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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. …

Transforming Information into Valuable Business Assets

Introduction While information is oft described as the lifeblood of business, the sheer volume of data generated in the course of everyday work makes the analogy of knowledge workers drowning in an ocean of information a more apt one. Indeed, data volumes are growing at such …

Is Symantec's Vision for Security 2.0 the Real One?

During the Security 2.0 event in New York in late October this year, Symantec's John W. Thompson, Enrique Salem, and Jeremy Burton presented a vision for protecting customers from the next generation of threats targeting their information and interactions. While Security 2.0 was first mentioned during …

Debunking the Common Myths of High Availability

IntroductionErroneous messaging has led many IT managers to believe that clustering applies only to missioncritical applications. The truth is that if your organization cannot tolerate even minutes of planned or unplanned downtime for its business-critical applications, there are powerful high availability solutions within economic reach. They …

The Service Desk of the Future

Look around any Fortune 1000 organization and you'll find a variety of service desks and/or help desks for both employees and external customers. Perhaps you'll see one or more IT help desks – one for logging routine HR matters, one for logging manufacturing defects, and another …

Middlesourcing: The New BPO Buzzword

Middlesourcing is a term that helps to illustrate how firms in Singapore and SE Asia can benefit from the technology waves in China and India, and create a new niche area for business. As a regional hub (with similar time zones with that of India and …

Diligent Defence for the Data-centre

Enterprises have been reaping the benefits of data-centre server centralization. With lower total-cost-of-ownership, more efficient use of resources, faster deployment of new applications and speedier fault resolution, data-centres are the cornerstone of distributed business networking everywhere. Yet, this new arrangement of servers and databases means a …

IPTV – Can it Really Fly in Asia?

IPTV has been a hot topic in the telecom world for quite some time. But is it simply vendor hype designed to sell more gear, or is there real customer demand for next generation TV service via broadband?It’s a fair question. Some observers are sceptical about …