Stories by: David Legard

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Thai riots spark reporting via Twitter, YouTube 22 May, 2010 02:22:00

The serious riots in Bangkok this week have taken a tragic toll out on the streets, but have also sparked an unprecedented emergence of amateur news gathering, shared over YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, which has proved ideal for the fast-moving situation.
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Oracle to realign Asia sales operations 24 September, 2004 10:25:41

Oracle is to realign its Asian sales operations to provide more focused and specialized teams to replace the "generalized" sales force it has now, according to Derek Williams, executive vice president for Oracle Asia-Pacific.
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Online fraud: We got law, but no enforcement 22 September, 2004 12:28:19

Plenty of laws exist to prosecute online identity thieves and fraudsters, and also to co-opt Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and online auction sites into the fight against fraud, but enforcement is lacking across the board, according to security experts.
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Online fraud: We got law, but no enforcement 10 September, 2004 08:00:58

Plenty of laws exist to prosecute online identity thieves and fraudsters, and also to co-opt ISPs (Internet Service Providers) and online auction sites into the fight against fraud, but enforcement is lacking across the board, according to security experts.
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Gartner: Offshoring backlash to vanish by 2006 23 June, 2004 16:06:01

The backlash against offshoring will deepen over the next few months, but will be consigned to the wastebasket of history by the end of 2005, according to the vice-president of Gartner’s global tech industries group, Craig Baty.
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Teacube PC promotes open embedded standard 21 June, 2004 12:27:16

Japan's Personal Media demonstrated at CommunicAsia a functional computer called the Teacube, measuring 2 inches (5 centimeters) on each side, to show the potential of the T-Engine platform for embedded systems.
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SingTel to offer mobile music fusion 18 June, 2004 09:16:07

A proprietary compression algorithm will power a new high-quality mobile phone music service to be launched by Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) next month.
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Society set to kill off spam, academic says 17 June, 2004 08:59:41

E-mail spammers will be driven out of business within two years because society will not accept being held to ransom, according to Ravi Sharma, adjunct associate professor in the division of information studies at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University.
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Microsoft granted patent on button click timing 04 June, 2004 09:15:29

Microsoft has been granted a patent relating to the use of buttons on hardware devices that form part of a user interface.
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Gartner: Rapid Linux growth boosts server market 26 May, 2004 15:57:07

The number of servers sold worldwide increased by 27.1 percent in the first quarter of 2004 to 1.57 million units, with a clear move by users towards low-end servers and the Linux operating system, research company Gartner said Tuesday.
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Hitachi offers more media storage with 400G-byte drive 12 March, 2004 08:21:39

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc. has launched a new 3.5-inch hard disk drive with a capacity of 400GB, higher than any other drive in this class, the company announced Wednesday. The drive has been designed for audio/video applications, and particularly with digital video recorders in mind.