Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts
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Saturday, August 21, 2010
HP to invest US$1b to transform business
Published: 2010/08/21
Hewlett Packard will invest US$1 billion (about RM3.1 billion) to transform its enterprise services business or end-to-end information technology services to better serve its customers, its senior vice president Pete Karolczak said.
During this multi-year transformation and investment, HP plans to consolidate Enterprise Services’ commercial data centers, management platforms, and networks tools.
It will also enhance applications to create a more scalable modernised and automated IT infrastructure that will enable clients to respond to rapidly changing business conditions, he said today.
"HP will leverage experience from its internal IT transformation, helping clients modernise and migrate their applications to these next generation infrastructure platforms," said Karolczak, who is also the general manager for Infrastructure Technology Outsourcing (ITO) within HP Enterprise Services.
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He said part of the US$1 billion will also go towards retiring legacy assets and building new, modernized facilities.
"The goal is to move customers from spending investment on maintenance into state-of-the-art, highly-secure, highly-dense, green, sustainable infrastructure built on HP's converged infrastructure suite of products and services."
This applies to all regions, including Asia Pacific & Japan, he said.
HP also plans to reinvest for further growth in private cloud infrastructures, application transformation services, and desktop technology delivered as a service, said Karolczak.
The investment will also strengthen HP's trusted Best Shore delivery model by establishing a core number of global delivery hubs that form a highly scalable backbone for Best Shore, providing the first best-in-class, balanced global delivery model in the industry.
"Our Malaysia center will serve as one of these Best Shore hubs, leveraging HP hardware, software and technology expertise to lower costs, improve quality and enable growth," he said.
Malaysia, he said offers the expert workforce, languages, skills, capabilities and industry expertise to meet our clients’ business requirements and quality expectations in Asia as well as across the globe. -- Bernama
Read more: HP to invest US$1b to transform business http://www.btimes.com.my/Current_News/BTIMES/articles/20100821132401/Article/index_html#ixzz0xHUGg7fX
Monday, May 24, 2010
Why are people finding the iPhone so attractive?
Published: Tuesday May 25, 2010 MYT 8:30:00 AM
Updated: Tuesday May 25, 2010 MYT 8:57:00 AM
SEATTLE: It's been three years, an eternity for gadgets, since Apple Inc. unveiled the iPhone, and by now other phones do some things better. Yet Apple is selling more iPhones than ever.
What is it about the iPhone? Its success shows how Apple has triumphed at two crucial qualities: status and simplicity.
And it's a reminder that while intense Apple fans will obsess over the upgrades the iPhone is expected to get this summer, such details won't matter as much to everyday buyers.
Other phones have higher-resolution cameras and can shoot high-definition video.
The processor seems faster in new phones such as the Droid Incredible.
A more energy-efficient touch-screen technology is eclipsing the one used in the iPhone screen.
And competitors are matching features that once set the iPhone apart, including its slim shape and its store with thousands of applications and games.
"This thing is not state of the art," says ABI Research analyst Michael Morgan.
But whether the iPhone has the best technology doesn't seem to be the question most people ask.
Instead, many people crave the aura of cool that iPhones seem to convey.
"When you see people with them, I'm like, 'Oh, OK, they get it,"' says Jason Sfetko, a designer at Complex magazine in New York.
When he sees someone with a BlackBerry, "I might think, maybe they're an accountant or something. They're answering too many e-mails."
The allure extends to China, where Apple started selling iPhones in October.
"I'm quite amazed about what the iPhone has achieved," says Deng Jinchun, a manager at Jing Lang, a large iPhone retailer in China's Hunan province.
With slight changes, "Apple has been selling the same phone for about three years and the sales are still increasing. I can't imagine a Nokia phone or any other brand could achieve something similar."
Others are more focused on the simplicity of using the iPhone.
Mark Britton, CEO of a company called Avvo that publishes ratings on lawyers by their clients, is on his iPhone so much that his wife jokes it's his fourth child.
He says it's surprisingly easy to talk on the phone and look up something on the Internet at the same time.
The Web browser helped sell Sara Maternini, 35, who works in public relations in Milan, Italy, on the iPhone 2 1/2 years ago.
She needs to always be online and says the iPhone was the only device that made Web surfing feel as it does on a computer. Maternini says her next phone will be another iPhone.
This raises a common criticism from Apple's dissenters: Once users build their lives around the iPhone system, they're essentially locked into buying more Apple devices. Other phones can't connect to iTunes, which manages iPhone owners' music, video, photos and other files.
Nor can other phones run the "apps" people download for everything from online banking to crossword puzzling.
For many iPhone users, though, familiarity breeds contentment.
Ingrid Ougland-Sellie, 41, a writer and part-time hospital employee, uses her iPhone to take photos of mystery vegetables she gets from a community-supported farm program.
She e-mails pictures to the farmers to be identified, then looks up recipes on an iPhone app.
She uses it for scheduling, finding addresses and swapping photos of her son with her husband, also an iPhone owner.
"I'm sure technology has come a long way," Sellie says.
"But I am kind of a creature of habit at this point. I know how to use this phone. I'm comfortable with it."
Apple has sold more than 51 million iPhones since they hit the market in 2007, including 8.75 million in the most recent quarter.
That was more than double the number it sold in the comparable quarter last year.
The surge also has helped Apple's stock double over the past year, and investors are betting that the iPhone still has room to grow.
The iPhone ranks third in the global smart phone market, with a 14 percent share.
Nokia Corp. has 47 percent and Research in Motion Ltd., maker of the BlackBerry, has 20 percent.
However, phones that use Google Inc.'s Android software are increasing sales faster.
Android accounts for 4 percent of the market, up from less than 1 percent last year, according to Gartner Inc., a market-research company.
Carolina Milanesi, who lives in Britain and analyzes the mobile market for Gartner, has tried to switch away from the iPhone but gets hung up on something every time.
She spent 20 minutes trying to set up e-mail on an Android phone, only to fail.
The iPhone is so simple her 2 1/2-year-old daughter can operate her spelling and animal-noises apps herself.
The iPhone isn't as flexible as some others, and Milanesi bristled at things Apple wouldn't let her do, such as set custom tones for incoming text messages, a common tweak in Europe.
"But then you kind of get used to it, and you don't miss it," she says.
"You kind of think that that's for your own good." - AP
http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/5/25/business/20100525083301&sec=business
Updated: Tuesday May 25, 2010 MYT 8:57:00 AM
SEATTLE: It's been three years, an eternity for gadgets, since Apple Inc. unveiled the iPhone, and by now other phones do some things better. Yet Apple is selling more iPhones than ever.
What is it about the iPhone? Its success shows how Apple has triumphed at two crucial qualities: status and simplicity.
And it's a reminder that while intense Apple fans will obsess over the upgrades the iPhone is expected to get this summer, such details won't matter as much to everyday buyers.
Other phones have higher-resolution cameras and can shoot high-definition video.
The processor seems faster in new phones such as the Droid Incredible.
A more energy-efficient touch-screen technology is eclipsing the one used in the iPhone screen.
And competitors are matching features that once set the iPhone apart, including its slim shape and its store with thousands of applications and games.
"This thing is not state of the art," says ABI Research analyst Michael Morgan.
But whether the iPhone has the best technology doesn't seem to be the question most people ask.
Instead, many people crave the aura of cool that iPhones seem to convey.
"When you see people with them, I'm like, 'Oh, OK, they get it,"' says Jason Sfetko, a designer at Complex magazine in New York.
When he sees someone with a BlackBerry, "I might think, maybe they're an accountant or something. They're answering too many e-mails."
The allure extends to China, where Apple started selling iPhones in October.
"I'm quite amazed about what the iPhone has achieved," says Deng Jinchun, a manager at Jing Lang, a large iPhone retailer in China's Hunan province.
With slight changes, "Apple has been selling the same phone for about three years and the sales are still increasing. I can't imagine a Nokia phone or any other brand could achieve something similar."
Others are more focused on the simplicity of using the iPhone.
Mark Britton, CEO of a company called Avvo that publishes ratings on lawyers by their clients, is on his iPhone so much that his wife jokes it's his fourth child.
He says it's surprisingly easy to talk on the phone and look up something on the Internet at the same time.
The Web browser helped sell Sara Maternini, 35, who works in public relations in Milan, Italy, on the iPhone 2 1/2 years ago.
She needs to always be online and says the iPhone was the only device that made Web surfing feel as it does on a computer. Maternini says her next phone will be another iPhone.
This raises a common criticism from Apple's dissenters: Once users build their lives around the iPhone system, they're essentially locked into buying more Apple devices. Other phones can't connect to iTunes, which manages iPhone owners' music, video, photos and other files.
Nor can other phones run the "apps" people download for everything from online banking to crossword puzzling.
For many iPhone users, though, familiarity breeds contentment.
Ingrid Ougland-Sellie, 41, a writer and part-time hospital employee, uses her iPhone to take photos of mystery vegetables she gets from a community-supported farm program.
She e-mails pictures to the farmers to be identified, then looks up recipes on an iPhone app.
She uses it for scheduling, finding addresses and swapping photos of her son with her husband, also an iPhone owner.
"I'm sure technology has come a long way," Sellie says.
"But I am kind of a creature of habit at this point. I know how to use this phone. I'm comfortable with it."
Apple has sold more than 51 million iPhones since they hit the market in 2007, including 8.75 million in the most recent quarter.
That was more than double the number it sold in the comparable quarter last year.
The surge also has helped Apple's stock double over the past year, and investors are betting that the iPhone still has room to grow.
The iPhone ranks third in the global smart phone market, with a 14 percent share.
Nokia Corp. has 47 percent and Research in Motion Ltd., maker of the BlackBerry, has 20 percent.
However, phones that use Google Inc.'s Android software are increasing sales faster.
Android accounts for 4 percent of the market, up from less than 1 percent last year, according to Gartner Inc., a market-research company.
Carolina Milanesi, who lives in Britain and analyzes the mobile market for Gartner, has tried to switch away from the iPhone but gets hung up on something every time.
She spent 20 minutes trying to set up e-mail on an Android phone, only to fail.
The iPhone is so simple her 2 1/2-year-old daughter can operate her spelling and animal-noises apps herself.
The iPhone isn't as flexible as some others, and Milanesi bristled at things Apple wouldn't let her do, such as set custom tones for incoming text messages, a common tweak in Europe.
"But then you kind of get used to it, and you don't miss it," she says.
"You kind of think that that's for your own good." - AP
http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/5/25/business/20100525083301&sec=business
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