Complacency has no place in IT

It was on April Fools' Day at the turn of the millennium that the Singapore telecommunications market was fully liberalized.

Key market players had begun ramping up activities a couple of years prior to the big launch date, and the industry was abuzz with excitement at the prospect of new innovative services that were expected to follow.

Deregulation was the..... Read more »

Tags: Complacency, Cable Company, Cable, analyst, digital set-top box, flat fee, liberalization, telecommunications, SingTel, pricing strategy

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Open education child's best cyber defense

I have a soon-to-be six-year-old Jack Russell Terrier that has a habit of barking at almost every dog we paw past during our walks around my estate. Needless to say, it's an embarrassment each time she does that, and my family would inevitably look away--denying any relation to me or my canine--whenever a barking frenzy starts.

But, rather than tug..... Read more »

Tags: Children, Education, programming, parental control, programming language, China, Singapore, violence, WWW

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Time for Net to shroud land, air, everywhere

I'm back from a two week-long break that took my dad and I across London, Edinburgh and Amsterdam. Aye, the castle that nestled right in the center of the Scottish capital was truly majestic. And I never knew there were over 100 species of tulips until I visited the Keukenhof garden.

Two weeks is a long time away from home,..... Read more »

Tags: U.K., Edinburgh, Poem, HotSpot, road trip, wireless hotspot, Internet, Amsterdam, built-In, Stephen

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Eileen Yu

Eileen Yu began covering the IT industry when Asynchronous Transfer Mode was still hip and e-commerce was the new buzzword. These days, she gets stirred up over issues concerning Internet regulation, intellectual property rights and software patents, online privacy and data protection. Eileen is senior editor at ZDNet Asia, where she oversees the business tech news site.