Peter Williamson, co-author of Dragons at Your Door, talks about what's fueling the Chinese business juggernaut, what Western companies can learn from it and how to survive the "Wild East" cowboys.
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Frank Hayes suggests that it would be easier for IT to get respect from users if we delivered systems they would actually use to get things done.
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Data centers are filling up with more and more equipment, and as they do, they're getting noisier, thanks to the whir of fans and the hum of power supplies. Fortunately, there are things you can do to muffle the noise.
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These stand out because they provide actionable advice or other types of useful information.
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Web hosting company Affordable Internet Services Online in California claims to be running the only data center in the U.S. powered entirely by solar energy.
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Global Dispatches: China has agreed to investigate the reported hacking of German government computers by Chinese cybercriminals; and Yahoo has asked a U.S. court to dismiss a lawsuit filed against it by Chinese dissidents.
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There's yet another option for consumers on the run who don't want to wait for change after buying a cup of coffee or gassing up: the contactless card.
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US research engineers claim to have developed a low-cost technique for patterning microchips.
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The Australian Government has appointed former swimming great, Kieren Perkins, as the Parent Ambassador of its NetAlert program to help promote the online security initiative to homes, public libraries and schools.
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Sony has ceased production of three Microvault USB memory key models that pose a potential security risk to Windows computers.
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The vendor has formed a new practice which covers areas such as data lifecycle management, consolidation and virtualisation, and business continuity.
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SCO CEO Darl McBride is not popular among many segments of the IT industry, thanks to his aggressive methods for defending his ownership rights to the Unix operating system.
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Mobile TV and 3-D TV are among the consumer products being pushed at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin.
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Tech newspaper says Chinese can buy real thing for more than $1,000, even though the phone functions don't work outside the U.S.
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Bloggers, tech analysts agree: Apple's unveiling a brand-new, widescreen iPod Wednesday.
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More than two-thirds of those working phone numbers are on cell phones, International Telecommunications Union says.
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Web-based service costs $5 per month, lets parents set talk times, block numbers, limit number of text messages.
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Dickinson College's eSuds system sends alerts to students when their laundry is done and displays online the availability of machines at any of the campus laundry rooms.
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While humans may consider themselves highly sophisticated beings, a new study says that when it comes to choosing a mate, we resort to the most basic of selection processes: looks.
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Sony is looking at the burgeoning movie download business, predicted to grow to $1.3 billion US by 2011, with an eye to taking on Apple's iTunes and iPods.
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A Russian politician and millionaire who took part in a controversial flag-planting expedition in the Arctic Ocean last month is to be the country's first space tourist, according to a Russian business daily.
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Microsoft Corp. has failed to win approval of its Office file format as the international standard, a potentially costly defeat as governments move to open formats and away from those controlled by one particular software company.
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Women now represent the majority of Canada's knowledge-based public administration workers, according to Statistics Canada.
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Microsoft's Open XML document format didn't get enough votes to be accepted as an ISO standard. But the company said it expects that a second vote early next year will result in approval.
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Normally, the doings of the ISO's Joint Technical Committee 1 are considered boring but important, but the vote over Microsoft's Office Open XML is anything but.
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France has voted against adoption of Microsoft's Office Open XML document format as an international standard.
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The Xeon 7300 chips are the first quad-core processors from Intel designed to be used in servers with four or more processors.
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Toshiba expects demand for NAND, widely used for data storage in portable electronics like Apple Inc.'s Pod digital media player devices, to grow by an average 130% a year between 2006 and 2010.
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The MiniStation is just another well-designed and fairly cheap USB drive based around a standard 2.5-in. disk drive with capacities ranging from 80GB to 300GB.
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This is a look at eight of the most dangerous consumer gadgets and services that threaten IT security and infrastructure. The responses from companies to these technologies range from banning and blocking to monitoring employee activities with sophisticated tracking software.
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A Microsoft executive indicated that it would make sense for the company to develop an iPhone competitor.
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Palm's CEO says the company has made a last-minute decision to not ship its Foleo smart phone companion.
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Although iPhoneSIMFree announced last week that it had devised a software unlock that would allow iPhones to work on networks other than AT&T, it only plans to sell the solution to resellers -- not individual iPhone owners.
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Google last week filed a patent for technology that would allow users to make payments using text messages or SMS technology.
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Mapping the great network that is the internet was never going to be an easy task. There would have to be as many connections as there are in the human brain. But for a group of web architects based in Japan, it is worth a go.
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