Monday, December 29, 2008
Second undersea break stalls cable repairs Efforts to restore normal voice and Internet communications between Asia and Europe are hampered as a submarine cable, already undergoing repairs, is damaged for the second time 
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
SOA adoption on a decline A growing number of large companies are deferring their SOA implementation programs, according to Gartner. Here's why
Monday, October 13, 2008
Cisco plans more globalization centers China and Mexico are among the countries being evaluated by the network equipment maker as it aims to develop technologies and business models for emerging markets
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Cover your mouth when you sneeze While we pay a lot of attention to preventing malware in our incoming traffic, we don't do much to protect other systems from our own traffic expectorations
Thursday, November 08, 2007
Asian countries spending more on health care IT Springboard Research's study has found that emerging markets account for almost 60 per cent of health care IT spending in the region.
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Emerging markets want more value from vendors Developing countries in Asia offer great potential for PC makers, but companies must offer better value for users if they are to be successful in emerging markets, according to an analyst. 
Thursday, December 07, 2006
Microsoft steps up mission-critical investments in Asia Microsoft Corp. will step up its investments in Asia over the next two years as part of a bid to strengthen its relationship with partners and corporate customers in the area of mission-critical technologies. 
Monday, October 30, 2006
UPS firms merge for global supply in $6 billion deal French electrical equipment manufacturer Schneider Electric SA plans to acquire American Power Conversion Corp. in a Can$6.86 billion deal to create a worldwide developer of critical power products. 
Monday, September 11, 2006
Grid standards body opens with a mission The Open Grid Forum (OGF) standards body has officially opened for business, delivering on its commitment made back in June to detail its aims and organizational setup to coincide with the start of the GridWorld conference taking place this week in Washington, D.C.
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
IBM reigns supreme, AMD gains ground The Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers was released Wednesday, with IBM Corp.'s BlueGene continuing to reign and Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s (AMD's) Opteron processor powering more systems on the list than last year. 
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
VOIP use to soar in Asia, In-Stat says The market for VOIP (voice over Internet protocol) services in Asia, including Japan, is expected to grow at rate of around US$1 billion per year between 2005 and 2009 to more than US$10 billion, as the number of users more than doubles, according to market researcher In-Stat. 
Thursday, August 25, 2005
Asianux plans expansion to India, Southeast Asia Asianux, a partnership between three Asian Linux vendors, is looking to expand its reach in Asia and hopes to add new members from Southeast Asia and India, executives said Friday. 
Thursday, August 18, 2005
toxics policy analyst, BAN Something's cooking in a forgotten corner of the province of Zheijiang, China - and it's the perfect recipe for a health and environmental disaster. Ingredients of this toxic swill include assorted electronic circuit boards simmered in pure nitric and hydrochloric acids. For a meagre $1.50 a day, labourers in the province's Taizhou region heat computer circuit boards in order to extract and recover valuable metals within the products for reuse. The process is done outdoors, by hand, and releases lethal toxic fumes. 
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Adobe issues alert over Acrobat bug Acrobat and Acrobat Reader, two of the most widely used desktop applications, contain serious security flaws that could be used to take over a system, according to Adobe. The company urged users to update the software immediately. 
Thursday, July 21, 2005
vice-president, Red Hat Asia Pacific Linux and open source are moving beyond academic and government institutions, with small and medium enterprises, as well as large corporations embracing and committing their technological future to this technology. Speaking at a CXO Executive Breakfast Seminar held in conjunction with Linuxworld Singapore 2005, Wolfgang Herrmann, CIO, Schenker Asia Pacific, shared his experience on the switch to Linux and open source. 
Tuesday, July 19, 2005
Asian vendors step up support for AMD Turion Two more Taiwanese companies will offer notebook computers containing Turion 64-bit mobile processors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), making Asia the strongest base of support for the AMD chips. Notebook computers have been hot sellers this year, making it important for AMD to get Turions on the market. 
Tuesday, July 19, 2005
Combating terrorism with light and metaphors While the so-called crusade against terrorism may not be as hot here as south of the border, Canadian software companies are playing a key role in combating this threat. Highly innovative security systems – developed by Canadian firms – are being used by law enforcement agencies and organizations the world over to pre-empt or respond to security threats and to combat terrorism.
Tuesday, July 19, 2005
Diebold to acquire ATM manufacturing plant in India Diebold Inc. is acquiring an automated teller machine (ATM) manufacturing plant from its contract manufacturer, Tata Infotech Ltd. in Mumbai, India, the company announced Friday.
Thursday, May 26, 2005
regional manager, Red Hat Leading Linux vendor Red Hat says it is keen to maintain its 100 per cent year-on-year growth in the Asia-Pacific region and is promising greater partner support to achieve this. 
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Fujitsu opens Singapore solution centre Regional IT and communications solutions provider Fujitsu Asia has expanded its global platform business by opening the Platform Solution Centre, Singapore (PSCS) to promote industry collaboration while developing solutions for its customers in Southeast Asia and India. The new S$3.5 million (US$2.1 million) Platform Solution Centre is the second that Fujitsu has established, and the first outside Japan. 
Wednesday, January 05, 2005
Messaging still to solve security headaches Despite its popularity, the sudden rise of spam volumes, phishing scams and e-mail-based Trojans and worms in 2004 have turned messaging and e-mail into a huge critical security issue for companies. 
Thursday, September 23, 2004
NZ ICT industry in doldrums: IDC The ICT market in New Zealand is stagnating and needs reinvigoration. 
Tuesday, September 07, 2004
Council launches massive WiFi network A million-dollar venture to ease IT burdens for small business in remote Australian locations could potentially find itself an exported as a wireless business model.
Tuesday, September 07, 2004
Council launches massive WiFi network A million-dollar venture to ease IT burdens for small business in remote Australian locations could potentially find itself an exported as a wireless business model. 
Thursday, August 12, 2004
IBM ups hiring forecast IBM Corp. Thursday said it is hiring a lot more employees than originally planned. The vendor upped its forecast for the year to 18,800 new hires, the majority of whom are destined for IBM's services division.