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ST Telemedia sells Indosat stake
News Temasek Holdings-unit has announced it will sell its 41 percent stake in Indonesian operator, PT Indosat to Qatar Telecom for US$1.8 billion.
Tags: Acquisitions, Antitrust, Stake, SingTel, Indonesia, Qatar, investment company, telecommunications company, commission, U.S. Supreme Court
UAE has Gulf's highest female Internet user base
News United Arab Emirates houses most female online users in Gulf region, making Arab state potentially lucrative market for online companies, study shows.
Tags: Female, Web sites, Internet advertising, online company, Bahrain, broadband quality of service, Web sites, Female, QoS, Broadband
StarHub wins Singapore OpCo role
News Singapore government appoints StarHub as "operating company" to provide wholesale broadband connectivity for country's planned next-generation national broadband network.
Tags: Personal broadband, Business broadband, Next-generation technology/networks, Starhub, SingTel, Cisco Systems Inc., Fiber, Singapore, Broadband, IntelliNet Technologies
IBM teams up with universities on cloud project
News The company joins forces with Carnegie Mellon, Qatar and Texas A&M universities to develop one of the first cloud computing platforms in the Middle East.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Software, Programming languages, IBM Corp., University, biology, Cloud Computing, Apache Hadoop, financial modeling
Broadband over power lines? Don't count on it, yet
Blogs Dominant carrier PLDT, as well as its high-profile chief executive Manny V. Pangilinan, have been in the news lately bec...
Interesting battle for dominance
Blogs It's surprising to see how Meralco, the biggest electric distributor in the Philippines, has become an unlikely setting ...
IBM floats vision of cloud's future
Insight newsmaker The head of IBM's cloud-computing strategy talks about why the company wanted to develop the technology, and where he plans to take it.
Tags: Cloud computing, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Utility computing, R&D, IBM Corp., Customer Center, oil & gas, grid computing, Cloud computing, Software-as-a-service (SaaS)
SingTel extends BudgetCall
News SingTel will increase the coverage of its BudgetCall service from the current 55 destinations to all 223 IDD destinations come October 15.
City Telecom drops out of S'pore NBN bid
News Hong Kong-based telco has left Infinity consortium bidding for tender in Singapore's national broadband network project. Local carrier StarHub takes over as lead.
Tags: Next-generation technology/networks, LANs and WANs, Starhub, Mobile, Telecommunications, Singapore, consortium, computer telephony integration, FTTH, financial
Singapore: America's next college town
News For some American universities, the new frontier lies over the ocean, as other nations looks to gain U.S. expertise.
Tags: Investments, Market research, Investor relations
Vietnam expats to get new mobile services
News Vietnam's largest telco VNPT and ETN Singapore set up new international mobile company aimed at Vietnamese working in the Asia-Pacific and Middle East.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Mobile, Telecommunications, Singapore, Japan, phone, mobile virtual network operator, SIM card, network, company executive
CSE Systems acquires US engineering firm for US$21m
News Homegrown systems integrator CSE Systems & Engineering has acquired Houston-based engineering company W-Industries (W-I) for approximately US$21 million.
Third S'pore air terminal takes off
News After months of systems testing and built at a cost of US$1.2 billion, Changi Airport Terminal 3 officially opens, handling 64 flights on its first day.
Tags: Software integration, Hardware, Business applications
OpenNet wins Singapore broadband bid
News update Singapore infocomm regulator appoints consortium as network company to build the physical infrastructure of country's next-generation broadband network.
Tags: Business broadband, Personal broadband, SingTel, Fiber, Dr., Singapore, Broadband, consortium, Environment, computer telephony integration
Kickbacks: more norm than exception in Malaysia
News Kickbacks for international business deals involving Malaysians are more the norm rather than the exception, says Transparency International vice chairman Tunku Abdul Aziz Tunku Ibrahim.
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