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IT Consulting, Contracting Jobs Will Continue to Grow in 2010

January 15th, 2010 | No Comments

eWEEK talks to industry trade group TechServe Alliance to get a sense for how 2009 ended up for technology jobs, and where tech jobs are headed in 2010. There is demand for business analysts, business intelligence experts, ERP experts and .NET developers.
– The second half of 2009 saw stronger
stabilization of technology jobs compared with the first half, according to industry
group TechServe Alliance in a report released Jan. 8. IT employment increased
by 6,400 jobs in December for a total of 3,821,000 an improvement of 0.2
percent, according to T…


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Pacific Star hires Wong to grow asset management business

January 8th, 2010 | No Comments
Singapore-based Pacific Star, a privately held real estate investment firm, has hired Wong Wing Kien as president of its Asia asset management business. 
 
Wong joined Pacific Star from Surbana Corp, a wholly-owned unit of state investor Temasek Holdings (TEM.UL). 
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Broadband-Enabled Devices to Grow 55-Fold by 2014

January 4th, 2010 | No Comments

Shipments of e-book readers, GPS devices, gaming consoles and other broadband-enabled consumer devices are expected to reach 58 million by 2014, according to ABI Research. The jump from Wi-Fi to broadband creates a need for new business models on the vendor side.
– Shipments of consumer electronics embedded with mobile broadband
connectivity are zooming upward, according to a Jan. 4 report from ABI
Research.
Shipments of the devices which include e-readers, mobile digital cameras and
camcorders, personal media players, personal navigation devices (PNDs), …


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10 New Reasons To Grow Hotel Revenue Posted By : Burno Perez

January 4th, 2010 | No Comments

What solution do you have to beat low hotel occupancy in this slow travel market? Revpar Guru hotel software can offer you the best solution for your price optimization, yield management, channel management and inventory control.

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Singapore’s 2010 GDP to grow by 5%, says Action Economics

January 4th, 2010 | No Comments

The sequential contraction in Singapore’s 4Q09 GDP is a correction from robust growth in preceding quarters and doesn’t challenge the validity of expectations for return to growth for the island state in 2010, says Action Economics economist David Cohen.

Cohen forecasts Singapore’s economy to grow by 5% this year, at the high end of government’s current growth forecast of 3–5%.

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Google to Gain from Apple Loss, as App Downloads Grow

December 18th, 2009 | No Comments

Google is expected benefit, and Apple to lose out, as application downloads head toward 5 million by 2014, says ABI Research.
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Mobile application downloads are expected to grow to 5
billion by 2014, from the approximately 2.3 billion that were downloaded in
2009, according to a Dec. 17 report from ABI Research.

The firm additionally predicts that the growing popularity
of mobile application downloads …


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Worldwide SaaS Revenue to Grow 18 Percent in 2009, Report Says

November 10th, 2009 | No Comments

Research firm Gartner predicts a rosy outlook for software-as-a-service (SaaS), which predicts revenues will top $7.5 billion worldwide in 2009.
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Worldwide software as a service (SaaS) revenue is forecast
to reach $7.5 billion in 2009, a 17.7 percent increase from 2008 revenue of
$6.4 billion, according to technology market research firm Gartner, Inc. The
company predicted the market would show consistent growth through 201…


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Worldwide SAAS Revenue to Grow 18 Percent in 2009, Report Says

November 10th, 2009 | No Comments

Research firm Gartner predicts a rosy outlook for software-as-a-service), which predicts revenues will top $7.5 billion worldwide in 2009.
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Worldwide software as a service revenue is forecast
to reach $7.5 billion in 2009, a 17.7 percent increase from 2008 revenue of
$6.4 billion, according to technology market research firm Gartner, Inc. The
company predicted the market would show consistent growth through 2013 when
…


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Lenovo IdeaPad, IdeaCentre PCs Grow with Intel, Windows 7

October 27th, 2009 | No Comments

Lenovo introduced three new IdeaPad laptops and IdeaCentre desktops, all with Microsofts Windows 7 and Intel processors and encompassing a variety of price points and features. The new PCs should increase Lenovos consumer offerings.
– Lenovo is rolling out three new IdeaPad laptops and three IdeaCentre desktops, all of which feature Microsofts Windows 7 operating system, new Intel processors and Lenovos Enhanced Experience for Windows 7, which the company developed with Microsoft in order to offer faster boot-up and shutdown ti…


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Lenovo IdeaPad, IdeaCentre PCs Grow with Intel, Windows 7

October 27th, 2009 | No Comments

Lenovo introduced three new IdeaPad laptops and IdeaCentre desktops, all with Microsofts Windows 7 and Intel processors and encompassing a variety of price points and features. The new PCs should increase Lenovos consumer offerings.
– Lenovo is rolling out three new IdeaPad laptops and three IdeaCentre
desktops, all of which feature Microsofts Windows 7 operating
system, new Intel processors and Lenovos Enhanced Experience for
Windows 7, which the company developed with Microsoft in order to offer
faster boot-up and shutdow…


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Netbooks Help PC Market Grow, but Prices Hurt Revenue, Says Report

October 9th, 2009 | No Comments

Every segment of the mobile PC market was down year over year in the second quarter of 2009 except for netbooks, with grew 264 percent, states a new report from DisplaySearch. It blames netbooks for eroding ASPs across the board.
– Netbooks are once again a boon to a hurting portable PC market, states DisplaySearch in an Oct. 8 report on quarterly notebook PC shipments, though a reason for their success low prices is additionally encouraging a problematic trend.

“Mini-notes [also known as netbooks] have been a signif…


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Netbooks Help PC Market Grow, but Prices Hurt Revenue, Says Report

October 9th, 2009 | No Comments

Every segment of the mobile PC market was down year over year in the second quarter of 2009 except for netbooks, with grew 264 percent, states a new report from DisplaySearch. It blames netbooks for eroding ASPs across the board.
– Netbooks are once again a boon to a hurting portable PC market, states DisplaySearch in an Oct. 8 report on quarterly notebook PC shipments, though a reason for their success low prices is additionally encouraging a problematic trend.

“Mini-notes [also known as netbooks] have been a significan…


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Microsoft Bing Still Has Room to Grow, Says Exec

September 16th, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft’s general manager of corporate strategy, Charles Songhurst, told an audience at a technology conference that Bing had several areas in which it could grow, including internationally and in the mobile-search space. A new research report by Nielsen suggested that Bing fulfilled 10.7 percent of U.S. online searches in August, a robust gain from July but nowhere near to threatening Googles 64.6 percent market share in the same space.
– Microsoft’s general manager of corporate strategy, Charles Songhurst, used a Sept.
14 question-and-answer session at New
Yorks Jefferies Annual Technology Conference to outline
Redmonds strategy for Bing,
suggesting that the search engine has yet to be pushed fully onto the global
stage.

q…


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Survey: Mainframe Hardware, Software Spending to Grow in Next 5 Years

September 15th, 2009 | No Comments

Even in the midst of a recession, the mainframe continues to be a strategic platform as many data center managers say they expect to increase spending on mainframe technology.
– Even in the midst of a recession, the mainframe continues to be a strategic platform as many data center managers said they expect to increase spending on mainframe technology.
According to a recent survey by market research firm IDC, nearly one-half of respondents indicated they plan to increase …


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How to Grow Your Business in Today’s Uncertain Economy

August 12th, 2009 | No Comments

Businesses are facing challenges in this current economy, the likes of which have not been experienced in most of our lifetimes. News stories seem to bounce from bad to worse, from hope to despair, leaving relatively rare moments of optimism and huge holes of uncertainty. The primary result of this combined gloom and doom assault has rendered many businesses paralyzed with a sense of fear for the present and the future. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Michael Dotson shares ten ways for professionals to take advantage of the opportunities that still exist in this down economy.
– Many businesses today are paralyzed with a sense of fear for the present and the future. Such paralysis has slowed the progress of even the most (formerly) dynamic of companies to a crawl. Economists are left scratching their heads, unsure of what to do. Plus, marketing departments for many companie…



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Bernie Bulkin: Do We Even Know How to Grow Food Anymore?

July 31st, 2009 | No Comments

We have completely changed the systems by which we provide ourselves with food, but we have hardly changed the systems of societal organization in response to this.

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Newsrooms Can Grow Twitter Followers By Using Twitter For Link Journalism

October 30th, 2008 | No Comments

Most newsrooms have utterly narcissistic Twitter accounts. The worst offenders (which unfortunately is the majority) use services like Twitterfeed to automatically tweet links to the newspaper’s own content. Here’s our RSS feed on Twitter! Don’t get enough of our content on our site or through RSS? Now get it on Twitter, too!
Some newsrooms are slightly [...]

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