Floods, wildfires and other climate-related disasters have major impact on countries around the world, including several in the Asia-Pacific region. With a little help from AI, the United Nations Satellite Centre (Unosat) hopes to improve […]
Tech titans co-found open programmable infrastructure project
Dell Technologies, F5, Intel, Keysight Technologies, Marvell, NVIDIA and Red Hat are among a growing number of tech companies that are co-founders of The Linux Foundation’s Open Programmable Infrastructure (OPI) Project. OPI aims to foster […]
Newly-formed Metaverse Standards Forum to focus on interoperability
Though still in its infancy, the metaverse has received a boost with the formation of The Metaverse Standards Forum to cooperate on interoperability standards needed to build the open metaverse. Open for free to any […]
Kofax buys Tungsten
Kofax has acquired Tungsten, a global business-to-business e-invoicing network that facilitates and streamlines complex invoice-to-pay processes. Tungsten provides a platform for onboarding of suppliers, PO exchange, invoice processing, e-invoicing, compliance, and payment processing. Through its […]
Huawei introduces Mate Xs 2
Huawei has rolled out its Huawei Mate Xs 2 foldable smartphone that features a new generation double-rotating falcon wing hinge and an elegant unibody design for a flat and seamless fold. Weighing 255g, the new […]
Hyundai to deploy Singtel’s 5G solutions
Hyundai Motor Group (HMG) has inked and agreement with Singtel to deploy Singtel’s 5G infrastructure network solutions at its Hyundai Motor Group Innovation Centre in Singapore (HMGICS). Claimed to be the first of its kind […]
Shifting the DPU paradigm
In October 2020, NVIDIA introduced the DOCA-supported data processing unit (DPU), a data-centre-infrastructure-on-a-chip architecture that enables breakthrough networking, storage and security performance. Australia’s Monash University is one of the early adopters testing the DPU. Entelechy […]
WhatsApp enables Android to iOS migration
WhatsApp is removing a major barrier for switching from Android to iOS. Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in a Facebook post that the messaging platform is adding a new feature that allows secure […]
Neo4j allies with Deloitte on SEA service delivery
Neo4j is teaming up with Deloitte Consulting Southeast Asia on delivering a range of services to customers in Southeast Asia (SEA). Under the agreement, Neo4j will provide product and technical support to Deloitte and eventually […]
Huobi launches Ivy Blocks to grow blockchain ecosystem
Huobi Global has launched its Ivy Block to tap growth opportunities in the DeFi and Web3 space With its multi-billion dollar war chest, Ivy Blocks will focus on identifying and investing in promising blockchain projects. […]
Couchbase adds Google Cloud support for Capella
Couchbase has added Google Cloud support for its Capella Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) offering. This gives customers more flexibility on Capella deployment, improving alignment with applications and supporting hybrid and multi-cloud strategies from a single platform. Capella […]
Vehicle traffic management market to grow to US$4.9b by 2026
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) with all the technological wizardry have been getting the limelight in recent years. But, many of the same technologies applied to AVs are being deployed in vehicle traffic management industry. According to […]
Asus goes omnichannel in Singapore
Asus Singapore has introduced an omnichannel business model where consumers can purchase products from its online store and collect them at their favourite retailers on the same day. Geared towards a new way of shopping, […]
Currencycloud secures ASIC licence
Currencycloud has received the Australian Financial Services’ (AFS) licence to offer its services in Australia. Currencycloud has some fast-growing clients in Australia but had been limited to international payments only. With the licence, its clients […]
Arm race resumes
Qualcomm is eyeing a stake in Arm, according to reports. It plans to bring together a consortium to acquire the UK chip designer. This move comes after NVIDIA’s US$66 billion bid for Arm fell through […]
Gushup acquires OneDirect
Gupshup has acquired the AI-enabled OneDirect omnichannel customer service platform. The addition expands Gushup’s offerings of conversational solutions and enables omnichannel conversational engagement with a powerful and flexible live Agent Assist solution. OneDirect can scale […]
Creston expands portfolio with Flex Phones for Microsoft Teams Display
Crestron Electronics has introduced the Crestron Flex Phones for Microsoft Teams Display, a dedicated conferencing tool for quick access to channels, chats, files, calendars, and other Microsoft Teams features. The latest addition to the Crestron […]
Micron to deploy Singtel 5G solution
Micron Technology will be deploying 5G millimetre wave (mmWave) solutions with localised edge core at its 3D NAND flash memory fabrication plant in Singapore. It will be the first company in Singapore to pilot the […]
Behold a new era of digital twins and virtual worlds
Mention metaverse and different ones may have a different idea of what it is. Is it one big virtual world? Is it a place for people to collaborate online? What can it really do? Perhaps […]
Australia to double AI spending by 2025
Australia’s spending on artificial intelligence (AI) systems will double to US$3.6 billion in 2025, a compounded annual growth rate of 24.4 percent for the period of 2020-25, according to IDC. Organisations will be increasing their […]
Hitachi unveils Lumada Inspection Insights
Hitachi has launched the Lumada Inspection Insights end-to-end portfolio of digital solutions for the inspection, monitoring and optimisation of critical assets. The portfolio enables customers to automate asset inspection, support sustainability goals, improve physical security […]
NVIDIA’s Arm-based Grace chips gather momentum in Taiwan
The momentum is gathering for the NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip and Grace Hopper Superchip. Taiwan’s leading computer makers are set to introduce dozens of server models powered by the Arm-based chips for a wide range […]
AMD CEO reveals desktop and mobile processors at Computex keynote
As a prelude to Computex, which starts tomorrow in Taipei, AMD Chair and CEO Lisa Su has delivered a keynote that touched on the company’s latest processors. She spoke on the upcoming Ryzen 7000 Series […]
Lazada showcases tech show at Plaza Singapura
What goes around comes around. In recent years, consumers have turned to online purchases for convenience, greater choices and sometimes better prices. Lazada is taking its Grand Online Tech Show to a physical pop-up event […]
HP leads India PC market in Q1
HP Inc topped India’s PC market by accounting for more than 1.4 million of the 4.3 million units shipped in Q1, according to IDC. With an overall 33.8 percent PC market, it enjoyed its biggest […]
Aventis makes game-changing move into the metaverse
Singapore-headquartered Aventis Graduate School has unveiled its metaverse roadmap to become Asia’s first graduate school to enter the open metaverse. It’s a game-changing move hailed by industry experts as the metaverse is still fairly new […]
AVG deployments to exceed 150,000 globally by 2027
Worldwide deployment of automated guided vehicles (AVGs) in seaports are expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of more than 26 percent to exceed 150,000 units by 2027, according to ABI Research. […]
Profound opens doors to hidden properties for sale in Australia
Profound is a newly-launched marketplace for off-market Australian properties where buyers can see real estate on offer and contact the agent to arrange for a viewing. An off-market listing is not marketed publicly. It has […]
Pure Storage and Snowflake combine on increasing data accessibility
Pure Storage and Snowflake are partnering to develop a solution that increases data accessibility for global customers with on-premises data. Pure Storage FlashBlade is a dynamic, high performance unified file and object platform purpose-built for […]
Oppo launches Innovation Accelerator initiative
Oppo Research Institute has launched the Innovation Accelerator initiative to empower technology professionals and entrepreneurs to bring innovative solutions to life and help create a better future together. Run in partnership with Microsoft for Startups, […]
BenQ releases X3000i gaming projector
There are projectors and there are gaming projectors. And what’s the difference? Better resolution, brightness and sound quality coupled with less lag can make a projector more suitable for gamers. BenQ has released the X3000i […]
Milestone names APAC VP
Milestone Systems has appointed Malou Toft as Vice President for Asia Pacific (APAC). He will be responsible for the company’s long-term growth strategy in APAC through business expansion, strategic partnerships and customer acquisition. Pandemic nothwithstanding, […]
Tablet and Chromebook market dips in Q1
As the world adjusts to a new normal, so too has the tablet and Chromebook market. According to IDC, worldwide tablet shipments reached 38.4 million units in Q1, a drop of 3.9 percent over the […]
Schaeffler and NTU expand Share lab
Schaeffler and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) are expanding the Schaeffler Hub for Advanced Research at NTU (SHARE at NTU) joint lab to accelerate innovations in future mobility, robotics and Industry 4.0. Researchers from Schaeffler and […]
Baidu secures permits to offer driverless ride-hailing services
Baidu has received the first permits in China to provide driverless ride-hailing services to the public on open roads in Beijing. Marking a significant milestone for the autonomous ride-hailing industry in China, the approval indicates […]
Elon Musk strikes US$44b deal to buy Twitter
Will he or won’t he? That’s probably the hottest question on Twitter amidst talk of a hostile takeover and poison pill plan in recent days. Well, it looks like Elon Musk has done it. He […]
Samsung launches The Freestyle portable entertainment device
Samsung Electronics has launched The Freestyle portable entertainment device that combines projector functionality, smart speaker and ambient lighting. Weighing only 830g, The Freestyle can project on screens from 30- to 100-inch on any surface indoor […]
Equinix expands Singapore data centre to meet rising demand
Equinix has invested US$86 million to expand its SG5 IBX data centre to meet increasing demand for Singapore’s digital infrastructure. As the company’s fifth data centre in Singapore, SG5 IBX is a nine-story facility located […]
PP Telecommunication picks Juniper for new core network
PP Telecommunication (PPTEL) has chosen Juniper Networks to provide solutions for its new core network. The new network will help meet the demand for critical high-speed internet connectivity for consumers and businesses access to richer […]
Tech Data partners with Yugabyte on cloud-native database
Tech Data has formed a partnership with Yugabyte on growing the cloud-native database market in Asia Pacific (including Japan). Transformative trends such as mission critical microservices, cloud apps, edge, and Internet of Things (IoT) applications […]
Singtel and Telkom collaborate on regional data centres and fixed broadband
Singtel and Telkom have signed memoranda of understanding (MOU) to collaborate on regional data centres and a fixed mobile convergence strategy in Indonesia. The Singapore telco is focusing on establishing a data centre platform to […]
75% of organisations to increase edge spending over next 2 years
More and more organisations are bringing computing to the edge. According to an IDC survey, three quarters of respondents plan to increase their edge spending by an average increase of 37 percent over the next […]
Computex returns on site
Computex 2022 will proceed as an onsite edition despite the rising number of COVID-19 cases in Taiwan. The last time the show was held physically in Taipei was in 2019 (photo of tag above). While […]
Aventis teams up with IBM on training management system automation
Aventis Learning Group is working with IBM to enhance its Training Management System (TMS) with IBM Watson Natural Language Understanding hosted on IBM Cloud. This new capability helps Aventis to offer better personalised learning courses […]
Lenovo retains top spot as global PC market slows in Q1
Lenovo held on its pole position in the global PC market in Q1 with 22.7 percent share, a slight drop from 23.7 percent for the corresponding period last year, according to IDC. The rest of […]
NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin raises the bar for AI at the edge
By KL Lim The NVIDIA Orin low-power system-on-chip based has set new records in AI inference in its debut on the MLPerf benchmark. A pre-production version of Ampere architecture-based chip led in five of six […]
Armis appoints research CTO
Armis has appointed Tom Gol as CTO for Research to lead and oversee all threat and vulnerability research, and enhance the Armis platform. Gol has extensive experience leading research and development teams specialising in managing […]
Avaya and Alcatel-Lucent team up on accelerating cloud transformtion
Avaya and Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALE) have formed a strategic partnership that cross-sells Avaya’s OneCloud CCaaS (Contact Centre as a Service) composable solutions and ALE’s digital networking solutions. Avaya OneCloud CCaaS provides advanced AI, identity and […]
Mimecast opens SEA regional office in Singapore
Mimecast has established an office in Singapore as its regional hub for Southeast Asia (SEA). SEA is a strategic growth market to the email security and cyber resilience company. Organisations in the region are experiencing […]
ASUS and StarHub partner on cloud gaming
ASUS and StarHub are teaming up to bring GeForce Now cloud gaming to ASUS laptop users. The partnership will provide gamers with access to a vast library of more than 1,000 games across nearly all […]
DataStax adds real-time data streaming capability to Astra DB
DataStax has introduced a change data capture (CDC) function for its Astra DB multi-cloud database built on Apache Cassandra. Powered by advanced streaming technology built on Apache Pulsar, CDC processes and sends database changes in […]
Zoom brings expanded Zoom Up to APAC partners
Zoom Video Communications has launched its Zoom Up Partner Program that makes it simple for Asia-Pacific partners to transact and grow their business with Zoom. The programme rewards partners for continued investments in Zoom, and […]
MyRepublic promotes Yap Yong Teck to President
Singapore-based telco MyRepublic has promoted Yap Yong Teck from Group Managing Director to President. In his new role, Yap is directly responsible for driving growth, operational efficiency and synergies across the company’s service businesses in […]
NVIDIA launches scientific digital twins platform
NVIDIA has introduced an accelerated digital twins platform for scientific computing comprising the NVIDIA Modulus AI framework for developing physics-ML neural network models, and the NVIDIA Omniverse 3D virtual world simulation platform. The platform can […]
Lucid and BYD pick NVIDIA Drive
Lucid and BYD have chosen NVIDIA Drive for their next-generation of electric vehicles. After going public last year, Lucid rolled out its Lucid Air sedan powered by its DreamDrive Pro advanced driver-assistance system that features […]
NVIDIA launches Arm-based Grace CPU superchip
If there’s any doubt about NVIDIA’s relationship with Arm following the unsuccessful acquisition, the newly-announced NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip provides a clear and resounding answer. Based on Arm Neoverse, the discrete data centre CPU is […]
NVIDIA hops onto next generation of accelerated computing architecture
After Pascal, Volta and Ampere comes Hopper, the next generation of NVIDIA’s accelerated computing architecture. Announced by Founder and CEO Jensen Huang at his GTC keynote this morning, Hopper is expected to deliver a massive […]
Qualcomm and Trimble boost location accuracy for smartphones
Qualcomm Technologies is integrating Trimble RTX GNSS technology to its Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and Snapdragon 888 mobile platforms to enable superior location capabilities in premium Android smartphones. Combining the Trimble RTX technology with premium […]
Accenture launches metaverse business
Accenture has announced the launch of the Accenture Metaverse Continuum business group which will be led by Paul Daugherty, group chief executive – Technology and chief technology officer at Accenture, and David Droga, CEO and […]
StaffAny rolls out workforce management solution for startups
Singapore-based StaffAny has launched Start Up Plan to provide digital HR and operations to startups with up to 25 employees. The workforce management solution is available free for all businesses within their first year of […]
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