Location Based Services (LBS) in Asia Pacific (AP) are set to see a spike from 11% in 2007 to 27% in 2013 says an ABI Research report. Within the same period, a similar rise can be expected in Western and Eastern Europe...

Hewlett Packard Singapore (HP) has teamed up with one of the nation’s tertiary institutions Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) to establish Asia’s first “green” information and communication technology (ICT) solutions center...

Microsoft Corp. will today officially stop selling Windows XP, the operating system (OS) that animates millions of personal computers around the world. However this is hardly great news to the masses that are resisting forced migration to XP’s successor, Vista...

Nokia said Monday it is to acquire Plazes a social-activity service provider. The deal will see the communications colossus gain access to Plazes context-aware social activity service that consumers use to plan, record and share their activities...

Huawei Technologies confidently stated last week that it expects its sales contracts in Asia Pacific (AP) excluding China to reach USD 3.9 billion by the end of this year. The Taiwan based telecommunications network provider...

China and Thailand have been identified as two key markets showing growing interest in location-based services (LBS) and GPS navigation offerings on their mobile phones. A study conducted by market research firm Profacts...

Internet behemoth Yahoo said Tuesday that it has entered into strategic mobile advertising partnerships with Maxis Communications Berhard in Malaysia and Idea Cellluar in India. The deal will see both mobile operators carry a variety of graphical advertisements, sold and served by Yahoo...

CommunicAsia 2008 and BroadcastAsia 2008, Asia’s largest ICT (Information and Communication Technology) event kick started its annual week-long conference today in Singapore, serving as a global platform for networking and...

Avaya officially unveiled its first finished goods distribution center for Asia Pacific (AP) in Singapore last Thursday. The new facility, which is part of Avaya’s supply chain management strategy for AP, will be tasked with consolidating and shipping software...

Wireless broadband in all its forms---fixed, portable, and mobile--gives operators a way to grow revenues as voice revenue growth slows, reports In-Stat. Based on survey data collected by the high-tech market research firm...

Speculation about what Apple's new iPhone will look like is over. The widely anticipated 3G iPhone was the centerpiece of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference Monday in San Francisco - it is thinner, faster, more open, location aware and even less expensive...

At the GSM Association (GSMA) Mobile Innovation Marketplace Tuesday Microsoft Corp. announced the Connected Services Accelerator Program, a series of projects designed to incubate, and ultimately commercialize, new types of consumer...

The recent raft of announcements made by the LiMo Foundation and the Open Handset Alliance indicate that incumbent smartphone OS software vendors will soon face a serious challenge, deriving from two technically competent and coalesced Linux consortia...

Hewlett Packard (HP), last week made headlines when it took the wraps off what it claims to be “the world’s first” two-in-one server blade designed to offer scale-out customers improved data center performance, reduced space...

With just about everything going mobile these days, Cisco has set in motion, its new vision for business mobility that aims to deliver solutions that integrate devices, applications, security and disparate networks into a unified platform...

As categories of mobile devices converge, there are four primary types of productivity tools-the ultra-mobile PC (UMPC), the mobile Internet device (MID), smartphones, and smartphones with mobile companions..

Mobile social networks are quite popular with the Millennial generation, just as social networking is says high tech market research firm In-Stat.In fact, Web 2.0 tools such as blogging, photo and video sharing...

Business networking site LinkedIn has been identified as the latest watering hole for online criminals looking to try and lay traps for unwary business workers. According to security company Sophos...

The market for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is expected to reach 9.7 billion by 2013. According to ABI Research the RFID business has been forecasted to grow...

Nearly 74% of U.S. consumers agree that mobile phone usage on airplanes should be restricted to only silent features according to a new Yahoo survey. The study commissioned by Yahoo! Inc. and conducted by Harris Interactive clearly...