Chee Sing Chan

Cathay Pacific's CIO Tomasz Smaczny has a clear sense of where IT is heading, but the path to transformation will take a lot of effort and planning

About 50 per cent of all e-mail received in Hong Kong is spam and could be costing the economy up to HK$10 billion (US$1.3 billion) a year, according to survey findings released today by the Hong Kong Internet Service Providers Association (HKISPA).

To combat the massive growth in spam, the Hong Kong ISP Association and the Asia Digital Marketing Association (ADMA) have joined forces to help consumers, businesses and government in applying anti-spam measures.

Traditional vendors of tape-based storage have no fear from disk-based systems usurping the role of primary backup and data archiving medium, say experts.

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has long been touted by vendors who hail converged networks that run both voice and data traffic. But are the purported benefits -- cheaper long distance calls, simpler network management and new applications -- easily achievable?