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Personalization now decides where Singaporeans spend money
As Singapore consumers tighten their wallets, their loyalty will be won by businesses who make personalization part of the customer experience: report Read more…
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OQC sticks a quantum computer in an Equinix data center
Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC) is installing a quantum computer inside an Equinix IBX data center in Tokyo to offer quantum computing as a service (QCaaS). Read more…
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Most Asia businesses plan full cloud migration by 2024
Most Asia businesses will increase their cloud investments this year, and are planning a full cloud migration by 2024, says a new survey from Alibaba Cloud. Read more…
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GSMA has universal open APIs if you want ’em
At MWC 2023, GSMA reveals Open Gateway, a framework of universal network APIs that could finally let developers write one app for all networks. There are demos! Read more…
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Roaming revenue is coming back – time to fix those leaks
Roaming is set to reclaim its role as a mobile cash cow in the next few years. But cellcos also have to plug serious revenue leaks in their roaming processes. Read more…
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5G, cloud and metaverse to make cybersecurity harder in 2023
Cybersecurity will become more challenging in 2023 as 5G and the metaverse proliferate, and as boards continue to take security less seriously than they should. Read more…
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Automation is crucial for enterprise survival in Singapore
Automation is critical in driving productivity and performance for most enterprises in Singapore – and those that don’t automate risk being left behind: report Read more…
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CMOs face a rough ride in 2023 as new challenges abound
CMOs can expect more pressure in 2023 as customer behavior shifts, cross-functional collaboration gets harder and traditional sources of brand value are eroded. Read more…
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Consumers say there are way too many subscription services
Consumers hate juggling so many subscription services, but they’d subscribe to even more of them if there was a single platform to manage them all: survey. Read more…
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EVs may blow up the energy grid if we don’t make it flexible
Households with one EV could consume 37% more daily energy. That’s going to put strain on the grid unless there’s a plan to evolve it as EVs become the norm. Read more…
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BNPL will be huge by 2027 for not-so-good reasons
Deteriorating macro-economic factors may spell rough times ahead for ordinary people, but it will be great for BNPL firms – provided regulators do their job. Read more…
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Asian IP transit is pricey but increasingly competitive
Asia’s IP transit market has grown a lot over the last decade – intra-Asian bandwidth is now three times greater than bandwidth from Asia to the US and Canada. Read more…
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Broadband ARPUs keep shrinking despite revenue growth – why?
Omdia forecasts that global mobile and fixed broadband revenue will keep growing over the next five years, but ARPUs won’t. Here’s what’s going on. Read more…
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APAC firms are being overwhelmed by customer data
APAC firms want to harness customer data to serve them better. Just one problem: customers are generating data at volumes many firms aren’t prepared to handle. Read more…
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Singapore is the most fiber-rich country – why aren’t you?
Singapore remains the most fiber-rich country on the planet. The UK ranks 53rd. The difference? A robust and ambitious broadband plan, says Omdia. Read more…
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Financial inclusion has a big transparency problem
The majority of financial institutions say they’re keen on financial inclusion, but lack of transparency is preventing the unbanked from being included. Read more…
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ETSI releases its first O-RAN spec for open fronthaul
ETSI releases its first O-RAN specification, which focuses on open fronthaul, one of interfaces in the O-RAN Architecture. The O-RAN Alliance is well pleased. Read more…
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XIoT vulnerability disclosures are rising – and that’s good
New research suggests that while IoT security hasn’t improved much, vendors are getting better at disclosing security problems – at least in the XIoT space. Read more…
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NFTs have a future in the metaverse, but it’s still risky
NFTs transactions will keep rising in number over the next five years. But the market remains a risky proposition for anyone who wants to play. Read more…
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Google’s quantum computer skunked by ordinary algorithm
Three years ago, Google’s Sycamore quantum computer solved a problem no ordinary computer could do. Now an ordinary computer has in fact done it. Read more…