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PDF Ads: An eBook Marketer’s Wet Dream?

According to CNet News, Adobe and Yahoo! are working together on a solution to integrate contextual ads within a PDF document. The ads would be in text and rendered specifically at the right side of the document content. The article didn’t mention if there are any plans to expand the ad format to include images or videos.

So what do you think of this co-operation?

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What Price Security? It’s Not As Expensive As You Think

When your family is at home and you’re not, I’m sure you have some worrying thoughts playing in your mind. Are they safe? Are the kids asleep? How is the Mrs doing? Although you may never know for sure, wouldn’t it be nice to have some visual reassurance that they’re OK? If you answered yes to that question, I’m sure you’d appreciate EZWatch Pro Video Surveillance products keeping a close eye on your loved ones.

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Combining Style And Technology

I was browsing around for some electronics for my home when I happen to come across Dyson’s latest range of vacuum cleaners. My immediate thought was “Wow! I never knew vacuum cleaners look pretty darn nice nowadays.”

Then I remembered that I had just been to a renowned electrical appliances store recently and I’m very sure I’ve been at their vacuums section. Yet, I can’t recall seeing any model that captured my attention or even arouse the slightest bit of interest in me.

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Web Applications Are Here To Stay

A lot of IT graduates from the 80s and early 90s will find that the skills developed from their university or college days are becoming obsolete with each passing day. Heck, some of the programming languages they’ve implemented projects with are probably no longer in existence today (or more likely to have evolved to the point of being unrecognizable).

One area that is almost unheard of back then is web applications development. Today, your web browser is not just used to explore web sites, it is an applications platform in its own right.

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SAS Malaysia Appoints New Head Of Channels & Alliances

SAS - The Power to Know

KUALA LUMPUR, 19 November 2007 - SAS Malaysia, leading provider of Business Intelligence (BI) solutions today announces the recent appointment of Jonathan Lee as its Head of Channels & Alliances.

The appointment of Jonathan Lee is in tandem with SAS Malaysia’s onward strategy to cover a wider market and to extend SAS market leadership in Malaysia via Channels and Alliances. So far, SAS Malaysia has principally been operating via a direct sales model.

Jonathan Lee has more than 10 years experience in the IT industry in the area of Marketing and Channels, and has worked in both hardware and software companies including Patimas Group of companies, NEC Malaysia and IBM (ASEAN). He holds a Bachelor of International Business and Trade Relations from an Australian-based university.

Jimmy Cheah, Managing Director of SAS Malaysia, says that Lee’s appointment is a clear indication of SAS Malaysia’s focus moving on for 2008, “SAS has tremendous offerings to all organizations looking to improve performances and competitiveness with better insights of its data, whether enterprises or SMIs, public or private. We look to work with partners who bring about specific vertical industry value which can synergize with our existing and new offerings to the expanding BI market. Via our direct sales force and now complemented by our alliances and channel partners, SAS will have greater reach and expertise to effectively address all sectors of the growing market space.”

SAS Malaysia has been the market leader in BI for the past few years and according to the1H07 IDC AP BI Tracker, SAS holds 31% of the BI market share.