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Ten imperatives for midmarket IT strategy in 2009

What will 2009 bring for CIOs and senior IT at midsized businesses? Recently, I answered this question for some 400 CIOs at Microsoft's Midsize Business CIO Summit.

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Asia Predictions 2009

Enterprise Mobility Challenges and Opportunities in 2009

"In 2009, vendors and service providers are wondering what the coming year will hold for enterprise mobility investment — particularly given the economic downturn," says Sandra Goh, Director, Business Segment Marketing, Microsoft Asia Pacific. more...

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Emerging markets and data to drive global mobile growth

Research firm Ovum forecasts that there will be 5.63 billion mobile connections by 2013, up 43% from 2008. This continued growth will be driven mainly by emerging markets, with the China/India region being the main connections growth engine. more...

Seagate ships new high density desktop hard drive

Seagate is now shipping a new mainstream desktop hard drive with the industry's highest areal density that packs 1TB of capacity on just two disks. more...

Twitter users being targeted for phishing and spam attacks

Thousands of Twitter users are reporting having received direct messages from friends inviting them to visit a website, using the lure that they could win an Apple iPhone. more...

CIOs make social networking their business

As IT leaders, what are we to make of social networking for our businesses? Is social networking just a new name for the collaboration we have spent the last 20 years enabling? Or is it the next silver bullet that is going to validate IT's value to the business? Or is it simply another set of applications we will have to design, implement and support -- one more brick on the pile? more...

Penang Adventist Hospital deploys financial management to speed decision-making

Penang Adventist Hospital (PAH) has invested in a financial management system to help speed up financial and budgeting processes, ensuring the not-for-profit healthcare provider continues to give the best healthcare services at the most affordable rate. more...

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Asia Stories

Emerging markets and data to drive global mobile growth

Penang Adventist Hospital deploys financial management to speed decision-making

Royal Thai Navy upgrades network with new 3Com Core and Edge solution

Navy selects 3Com solution for its higher reliability and performance at a lower price than competitors. more...

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Reflections on 2008, Speculations on 2009

It is that time of year when we take a look back in 2008 and a look forward to 2009. more...

Launching new products to market

Can you launch a new company, a new product, a new idea without a proper plan? In the Internet Age, having a business plan and strategy is the starting point of any new venture. David Wee, entrepreneur and CEO, shares 11 tips when launching a new product. more...

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2008 Most Read Articles

Business worries dominate the minds of SMBs in Asia. According to a recent SearchSMBAsia survey, SMBs are not as critical about IT as they are about business process innovation and best practices. Read on for the list of the 10 most popular SearchSMBAsia articles in 2008. more...

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Knowledge Central

The benefits of ITIL new

It is always challenging to establish key performance indicators that can be translated to numeric and percentage values.

Wireless projects: How to attain a return on investment now

With the challenging global economic climate set to continue for the next few years, organisations are switching focus towards cost cutting and rapid Return On Investment (ROI). They are looking to improve efficiency throughout the enterprise to reduce inventory, improve productivity and maximise profitability.

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