HERNDON, Va., March 27, 2008 – Parallels today announced it has acquired ModernGigabyte, LLC, maker of ModernBill automated billing system and other hosting automation solutions. ModernBill customers will benefit from Parallels Open Platform initiatives such as the Application Packaging Standard which will allow them to gain additional revenue from their existing client base.ModernBill customers benefit from tighter integration with Parallels products as well as from the Parallels Open Platform architecture, which includes the Application Packaging Standard (APS).
The acquisition provides Parallels with a complete hosting control panel and billing system …

KUALA LUMPUR: Dagangan saham Maybank digantung berikutan pengumuman bahawa ia telah memenangi bidaan untuk membeli kepentingan 56 peratus dalam Bank Internasional Indonesia dari Temasek Holdings dari Singpaura pada harga RM4.8 bilion.
Maybank, kumpulan perkhidmatan kewangan terbesar di Malaysia, akan menawarkan tender bagi mendapatkan baki kepentingan 44 peratus, yang dianggarkan pada kos RM3.8 bilion. Kali terakhir sahamnya didagangkan pada harga RM8.95. Dagangan akan bermula pada jam 9.00 pagi esok. - Bernama

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Maybank is pleased to announce that it has today entered into a conditional sale and purchase agreement (“SPA”) to acquire up to 100% of Sorak Financial Holdings Pte Ltd (“Sorak”) for a cash consideration of approximately USD1.5 billion (RM4.8 billion) paving the way for Malaysia’s largest financial services group to be the controlling shareholder of Bank Internasional Indonesia (“BII”). The transaction price was agreed on a willing-buyer and willing-seller basis.
Sorak is 75%-owned by Financial Fullerton Financial Holdings Pte. Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited, and 25%-owned …

The new Sony Ericsson K850i Cyber-Shot phone arrives in the market with attractive features including a 5.0-mega pixel camera that assures the users of perfect features with excellent quality. The mobile phone from Sony Ericsson has state-of-the-art digital camera features in a slim-design. The attractive and stunning 5.0-mega pixel camera with auto focus and Xenon flash brings true digital camera results. The user friendly camera supports the users in grabbing the best picture of the favourite object making him an excellent photographer. Even if the user is not an expert …

SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 25, 2008 – Intel Corporation has further increased its energy-efficient performance lead today with the introduction of two low-voltage 45 nanometer (nm) processors for servers and workstations that run at 50 watts, or just 12.5 watts per core and frequencies as high as 2.50 GigaHertz (GHz). The Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor L5400 Series takes advantage of Intel’s unique 45nm manufacturing capabilities and reinvented transistor formula that combine to boost performance and reduce power consumption in data centers.
Benefiting companies with power-constrained, high-compute density environments, the Quad-Core Intel …

Purplenova is a leader in providing innovative solutions for secure desktop content hosting. Traditional Web Servers are difficult (and sometimes impossible) to set up on home and office PCs. Secondly, commonly used techniques for making desktop content web-accessible, such as VPNs or Web-conferencing solutions do not lend themselves to Web 2.0 environments, where a simple mechanism to publish desktop content is required. Our patent pending technology provides a solution to both these problems by making it possible to securely and easily web-publish content directly from your PC.
With the Purplenova …

VMware Opens New Bangalore R&D Facility, Plans to Double Its Development Team in India to More than 1,000 People in the Next Two Years
BANGALORE, March 24, 2008 — VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, today announced a multi-year initiative aimed at expanding its India-based research and development (R&D) operations.  VMware already has a strong presence across India with offices in Bangalore, Pune, Chennai, Delhi, and Mumbai.  The initiative was announced today by VMware president and CEO Diane Greene at a …

When you first hear about the Sony Ericsson W760i, you are right about it being another Walkman phone, only this time this phone isn’t just good for music. This mobile phone can also keep up with the times. You can surf the Internet with the Access NetFront Web Browser, the mobile phone also has RSS feeds that deliver the latest news to you. You may also check your Inbox wherever you are as long as you have this mobile phone with you, what’s best is that you can Instant Message …

RENTON, Wash., March 20, 2008 – Parallels today announced that its Parallels Automation data center solution now supports Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, a fully integrated customer relationship management (CRM) system. Parallels Automation provides a complete back-office infrastructure so service providers can go to market quickly and incorporate CRM into their service offerings.
Parallels Automation provides both operational and business support systems to help service providers optimize the use of server resources. Using a single login, service providers can deliver integrated offerings that include multiple services such as hosted Microsoft Exchange, hosted …

Putrajaya, 19th March 2008 - The Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management
Planning Unit (MAMPU), today officially adopts a policy to migrate to the OpenOffice.org
open source productivity suite. This is in line with the Malaysian Public Sector Open
Source Master Plan, which calls for government agencies to reduce costs, increase freedom
of choice and interoperability.
From April 1st, MAMPU will start adopting the OpenDocument Format (ODF), standard for all
new documents created. ODF the ISO open standard for electronic documents is also the
default format for OpenOffice.org. The agency …