Tough times ahead for smaller cloud players in Asia
IDC predicts more competition due to slashing of prices by major Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) in the region.
Mt. Gox has filed for liquidation in Japan, says report
A long, convoluted road lies ahead for what was once the world's largest exchange for Bitcoin.
LinkedIn tackles China with a startup approach
China has been a tough market for U.S. Internet companies to crack, but LinkedIn has high hopes it can buck the trend and increase its user base in the country to as high as 50 million over the next five years.
Lenovo leads world PC market with rapid growth: Gartner
Gartner estimates that Lenovo EMEA shipments will grow 35.6 per cent in the first quarter.
Chinese Bitcoin exchange readies fallback plans amid crackdown worries
Chinese Bitcoin exchanges have been on alert since media reports emerged claiming that China is readying another crackdown on the virtual currency
Hong Kong ICT Awards 2014 announced
MTR’s Integrated System for Engineering Works Management wins best business solution grand award
WGSN INstock helps Hong Kong’s fashion retailers make better buying decisions
The market analytics solution provides instant in-market intelligence.
Can we talk? Internet of Things vendors face a communications 'mess'
Vendors will tell you that the Internet of Things (IoT) has arrived. We're here to tell you that it hasn't.
Tata revenue, profit up on strong outsourcing demand
India's largest outsourcer, Tata Consultancy Services, is boosting hiring and offering wage hikes after reporting strong revenue and profit growth in its recently concluded fiscal year.
TCS gives social insights in the Indian elections
Launches a gamified app on the Android platform to analyze social conversations.
TripAdvisor reaches 100 million downloads milestone
TripAdvisor is now the world’s most popular app: Distimo
CoreOne Technologies extends its services in AP via Equinix
CoreOne Technologies does so by deploying in one of Equinix’s IBX data centres in Singapore.
Big data drives 47% growth for top 50 public cloud companies
Public cloud is a US$15.1 billion quarterly market, according to TBRI
As pings go silent, Robotic sub joins search for Malaysian jet
Autonomous underwater Bluefin-21 dives this morning into hunt for missing Flight 370.
Motorola’s Enterprise Business sold for US$3.45 Billion to Zebra Technologies
The US-headquartered RFID and real-time location solutions company acquires Motorola’s Enterprise Business in an all-cash transaction
Samsung relaunches Knox 2.0
Mixed views on the market potential of the product.
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How a cyber cop patrols the underworld of e-commerce
Payza 'cyber cop' Melissa Andrews tracks good, bad and ugly websites with the mission of shutting down criminal operations.
Federal CIOs moving cybersecurity beyond compliance
The evolving nature of cyberattacks demands a more dynamic response, according to government CIOs making an effort to implement real-time, continuous monitoring and reporting for security issues.
CIOs and procurement pros partner on cloud services
Cloud services can help CIOs free themselves from worrying about managing data centers, scaling capacity, configuring servers, applying security patches and other routine maintenance so they can focus on providing insight to improve the business.
U.S. commercial drone industry struggles to take off
The U.S. commercial drone industry is still struggling to get off the ground more than two years after President Obama signed into law a bill that permits the civilian use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) over the country's airspace.
India's Infosys posts strong revenue, profit growth
The outsourcer brought back its first CEO to help revive the company.
Shortage of project managers sends businesses scrambling
When it comes to project management, many organisations find themselves understaffed and that's putting them at a competitive disadvantage, according to a study by ESI International.
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Ask the iTunes Guy: Glitchy tracks, numbers game, and too-large libraries
You know the one where you get a track from iTunes Match and it's not perfect? How about the one where you've just got too much stuff in your iTunes library and it slows iTunes down to a crawl? Or that thing where there are numbers at the beginnings of track names and you'd really like to get rid of them? Well, read on to find out how to fix these problems.
Hands-on: Eyefi Cloud offers unlimited photo storage through a Wi-Fi SD card
Wireless storage card maker Eyefi (formerly Eye-Fi) unveiled Eyefi Cloud, an unlimited photo storage service, on Thursday morning. The service, which will cost $49 per year, receives photos captured by a camera to Eyefi's own Wi-Fi enabled SD card. The card uploads them to the cloud using a paired, Internet-connected smartphone or tablet as the conduit.
Major Scottish data centre to rely on renewable energy
Plans to build a data centre which relies solely on renewable energy have been submitted to Scottish authorities, as part of a major £40 million project.
Canon Pixma Pro-10: Professional-quality photo prints, right on your desk
The Canon Pixma Pro-10 is a printer aimed at professionals and dedicated enthusiasts who value beautiful photographic prints and want to make them themselves. Sending your prints out to a pro lab will probably cost less and give you more options (like very large prints). But doing it yourself is much more satisfying. It can even produce better results, especially if you're using a printer like the Pro-10.
Blame Heartbleed: HealthCare.gov requires users to change their passwords
If you have an account with HealthCare.gov, you can expect to change your password the next time you log in. And you can thank Heartbleed for it.
Samsung hints at ads and premium subscriptions for Galaxy-centric Milk Music
Samsung's Milk Music may become more than just a sweet deal for Galaxy phone users, as the company looks to monetize its streaming music service with ads and paid subscriptions.
Nokia doesn't want you to get shocked, suspends tablet sales because of faulty charger
Nokia has temporarily halted sales of the Lumia 2520 in seven countries, because the tablet's AC-300 charger can give users an electric shock.
LaCie compromised for over a year
I guess there is truth in the saying that the devil is in the details. If anyone ever tries to tell you that their product or service is 100% secure you have my permission to smack them with a large fish (not an actual permission slip). That being said, it is good to tackle the issues straight on when you've been hacked. In this case the storage manufacturer LaCie was breached by a nefarious third party who managed to set up shop on their internal network well over a year ago.
Meet the most profitable PC company you've never heard of
Dell's Original Equipment Manufacturer division makes custom PCs for companies in a variety of industries. It also makes money. With sales of plain ol' out-of-the-box machines on the decline, this might point to the future of the PC.
Netcraft tool flags websites affected by Heartbleed
Worried about how the Heartbleed vulnerability may affect your personal accounts? A new tool may be of help.
Dropbox weaves cloud photo service Loom into Carousel
Another cloud photo service vanishes into acquisition-land: Loom announced on Thursday that it's joining forces with Dropbox, presumably to beef up the storage company's newly launched Carousel app and other photographic features.
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Big data, big dilemmas
Isn’t this the truth? ‘Because sometimes things happen to people and they’re not equipped to deal with them’.
Blurred Lines -- Living on the Edge of Digital and Physical Worlds
The “cyber physical” is changing the way we experience everyday life.
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