Information Technology

Global connection speed increased 23% yoy to 2.1Mbps

And cities in Asia reported the fastest internet connection in the world.

Global connection speed increased 23% yoy to 2.1Mbps

And cities in Asia reported the fastest internet connection in the world.

Asia Pac security market to grow 30% in 2011

IDC expects the market to total US$1.5billion.

Desktop virtualisation poses “significant risk” for CIOs

Virtualisation represents approximately 15% of the business PC market.

Singapore-Israel Industrial R&D Foundation invests $2.8m in four new projects

The projects are expected to generate cumulative revenues of $250m in the first three years of commercialisation.

HP appoints Colin Png as Vice President of Enterprise Marketing in Asia Pacific and Japan

Png will be reporting to Dave Shirk, senior vice president of HP Enterprise Marketing worldwide.

Asia Pac computer shipments grow 9.6% to 30.5m units in Q2 2011

And worldwide PC shipments surpassed 85.2 million units, a 2.3% increase from the same period last year.

Asian companies have ‘head in the sand’ in IPv6 adoption

Most enterprise customers are continuing to resist pressure from the internet and telecoms industry to migrate to IPv6.

High-speed internet subscribers in Asia-Pac to exceed 285m in 2014

Asia-Pacific FTTx will lead this growth and is expected to exceed 129 million subscribers.

Keppel T&T and Jilin Food Zone to put up logistics park

The Jilin Food Zone logistics park project paved way for Keppel T&T to expand its presence in North China.

Government ‘rides the waves of change’ with eGov2015

eGov2015 was developed with inputs from the people, private and public sectors and will guide public agencies in the implementation of new ICT...

IBM Singapore appoints Janet Ang as managing director

Effective immediately, Ms. Ang will be succeeding Teresa Lim who will be taking a leave of absence.

Spam alert: 40% of social network spam comes from Facebook

Symantec says there’s a cyclical pattern of spam between Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

Asia Pac IT spending to grow 11% to $US660b

And public cloud services is growing four times faster than overall spending as it is forecast to reach US$177 billion by 2015.

Singapore hosts workshop on building molecule-sized computer chips

Singapore’s IMRE houses rare R&D tools in the world powerful enough to study single molecule logic gates and surface atom circuit logic gates.