Sunday, 5 February 2012
Productive printing practices
Productivity is an important concept that is ingrained in the psyche of every business, big or small, and throughout every facet or division within an organisation.
Asia Pacific CIOs looking for new skills to stay effective
Asia Pacific CIOs want to learn new skills that go beyond technology to better manage the changing demands on their job.
Online auction sites gaining popularity among Hong Kongers
An area that is generated significant interest among Hong Kong Internet users is online auction websites, according to Experian Hitwise, an online competitive intelligence service provider.
Motorola's mobile device addresses growing needs of SMBs
Motorola Solutions, Inc. has announced the new MC2100 series – to deliver industrial mobile computing solutions for retail, manufacturing and supply chain businesses.
Singapore raises quality of service standards for 3G mobile services
The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) is raising the minimum quality of service (QoS) standards for 3G mobile services in phases with effect from 1 April 2012 so that consumers can benefit from better quality of 3G mobile services.
Lenovo to embed Polycom technology in laptops, tablets
Lenovo laptops and tablets will soon come with the Polycom RealPresence HD video and HD Voice technology.
Polycom and Lenovo are ensuring a number of devices – including select laptops in the ThinkPad T, X, L, and W Series – are Polycom-ready, providing certification and assurance that the device will perform optimally with Polycom products.
Popularity of Android smartphones in Hong Kong is a real threat, says Symantec
Industry observers cited 2011 as the year mobile malware emerged as a legitimate threat. What does that mean for 2012?
Singapore Exchange to offer virtual environment services to listed companies
Companies listed in the Singapore Exchange (SGX) will be offered a virtual environment technology developed by InterCall Asia Pacific, a conferencing and collaboration service provider.
Polycom powers video clouds of China Unicom and India's Airtel
Two service providers in the region, China Unicom and India’s Airtel, have created video clouds powered by Polycom’s RealPresence platform.
With the RealPresence platform, China Unicom is able to offer video-as-a-service to more than 10,000 business and government organisations throughout China.
Indian enterprise IT spending will grow 10.3 percent in 2012
Indian enterprise IT spending across all industry markets is forecast to surpass $39 billion in 2012, a 10.3 percent increase from 2011 spending of $36 billion, according to Gartner, Inc.
The growth of IT in India is expected to continue, with an annual increase to exceed this level through to 2015.
G-20’s Internet economy set to reach US$4.2 trillion by 2016
Companies that make extensive use of the Internet—including social media—to sell, market, and interact with their customers and suppliers grow faster than those that do not, according to The Boston Consulting Group (BCG).
Microsoft brings the cloud down to earth for enterprises
In an online broadcast from Microsoft Corp. headquarters, Satya Nadella, president of Microsoft Server and Tools Business, laid out how Microsoft’s private cloud solution will help Asian businesses move faster, save money and better compete in 2012.
Avaya IP Office 8.0 optimizes team performance for SMBs
Avaya has unveiled Avaya IP Office 8.0—the new version of the company’s unified communications (UC) solution for small and mid-size enterprises (SME). The new version introduces a range of advancements for improving collaboration, including a comprehensive set of mobile capabilities that drive better team perf
Mobile and online shopping skyrockets in Hong Kong
Christmas 2011 was a busy period for mobile and online shopping as Hong Kong people turned to their PCs, laptops, tablets and smartphones to purchase holiday gifts, helping realize PayPal’s earlier forecast for the Hong Kong online shopping market to reach US$2.5 billion by 2015.
Japan's SMBs lead ICT adoption in Asia
For the first time, AMI-Partners releases its Business ICT Adoption (BIA) Index to measure the ICT adoption levels of small and medium businesses (SMBs, companies with less than 1000 employees) around the world.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 offers power user portal
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 is now available, with significantly expanded capabilities for both its server and desktop virtualization management tools and its Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor.
Businesses admit mobile devices have increased security incidents
The number of personal mobile devices connecting to the corporate network has more than doubled in the past two years - with nearly half of devices storing sensitive data, finds a new report by Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
The report, The Impact of Mobile Devices on Information Security, shows 7
