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SINGAPORE — IBM Global Financing, an IT financier, has teamed with Heller Financial, Inc. to introduce a Web-based IT solution financing program for small businesses in Hong Kong. The SuccessLease program enables small businesses to finance – in minutes – up to HK$500,000 (US$64,000) in IBM and non-IBM hardware, software and services. These businesses can […]

SINGAPORE — Hong Kong-headquartered InfoTalk Corporation has made available voice-activated solutions for horse racing fans in the Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), accessible through its SmartCaller free phone service. Callers can access, in real time, horse racing results and dividends that are officially provided by the Hong Kong Jockey Club. “The addition of this new service […]

CAPE TOWN — PeopleSoft has announced record financial results for the first quarter (Q1) ended March 31, 2001 but announced earlier this week that are looking for a buyer of their South African subsidiary. PeopleSoft’s total revenue increased 34 percent over the first quarter of last year to US$503 million. This is the highest revenue […]

“Relax” is the advice of Ferris Research to both potential users of and competitors to Microsoft’s SharePoint Portal Server 2001. Organizations that value collaborative products should not rush to implement SharePoint and most competitors, with the possible exception of Lotus, will not be heavily impacted by Microsoft, according to David Ferris. He’s president of the […]

VirtualFund.com, Inc. subsidiary RSPNetwork, Inc., a regional technology integration and service provider, this week announced an expanded online storage solution offering. According to RSPNetwork, its current storage offerings center on EMC’s networked storage solutions and enables RSPNetwork, Inc. to provide its customers and clients with EMC CLARiiON(R) IP4700 network-attached storage (NAS) and EMC CLARiiON FC4700 […]

Seattle-based Starbucks Coffee Co. said it intends to roll-out wireless services initially to customers in Dallas, San Francisco and Seattle by late spring, denying allegations that it had been forced to delay its rollout plans to bring in-store broadband Internet access services via wireless devices. The well-known coffee chain was adamant that the wireless project […]

Broad Daylight, Inc. today announced an agreement with Quantum Corporation to provide technical support to Quantum’s customers, resellers, and systems integrators. According to the companies, Broad Daylight’s Web self-service software, Broad Mind, is deployed at the customer care portion of Quantum.com. Existing FAQs and other technical support documents are loaded into the Broad Daylight knowledge […]

Softricity, a Boston startup developing a system to help businesses manage delivery of online software applications, has named Delbert W. Yocam to its board of directors. Yokam formerly served as chairman and CEO of Borland International, president and chief operating officer of Tektronix and president of Apple Pacific and chief operating officer of Apple Computer. […]

IBM and life sciences company NetGenics, Inc. today announced they have expanded their partnership, which started in 1999, to include an agreement for NetGenics to re-sell IBM’s new DiscoveryLink(1) data integration software. According to the companies, DiscoveryLink can accelerate drug discovery by helping researchers merge information — from many sources, including public and private databases, […]

HONG KONG — NASDAQ-listed Asia Global Crossing has activated a 310Mbps international IP services backbone between Hong Kong and Japan through its pan-Asia East Asia Crossing. The IP services backbone is the tunnel within East Asia Crossing that, together with Asia Global Crossing’s Pacific Crossing, is said to establish the fastest direct link connecting Hong […]

SINGAPORE — Singapore-headquartered Frontline Technologies Corporation has officially opened its Malaysian office in Kuala Lumpur, with the country’s minister for Energy, Telecommunications and Multimedia Y.B. Datuk Amar Leo Moggie officiating. The opening ceremony comes just 10 days after the Singapore Mainboard-listed IT services company announced its US$7.18 million investment in Logic Company Limited; it currently […]

Newer applications and advances in technology are fueling an extraordinary growth in high-performance external storage, according to the 2001 edition of the SAN Report released by Peripheral Concepts Inc. With revenues exceeding $30 billion, storage will surpass direct server revenue in 2001. Both SAN and dedicated NAS revenues have more than doubled in 2000. They […]