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SAP offers LinkedIn recruitment tools to channel partners

SAP has inked a deal with LinkedIn that will provide the software vendor's channel partners with special tools and services for the popular business social-networking and careers site.

By Chris Kanaracus | 14 August, 2009 04:16

Tags: LinkedIn, SAP

Enterprise stuggles to harness Facebook, Twitter feedback

Sales and marketing technology group, RightNow, has published a report on ‘rules of engagement’ for enterprises looking to integrate social media utilities such as Facebook and Twitter into their operations.

By Daniel Bishton | 14 August, 2009 08:00

Tags: marketing, social networking, twitter, Facebook

Palm Pre debacle highlights location privacy issues

Reports about Palm keeping track of Pre users have shown how location services can backfire, and the importance of making users aware of how information is used.

By Mikael Ricknäs | 14 August, 2009 06:58

Tags: Palm, Palm Pre, geolocation, privacy

Network tester Fluke to buy AirMagnet

A powerhouse in wired network testing and monitoring made a big move into wireless LANs on Thursday as Fluke Networks announced an agreement to buy AirMagnet.

By Stephen Lawson | 14 August, 2009 06:32

Tags: mergers & acquistions, wireless lans, Fluke, airmagnet, wireless

Dell looks to Linux to expand netbook presence

In an effort to expand its Linux offerings, Dell is researching new netbook-type devices and will soon offer netbook Linux OS upgrades, a company official said on Wednesday.

By Agam Shah | 14 August, 2009 05:29

Tags: Linux, Dell, netbooks, ubuntu

NICTA wins race to secure L4

Australian research organisation, NICTA claims to be the world's first to develop a formal machine-checked proof of a general-purpose operating system kernel, the Secure Embedded L4 (seL4).

By Dahna McConnachie | 13 August, 2009 16:00

Tags: Open Kernel Labs, seL4, ncita

Zimbabwe to deploy fiber-optic cable

Zimbabwe has started developing a fiber-optic cable aimed at improving the country's telecommunications in a bid to regain its position as having the second-fastest-growing communications sector in Southern Africa.

By Michael Malakata | 13 August, 2009 05:49

Tags: fibre optic, Zimbabwe

AMD launches 3.4-GHz Phenom II X4 965 CPU, fastest yet (again)

Here we go again.

By David Murphy | 13 August, 2009 15:05

Tags: pc components, AMD

Asia Pacific provides growth opportunity for IT security

Sales of information security products in the Asia-Pacific region grew by 28.3 per cent throughout 2008, according to a report by ICT research institute Gartner.

By Daniel Bishton | 13 August, 2009 14:44

Tags: asia pacific, Gartner, security

Ego goes with SAP for $2M system upgrade

Skincare giant Ego Pharmaceuticals has chosen SAP to upgrade its systems in a $2 million overhaul to boost its production and supply capacity.

By Daniel Bishton | 13 August, 2009 11:01

Tags: pharmaceuticals, SAP, export, supply chain management

Asian undersea cable disruption slows Internet access

A segment of the Asia-Pacific Cable Network 2 (APCN2) undersea cable network between China and Taiwan suffered a serious cable fault on Wednesday, causing Internet traffic to be rerouted onto other undersea cables and slowing Internet access for some users in Southeast Asia.

Judge orders Microsoft to pay US$300M in Word patent case

Microsoft must pay nearly US$300 million in damages and interest to Canadian company i4i because it infringed the latter's patent for a document system that relies on XML custom formatting, according to court documents filed yesterday.

By Gregg Keizer | 13 August, 2009 09:20

Tags: microsoft word, Microsoft

Oracle offers virtualization template tool

Oracle will delve further into the server virtualization space Wednesday,  offering a template-building tool to speed up deployments based on the open source Oracle VM software product.

Australia the pricey country for mobile broadband: OECD

Mobile broadband users in Australia pay more than in any other Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) country according to a new report released by the organisation, which measured mobile broadband usage of the 30 member countries in three brackets: high use, medium use and low use.

By Dahna McConnachie | 13 August, 2009 09:38

Tags: mobile broadband

Facebook bungles first 'Lite' site user test

In the midst of a beta test gone wrong, Facebook Inc. today acknowledged that it's trying out Facebook Lite -- a simplified version of the uber popular Facebook social networking site.

By Sharon Gaudin | 13 August, 2009 04:55

Tags: social networking, Facebook