Information Technology

Why Singaporeans are slow to switch to fibre broadband

Usage is creeping up for this high-speed internet service but many know little of its practical benefits. Read ››

An Asiatravel.com director retires

Khoo Ho Tong had been an Audit Committee Chairman and member of the Nominating and Remuneration Committee. Read ››

What's up with business analytics and business intelligence?

As the Dragon year commences, Singapore has awakened to the roar of Business Analytics. Read ››

Cisco appoints Joshua Soh as Managing Director for Singapore and Brunei

Joshua brings 16 years of experience managing the partner ecosystem and building key customer relationships across Singapore and ASEAN. Read ››

Webvisions appoints Poh Mui Hoon as Group CEO

Her new role will take effect from January 1. As part of her new role, Ms Poh will drive Webvisions business strategy across Asia by leveraging upon and pooling the strengths of the group’s network of offices in Asia Pacific. Read ››

Infor Global Solutions: Revolutionizing business application software

Infor is the third largest business application software company with operations serving more than 70,000 customers. Read ››

How do you respond to online bashing?

In the Era of Social Media, organizations will inevitability find their names mentioned in some blog or internet forum. Read ››

Was Andy Warhol right about his fifteen minutes?

Do you think Andy Warhol’s “fifteen minutes” opinion is still valid in this day and age? Read ››

Will Singapore’s technology sector crash in 2012?

2011 has been a hard year for the industry and it seems like things won’t get any better soon. Read ››

Hitachi's new Singapore subsidiary to lead regional operations

It will lead other Southeast Asian subsidiaries in an overhauled management structure. Read ››

Epidemic news a ruse for e-mail attacks

Use spam filter to screen this particular e-mail from business and personal inboxes. Read ››

Singaporeans clueless about nation's critical infrastructure

Majority do not know government programs, or if they do, care little about it. Read ››

Is your business prepared for a disaster?

If not, then you’re among the 40% of Singapore firms that do not have an IT disaster recovery plan to ensure systems are up and running within 24 hours. Read ››

HP appoints Ruma Balasubramanian as Vice President of Enterprise Services in Asia

Balasubramanian will report to David Caspari, senior vice president, Enterprise Services, HP Asia Pacific & Japan. Read ››

60% of Singaporean entrepreneurs confused about starting a company

Good thing Futurebooks is launching an iPhone app to help them setup a company in Singapore. Read ››

72% of companies worldwide at risk from threats to information security

That's why more than half of these companies plan to increase their information security budgets in the coming 12 months. Read ››

S I2I appoints Kunal Ahooja as Global Head – Devices

His extensive experience puts hum at the helm of the devices division. Read ››

Akamai appoints Frederic Moraillon as marketing VP for Asia Pacific Japan

He will be reporting to Sanjay Singh, Vice President for Asia Pacific Japan . Read ››

ECS Holdings’ revenue jumps 33.8% to S$991.7m in 3Q11

However, its profit dipped 33.7% to S$9.1m as its Enterprise Systems and IT Services plunged 26.9%. Read ››

Thailand floods to take its toll on worldwide PC shipments through H1 2012

Techies might need to brace for significant hard disk drive shortages by mid-November 2011 that will continue into 1Q 2012. Read ››

Hey, marketers: “Stay the hell away from my social networks”

A survey revealed that 43% of Singapore consumers don’t want to engage with brands via social media. Read ››

Asia Pac digital games market set to be worth $30b in 2016

Digital gamers must be multiplying really fast. According to a release by Ovum, the Asia-Pacific digital games market will more than double over the next five years to be worth over $30 billion in 2016. Read ››

Digital Realty names Adil Attlassy as Vice President Technology for the Asia Pacific

Shaun Woodhouse also appointed as Sales Director for Singapore. Digital Realty Trust, Inc., a global provider of data centre solutions, announced Monday that Adil Attlassy has been appointed Vice President, Technology and will be based in the Company’s Asia-Pacific regional headquarters in Singapore. In this role, Mr. Read ››

Sophos appoints Gerhard Eschelbeck as chief technology officer and senior VP

Eschelbeck will lead the company’s technology strategy, driving product direction and innovation for the world leader in security for businesses. Read ››

Worldwide enterprise IT spending to reach an amazing $2.7t in 2012

This year alone, 350 companies will each be investing more than $1 billion in IT. Read ››

Avnet Technology Solutions appoints William Chu as Asia Pacific president

Chu brings with him more than 21 years experience in the IT industry. Read ››

CA Technologies appoints Victor Cheng as vice president for South Asia

Victor reports directly to Lionel Lim, president of CA Technologies Asia Pacific. Read ››

Distribution Central appoints Ned Speed to lead ASEAN sales team

Ned Speed will deal with Singapore as the initial focus market. Read ››

Worldwide PC shipments up 3.2% to 91.8m units

Guess which vendor grew faster than the industry average with a market share of 17.7%? Read ››

IBM kicks off Institute for Advanced Security in Asia-Pacific

Institute to foster collaboration to combat growing security threats in region. Read ››

Public cloud services market in Asia Pac to amount a whopping US$12b in 2016

And the market is expected to reach US$2.89b by the end of 2011. Read ››

Singapore hailed as most competitive IT market in Asia Pac

The country also clinched third place in global IT competitiveness. Read ››

Azeus Systems’ Chief Operating Officer quits

Louis Chong Hing Fai to resign his post on 30 November. Read ››

High-tech sector to boost manufacturing IT spending in 2011

Singapore’s spending is forecast to grown from US$ 885 to US$ 1053m by 2015. Read ››

CNA secures S$18.6mn deals in three countries

The group inked contract by Singapore’s LTA, in Vietnam, and in China. Read ››

61% of Internet users in Southeast Asia to get access via mobile phones

And one third intend to access the Internet via other handheld multimedia devices within the next 12 months. Read ››

75% of Singapore companies to outsource IT infrastructure by 2021

And over half of the country’s IT leaders will choose to move their infrastructure to the cloud. Read ››

Sembcorp to co-develop innovation park in China

The 1,000-hectare Singapore-Sichuan Hi-tech Innovation Park will be located in the Chengdu Hi-tech Zone’s south park . Read ››

VISA and I2R beef up security of e-commerce payments

New tool to use advanced transactional data analysis and digital forensics to provide an extra layer of security for online transactions. Read ››

Asia Pac security software market to reach $4b revenues in 2015

That is a compound annual growth rate of 10% from the $2.49 billion it hit in 2010. Read ››