younger technology has finally reached the tipping point of its adoption by the industry. But are enterprises ready for this technology? We take a look at the issues.
Edwin Yapp
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Multimedia News
World Tech Update May 9
IT happened this week
 In this week's show: Sumner Redstone speaks out against internet piracy, Microsoft-Yahoo pens its final chapter, WiFi for the sky...
IDG News Service
Internet
ISPs, Web sites must tackle piracy, says CBS, Viacom chief
 Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone called on ISPs; site operators and device manufacturers to help fight piracy.
Martyn Williams
World Tech Update May 2
IT happened this week
In this week's show: fake Microsoft job posts get a New York man in trouble, Xerox demos new eco-friendly projects, Dell cuts jobs...
IDG News Service
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