The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Implemented Oracle Solutiions

That UNDP co-operated with United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), has implemented the Enterprise Resource Planning application (ERP) PeopleSoft from Oracle in 145 countries on the occasion of integrated systems that be separated-separated, standarized the process of the business and enabled offices all over the world colaboration with more effective.

As the network of the global UN development, UNDP connected countries in the world with education, the experience and resources to help the community to develop the better life.

This organisation supported the change, helped countries in developing their solution personally to answer important challenges, including the democratic government, poverty, the prevention and restoration from the improvement; energy and the environment, and the HIV/AIDS.

.NET the Choice Platform of the Mission Critical Application

IDC found Microsoft .NET i the main choice platform of the application mission critical in the world with the segment 35,7%, and for Asia, .NET led with the segment 29,1%.

This IDC study also mensurvei the choice of the respondent for the application platform of the business in the next two years, and consistent results that is Microsoft .NET led with the segment 28,6%.

This study is carry out through the survey to the decision-makers in the IT field, the software developer (the Developer), or the application architect from a company with the employee more than 1,000 in the world.
The application mission critical that was surveyed was the application of the business, apart from the e-mail, that could make the company not operate if this application did not work.

The respondent agreed that reliability, performance, security, software cost, and maintenance cost was five main criteria in the platform election.

In several tests that were carried out by the research agency was separated, .NET was proven led in the matter of the achievement and the speed, like that was reconciled by BentUser in November 2005 that .NET 172% faster was compared by the rival terdekat him.

Interactive Mobile Flash Cards

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Imagine using mobile phone devices to access the best ideas of business, financial matters, product features, advertising and marketing tools to human resource management practices, procedures.

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Mobile communication tools strengthen individual and enterprise knowledge and learning. Entrée into the new Information Communication and Technology (ICT) taps into the best minds in management, business and professional development.

Utilizing mobile content can be accessed and displayed to and from mobile devices to desktop-laptop and PDA’s – anywhere, anytime—24/7 with capability of mobile testing solutions from internal training materials, product and sales and marketing manuals.

To meet the challenges of the knowledge economy requires executive and staff level of capability using hands on learning 365 24/7. Mobile learning provides one the new use of information and resource access in a world of changing times.
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NEC Set to Deliver HSDPA to 3 Hong Kong

NEC Corporation (NEC) announced that its High Speed Down link Packet Access (HSDPA) is to be deployed in the 3G network of 3 Hong Kong, a subsidiary of Hutchison Telecommunications (Hong Kong) Limited. This contract has been awarded to NEC and its 3G partner Siemens following a successful field trial on 3 Hong Kong's UMTS network.

During the field trial, NEC's HSDPA-based UTRAN achieved a high level of performance and functionality, including high-speed internet access, consecutive data transmission and handover in a HSDPA service environment, while allowing flexible and variable changes in transmission speed.

"The absolute success of NEC's HSDPA trials on Hong Kong's largest 3G network highlights our thorough confidence in the high performance of a commercial HSDPA system. NEC is ready to deliver its HSDPA to commercial networks worldwide", said Toshiyuki Mineno, Senior General Manager at NEC's Carrier Solutions Business Unit.

"Since Europe's first commercial service launch by Hutchison 3G in the UK in March 2003, NEC has delivered many 3G networks to Hutchison. This latest win is further testimony of our leading competence in this field and another great milestone in the continuing success of the highly reliable 3G and HSDPA network provided by NEC to Hutchison, together with our 3G partner Siemens. We fully intend to implement further HSDPA operation trials in Europe and Asia with the cooperation of local mobile operators to ensure the successful spread of our high performance HSDPA."

Amy Lung, Commercial Director - Consumer Market of 3 Hong Kong, said, "3 Hong Kong once again charts the course in the development of 3G in Hong Kong.

With the successful trial and network rollout, we are well positioned to be the first to provide 3 Hong Kong's supporters with supremely enhanced mobile communications experience, once the HSDPA compatible devices are available. In this significant stage of development, we are pleased to partner with our existing 3G network supplier NEC who is renowned for its proven expertise and global experience in deploying 3G and HSDPA technology."

NEC's HSDPA system is jointly developed by NEC and Siemens. HSDPA can be easily added to existing Node-Bs with channel cards and downloaded software. As the pioneer of the global 3G W-CDMA market, NEC/Siemens alliance has achieved outstanding success. Over 90% of the world's 3G subscribers are communicating with 3G network technology provided by Siemens/NEC. In a report from April 2005, NEC/Siemens was positioned as No. 1 by the independent MM Research Institute in Tokyo in the 3G W-CDMA market for commercially installed Node-Bs with a 30.1 percent share of the worldwide market.

Intel and Microsoft Plans for New Virtualization Technologies

Intel Corporation and Microsoft Corp., at Intel Developer Forum, San Francisco, outlined plans to connect computer network management technologies and also to work together to advance promising virtualization technology that will bring businesses new capabilities and cost savings.

In a move to bring unique management benefits to the broad number of users of Microsoft^® Systems Management Server 2003 (SMS) for the first time, Intel plans to connect its new Intel^® Active Management Technology (Intel^® AMT) with Microsoft SMS, substantially enhancing customers’ ability to more thoroughly protect their computers from viruses and to help significantly lower maintenance costs.

Intel and Microsoft have also joined together to extend Intel^® Virtualization Technology (Intel^® VT) to include support for mapping I/O devices to virtual machines on servers with a new specification, published today, called Intel Virtualization for Directed I/O (Intel VT-d). Part of the Intel VT family of technologies, Intel VT-d helps improve the reliability, flexibility and performance of I/O in a virtualized environment. Microsoft has collaborated with Intel on development of the specification to help ensure it provides optimal functionality for users.

“Intel AMT and Microsoft SMS will mean relief for those who manage computer networks who have struggled to effectively control virus outbreaks, audit networked PCs or handle computer problems without affecting users’ productivity,” said Pat Gelsinger, Intel senior vice president, general manager, Digital Enterprise Group. “In addition, the combination of hardware virtualization in Intel VT-d working with Microsoft operating systems, management tools and Windows^® hypervisor technology promises dramatic new capabilities and efficiencies.”

“Microsoft is pleased that customers using SMS 2003, including our recently announced SMS 2003 R2, can take advantage of the new capabilities delivered through Intel AMT and Intel’s Professional Business Platform via the Intel developed add-on software for SMS,” said Bob Muglia, senior vice president of the Server and Tools Business at Microsoft. “This enables customers to better manage their environments and computing infrastructures by reducing many challenges they face today. Similarly, Microsoft is increasing its investments in the Microsoft System Center family of products to address resource optimization and virtual machine life-cycle management so customers can manage their physical and virtualized environments from one toolset.”

Hollitech (Dutch), UNSIL (Tasikmalaya) and PT. TDC in IT partnership

Throughout the Asia Pacific region, the demand for IT outsourcing and call centers is rapidly rising. While Indonesian hackers are earning ‘reputation’ globally, this is a signal that Indonesia has the human resources to successfully engage in this promising industry. This is the fundament of a partnership between European, Indonesian and Asian actors. This partnership includes the expertise, knowledge and industrial know-how of the Dutch IT firm Hollitech (based in the Netherlands, India and Indonesia); the largest and private university of Tasikmalaya (established 28 years ago by the Indonesian Armed Forces), University of Siliwangi (UNSIL); and PT Tasik Development Company, the independent social investment arm, connected to PA Asia Jakarta.

Hollitech’s President Director, Mr. Jacques Rijsenbilt: “I am excited with the idea that this Indonesian platform will potentially serve a global market, in order to achieve the company’s main objective, i.e. to put Indonesia on the map for the global software off-shoring industry”.

Rector Magnificus Prof. Numan Sumantri: “This project uniquely combines UNSIL’s academic base and its newly established ‘Edgar Brood Academic Chair for English’ and Hollitech’s driving force in the IT market. Siliwangi University has a computer center. With Hollitech experts, we are ready to jump and professionalize our education through a strong market orientation”.

Mr. Rio D. Praaning Prawira Adiningrat, President Director of PT. TDC: “Wageningen University and UNSIL identified growth opportunities for the Tasik region. This included a new SME center and the construction of a new port at Cikalong with additional infrastructure. This new platform is exactly what is required to align Tasik’s human potential with Indonesia’s future economic growth”.

Best Technology for Online Low-fare

Amadeus, a global leader in technology and distribution solutions for the travel and tourism industry, today announced the results of a study into the effectiveness of a number of low-fare search tools. Data for the study was gathered using world leading online fare analysis technology and services provided by an independent third party, SITA. The study found that online travel agencies using Amadeus technology were much more likely to find the lowest fares for their customers.

In 55% of searches, Amadeus low-fare technology returned the lowest fare compared with 52% from the closest competitor and only 18% from the poorest performer. Furthermore, in 69% of cases, the Amadeus fare was within 5 Euros (pounds sterling in the UK) of the lowest fare. On average, Amadeus returned fares €50 cheaper than the most expensive alternative. The results are more impressive because the study was skewed against Amadeus: the Amadeus data did not include negotiated fares but there was no way of knowing if the competition’s fares were negotiated or not.

Moreover, Amadeus low-fares are the most reliable of those compared. Reliably bookable fares increase consumers’ trust in the online travel agency and improves the look-to-book ratio. The study compared the results of low-fare searches performed in France, UK and Germany on Amadeus’ own GDS using Amadeus Master Pricer with the results from online travel agencies known to be using other GDS low-fare search products.

Amadeus Master Pricer is a low-fare search tool for online travel agencies, which offers cheaper fares and extended shopping capabilities. The tool, which returns over 200 low-fare search options from a single query, brings unprecedented speed and flexibility to an online portal. Customers whose travel dates are flexible can broaden their search to include a greater range of dates; those with a flexible itinerary can extend their search to multiple airports or cities. Both these innovations increase the online travel agency’s yield by allowing their customers to quickly find the option that best suits them.

Master Pricer will be available with Amadeus Selling Platform 2.3 from January 2006. It will allow agents full shopping functionality integrated with a new Calendar display to sell the best date-price combinations in a single view.

CrossFire Sweep the Market

Good news to all avid fans of Dual-GPU technology! After the successful launch of NVIDIA’s SLI technology, MSI is now adopting ATi’s Dual-GPU technology named CrossFire to its RD480 Neo2 motherboard specifically tailored for 3D game devotees. This motherboard promises to deliver immensely improved performance for all games and significantly more stable operation.

Most-awaited Dual GPU Technology is finally here

Based on the most-awaited ATi RADEON XPRESS 200 Crossfire Dual-GPU architecture, the MSI RD480 Neo2 motherboard delivers unmatched graphics performance and offers gamers tons of advanced features that will help boost up their performance to the next level.

The CrossFire is ATI’s alternative to NVIDIA’s SLI Dual-GPU system. ATi’s CrossFire solution fundamentally does the same thing as SLI. But SLI requires two absolutely identical graphics card while CrossFire uses the PCI Express bus allowing a bit a more flexibility and improving the performance doubled

Superior Audio Fidelitya

The RD480 Neo2 also adopts the ULi M1573 south bridge which integrates the latest HD Audio supported, delivering high-quality multi-channel audio experiences.

The RD480 Neo2 features an excellent 7.1 channel audio solution which is compliant with HD Audio spec. and has a full complement of analogue jacks, plus optical and coaxial S/PDIF audio input/output for connecting professional audio equipment. The RD480 Neo2 offers gamers an enriching multimedia experience.

A Plethora of Overclocking Capabilities

Being the first Dual-GPU platform of ATi, the RD480 Neo2 definitely has plenty of overclocking capabilities, besides the well-known D.O.T (Dynamic Overclocking Technology), users can adjust the CPU, memory, PCI Express frequency, and voltage individually, to reach the best performance with desired components. According to the test results, RD480 Neo2 can reach 600MHz FSB without any special setting, which works hand-in-hand with DDR600 memory module, giving a high-speed experience to users.

Exclusive CoreCell Technology Onboard

The RD480 Neo2 comes with MSI’s exclusive CoreCell technology, providing intellengent status monitor, human friendly adjustment and online update. You can also expand with one PCI Express x1 port and two 32-Bit PCI slots (v2.2 compliant), including exclusive Communication Slot which is optimized for MSI network cards. For greater flexibility, it also supports 10 USB 2.0 connectors so you can connect USB hard disk drives and memory sticks for easy network backup or data access and three IEEE 1394 ports for connecting various 1394 devices.

Mobile Phone Revolution

A frequent recipient of development accolades, ASUSTeK Computer Inc. (ASUS) was awarded recently by the renowned CSMOT for dedication and innovations in the field of mobile telecommunications. ASUS’ engineering division for third generation (3G) mobile phones in particular, has already developed numerous patented core technologies with Intellectual Property Rights, far surpassing other competing mobile phone manufacturers in the region, while paving the way for 4G in the near future.

Ever since November 2000, ASUS has aggressively pursued the development in 3G core technologies, as associate vice president of Information Appliance development, Dr. Alex Sun explains. Currently there are approximately close to a hundred innovations accepted by 3GPP (The Third Generation Partnership Project), and over thirty core technologies are IPR candidates, making ASUS the exclusive Taiwanese company possessing IPR in the 3G mobile phone industry.

Owe to the nature of OEM (original equipment manufacturing), Taiwanese companies regularly expense substantial royalty fees to the source brands, but seldom obtain the IPR for crucial knowledge necessary to mobile phone productions. Industry estimates that between 6-8% of the production cost figures into royalty for 2G/2.5G mobile phones, and the range is even greater at 12-18% for the 3G mobile phones.

“ASUS is founded on technology and quality, and hence, research and development is our greatest advantage, “ said Sunny Han, Director of ASUS Global Brand Center. “Owning the core technology needed is the absolute key for better products, such is in the case for mobile phones. With patented innovations and over thirty IPR to come, ASUS delves further into the development of 3.5G and even 3.75G core technologies, which makes capable of transfer rates up to 20MB/sec.”

The CSMOT award is a true testament of continuing effort by ASUS’ engineering division. By emphasizing and leading in the advanced developments, ASUS is expected to be the forefront of the mobile phone industry. Dr. Sun maintains that, with sound results coming from 3.5G and 3.75G development, the company is certainly poised for the upcoming 4G mobile phone market, while aiming to be the key holder in mobile telecommunications technology.