In the vast expanse of Earth’s oceans, startup Saildrone is making waves in autonomous oceanic monitoring. Its nautical data collection technology is setting new standards, from tracking hurricanes up close in the North Atlantic to […]
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M1 launches MEC platform for enterprises
Singapore-based telco M1 has launched the Pinnacle multi-access edge computing (MEC) platform to help businesses embrace digital capabilities such as augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR), live video analytics, and industrial IoT (Internet of Things). […]
Pentera appoints Netpoleon as distributor in Asean/ANZ
Pentera has appointed Netpoleon as distributor for its automated security validated solutions in Asean and Australia and New Zealand. Pentera emulates real-world adversary techniques that allows organisations to test with ease the integrity of all […]
NetApp and DreamWorks Animation extend strategic alliance
NetApp and DreamWorks Animation have renewed their strategic alliance and co-engineering partnership. NetApp will remain DreamWorks’ preferred cloud data services provider, and with the support of NetApp solutions, the studio will continue to evolve its […]
Databricks appoints Asean GM
Databricks has appointed Cecily Ng as Vice President and General Manager for Asean as part of its regional expansion strategy. With 20 years of experience in the technology industry, Ng is responsible for leading and […]
PC shipments dip for 6th consecutive quarter in Q2
Global PC shipments continued to shrink by 13.4 percent year on year, marking the sixth consecutive quarter of decline, according to IDC. The contraction is attributed to macroeconomic headwinds, weak demand from both the consumer […]
FS-ISAC and CSA renew cybersecurity collaboration
FS-ISAC and the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to renew their collaboration on information sharing and participating in cyber exercises in the financial services sector. Cyber criminals […]
Unravel Carbon picks Snowflake for actionable decarbonisation insights
Unravel Carbon has selected the Snowflake Data Cloud to integrate their emissions inventory databases and decarbonisation solutions, and help organisations become more climate conscious. The Singapore-based startup aims to help large and medium-sized companies track […]
IHiS and Microsoft ink MoU on generative AI and cloud collaboration
Integrated Health Information Systems (IHiS) and Microsoft have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to deepen collaboration in generative AI and cloud innovation. They are developing Secure GPT for Healthcare Professionals powered by Azure OpenAI […]
Threads guns for Twitter
The battle between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musl has intensified following Meta’s launch of Threads, which is a direct competition to Twitter. Built by the Instagram team, Threads is eaily accessible using Instagram credentials. Users […]
Tencent Cloud collaborates with Allo Bank on digital banking in Indonesia
Tencent Cloud is collaborating with Indonesia’s Allo Bank to enhance digital banking in the country. With two Internet Data Centres (IDC) in Indonesia since 2021, Tencent Cloud aims to meet the ever-growing business needs in […]
Huawei forges ahead with 5.5G
Huawei will herald a new era in telecommunication with the launch of a complete set of commercial 5.5G network equipment in 2024. The China ICT giant’s concept of a 5.5G Era is based on an […]
Rubrik and Microsoft collaborate on generative AI-powered cyber recovery and remediation
Rubrik is collaborating with Microsoft to integrate Rubrik Security Cloud with Microsoft Sentinel and Azure OpenAI Service to accelerate cyber recovery through the use of generative AI and natural language processing (NLP). This integration will […]
APAC IT spending to grow 4.4% in 2023
IT spending for Asia-Pacific (APAC) is expected to grow by 4.4 percent in 2023, up from 3.8 percent in 2022, according to IDC. Sparking this growth despite the global uncertainties are the reopening of China […]
Hugosave onboards COO
Hugosave has appointed Karl Franks as its Chief Operating Officer responsible for driving Hugosave’s strategic growth initiatives in Singapore and Asia-Pacific. Franks will also oversee the Singapore-based fintech firm’s day-to-day operations and enhance operational effectiveness […]
IBM to buy Apptio
IBM has agreed to acquire financial and operational IT management and optimisation (FinOps) software developer Apptio for US$4.6 billion. The acquisition will advance IBM’s IT automation capabilities and enable enterprise leaders to deliver enhanced business […]
Snowflake and NVIDIA collaborate on generative AI in data cloud
Snowflake and NVIDIA have teamed up to help enterprises create customised generative AI applications using their own proprietary data. Leveraging the NVIDIA NeMo platform for developing large language models (LLMs) and NVIDIA GPU-accelerated computing, Snowflake […]
Xiaomi Ultra 13 offers pro photography with Leica optics
Xiaomi has upped its smartphone offerings once again with the Xiaomi 13 Ultra. Designed in collaboration with Leica, the flagship smartphone comes packed with Leica optics and a quad camera system. The main camera sports […]
Zendesk acquires Tymeshift
Zendesk has completed its acquisition of Tymeshift, an AI-powered modern workforce management (WFM) solution. Built for Zendesk customers, Tymeshift simplifies the management of complex customer experience (CX) workloads. The AI-powered solution helps organisations track agent […]
Generative AI-powered AI@Work improves business efficiency
Workato has announced AI@Work which comes with significant product updates that enable enterprises to adopt AI for automations to drive business efficiency. The new capabilities are seamlessly integrated into the Workato platform and leverage OpenAI […]
Databricks intros Lakehouse Apps
Databricks has introduced Lakehouse Apps for developers to build native, secure applications for Databricks. More than 10,000 Databricks customers can now access a wide range of applications that run entirely inside their Lakehouse instance, using […]
Google Cloud appoints SEA MD
Google Cloud has appointed Mark Micallef as Managing Director of Southeast Asia. Micallef will be responsible for driving regional strategy, direction, team development, and overall revenue performance for Google Cloud and Google Workspace, and working […]
ChatGPT prompts 45% of executives to increase AI investment
ChatGPT has gripped the attention of the world and according to Gartner, has prompted 45 percent of executives in a poll to up their artificial intelligence (AI) investments. In that poll of 2,500 business leaders, […]
PEZA and PLDT Enterprise partner to promote the Philippines’ digital ecosystem
The Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) has formed a strategic partnership with PLDT Enterprise to promote the Philippines’ digital ecosystem and support industries with ICT and connectivity solutions. The agreement aims to highlight the country’s […]
Rubrik names CMO
Rubrik has appointed Andres Botero as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) responsible for driving the company’s go-to-market strategies and growth initiatives. Botero is an enterprise SaaS leader with more than 20 years of experience at cloud […]
SAP to hire 200 AI talents in Singapore
SAP Labs Singapore plans to hire and develop about 200 AI engineers to become one of the company’s key AI Hub and centre of excellence globally. The SAP AI Hub will also employ highly-skilled development […]
Hitachi Vantara and Cisco partner to simplify hybrid cloud management
Hitachi Vantara has joined Cisco’s Service Provider and Solution Technology Integrator (STI) partner programmes. This enables Hitachi Vantara to seamlessly integrate Cisco technologies with its storage products and be a data centre infrastructure and hybrid […]
NTU and Delta establish S$24m lab to advance robotics technologies
Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Delta Electronics have committed to advancing robotics research and development (R&D) with the setting up of the Delta-NTU Corporate Lab for Advanced Robotics. Supported under Singapore’s National Research Foundation’s […]
Equinix to open first data centre in KL
Equinix plans to open its first data centre in Kuala Lumpur in Q1 2024. The move is driven by strong cloud growth and e-commerce adoption, as well as its continued investment in 5G. According to […]
Adobe Illustrator gets generative AI capabilities
Adobe has boosted Illustrator with Adobe Firefly’s Generative Recolor (beta) capabilities, empowering designers to experiment with colours using simple text prompts. The beta release leverages creative generative AI models to automate and iterate previously manual […]
StarHub launches MTD solution for enterprises
StarHub has launched its Mobile Threat Defence (MTD) solution to protect enterprises against the increasing threat of mobile security breaches. Powered by Zimperium MTD’s mobile security platform, the machine learning-based solution shields mobile devices, apps […]
Trellix extends AWS support to improve data security for cloud customers
Trellix has expanded support for Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) security lake to enable simpler and faster delivery of Trellix XDR solutions along with increased protection of workloads, applications, and data for AWS customers. The expanded […]
SoftBank to use NVIDIA’s Grace Hopper superchip for next-gen data centres
The next generation of data centres beckons as NVIDIA and SoftBank collaborate on a pioneering platform for generative AI and 5G/6G applications based on the NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper superchip. SoftBank plans to roll out […]
NVIDIA CEO: Everyone can be a programmer now
By K L Lim The advent of generative AI has brought coding to the masses. At the opening keynote address of Computex, NVIDIA Founder and CEO Jensen Huang pointed out that everyone can be a […]
Alteryx adds generative AI capabilities to cloud platform
Alteryx has introduced the Alteryx AiDIN engine that brings artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and generative AI capabilities to the its cloud platform to accelerate analytics efficiency and productivity. It is combining the power […]
Quantum computing breakthrough improves fuel efficiency of jet engines
NVIDIA, Rolls-Royce and Classiq have achieved a quantum computing breakthrough aimed at improving the efficiency of jet engines. Using NVIDIA’s quantum computing platform, the companies have designed and simulated the world’s largest quantum computing circuit […]
TEP x OIIO ASIA TECHLAND 2023 to showcase future living
Thailand tech event TEP x OIIO ASIA TECHLAND 2023 will be a showcase of innovative solutions on future living. Based on the theme “Bring the Future Living”, the event will be held at Royal Paragon […]
Krenovator lets users create CVs in minutes using AI
Krenovator Technology has inttroduced an AI CV Maker that lets users create a digital curriculum vitae (CV) in just a few minutes with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) in a streamlined four-step process. The […]
Huawei partners to digitise 100 intelligent campuses in APAC
Huawei plans to seize the accelerated digitalisation initiatives in Asia Pacific (APAC) to lead the digital transformation of 100 campuses. Together with its partners, Huawei is targeting commercial real estate, university campus, office campus, and […]
ServiceNow and NVIDIA partner on generative AI for enterprises
ServiceNow and NVIDIA are teaming up to bring generative AI to enterprises. They are developing powerful, enterprise-grade generative AI capabilities that can transform business processes with faster, more intelligent workflow automation. ServiceNow is using NVIDIA […]
Gigabyte to unveil GPU-accelerated and HPC servers at Computex
Riding on the hot generative AI trend, Gigabyte will be unveiling its lineup of GPU-accelerated servers and HPC servers at Computex in Taiwan next fortnight. These systems will accelerate exascale data analysis, deep learning, machine […]
Tablet shipment falls below pre-pandemic levels
Global tablet shipment fell 18 percent year on year in Q1 to below pre-pandemic level in Q1 of 2020, according to Canalys. While shipments are set to hover around pre-pandemic levels in the short term, […]
Affinidi to empower SST students on digital identity management
Affinidi has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the School of Science and Technology, Singapore (SST) to equip their students and teachers with knowledge on data ownership and digital identity management. Under the agreement, […]
SAP and Google Cloud partner on open data and AI for enterprises
SAP and Google Cloud have expanded their partnership by introducing a comprehensive open data offering designed to simplify data landscapes and unleash the power of business data. This offering enables customers to build an end-to-end […]
Singtel rolls out public MEC for enterprises
Singtel is bringing computing to the edge for enterprises. It is rolling out the Azure public multi-access edge compute (MEC) available for all enterprises. This unlocks opportunities to experience the advantages of edge computing and […]
Nutanix reveals cloud to edge management solution
Nutanix has announced the Nutanix Central cloud-delivered solution that provides a single console for visibility, monitoring and management across public cloud, on-premises, hosted or edge infrastructure. The solution will greatly simplify management at a large, […]
Leadtek offers AI test drive to short film contest participants
Participants of Short Film Festival & Asia 2023 are in for a treat. Leadtek is offering test drives for them to to remotely access NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise and an NVIDIA-Certified system from their own computer […]
BT and Five9 to accelerate cloud adoption for contact centres
BT and Five9 are expanding their partnership to enhance the choice of contact centre services and solutions offered to organisations globally. BT will now offer the Five9 Intelligent CX Platform as a managed service to […]
Databricks acquires Okera
Databricks has agreed to acquire Okera, an AI-centric data governance platform that solves data privacy and governance challenges across the spectrum of data and AI. The platform simplifies data visibility and transparency, helping organisations understand […]
Telstra appoints international head
Telstra has appointed Roary Stasko as the new CEO of its international business. Based in San Francisco, Stasko will assume his new role on July 1, taking over from Oliver Camplin-Warner, who will be moving […]
Zowie debuts wireless gaming mouse
Zowie has launched its EC-CW series of wireless mouse that is designed to meet the needs of casual and competitive gamers. Created based on science-based research, the series sports designs that can drastically enhance the […]
SAP to embed IBM Watson AI into solutions
SAP will be embedded IBM Watson technology into SAP solutions to provide new AI-driven insights and automation to help accelerate innovation and create more efficient and effective user experiences. IBM Watson capabilities will power the […]
HPE beefs up cloud-native network management solution
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has released the next generation the HPE Aruba Networking Central cloud-native network management solution to help enterprise IT teams simplify network management processes. The solution will help enterprises tackle the lack […]
NVIDIA open-source software provides guardrails for AI chatbots
Amid the growing interest in generative AI comes the concern for how it can be used to generate responses for nefarious purposes. To mitigate this, NVIDIA has developed NeMo Guardrails, an open-source software that can […]
Palo Alto expands digital forensics and incident response service globally
Palo Alto Networks has expanded its Unit 42 digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) service. The global DFIR service combines the depth of incident response experience with the breadth of AI-powered solutions to equip enterprises […]
Barracuda intros plans to help enterprises secure applications
Barracuda has introduced new Application Protection plans to make it easy for enterprises to protect websites, applications and APIs with comprehensive enterprise-grade protection. The new plans combine Machine Learning (ML)-powered web application, API, DDoS, and […]
Global smartphone market dips 12% in Q1
The global smartphone market continud its downward trend for fifth consecutive quarter, dropping 12 percent year-on-year in Q1, according to Canalys. Samsung snagged the pole position with 22 percent market share, just one percent ahead […]
Asus unwraps 1cm, 1kg ultraportable notebook
At just 1cm thin and weighing 1kg, the Asus Zenbook S 13 OLED (UX5304) is certainly worth considering for the mobile workforce. It sports the Intel Core i7 processor and 16BG of RAM, and has […]
NVIDIA-powered vehicles on show at Auto Shanghai
A number of NVIDIA Drive Hyperion-powered vehicles will make their debut at the International Automobile Industry Exhibition (Auto Shanghai) this week. NVIDIA Drive Hyperion is an end-to-end, modular reference architecture for designing autonomous vehicles (AVs). […]
Google Cloud names Malaysia Country Manager
Google Cloud has appointed Patrick Wee as Country Manager in Malaysia where he will lead local go-to-market operations for Google Cloud and Google Workspace, and collaborate with teams across Google to help companies digitally transform […]
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