Information Technology
Worldwide mobile connections up 11% to 5.6b in 2011
Worldwide mobile connections up 11% to 5.6b in 2011
Mobile data services revenue will total $314.7 billion in 2011, up 22.5% from last year's $257 billion.
Worldwide PC microprocessor revenues down 5.4% to $9.49b
Unit shipments also declined 2.9% in Q2 2011 compared to same time last year.
Singapore’s security market to total S$67.8m in 2011
Gartner expects the market to grow by 3.3% this year.
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.
Asia Pac PC market grew 13% to 30.1m units in Q2 2011
Guess which country propelled this growth?
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.
Two-thirds of over 50s don’t go online in Singapore
The connected granny is just a myth.
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.
Hello sunshine: StarHub launches Singapore’s first solar-charging mobile phone
SOLO's standby time can last for up to 200 hours.
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.