Sars Dampens Server Sales
News Analysts Gartner Dataquest revealed in a report on Monday that the mature markets of Hong Kong, South Korea and Singapore saw small or negative revenue growth, with Sars-hit Hong Kong registering the largest drop of 29 percent year-on-year.
[September 2, 2003, 12:45]
WiMax Cut Off By HSDPA In Asia
News Teyew projected that WiMax, despite its challenges, will have the biggest following in India and South Korea. In South Korea, a country that leads the world in broadband penetration, WiMax surprisingly has room to bloom, according to Teyew.
[April 24, 2006, 15:55]
Bribery Case Claims IBM Scalp
News An IBM Asia-Pacific spokesperson told CNETAsia it has named Tony Romero, a 23-year veteran with the company, as the new head for Korea. According to the Seoul District Prosecutor's Office, IBM Korea allegedly amassed a slush fund worth almost 3bn...
[February 6, 2004, 10:10]
Dell To Sell PCs At Asian Retail Chains
News At a media briefing in Singapore, Paul-Henri Ferrand, head of operations for Dell in Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan, China and South Korea), declared Dell was in talks with several different partners. Dell, the world's second-largest computer maker...
[July 6, 2007, 8:37]
Mod-chipped Xbox 'can't Play Xbox Live' - Microsoft
News Overall, the online gaming market in Asia Pacific commanded $533m in subscriptions last year, with Korea and Taiwan forming two of the world's largest online gaming markets. Such modified consoles carry hardware signatures that will cause them to...
[November 13, 2003, 9:20]
HP IPaq Takes Crown From Palm In Asia
News The range of products that HP has is very attractive right now, and they have made good inroads into big markets such as South Korea," said Lillian Tay, an analyst with Gartner's Asia-Pacific group. For the first time, Hewlett-Packard has ousted...
[June 6, 2003, 8:54]
Korean Group Plans Slammer Lawsuit
News This heightened data transfer crippled Internet networks worldwide two weeks ago, with Korea bearing the brunt of the damage as Asia's most wired nation. When contacted, a Microsoft Asia-Pacific representative said the company could not comment on...
[February 6, 2003, 14:14]
Oracle Bolsters Asian Marketing Fund
News Recent customer wins have included South Korean steel manufacturer Posco, Hanwha Chemical and Korea Telecom, India's Tata Teleservices and distribution firm Jebsen & Co in China. This year's marketing budget for Oracle's independent software...
[June 17, 2002, 7:32]
Asia Leads The Way In Broadband Growth
News The number of households and businesses worldwide with high-speed DSL Internet connections has hit 26 million -- with South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong leading the way. In a statement, William Rodey, chairman of the DSL Forum, said: "It is exciting...
[August 28, 2002, 9:31]
How Outsourcing Saved One Catering Company
News Language was also a barrier as far as finance reporting and process streamlining in offices in China, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, and South Korea went. Sodexho's director of finance and information systems for Asia-Pacific, Garen Azoyan...
[January 7, 2005, 10:25]
3G Sales To Be Weak 'until 2006'
News Worldwide sales of 3G handsets remain weak, except in Japan and South Korea where 3G services have been available since 2001, according to data released by ARC Group this week. These emerging 3G markets will do well to learn from Japan and South...
[November 12, 2004, 11:30]
Asia's Business Intelligence Market Spells Big Money
News This segment is currently worth $1.2bn, where 43.5 percent comes from Australia and New Zealand, while South East Asia, India and Korea contribute 35.3 percent. Business Intelligence (BI) solutions are hot-sells in Asia's corporate world, a recent...
[July 4, 2002, 7:57]
SAP Gains On Siebel
News In Asia-Pacific, SAP's customers include San Miguel and Unilever in the Philippines, FAW-Volkswagen in China, Jones Lang LaSalle in Australia, and Hankuk Glass Industries in Korea. German software maker SAP is narrowing the gap in its race against...
[July 4, 2002, 8:40]
Tech Exports Take The Lead
News The top markets for US technology goods are Canada, Mexico, Japan, the United Kingdom and South Korea. The AEA study predicts that the Asia-Pacific region will surpass the US and Europe in computer usage by 2005.
[March 13, 2000, 13:51]
Asia-Pacific Wi-Fi Growth Outstrips US
News In March, five firms from Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and China signed the Wireless Broadband Alliance, agreeing to deploy roaming and consolidated billing between their networks. Wireless LAN hot-spot growth in Asia-Pacific is...
[July 17, 2003, 9:32]
Earthquake Knocks Out Asian Communications
News South Korea's KT Corp told Reuters that 27 of its customers had lost their web connection. As well as shaking buildings across Taiwan, the quake damaged a major underwater communications link called the Asia Pacific cable network 2 submarine cable...
[December 27, 2006, 16:09]
Over 70 Percent Of Businesses Are Hacked
News The survey covered Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand, India, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China, with 1,021 organisations interviewed, all of which had over 100 employees and at least a computer network.
[May 27, 2003, 9:09]
BT To Handle Manpower Data
News In Asia-Pacific, BT will deploy the network in 12 countries including Hong Kong, India, Philippines, South Korea and Singapore. Telecom giant BT has signed a deal with employment services firm Manpower to upgrade and manage its worldwide data network.
[May 27, 2004, 11:50]
Red Hat And Oracle Launch Linux Centre
News South Korea, for one, has plans to replace 20 percent of its desktop software and 30 percent of its server software with Linux products by 2007. The $13m (£7.1m) Linux Enterprise Applications Porting (LEAP) Centre, the first-ever joint facility set...
[June 24, 2004, 14:50]
DSL Growth Hits Record High
News South Korea ranks highest in the world, with 27 percent of the country using DSL connections. The world leader is the Asia-Pacific region, the survey found. The number of digital subscriber line (DSL) customers worldwide grew at an unprecedented...
[December 11, 2002, 10:42]
