NEW YORK (Reuters) – Traffic lights don’t just work for drivers, some bank customers obey them on their smartphones too. A transaction-tracking app using red, yellow and green messages to warn account holders when they are Read more…
Australians are consuming digital content – especially video – at record levels, which is driving significant shifts in everything from mobile device usage and services to infrastructure and content delivery. So says the Australian Communications Read more…
MUMBAI (Reuters) – In late September, a woman in National City, California, received a voice message on her phone saying she was in trouble with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) over “tax evasion or tax Read more…
YANGON (Reuters) – More than 500 companies list among their suppliers Chinese-controlled firms that indirectly buy tin ore from a mine operated by an ethnic armed group in Myanmar, a Reuters examination of the supply Read more…
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Digital payments providers in India have mobilized hundreds of extra workers to enroll small merchants and offered their services for free, betting that severe cash shortages will prove to be the Read more…
ITEM: When the Economist Intelligence Unit put Singapore at the top of its first Asian Digital Transformation Index, one angle it didn’t factor in was its smart-city initiatives – at least not specifically. The index Read more…
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) released its very first index rating the digital transformation readiness of APAC countries on Tuesday – and Singapore is at the top of it, thanks largely to its advanced digital Read more…
Earlier this month, Australia-based cloud exchange provider Megaport partnered with Digital Realty to launch the Service Exchange cloud interconnection platform, with Megaport providing its SDN-based Ethernet fabric “on-ramps” to cloud providers worldwide – even the ones that Read more…
WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Alphabet’s Google faces a tougher regulatory landscape as US President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration looks poised to reverse Obama administration policies that often favored the internet giant in the company’s battles Read more…
Asia’s economies are set to benefit significantly from the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) in terms of competitiveness, but many believe the adoption of AI and robotics will result in substantial job losses in Asia Read more…
More than half of technology professionals in APAC believe a significant part of their job will be automated within ten years, rendering their current skills redundant, according to the Harvey Nash Technology Survey 2017. The Read more…
SINGAPORE/TAIPEI (Reuters) – Recent cyber attacks harnessing everyday devices such as cameras, video recorders, printers, routers and speakers are a wake-up call to the hidden security risks of the Internet of Things. The problem for the Read more…
Mobile video and on-demand TV viewing have soared over the past seven years, but content discovery remains a perennial frustration for consumers. Those are the key findings from Ericsson’s seventh annual ConsumerLab TV & Media Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – After Facebook’s removal of an iconic Vietnam war photo stirred an international uproar last month, the social network’s executives quickly backtracked and cleared its publication. But the image – showing a naked Read more…
JAKARTA/HONG KONG (Reuters) – Chinese smart phone company Oppo doesn’t believe in subtle marketing. It has built a massive network of 320,000 retail outlets across China and other parts of Asia, its sales representatives earn Read more…
ZURICH (Reuters) – When people take to Twitter to comment on the great evening they enjoyed with good food and wonderful friends, reducing their monthly insurance bill is probably the last thing on their mind. Read more…
Ahead of the upcoming World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly in Hammamet, Tunisia, 25 October to 3 November (an ITU governing conference held every four years for ITU members to refine the strategic direction and structure of Read more…
SEOUL (Reuters) – Heated meetings, sacrificed holidays and teams monitoring social media round-the-clock to track whether there have been any new smartphone fires: Samsung Electronics is still desperately trying to limit the damage of a Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information provided by US intelligence officials, according to people familiar with Read more…
Major companies are keen to embrace digital transformation, but are finding it a hard slog because they’re saddled with clunky and uncooperative legacy IT systems and infrastructures. That’s according to a new research report from Read more…
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