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Month: August 2017

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Trai seeks comments on 5G spectrum auction, gets an earful of them

August 29, 2017 John C. Tanner 0

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has issued a consultation paper seeking feedback on plans to auction off a ton of spectrum for 5G usage – but so far the initial feedback from cellcos is Read more…

Expedia chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi
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Expedia chief Khosrowshahi could be Uber’s new CEO

August 29, 2017 News Centre 0

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Expedia chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi is poised to accept Uber Technologies’ offer to become its new CEO, according to an internal memo sent to Expedia staff, putting him in charge of Read more…

smartone
Off the Wire

Ericsson and SmarTone top 800 Mbps in LAA demo

August 29, 2017 News Centre 0

Ericsson and Hong Kong cellco SmarTone have announced a successful trial of Licensed Assisted Access (LAA) technology in a live over-the-air demonstration in Hong Kong. LAA allows the use of unlicensed spectrum in the 5-GHz Read more…

Fitbit Ionic smartwatch
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Fitbit launches Ionic smartwatch, wants its wearables crown back

August 29, 2017 News Centre 0

(Reuters) – Wearable device maker Fitbit on Monday launched its newest device, the Ionic smartwatch, with features ranging from fitness tracking to contactless payment, as it gears up to compete with rivals such as Apple. Read more…

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China may ban ICOs until it finalizes new regulations for them: report

August 29, 2017 News Centre 0

BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese regulators are preparing new regulations on digital coin offerings and may ban them until the rules are in place, the financial magazine Caixin reported on Monday, as interest in the new Read more…

AI race
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How China could end up on the leading edge of the AI race

August 28, 2017 Guest Writer 0

The next global technological race is said to be on artificial intelligence (AI) – a technology widely recognized as one of the most important advancements of our time. It is easy to fall into the Read more…

Jay Y. Lee
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Samsung’s Jay Y. Lee sentenced to five years in jail

August 28, 2017 News Centre 0

SEOUL (Reuters) – The billionaire head of South Korea’s Samsung Group, Jay Y. Lee, was sentenced to five years in jail for bribery on Friday in a watershed for the country’s decades-long economic order dominated Read more…

annoying security
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The fine line between security best practices and annoying your customers

August 28, 2017 Alex Leslie 0

We spend a lot of time talking about cyber security, hacking and malware here at Disruptive.Asia. And so we should – it is one of the issues of our age. Generally we do it from the “something Read more…

Go-Jek
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Rumor: JD.com invests $100 million in Indonesia’s Go-Jek

August 28, 2017 News Centre 0

HONG KONG (Reuters) – JD.com Inc has invested in ride-hailing startup PT Go-Jek Indonesia, in another sign that China’s second-largest e-commerce firm is tapping growth in Southeast Asian mobile-based services, people familiar with the matter Read more…

Off the Wire

Philippines must fight digital piracy with HQ legal alternatives: CASBAA

August 28, 2017 News Centre 0

The Philippines face growing challenges from online video piracy, and the best weapon to combat it is for service providers to provide high quality, convenient and legal content as an alternative. That’s according to an Read more…

shark detection
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Australia to deploy AI drones at beaches for shark detection

August 28, 2017 News Centre 0

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Drones equipped with a shark detection system powered by artificial intelligence will start patrolling some Australian beaches from next month in a bid to improve safety. The battery-powered drones will provide a Read more…

telstra
Off the Wire

Telstra launches the first of several Security Operation Centres

August 28, 2017 News Centre 0

Telstra has launched its Security Operation Centre (SOC) in Sydney, from which the incumbent telco plans to offer a range of services to help government and enterprise customers manage their cyber security. The Sydney SOC Read more…

Off the Wire

New PCCW Global service lets customers reroute their own traffic

August 28, 2017 News Centre 0

PCCW Global has launched Restoration On Demand, a Network-as-a-Service offering that enables its customers to rapidly reroute their connections to an alternate network path in the event of an undersea cable failure, restoring their international Read more…

Grab
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Grab commits $100m for Myanmar over next three years

August 28, 2017 News Centre 0

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Ride-hailing firm Grab, the main Southeast Asian rival of Uber Technologies Inc, said it would commit $100 million over the next three years to deepen its presence in Myanmar, grow to more Read more…

robot
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Robot makers aren’t taking internet security seriously enough: researchers

August 25, 2017 News Centre 0

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Researchers who warned half a dozen robot manufacturers in January about nearly 50 vulnerabilities in their home, business and industrial robots, say only a few of the problems have been addressed. The Read more…

analyst
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The tech industry analyst sector is in need of serious disruption

August 25, 2017 Teresa Cottam 0

Hands up – I’m an analyst. Except I stopped calling myself that a long time ago. Why? Well, apart from the similarity to the word ‘analist’, which does tend to describe our obsession with detail, Read more…

News

Hate speech/fake news syndicate busted in Indonesia

August 25, 2017 News Centre 0

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian authorities have uncovered a group spreading hate speech and fake news online, one of many that they fear could undermine national unity. Indonesia has an ethnically diverse population of 250 million Read more…

wework
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SoftBank’s Vision Fund hands another $3 billion to WeWork

August 25, 2017 News Centre 0

Reuters) – WeWork Cos said on Thursday it received an additional $3 billion investment from Japan’s SoftBank Group and its Vision Fund, helping the shared-office startup ramp up its expansion globally. SoftBank’s investment will be Read more…

malware
Off the Wire

Asia’s emerging markets top global malware encounter charts: Microsoft

August 25, 2017 News Centre 0

Asian countries, especially emerging ones, are most exposed to malware, according to the latest edition of Microsoft’s Security Intelligence Report (SIR). Of the top locations across the globe most at risk of malware infection in Read more…

Off the Wire

Cloudera teams with Tech Data for ASEAN smart city and IoT projects

August 25, 2017 News Centre 0

Cloudera announced that it has forged a strategic partnership with Tech Data to accelerate turnkey smart city and IoT projects across ASEAN. Under the partnership, Tech Data will become Cloudera’s first ASEAN distributor, and will Read more…

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