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Next-Generation Business Apps

Choose how to add value and retain flexibility in adopting your business applications

As we start the New Year, businesses in Malaysia are again looking towards leveraging IT to support and drive their next level of growth and development. However, growing businesses face challenges as they attempt to capture the next wave of development using old infrastructure.

The next generation of business applications promise benefits like a complete service-oriented architecture and embedded business intelligence, but the road to adoption needn’t be the conventional ‘rip and replace’ thinking that tends to make organisations nervous. (more…)

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Wireless Feng Shui

In Feng Shui, when furnishing our home, we all have heard about using the right colours in fabrics as well as in furniture striking a balance in the five elements of Metal, Wood, Water, Fire and Earth. This in turn creates a harmonious environment where occupants would enjoy good health and wealth endlessly.

The advancement of technology in complementing our daily lifestyle is something that is unavoidable. Technology is something that is dynamic and changes according to our daily needs and requirements. Today, we have at least a computer in our home which is considered a necessity coupled with advanced music players to high definition televisions and various must-have appliances which are seen as something we cannot do without in our daily life. (more…)

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Sudden Rise of the Tablet

It is getting quite ridiculous, all the news coming out about the iPad. It was reported quite recently that the American Customer Satisfaction Index  (ACSI) rated the iPad at 86 points out of a 100.

Purportedly the iPad scored higher than any of the products ACSI has ever tracked. Quite a glowing endorsement if you think about it. But the thing is, tablet technology is not exactly new. Microsoft has been trying to flog off tablet PCs  for awhile now but they haven’t exactly set the world on fire. (more…)

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How Secure Are You Online?

The Internet frees up the flow of information and yet also gives cyber criminals easy access to the gullible. Arming himself with a firewall, anti-virus software and a firm resolve not to open ‘unsafe’ attachments, the average user still gets feelings of unease.

After all, Internet transactions are becoming more and more common and necessary — yet still fraught with risk. Imagine if someone were to be able to siphon off all your money from your account to another’s. Or use your credit card. Perhaps that person might figure out how to snoop on your hard drive and find incriminating photos you don’t want people seeing on the Internet. (more…)

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Apple, The Living Legend

Amidst a global sky of technology lies somewhere in North America the lair of a corporation that has grown to what is now a financially frightening army with millions of devoutly loyal followers. Apple, strongly shrouded around a web of secrecy and built from a single man’s vision is now a tech giant that has built itself up from humble beginnings.

This is not the first time that we have seen technology erupt from things that have been created to improve our lives in some way or another into what can be seen as cults with faithful devotees. Canon and Nikon, two camera manufacturers have fought for dominance in the world of professional photography for ages. (more…)

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