The T-shirts make the man.

Byline: Mark Fenton-Jones

Feb 20, 2011 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- A fire in Matt Barnes' T-shirt business has prompted the owner to change the business model of his company. Barnes decided not to sell his music-themed T-shirts through retailers but to distribute them directly to clients through the internet. The previous model was based on selling large volumes with smaller margins. Barnes now sells his T-shirts at $A59.95 per unit with free delivery within Australia.

Publication Date: 19 February 2011

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BRIEFING - ASIA INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - FEB 15, 2011.

An executive briefing on information technology for Feb 15, 2011, prepared by Asia Pulse (http://www.asiapulse.com), the real-time, Asia-based wire with exclusive news, commercial intelligence and business opportunities.

INDIA'S SISTEMA SHYAM TO OFFER INTERNET SERVICES IN MERU CABS

NEW DELHI - India's Sistema Shyam Teleservices Ltd (SSTL), which offers telephony services under the MTS brand name, today said it has partnered with Meru Cabs to offer free internet services to its passengers in New Delhi and Mumbai.

The customer needs to ask the cab driver for an MBlaze dongle to get free internet surfing along with unlimited data download, SSTL said in a statement.

INDIA'S TULIP TELECOM SEES Q3 NET PROFIT SOAR 42%

NEW DELHI - Enterprise communication services provider Tulip Telecom (BSE:532691) yesterday reported an increase of 42 per cent in its net profit at Rs 81.7 crore (US$18 million) for the quarter ending December 31, 2010.

The company had posted a net profit of Rs 57.4 crore in the same quarter previous fiscal year.

BANGLADESH UGC WANTS MORE ICT EDUCATION TO USHER IN DIGITAL AGE

DHAKA - Bangladesh's University Grants Commission (UGC) has emphasized the need for enhancing Information and Communication Technology (ICT) education to expedite the process for building Digital Bangladesh.

The UGC made the observation alongside its recommendations in its annual report for 2009, which has come out a bit late and a copy of which was submitted to President Zillur Rahman at Bangabhaban.

AUSTRALIAN IT FIRM CSG SHUFFLES MGMT, SEES 53% RISE IN H1 PROFIT

SYDNEY - Australian IT services company CSG (ASX:CSV) has posted a 53 per cent rise in half year net profit and announced some management and board changes.

The technology provider on Tuesday reported a half year net profit of A$18.8 million (US$18.82 million), after deducting minority interests, for the half year ending December 31, 2010.

INDIA'S NIIT IN TIE-UP WITH ZEND TECHNOLOGIES FOR PHP TRAINING

NEW DELHI - Global IT training company NIIT (BSE:532541) and California-based Zend Technologies Monday announced a partnership to develop a skilled workforce within India on hypertext preprocessor (PHP) web technology.

"There is huge gap in demand and supply of PHP programmers. At present, there are only 6,000 certified PHP programmers across the world. We want to take this number to 80,000 in the next three years," NIIT chief executive officer Vijay K Thadani said while announcing the partnership.

INDIA'S MAHINDRA SATYAM SEES TWO-FOLD JUMP IN OCT-DEC PROFIT

HYDERABAD - India-based Mahindra Satyam on Monday said its net profit jumped over two-fold to Rs 58.9 crore (US$13 million) in the October-December period compared to the previous quarter on increased utilisation levels of manpower.

Revenue grew marginally to Rs 1,279.30 crore in the third quarter from Rs 1,242 crore in the previous quarter of this financial year.

INDIA'S WIPRO, CONTINUOUS COMP TIE UP TO OFFER 3G, LTE SOLUTIONS

NEW DELHI - Indian IT firm Wipro Technologies said yesterday it has partnered with US-based Continuous Computing to provide solutions to 3G and Long Term Evolution (LTE) network equipment-makers.

The two companies are working together to provide Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and Femtocell products for network equipment providers supplying 3G and LTE network infrastructure, Wipro said in a statement.

MOST TAIWAN OFFICE WORKERS WANT TO ENTER GAMING INDUSTRY: POLL

TAIPEI - About three-fourths of Taiwan's office workers are interested in getting involved in a business related to the gaming industry to pursue their personal interest professionally, the results of a survey released on Monday showed.

1111 Job Bank, the manpower agency that conducted the survey on whether an interest in playing games could lead to a job, said 74.52 per cent of respondents wanted to join a gaming industry company and were hoping for an average monthly salary of NT$37,094 (US$1,265).

OBAMA LAUDS S.KOREA FOR WIDER ACCESS TO BROADBAND INTERNET

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday called for more investment in building infrastructure to catch up with South Korea and other outperforming countries.

In a message to Congress attached to his budget for the 2012 fiscal year, Obama said the U.S. "lags behind other nations when it comes to the infrastructure of the future," noting that "only 63 per cent of American households subscribe to high-speed, broadband Internet compared to 95 per cent in South Korea and 77 per cent in the Netherlands."

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Sealy & Company Adopts Yardi Commercial Suite and Yardi Investment Suite for Industrial Portfolio Management.

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- Yardi announced today that Sealy & Company LLC has adopted the Yardi Commercial Suite[TM] and the Yardi Investment Suite[TM] to manage its portfolio, which comprises 20 million square feet of industrial properties in six states.

Sealy previously used various technology platforms and outsourcing partners for budgeting and forecasting, job costing, invoice processing, payment processing, capital management and tracking, valuations and business intelligence. In executing an initiative to improve efficiency, the company sought a single-platform solution from a provider dedicated to real estate asset management.

Sealy will replace its existing invoice workflow processing system with Yardi Commercial Suite product Yardi PAYscan[TM]. Sealy's tenants will be provided Yardi Portal[TM] to make payments and initiate work orders online. Yardi Portal will also give Sealy's properties a valuable Web presence for marketing property availability in real time by dynamically linking to Yardi Voyager[TM].

Sealy will replace several unconnected investment management modules with the Yardi Investment Suite. "Most of what we need is right out of the box. Yardi PortfolioVMF[TM] will streamline our property valuation and analysis process by integrating our property and lease data more directly. Our investors can receive real-time information on demand via the Internet with Portal," said Mark Sealy, president of Sealy.

"The Commercial Suite and Investment Suite will help us compete for leases more effectively and increase tenant satisfaction with better services," Sealy said. "Using one vendor rather than several for our core property and asset management functions will help us operate much more efficiently."

"We are pleased that Yardi has provided Sealy with a versatile core platform that can support the full scope of their property management and investment management activities," said Richard Malpica, Yardi vice president and general manager, Eastern Region.

About Sealy & Company

Sealy, which maintains headquarters in Dallas and Shreveport, La., is a fully integrated commercial real estate investment and operating firm with approximately 20 million square feet of commercial properties under ownership and management. Established in 1946, Sealy is a recognized leader in acquiring, developing, redeveloping and managing regional distribution warehouse, flex, industrial and other property types. Since the early 1970s, Sealy, through various affiliated entities, has acquired or developed and sold over $1 billion of industrial real estate totaling approximately 30 million square feet with approximately $200 million of investor equity. Sealy has eight offices in Texas, Louisiana, Georgia and Tennessee. For more information, visit www.sealynet.com.

About Yardi

Yardi Systems has been committed to the design, development and support of real estate investment management and property management software for nearly 30 years. With its Yardi Multifamily Suite[TM], Yardi Commercial Suite[TM] and Yardi Investment Suite[TM], the Yardi Voyager[TM] system is the most comprehensive single real estate management platform on the market today. Yardi serves clients around the world from offices in Asia, Australia, Europe and North America. More information about Yardi products and services is available at www.yardi.com.

Level 3 and Strangeloop Team Up to Offer Superior Speed, Improved Performance for Websites.

Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:LVLT) announced its collaboration with Vancouver-based Strangeloop. The companies have integrated Strangeloop's Site Optimizer and Website Code Optimization technology into Level 3's global content delivery network (CDN). This newly available combination - the Level 3 CDN Site Transformer - will provide customers with a unique and powerful set of solutions for website and application delivery.

"The performance of a business's website can make or break the customer experience," said Mark Taylor, vice president of Content and Media at Level 3. "Level 3's CDN services, combined with Strangeloop's Site Optimizer, compound the benefits of performance optimization into simple packages that ultimately help us deliver quality content to our customers' users faster than ever before."

Websites are optimized for fast delivery in three ways, via network, delivery and code. For almost three years, Level 3 has been providing two layers of acceleration technology - caching and streaming, as well as compression and other site acceleration techniques (sometimes referred to as dynamic site acceleration) - which address network and delivery optimization. Since 2006, Strangeloop has offered transformation-based site acceleration solutions, which optimize site code to allow pages to be rendered more efficiently at the browser level.

With the Level 3 CDN Site Transformer, the combination of all three technology layers - network, delivery and code - can deliver up to a 30 percent performance improvement compared to an acceleration service with only two layers.

Part of what differentiates Level 3's CDN Site Transformer is the strength of the standalone products and services from the two companies. Strangeloop's Site Optimizer technology is specifically designed to simplify Web code optimization from a lengthy and complex coding process into an automated function that provides roundtrip reduction, rapid rendering, dynamic browser caching, as well as a host of other acceleration best practices. At the same time, with one of the world's largest network backbones and a sophisticated content delivery platform, Level 3's CDN services combine the reach, scalability and speed of a Tier 1 network to meet demand, even at peak traffic.

In today's competitive online landscape, the importance of delivering a fast user experience is greater than ever.

"There is a proven relationship between page speed and key business metrics," said Strangeloop President Joshua Bixby. "In recent years, there have been a number of studies showing that even incremental changes in page speed can have a dramatic effect on revenues, customer satisfaction and SEO ranking. We've seen this played out with companies who have used our product and, as a result, have increased sales by 13 percent and grown their organic search traffic by 10 percent."

The Level 3 CDN Site Transformer is available in bundles that will give enterprise customers the appropriate blend of services for a mix of static and dynamic site content. The new bundles are available immediately. For more information on Level 3's CDN capabilities, please visit www.level3.com/index.cfm?pageID=602. About Level 3 Communications Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:LVLT) is a leading international provider of fiber-based communications services. Enterprise, content, wholesale and government customers rely on Level 3 to deliver services with an industry-leading combination of scalability and value over an end-to-end fiber network. Level 3 offers a portfolio of metro and long-haul services, including transport, data, Internet, content delivery and voice. For more information, visit www.Level3.com.

Keywords: Level 3 Communications, Level 3 Communications Inc, Technology, Telecommunications.

This article was prepared by Telecommunications Weekly editors from staff and other reports. Copyright 2011, Telecommunications Weekly via VerticalNews.com.