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JOHOR BARU, Aug 29 – Harun Johari, the Iskandar Regional Development Authority (IRDA) chief executive, was fresh from meeting yet another Singapore delegation when he sat down for an interview. Scores of Singaporean groups from the business ...  

The ITU approved a new revised version of ITU-T Recommendation H.323. H.323 is the most widely-deployed IP-based multimedia communication system in the world, used in videoconferencing, telepresence systems, and by service providers for international VoIP calls. For more details, see the what's new in H.323v7 page.  

JOHOR BARU: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia’s (UTM) Iskandar Malaysia Research Centre (IMrec) is partnering Iskandar Regional Development Authority (Irda) to develop world-class human capital for Iskandar Malaysia, the country’s first economic growth corridor.  

Bandar Seri Begawan - Her Royal Highness Paduka Seri Pengiran Anak Isteri Pengiran Anak Sarah ibni Pengiran Salleh Ab Rahaman was among the 15 undergraduates from Universiti Brunei Darussalam's Faculty of Business, Economics and Policy Studies who ...  

Yahoo! Women in Tech, an internal stakeholder group for women across Yahoo!’s technology organization, recently partnered with Techbridge to host another K-12 event. Twenty-nine fifth-grade girls from Lincoln Elementary (Oakland, Calif.) spent the day at Yahoo!’s Sunnyvale campus to get a glimpse of what “high-tech” people do all day. Encouraging girls to consider careers in tech Imagine [...]  

Our new mobile homepage is awesome. But don’t take our word for it– CNET, NBC, IDG News Service, ReadWriteWeb, Reuters and others have said great things about it and all of our recent mobile product enhancements. As Yahoo continues to bring our mobile services to consumers around the world, today we are announcing the launch of [...]  

Mark May is a principal and senior internet and digital media research analyst at Needham & Company LLC a full-service growth-company investment bank.Ken Sonenclars Leading Voices piece on Thursday titled “Five Media Deals Id Like To See Happen In 2010 was thoroughly thought-provoking. Here are my own thoughts around M&A targets for next year—I guess you could call it a rebuttal to Ken’s piece. Microsoft NSDQ MSFT should...  

Despite its current financial troubles and continued layoffs Forbes Media has bought FlipGloss a photo publishing and online distribution platform. Terms were not disclosed. The site has been funded by Forbes since its founding in March 2008. Forbes COO Tim Forbes has advised the company. Other advisers have included Forbes minority shareholder Elevation Partners and Launch.com foundersformer Yahoo Music GMs Dave Goldberg and Bob Roback.  

Looks like Yahoo NSDQ YHOO is not going to let rivals AOL NYSE TWX and MSN get all the attention in the local space. The company has hired Anthony Moor who oversees the Dallas Morning News’ new media strategy to lead its local news efforts Editor and Publisher reports. Moor who did not respond to our request for comment writes on his Twitter account that he will “build a staff of editors around the U.S. who will improve the local...  

AOL CEO Tim Armstrong is going to have a hard enough time turning around the company. The last thing he needs is drastically shrinking revenue from Google -- his former employer and AOLs search ad provider. But thats whats happening.Google generates one-third of AOLs advertising revenue and almost half of the revenue for AOL Media the online publishing division that Armstrong bills billing as the future of the company. Substantially all of the...  

Forbes Media has acquired FlipGloss and its Digital Glossy Insert photo publishing platform for an undisclosed amount. FlipGloss was fully funded by Forbes Media but was previously not considered a subsidiary of the media group. Founded by former Yahoo! digital music executives FlipGloss has a host of prominent advisors including Marc Bodnick from Elevation Partners former Forbes publisher Jim Berrian and the founders of Launch.com Dave...  

How do you find what to watch online? Sites for finding and watching video abound from search engines such as Blinkx and Truveo to hosted video sites such as YouTube and Hulu.com. And of course there are conventional search engines such as Google Yahoo and Bing the last of which just introduced a new video site.But theres nothing quite like a TV Guide for mainstream Web video--television shows and movies. Thats what Clicker hopes to create and...  

—Twitter Yahoo NSDQ YHOO senior research scientist Utkarsh Srivastava—whose expertise is in building large-scale distributed systems—is joining the microblogging service in an unspecified role Louis Gray reports. He confirms the move—on Twitter.—Discovery Communications Todd Zander has been promoted to vice president of digital media distribution tasked with expanding the company’s offerings on online and mobile...  

Flickr and Snapfish have struck a deal to make HPs photo sharing sites and Flickr competitor the go-to printing partner for the 40 million Flickr users in the US and international markets. As Flickrs preferred printing partner Snapfish will let Flickr users to transfer organize and print photos scrapbooks and more. Yahoo says that this is the first time Flickrs international users will have an option to print photos directly from their...  

At the Piper Jaffray Global Internet Summit today analysts wanted to know why Yahoo NSDQ YHOO was a good bet. The company’s repeated response Data. Yahoo senior director David Kopp and VP Dev Patel fended off questions about challenges to the company’s businesses by saying that the company had a breadth of information about its users that it could use to target ads. Two transcribed exchanges after the jump.