Engineering company Atkins has appointed John Drever as innovation director in its communications business.

Following reports about U.S. surveillance worldwide, a United Nations panel adopted Tuesday a resolution on potential threats to human rights such as the right to privacy in the digital age.

CIOs need to get their house in order before they get a seat at the top table, a panel of finance executives said.

Mike Lynch, founder of the Autonomy software business that was sold to HP for $11 billion (£6 billion) in October 2011, has invested an undisclosed sum in a new augmented reality app, called Taggar.

Management software and solutions vendor, Veeam, has reported that Cloud Provider (VCP) program has experienced a year-over-year (YoY) growth rate of more than 100 per cent in Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ).

Hewlett Packard (HP) has launched a number of new server and storage products that it believes will help organisations meet future data centre demands by enabling them to simplify their systems and speed up deployments.

The ApeosPort-V C and DocuCentre-V C series offer environmentally-conscious, intelligent printing, said Sunil Gupta, President, Malaysia Operations, Fuji Xerox Asia Pacific.

Home appliances, cars and computers could soon be talking to one another thanks to an open source framework that has the backing of consumer electronics manufacturers in a new industry alliance.

China will be responsible for the lion's share of growth in the Asia Pacific markets which, combined, will reach some $854 billion by 2018.