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S'pore, Taiwan among world's most competitive
News update Five economies in Asia-Pacific make top 20 list of world's most IT competitive nations in new study conducted by Economist Intelligence Unit.
Tags: Local Government, India, Business Software Alliance, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, Broadband, Broadband Penetration, South Korea, Environment, vision
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
Can cable faults ever go away?
News Telcos have stepped up measures in recent years to improve redundancy and re-routing efforts during cable disruptions, but costs and nature still stand in the way.
Tags: Network infrastructure, LANs and WANs, Disaster recovery, Starhub, Ovum, SingTel, Asia, cable system, Cable, e-mail
Where's technology when the earth shakes?
Blogs This past week has been calamity filled. Following the freak dust storm in Sydney, Typhoon Kestana flooded into the Phil...
China to power North Asia's 1B mobile subs
News Mobile subscriptions in the region will cross 1 billion in 2009, with the Chinese market accounting for 80 percent of users, new report reveals.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Mobile applications, Mobile platforms, Hong Kong, Compound Annual Growth Rate, Japan, Frost & Sullivan, Korea, 3G, China
Taiwan, China get enhanced online shopping security
News Visa cardholders in the two economies are first in the world to use service providing mobile-based one-time passwords for purchases over the Internet.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Authentication and encryption, Mobile commerce, E-commerce, E-business, Authentication, Security, Mobile, Cardholder, Cell Phone
First Tegra-based netbooks and MIDs unveiled
News Nvidia's system-on-a-chip has shown up in a dozen netbooks and mobile internet devices at the Computex event in Taiwan.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Components, Graphics, Processors, Memory, Development/design, Mobile, NVidia Corp., Manufacturing, Video
Could Lenovo and Acer team up?
News After announcing a record quarterly loss of US$264 million, China's largest PC company is struggling while its Taiwanese rival is closing in on Dell.
Tags: Mergers, Personal Computers, Acer Inc., Sales, Chinese company, Lenovo Group Ltd., China, Beijing, industry, Dell Computer Corp.
Taiwan govt rules out memory merger
News Consolidating six local DRAM companies is "too complicated", Taiwanese government says, leading to some affected players seeking other alternatives.
Tags: Memory, Processors, Mergers, Nanya Technology Corp., Powerchip Semiconductor, Chip, Chip Company, Bloomberg L.P., Sales, Government
Portables buffer PC market in Asia-Pacific
News Strong sales of mini-notebooks helps the sector meet expectations in the first quarter despite fall in total PC shipments in the region, says IDC.
Tags: Personal Computers, Consumer Technology, Region, International Data Corp., Hong Kong, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, Sales, unit growth, Lenovo Group Ltd.
Vnet to re-launch Apple's iStudio in Thailand
News To capture growing lifestyle retail market, Thailand's Vnet has taken a controlling stake in Copperwired and is set to re-launch an iStudio Apple shop the same size as that in San Francisco.
Tags: Smart phones, Sales strategy, Apple Inc., Training, Apple MacBook, Thailand, Singapore, Sales, ROI, Japan
Chip manufacturers on the edge
News Convulsions in the microprocessor business may have broad implications and strategic significance for countries around the world.
Tags: Components, Wireless e-mail devices, PDA phones, Intel Corp., Memory Chip, Semiconductor, Cell Phone, Chip, Chip Company, Government
Malware probes find China angle
News Canadian researchers say Tibet-focused "GhostNet" has hit 1,300 computers in 103 countries, while Vietnamese firm spots possible Chinese connection for Conficker.
Tags: Data security, Viruses and worms, Malware, Security, Attack, GhostNet, payroll, computer, Attacker, University of Cambridge
Intel invests in Taiwan mobile WiMax
News The U.S. chip company will invest US$11.5 million with the government of Taiwan to establish an open source software-development center for mobile devices.
Tags: Software engineering/development, Open source, WiMax, Intel Corp., Mobile, Paul Otellini, Mobile Internet, Intel Atom, Internet, industry
Ubuntu version coming to mobile devices
News As expected, Canonical says a release of its Ubuntu Linux operating system called Ubuntu Netbook Remix is in the works for mobile Internet devices and mininotebooks.
Tags: Linux, Notebooks and tablets, Mobile, Mobile Device, Ubuntu, operating system, trade show, processor, mini-notebook, Mark Shuttleworth
