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Combating Identity Theft

IntroductionIdentity fraud allows criminals to conceal their true identities from the community and authorities, leaving them free to pursue illicit activities without arousing suspicion. It provides financial support, in the form of fraudulent loans and credit card purchases. Identity fraud also makes it more difficult to …

SOA for IT Banking Infrastructure

For today's banks and brokerage firms, addressing the ‘world as it is’ means keeping pace with the changing structure in organisations – providing technology to address growth, compliance, and deliver expanded repertories of services. But keeping up with this change can put IT teams in a …

Can Technology Be Made To Play Nice Together? Really?

While it comes as no surprise that many medium- and large-sized organizations in the region usually have mixed heterogeneous computing environments, the challenge of interoperability is compounded by the fact that Asia is the fastest-growing server market in the world. In fact, according to IDC’s Worldwide …

Building Commercially Successful Software

Asia is the world center for growth and innovation. Market analysts have predicted that the Asia Pacific region will expand twice as fast as North America. As we face this potential growth, we need to be sure that Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) are prepared to manage …

Transforming Economic Development in Asia Through Powerful Local Software Ecosystems

It’s an exciting time to be an Independent Software Vendor (ISV). Much of my days are spent talking with government officials in Asia who, without exception, understand that a key factor for the growth and sustainability of their national economy and future export earnings is the …

Hollywood’s Unpredictable Future

The media and entertainment industry is undergoing significant changes and is faced with challenges beyond the traditional erosion of prices and margins. It’s facing a shift in technology, consumer behaviour, and distribution resulting in an unstable and unpredictable environment with plenty of surprises ahead. Managing these …

Hyperion Snap Up: Oracle Driving Consolidation in BI

After spending nearly USD 20 billion over the past three years to acquire more than 25 software companies, Oracle's Chief Executive Larry Ellison is still hungry for more. After a quarter's gap of silence on acquisitions, the Redwood Shores company added performance management software solutions company …

Building graphs with Imlib2

PHP features numerous possibilities for multimedial web content and graphics creation.The most obvious choice is using the GD graphics library by Tom Boutell, which is currently in widespread use and will be a part of the PHP source distribution from PHP 4.3.0 on. GD enables the …

Key Technologies Shaping the Digital Lifestyle

The end user in the Digital Lifestyle era will be connected 24/7. Downloading music, movies, and television series from service providers seamlessly over the Internet in a mere few minutes would be possible. Remotely instructing your home system to record your favourite television program using a …

Delivering Quality Applications Through Continuous Integrated Testing (CIT)

In this increasingly pressurised environment, many IT organisations have begun to adopt new ways of structuring development, including agile development, continuous integration and modified waterfall, that seek to make the development, testing and release process more continuous and enable IT to respond faster to the business. …