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Some 240 workers will be affected by shutdown
GEORGE TOWN: NEC Computers Asia Pacific Sdn Bhd is closing its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Bukit Tengah Industrial Estate, Penang.
Executive vice-president Bernard Saw said some 240 workers would be affected by the shutdown.
“We will initiate the shutdown process in May and the whole exercise should be completed before the year ends.
“After the shutdown, we will still maintain through our authorised service providers support for our laptop and personal computers (PC) users,” he told StarBiz.
Saw said demand for its products in Asia-Pacific was not large …

CIMB Group , the country’s second largest lender, says its no-pay leave offer to its 36,000 employees should not be construed as an intention to cut its staff strength.
Rather, it is the group’s effort to reduce cost amid the global economic downturn, group chief executive Datuk Seri Nazir Razak said yesterday.
“How can that possibly be called a layoff? We are not instructing anyone to do anything. We are just giving them an option to apply if they wish to take an extended break. Don’t interpret it any other way,” …

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If you do not improve your SEO ranking you are giving your competition a huge edge, as they are more than likely working on their own SEO ranking to gain high positions in the search engines. If you think about it, this is free traffic to your site, how many Internet users search using major search engines? The …

Microsoft Corp. has yet to convince Yahoo Inc. to agree to a friendly takeover, but the software company is already hiring lobbyists to help it convince regulators to let the deal — hostile if it has to be — go through.
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Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, NEC, NextWave Wireless, Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks and Sony Ericsson have today announced a mutual commitment to a framework for establishing predictable and more transparent maximum aggregate costs for licensing intellectual property rights (IPR) that relate to 3GPP Long Term Evolution and Service Architecture Evolution standards (LTE/SAE). The companies invite all interested parties to join this initiative which is intended to stimulate early adoption of mobile broadband technology across the communications and consumer electronic industries.
The framework is based on the prevalent industry principle of fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory …

Former Great Plains Software Dynamics/eEnterprise and currently Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains serves midsize and corporate clients as ERP system in the following countries and regions: USA, Canada, Mexico and Latin America, Brazil (where MBS actually promotes Navision and has GP for multinational corporations), Saudi Arabia, OAE, Egypt and the rest of Middle East, South Africa, Nigeria and the whole African continent, U.K. and Ireland, partially France and Belgium, Poland, Pakistan, South East Asia, Philippines and Pacific. The fact that Ernst & Young consulting subdivision was specializing in supporting Great …

When thin clients first appeared on the market over 10 years ago, IBM was a great proponent of this technology even though the first units had slow CPUs, limited memory, and Linux-based operating systems. In the early days of thin clients, networks were still employing hubs instead of switches. Hubs share all network traffic with all the attached devices; therefore, this type of technology did not work well with the boot-server type of thin clients. In other words, when many thin clients were started at the same time, the network …

Citrix Secure Access Control Single Sign On VPN Remote Desktop Solutions

What is application conferencing?If you have Citrix installed, it will allow you he ability to interactively work in real time with peers on any published application.
Teams are able to work simultaneously within an application seeing each others edits and modifications.
Participants are able to collaborate independently of where they are located – so long as they have access to the published MetaFrame Conferencing Manager client.

How do I create an instant conference?You may create an instant conference by clicking on the …

If your like many IT Administrators or Managers you may be wanting to use VMWare ESX Server for virtualizing servers but may meet resistance from others in your department or business unit. Many people are gun-shy on putting business critical applications on VMWare Virtual Servers and may resist if you try to go whole hog virtualizing these applications in the face of such resistance. We found a successful introduction to VMWare ESX and virtual servers could be done by choosing to virtualize older systems and utilize VMWare initially to perform …

Rumors are flying that Yahoo is teaming up with AOL, the long-suffering Internet division of Time Warner, as a way to stave off an unwanted merger.While many industry watchers still believe that Microsoft will gobble up Yahoo eventually, chances are it will have to pay a lot more for its meal. Here are five possible scenarios to consider.
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