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Contact center by phone still popular in Asia
News Calling contact center still preferred method for Asian customers seeking tech help, even with emergence of new media tools, says market specialist.
Tags: Customer support, Customer resource management (CRM), Business development/management, Contact Center, Nagi Kasinadhuni, Datacraft/Dimension Data, Toni Ruotanen, Phone, Microsoft Corp., Asia
Asian tech startups still worthwhile investments
News Returns may not be as good or take longer to realize, but venture capital firms investing in region are still focused on wringing monetary ROI out of technology.
Tags: Investments, Angel investing, Business, Patent, Phone, Asia, Investment, IPO, venture capital, venture-capital company
More redundancy needed for global links
News Ongoing and planned network upgrades between Asia and U.S. sufficient for bandwidth demands, but ISPs need redundancy to better manage outages.
Tags: Bandwidth, Ethernet, Pacnet Ltd., BGP, network, Asia, Broadband, Cable, Internet Service Provider, network provider
Open source needs successful champions
News Open source industry needs profitable proponents to illustrate success, attract funding and encourage participation, says Red Hat CEO.
Tags: Open source, Linux server OS, Open Source, Google Inc., U.S., revenue, Asia, Red Hat Inc., ISV, open-source company
Amazon to boost Asia's cloud assurance
News update Cloud provider's push into Asia-Pacific is expected to provide a boost of assurance to companies of cloud computing's viability, says analyst.
Tags: Cloud computing, Web services, SingTel, software, Amazon.com Inc., Asia, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, Storage, Web Service
APAC firms pass on remote admin via phones
News Businesses in Asia have yet to warm to using mobile phones to perform systems administration tasks remotely, according to industry observers.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Mobile platforms, Mobile applications, Infrastructure/architecture management, Network administration/implementation, Wipro Technologies, GUI, Infrastructure Management, Asia, Administrator
Overland cable connects India and China
News Reliance Globalcom's new terrestrial cable connecting India and China, aims to reduce latency and provide redundancy in case of subsea cable break.
Tags: Bandwidth, Networking technology, Disaster recovery, Asia, India, cable system, Hong Kong, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, Cable
S'pore offers certification for social marketing
News Singapore company provides training and certification course designed to teach companies how to use social media sites as marketing platforms.
Tags: Marketing, Internet, Certification, Social Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Asia, Social Media, Tool, Singapore, Small And Medium Business
Yahoo CEO eyes Asia, mobile for growth
News Internet company sees strong potential to expand its footprint via Asian markets as well as mobile platform, says Yahoo head Carol Bartz.
Tags: Search, Mobile advertising, Internet advertising, Yahoo! Inc., advertisement, CEO, U.S., mobile, Asia, Singapore
Xerox to acquire Affiliated Computer Services
News Dcument company has said it will buy ACS, a major American public-sector business-process contractor, in a US$6.4 billion deal.
Tags: Hardware, Business Strategies & Functions, IT project management, Xerox Corp., Asia, Outsourcing Company, BPO, managed services, South America, solution provider
Universal charger for Asian mobile users?
News Manufacturers will likely introduce handsets that support one-fits-all chargers in Asia, following European Commission accord on universal chargers, analyst says.
Tags: Cellular phones, Smart phones, RIM BlackBerry, Smart Phone, Asia, Research In Motion Ltd., Cell Phone, phone, agreement, LG Electronics Inc.
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Pacnet increases network capacity by 50 percent
News Telecommunications service provider boosts its subsea cable network with largest capacity upgrade to date, to meet Asia's growing demand for broadband.
Tags: Bandwidth, Optical networking, Business broadband, Pacnet Ltd., network, Asia, cable network, Hong Kong, Singapore, Stock
Microsoft: Asia faster to embrace hosted services
News More companies in region expected to take up Microsoft's hosted messaging and collaboration products than those in United States, says company exec.
Tags: Cloud computing, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Mobile applications, Asia, business productivity, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Cloud computing, ISV, revenue, U.S.
Asean CIOs list biz intelligence top priority
News Some 87 percent of CIOs in region see business intelligence and analytics as top priority, finds IBM study.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Business applications, Business, Business development/management, IBM Corp., Virtualization, Survey, Asean, Business applications, Business Strategies & Functions
