iTnews Asia Team

Cyber attacks in APAC continue to keep going up

In May 2021, cyber attacks grew by another 53% between April and May 2021, with Japan seeing the highest rise at 40%.

Jun 4 2021 10:34AM

How to bridge the urban-rural broadband gap when 5G takes off

Addressing the digital divide in the Asia-Pacific region, Huawei offers policy recommendations on how to ensure a sustainable digital development as 5G starts taking off.

Jun 4 2021 8:09AM

Alibaba Cloud gets the data protection nod in three areas from IMDA in Singapore

The validation enables Alibaba Cloud to be a responsible stewardship of information and strengthen Singapore’s role as a trusted business and digital hub.

Jun 4 2021 8:06AM

Chema Aramburu joins Infor as Executive Vice President and General Manager for Asia Pacific and Japan

Aramburu brings with him 20 years experience in IT and cloud operations.

Jun 3 2021 3:59PM

AWS helps Siam Commercial Bank support thousands of small food vendors in Bangkok

A food delivery app built on AWS, Robinhood is part of a corporate social responsibility initiative of the Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) Group.

Jun 3 2021 8:03AM

Japan’s Suntory Beverage & Food improves factory management with IoT platform

Working with Hitachi, Suntory plans to utilise and evaluate a next-generation factory model and plans to expand this model to its other factories.

Jun 2 2021 8:21AM

Pandemic increasing adoption of new payment methods in APAC

When it comes to payments, 94% of consumers are considering using emerging payment methods. In APAC, this rapid uptake on the use of QR codes, digital wallets, and cryptocurrencies exceeds the global average of 93%.

Jun 2 2021 8:11AM

Global chip shortage could last several years, says Intel CEO

Intel plans to up its advanced chip capacity to compete against TSMC and Samsung.

Jun 1 2021 8:34AM

Philippines Smart Communications rolls 5G across 3,000 sites

The plan is to more than double 5G installations to 7,000 sites by end 2021.

Jun 1 2021 8:29AM

Hackers emboldened and becoming more opportunistic

In this COVID-19 climate, NTT Global Threat Intelligence Report reveals a spike in application attacks, accounting for 67% of all attacks as remote-access becomes a common vulnerability.

May 31 2021 12:35PM

Boomi brings in Seetoh as its General Manager for Asia

Seetoh has three decades of experience, holding leadership positions in ASEAN and international companies.

May 31 2021 12:27PM

New senior appointments to strengthen Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group’s APAC leadership team

‘Our organisation has revitalised under a new banner as Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group to demonstrate that our business reach goes far beyond the data centre,’ says President of Lenovo ISG.

May 28 2021 8:41AM

iCHEF partners with GrabFood and Xero to help F&B businesses emerge stronger

Businesses can see up to a tenfold increase in time efficiency when managing orders on the iCHEF platform.

May 28 2021 8:36AM

ST Telemedia signs JV with Triputra and Temasek in Indonesia expansion

Indonesia’s digital economy is projected to be worth US$124 billion by 2025, while the economy will become the world’s 4th largest by 2050.

May 28 2021 8:17AM

Japan’s Marutomi Seishi develops ultra-long coreless toilet paper

The new patent-pending innovation allows each roll of paper to be 300 metres or 980 feet in length when unfurled – three times the height of the Statue of Liberty in New York!

May 27 2021 7:51AM

UnionBank first bank in Philippines to go fully on the cloud

The bank expects to generate savings of over 30% over five years and get a positive return on its investments within 18 months.

May 25 2021 8:21AM

Amplitude strengthens data management capabilities with Iteratively

Acquiring Iteratively will boost Amplitudes data management offering with high quality data.

May 25 2021 8:16AM

Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team able to remain fast and nimble with insights from Pure Storage

Even with a voluminous 3 pentabytes of data, one storage administrator is enough to help manage the data.

May 25 2021 8:14AM

Singapore workers bogged down by repetitive tasks and want more automation

Survey respondents also want to do more fulfilling work, say UiPath workforce survey.

May 24 2021 10:12AM

Verizon names Eric Spadafora as VP and General Manager for BlueJeans

Spadafora is responsible for driving innovation, growth and revenue for Verizon’s Advanced Communications portfolio.

May 24 2021 10:11AM