iTnews Asia Team

Indonesia sets up virtual police to monitor social media discourse

As a first step, the new police unit aims to monitor, educate and prevent the public from potential cyber crime, and will take harsher actions if their advice is not heeded.

Mar 3 2021 8:09AM

DBS makes corporate account opening for SMEs easier

DBS is the first bank to deploy GovTech’s SingPass Face Verification technology to benefit the Singapore business community.

Mar 3 2021 8:08AM

Ground execution of MyDigital blueprint critical for Malaysia’s future success

IDC examines the recently announced measures and analyses the impact on the development of the cloud, 5G and cyber security in Malaysia.

Mar 3 2021 8:03AM

Microsoft establishes first data centre region in Indonesia

As part of its Berdayakan Ekonomi Digital Indonesia initiative, Microsoft aims to advance the country as Southeast Asia’s leading digital economy

Mar 2 2021 9:21AM

Mike Hanley joins GitHub as Chief Security Officer

Hanley aims to work together with the developer community to create programmes valuable to the next round of growth and investment in security.

Mar 2 2021 9:15AM

New India-based hyperscale data centres will be powered by renewable energy

The joint venture between Adani Enterprises and EdgeConneX aims to support the growing online presence of India’s population – to ensure a smooth experience despite the exponential growth in digital consumption

Feb 26 2021 8:39AM

Global AI market continues to scale upward in 2021

Revenues are expected to break the milestone US$500 billion mark by 2024

Feb 26 2021 8:27AM

The top 10 opportunities for technology companies in 2021

Where can technology companies find the most innovation and growth from?

Feb 26 2021 8:27AM

Singapore, Hong Kong and Thailand ranked 1, 2 and 3 for fastest fixed download speeds globally

Competition for the fastest speed is fierce in the three countries, with each swopping places and tussling for leadership every month

Feb 25 2021 9:33AM

Malaysia bets big on digitalisation with ‘MyDigital’ economy blueprint

The 10-year roadmap aims to transform Malaysia into a regional market producer of digital products and services, and for the government to be fully data-driven

Feb 24 2021 12:33PM

Launch of Dell’s Global Innovation Hub a step to helping Singapore ‘emerge stronger’

The GIH will not only focus on advancing digital transformation for augmented/mixed reality, data analytics, cloud-native, cybersecurity, and edge computing, but will also look at creating better user experiences.

Feb 24 2021 10:44AM

COVID-19 breaks tradition and transforms how Sri Lanka’s favourite beverage, tea, is bought and sold

Barred from doing physical auctions, where tea was sold since 1880, and facing the threat of a business closure, brokers, merchants and buyers in the Sri Lankan tea trade turned to Microsoft and the cloud to keep two million workers and a multimillion dollar staple industry alive and humming

Feb 24 2021 10:06AM

High number of Asia-Pacific financial institutions found lax in reporting financial crime

What is worrying is that the bulk of financial institutions in APAC will break laws and incur fines to facilitate transactions, even questionable ones.

Feb 24 2021 9:42AM

IBM and Tech Mahindra aim to elevate partnership into a billion-dollar business in India within three years

The two companies, who have been in a global partnership for more than two decades, will work on five strategic areas: 5G, automation, hybrid cloud, cyber security, data and AI

Feb 23 2021 1:28PM

Japan set to build largest ever data centre in Inzai

This massive 330,000-square-metre facility will be completed by 2030 and be seven times as large as the Tokyo Dome baseball stadium

Feb 23 2021 9:16AM

SAP picks Paul Marriot to spearhead Asia Pacific Japan

Asia’s next decade of growth will be driven by the cloud, says Marriot

Feb 22 2021 12:20PM

Smart Communications brings 5G across all of Metro Manila cities

Smart’s networks currently cover 96 percent of the Philippines population and 95 percent of cities and municipalities

Feb 22 2021 10:09AM

Singtel taking action on data breach to support affected stakeholders

Nearly 130,000 customers’ personal information – including NRIC details – were stolen, with 23 organisations impacted in Singapore

Feb 19 2021 8:52AM

Australian Data Centres engages Oracle to provide sovereign hosted cloud services to government

As a next step, ADC will be sharing their best practices with the government and major telecom providers.

Feb 19 2021 8:45AM

HGC appoints Lee Kwan as Chief Networking Officer

Lee brings over 35 years’ experience in the telecom network and ICT industry to his role

Feb 18 2021 8:57AM