Tsunami
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Engage to shutter Singapore arm

News The dot-com tsunami has claimed yet another victim--Internet advertising and marketing firm Engage Inc has decided to pull the plug on its Singapore unit.

Monday, September 17 2001 06:55 PM

Tech community joins tsunami relief effort

News High-tech companies, workers and Web surfers are rallying to raise millions for the relief effort.

Tuesday, January 04 2005 10:19 AM

Emerging Asia PC markets surging, says IDC

News PC shipments in Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka are rising fast--so fast that Pakistan's total PC market size could exceed Singapore's by 2007, says IDC.

Monday, April 03 2006 05:28 PM

Tags: Desktops, Notebooks and tablets, Analyst reports

MasterCard 'phishes' out over 300 spoof sites in Asia

News The credit card company closes about 1,400 phishing sites worldwide over the past 11 months, a quarter of which originated from the Asia-Pacific region.

Thursday, May 19 2005 05:03 PM

Tags: Spam and phishing

Sun aims to bolster disaster warning systems

News Server company teams with Pacific Disaster Center to provide research, analysis and early emergency alerts.

Thursday, December 15 2005 11:01 AM

Tags: Data backup, disaster recovery, Disaster recovery, Services

Intel, Proxim team up for WiMax gear

News Companies plan to develop fixed and portable base stations for wireless broadband Net access.

Friday, June 18 2004 10:23 AM

Tags: WiMax

Putting relief agencies in touch

News Internet Thailand has launched OpenCARE, a network facilitating information sharing and collaboration among relief agencies.

Thursday, December 27 2007 10:25 AM

Tags: Mobile platforms/communications

Web firms pitch in for tsunami relief

News Online companies lend bandwidth to efforts to help out in the aftermath of the Asian tsunami.

Friday, December 31 2004 09:34 AM

Sun's source code for office software hiccups onto Web

News Sun Microsystems released the source code for its StarOffice software suite Friday--almost.

Friday, June 01 2001 04:14 PM

Supercomputer weathers through Asia, mid-East

News The Asia Disaster Preparedness Center is relying on a supercomputer from IBM to do modeling for disasters such as tsunamis and mudslides.

Wednesday, June 20 2007 11:29 AM

Tags: Supercomputing, Data centers, Databases

Concrete ideas

Blogs I attended the fifth International Symposium on New Technologies for Urban Safety of Mega Cities in Asia (USMCA) last mo...

Tuesday, December 05 2006 02:59 PM

Warnings out on Hurricane Rita scams

News As the hurricane barrels down on the Gulf Coast, security experts are bracing to combat the online donation fraud expected to follow.

Monday, September 26 2005 11:39 AM

Tags: Business security, Data security

Ads get mobile channel in Malaysia

News Malaysian carrier Maxis and Yahoo ink deal to provide platform for targeted advertising, created specifically for the mobile environment.

Wednesday, June 18 2008 04:03 PM

Tags: Mobile advertising, Mobile commerce, WAP, CommunicAsia 2008, Mobile, Yahoo! Inc., Malaysia, Advertisement, phone, software

Singapore's TR19 BCM standard: in intensive care, prognosis dire

Blogs In the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Framework for Voluntary Preparedness report of January 2008, the authors refer to Si...

Thursday, July 17 2008 11:42 AM

Indian worker quits IBM after blog dispute

News As the blogosphere burgeons on the subcontinent, a Big Blue employee resigns to spare the company embarrassment over a posting.

Monday, October 24 2005 11:54 AM

Tags: Web sites, Web logs, Legal