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NCR Appoints New M.D. for Pakistan
NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) today announced the appointment of Syed Bader ul Islam as the new NCR Solutions managing director for Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. Syed Bader ul Islam is a twenty-five year veteran of the information technology (IT) services industry who is well-known for his focus on service quality and customer satisfaction. For the past five years, Bader served as managing director for NCRs Sub-Sahara Territory, which, under his management, realized significant business growth and exceptional service performance.
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Hitachi and Fujitsu tout new 100GB notebook drives
(By Martyn Williams)
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc. (HGST) and Fujitsu Ltd. have both begun shipping new notebook hard-disk drives that offer more storage capacity and better performance over previous models, they said Wednesday.
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Mozilla fires off Firefox fix
(By Bob Francis
InfoWorld (US online))
The Mozilla Foundation has released a security patch to plug two security flaws in its popular Firefox browser.
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BEAT THE CLOCK
Interim CIOs plays many roles, from savior to enforcer, but good cop or bad, they act quickly and move on. BY MARY K. PRATT
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HAMMERING OUT WEB SERVICES LINK
(By Heather Havenstein)
By 12:50 p.m. Central time on Feb. 28, Verizon Communications Inc. had already logged 1.7 million Web services transactions for tasks like looking up customer addresses and selling new services.
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Making Banks in Pakistan Gear Up for the Next Level of Automation
Cheque is universally considered to be a sensitive and widely used financial payment instrument. In the US alone, over 35 billion cheques were written last year. Research has shown that although electronic transactions are increasing in number, the cheque is going to stay as one of the strong financial instruments for a long time to come.
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Hitachi and Fujitsu tout new 100GB notebook drives
(By Martyn Williams)
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc. (HGST) and Fujitsu Ltd. have both begun shipping new notebook hard-disk drives that offer more storage capacity and better performance over previous models, they said Wednesday.
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Microsoft Details Plan to Put Virtualization in OS
(By Carol Sliwa)
Microsoft Corp. last week fleshed out the details of a plan to build virtualization capabilities directly into Windows as part of its effort to catch up to virtualization software market leader VMware Inc.
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Microsoft not glowing over LAMP
(By Paul Krill
InfoWorld (US online))
Microsoft officials are undaunted by the popular LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL Perl/Python/PHP) application stack that serves as an open source rival to the Microsoft .Net platform.
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Telenor Pakistan reports 343,000 subscribers after 2 weeks of service
Telenor ASA of Norway announced its financial results for the first quarter 2005 today. The first report with subscriber figures from Telenor Pakistan was also revealed on the occasion. It shows 343,000 subscribers by the end of March 2005, only two weeks after commercial launch.
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China's biggest bank makes switch to Linux
(By Sumner Lemon
IDG News Service (Taipei Bureau))
China's biggest bank plans to deploy Linux on servers across its network of 20,000 national branches in a project that may be the biggest Linux deployment yet seen in China, according to an executive involved with the deal.
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Police raid software copyright offender, 1021 pirated CDs seized
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IBM plans to slash up to 13,000 jobs
(By Dan Nystedt
IDG News Service (Taipei Bureau))
- IBM Corp., one of the world's largest technology companies, said Wednesday it plans to reduce its work force by up to 13,000 employees, mainly in Europe, as part of a global restructuring aimed at shifting resources to higher-growth markets.
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Future Intel chips could signal shift to common design
(By Tom Krazit
IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau))
Intel Corp. confirmed the existence of two future processor designs that are expected to begin the company's shift away from separate architectures for desktop, server, and mobile chips toward a common architecture around 2007.
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Dell adding 2,000 more staff in India
(By John Ribeiro
IDG News Service (Bangalore Bureau))
Dell Inc. plans to increase the number of staff at its Indian call center and software development operations to 10,000 by the end of the year, the company's president and chief executive officer (CEO) said Friday.
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New HP printers help SMBs look like larger competitors
(By Tom Krazit
IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau))
Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) introduced several new printers designed for small and medium size businesses at an event Tuesday designed to reassure media and analysts that HP's printer business still has significant room to grow in coming years.
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Yahoo undercuts rivals with new music service
(By Joris Evers
IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau))
Yahoo Inc. on Wednesday plans to launch a trial version of Yahoo Music Unlimited, a new, aggressively-priced online music subscription service.
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AMD picks away at Intel's lead in Q1
(By Tom Krazit
IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau))
Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s (AMD's) considerable market share expansion during the first quarter only underscores how far it has to go to erase Intel Corp.'s dominance, according to data released by Mercury Research Inc. this week.
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Feds to release 20,000 H-1B visas next week
(By Patrick Thibodeau
Computerworld (US online))
U.S. federal officials will open the doors to an additional 20,000 foreign workers under the H-1B visa program beginning May 12, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services department said today.
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Maersk Pakistan Selects ZRG for Call Center Solution
Maersk Pakistan, a leading transportation and shipping company all over the world, has selected ZRG International to provide a next generation Call Center Solution for its customer services. The state of the art Call Center includes a Contact Management System to manage customer complaints and inquiries.
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Kingston Technology Co. Introduces New Products
Fastest HyperX DDR2 750 MHz Memory Modules
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Study: Financial Services Sector Outsourcing to Grow
Offshore outsourcing by financial services firms will double over the next four years as these companies turn over larger and more strategic parts of their operations to offshore providers, reported market research firm Datamonitor PLC.
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Staying out in front
(By Gary H. Anthes)
Thats the approach taken at HP Labs, whether theyre looking one year down the road or a decade ahead. By Gary H. Anthes
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