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Apple moves into Asian server market
News Apple has its sights fixed on Asia's multimedia streaming, education and biotech markets as it gears up to push its recently launched Xserve rack-mounted server. Asia's server market is dominated by deeply entrenched brand names such as Sun...
[August 5, 2002, 15:07]
Anti-piracy team checks P2P sites
News A US-based anti-software-piracy group has begun to target Asia-Pacific Web sites and users of peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks, looking for those who trade in illegal software. The Business Software Alliance (BSA), whose members include...
[June 5, 2003, 10:18]
Gartner analyst told to quit adult site
News Gartner Asia Pacific research director Joe Sweeney has been asked to relinquish his position as an investor and a member of the board of Jadecool.com, an Asian adult Website. Sweeney was informed last week that he needs to divest his investment...
[June 14, 2001, 10:09]
HTC: We're Number Two!
Blog According to Business Week Asia, HTC - makers of most of the Windows Mobile handsets out there - are now the second-best performing company on that continent (the best-performing company in Asia, if you really want to know, is Unilever Indonesia...
[September 26, 2007, 17:12]
Alcatel spending millions in 3G push
News French communications equipment maker Alcatel is proceeding with plans to establish seven new third-generation (3G) labs in Asia-Pacific and Europe despite plans to reduce 20,000 jobs worldwide. Called 3G Reality Centers, each facility will cost...
[September 24, 2002, 9:05]
XP Starter Edition off to a slow start
News Microsoft may have started shipping its cheaper version of Windows in Asia, but getting support for its low-cost computing vision is still very much a work in progress. Starter Edition has not gained much interest from vendors, nor has it generated...
[March 18, 2005, 11:10]
Downturn to hamper Asian piracy fight
News Efforts to clamp down on the illegal use of software in Asia could prove futile as businesses become increasingly cash-strapped in the economic downturn. Although large to medium-size corporations tend to go through the proper channels, smaller...
[October 3, 2001, 15:11]
Thin client device sales double in 2002
News Research giant IDC claims sales of thin client devices are ramping up in Asia, but Australia is lagging behind the general Asia Pacific region. According to IDC, 28,385 thin client devices were sold in 2002 in Australia, up 54 percent from 2001, a...
[June 10, 2003, 10:14]
Storage sales set to beat economic gloom
News Despite economic pressures that have led to spending constraints, revenues generated from disk storage systems in Asia Pacific increased by about 5 percent in the first half of this year, due to a strong demand for disk storage capacity.
[October 29, 2001, 9:36]
Son of Nimda on the attack
News A new variant of the Nimda worm has started spreading slowly throughout the Asia-Pacific region, antivirus experts said on Tuesday. By 1am GMT today (Wednesday), about 3,900 infections had been reported to Trend Micro through its support lines in...
[October 31, 2001, 11:46]
Java peps up mobile phones
News Sun Microsystems' telecommunications partners in Asia will announce deeper use of Sun's Java software in mobile phones and back-end networks next week at the first JavaOne conference in Japan, a Sun executive said.
[November 22, 2001, 12:05]
Hosting automation to the rescue
News Large, traditional large Internet data centres across Asia may soon become extinct, as Web hosting companies, Internet service providers (ISPs) and hosting service providers (HSPs) implement automation software and advanced networking tools that...
[November 22, 2001, 15:59]
Korea mandates e-voting by 2005
News Korea will be the first country in Asia to introduce an electronic voting system for all political elections, starting in 2005. Other parts of Asia have also launched pilot projects in e-voting, including Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
[August 18, 2003, 9:50]
Klez worm on the loose again
News A new variant of the Klez worm managed to squirm into computers in some parts of Asia on Tuesday and appeared to be spreading in the United States and the UK as of Wednesday. The author claims the virus originated in Asia and may have bugs because...
[April 18, 2002, 8:50]
Nortel Network Case Study: CLSA
White Papers CLSA is an award-winning brokerage, investment banking and private equity group in the Asia-Pacific Markets. CLSA worked with Nortel to deploy the Communication Server 1000 into its Asia-Pacific offices, linked by completely digital, high-quality...
[January 11, 2008, 0:01]
'No danger' of Internet-address shortage
News The idea that there is an Internet-address shortage looming in Asia or any part of the world is "misinformation", according to a senior executive at the body responsible for distributing and registering Internet-address resources in the Asia...
[June 24, 2003, 14:22]
Intel makes Shanghai move
News Chipmaker Intel on Thursday said it has opened a new research and development arm for the Asia-Pacific region in Shanghai, China. Dubbed Asia-Pacific R&D, the new centre intends to scout for fresh research and manufacturing talent in China.
[September 16, 2005, 9:45]
Asian enterprises turn to Linux
News Latest findings by Gartner Asia-Pacific revealed that 15 percent of companies in the region (excluding Japan) used Linux in the fourth quarter of last year. The market research firm polled a total of 850 organisations for its Asia-Pacific: Server...
[January 22, 2002, 10:10]
UK under attack from Asian Trojans
News Three hundred key business and government organisations are threatened by a wave of data-stealing attacks from Asia, the government has warned. According to the National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC), hackers in East Asia...
[June 16, 2005, 14:50]
Microsoft announces Chinese search research centre
News Microsoft Research Asia (MSR Asia), Microsoft's fundamental research arm in Asia Pacific, has launched the Search Technology Center (STC). MSR Asia STC will work with MSN product teams to deliver search products and services to MSN customers in...
[October 31, 2005, 11:20]
