Harrow School - whose alumni include World War II British prime minister Winston Churchill and India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru - is to open a school on a former military site in the Tuen Mun district.

In a break with tradition, the school is to be coeducational unlike Harrow School in west London, which is all boys. The school's old boys also include the poet Lord Byron and pop singer James Blunt.

The Hong Kong school would have places for around 1,200 primary and secondary students with boarding offered in the senior section.

It would be Harrow's third school in Asia after its first international branch was established in Bangkok in 1998 and its second Asian school was set up in Beijing in 2005.

For more information about Harrow in Hong Kong,  please read The Standard's article . 

The Macau Golf and Country Club, an exclusive private member's club, is accessible from the top floor of the Macau Westin resort. 

 The Club has been meticulously planned to combine a resort ambience with a par 71 championship 18-hole golf course. Nature herself created a magnificent setting for this truly unique resort and golf course. Tee off against some of the most spectacular views of Coloane Island and the South China Sea. Special golfing privileges are extended to hotel guests on weekdays, weekends, and public holidays. Or take a swing at the Westin’s Ocean Driving Range, 18-hole Mini-golf, croquet, squash and tennis courts, or enjoy a refreshing dip in the indoor and outdoor swimming pools and whirlpools. 

Javacatz will unveil the new website during Summer 2010 together with the launch of MGCC's social media sites. 

Online maps are great for people who get lost easily, and they're just plain fun for figuring out where stuff is. But Google Earth is no ordinary map.

The ap­plication is fairly easy to use, but there are a lot of functions to try out. See how Google Earth gets images and data and learn how you can get started with Google Earth so you can explore some of the features and customization options.

Full story at HowItWorks

This week at Chirp, the official Twitter developer conference, co-founder Ev Williams shared some revealing facts and figures about users and growth. Check out some of the tantalizing Twitter tidbits:

• Twitter now boasts 105,779,710 registered users.
• 300,000 new users sign up each day.
• The site brings in 180 million unique visitors each month.
• 75% of Twitter traffic comes from outside the site (i.e. third-party apps)
• Twitter’s search engine handles about 600 million search queries each day.
• Twitter has gone from 25 employees to 175 over the past year.

Full story at Huffington Post

We are pleased to announce the launch of Carmel's Elsa High School and the Ganeynu Early Childhood Centre websites. Elsa High is the first Jewish high school in East Asia. 

Ganeynu provides a Jewish early childhood program which nurtures and educates children from between 1-3 years.  See Elsa High and Ganeynu for more information 

It has been a long awaited and long talked about prospect but it looks like Twitter is finally letting us all know at least one way that they plan to make money. To literally no one’s surprise it will be through ads that Twitter calls “Promoted Tweets”. This is the first significant attempt to turn its microblogging service into a profitable business. 

Full Story at New York Times

Javacatz is please to announce our latest project with The Hong Kong International Tennis Academy. We shall unveiled a new look in the coming summer , with a redesign that boasts more white space and is cleaner and easier to navigate, while still highlighting new features, weekly blogs, analysis and comprehensive instruction and eye-catching photography.

The new design will serve as the ideal platform to further expand HKITA's footprint in the digital space and to help them  remain the leading source for all things tennis.

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An Intranet benefit companies and enterprises in many ways. Here are the 6 major benefits from building an intranet computer network. In March 2010, Javacatz begins Phase II of the expansion of the global Tai Ping Carpets Intranet system. The system was successfully launched in 2009.

Reduces Cost
An obvious intranet benefit is its cost-effective feature which it gets from the paperless environment.

Saves Time
With information residing in only one place - in the intranet Web server - it is also relatively easier and quicker to add new information or to update existing information to make it instantly available. The intranet also results in time saving for the company by providing timely and rapid access to information, information discovery by anyone in need, Just In Time (JIT) and on-demand.

Increases Collaboration
Intranet applications can enhance the communication and collaboration of company employees from just-in-time publishing, knowledge sharing to virtual team working.

Increases Productivity and Effectiveness
Building an intranet can vastly benefit the company by increasing productivity and effectiveness. It increases the productivity by faster, easier, more flexible and open communication through a suite of standard, easy to use, powerful, and rich facilities, rapid transmission and feedback and one-to-one, many-to-many dialogs etc.

Integrated and Distributed Computing Environment
Intranet can fully support a distributed computing architecture due to the Internet and World Wide Web architecture it uses. So the intranets Web server/s that stores information of the intranet can support various operating systems, computer types which allows every user to access information sources.

Rich in Format
Unlike the traditional paper-based documents, intranet provides a wide variety of media types, which include audio, video, and interactive applications.

The Hong Kong Green Building Council (HKGBC) is the leading body driving the promotion and creation of green, sustainable buildings and standards throughout the Hong Kong SAR, engaging community, industry and government to create a greener, more sustainable environment. The council aspires for quality and sustainability at every stage of the building life cycle and embrace these principles as a mark of excellence, and leads the market transformation to a sustainable built environment in Hong Kong by guiding the development of industry standards, best practices, education, and research in green buildings.

Javacatz helped to design the new bilingual website with content management system, member log in, and enewsletter module. See www.hkgbc.org.hk.

For the past 3 years, we have been developing a Content Management System for our own use. We had realized that none of the available systems met our needs: they were too expensive, too complicated, not flexible enough, etc. So we decided to make our own, and Javacatz CMS was born. We now run almost all our sites on JCCMS, and it has become a central part of our business. So give us a call for a demo and we'll walk you through it. The new version comes packed with exiting new modules, giving the client near total control (they had grown really tired of waiting for their old developers to get around to making changes).

Carmel School Association appoints Javacatz to build two new sites.

New digital face for Hong Kong Sailing Federation coming soon. The Federation is the national authority for the sport of sailing in Hong Kong.

Perceval Consulting is a company specialized in providing advice on the secure exchange and authentication of value. These include identification, travel and payment technologies, and we support corporations and governments in Asia Pacific. The company is headquartered in Hong Kong and work with partners and affiliates throughout Asia. 

Javacatz gave the company new site a clean look and feel!  See www.percevalconsulting.com.

Check out the latest revamp of the Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden website to enjoy the splendour of Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden, wild and tamed.  The new site is being controlled by the JCCMS content management system version 2 with latest modules like enewsletter, membership, reports, and more!

See www.climatechange.hk.