by Tan Weizhen

COMPANIES here are increasingly using free 'cloud computing' Internet-based applications such as word processing programmes and photo-editing suites to cut costs and manpower.

Cloud computing applications are free, open source software, which are accessed via the Internet.

Companies which turn to these alternatives say the free software can reduce their IT costs by as much as 65 per cent.

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