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• China is growth engine for mobile data traffic

  Aaron Tan - TechTarget 28 Nov 2018

Being the world’s largest mobile market, China has unsurprisingly topped the charts when it comes to the growth in mobile data traffic. According to the latest figures from Ericsson, mobile data ...

• The Asian tech century

  Aaron Tan - TechTarget 02 Nov 2018

At IDC's annual FutureScapes event this week, the APAC group vice-president of the technology analyst firm, Sandra Ng, took a shot at predicting the technology trends that will shape the things to ...

• Singapore CIOs weigh in on digital transformation

  Aaron Tan - TechTarget 18 Oct 2018

Earlier this week, all members of Computer Weekly’s APAC CIO advisory panel gathered for the first time to share their thoughts on digital transformation and what the overused term means to them. ...

• Taming the flow monster in real-time payments

  Aaron Tan - TechTarget 10 Oct 2018

This is a guest post by Bhupendra Warathe, chief information officer for corporate and institutional Banking, information technology and operations at Standard Chartered Bank As the world adopts ...

• Farm tech startup to use SAP S/4 Hana for digital core

  Aaron Tan - TechTarget 04 Oct 2018

A Singapore startup that has developed a blockchain-based platform to connect farmers with global markets has turned to SAP’s S/4 Hana Public Cloud for its digital core. Called CrowdFarmX, the ...

• It’s time to redefine shadow IT

  Aaron Tan - TechTarget 28 Sep 2018

Among the findings of the Committee of Inquiry (COI) that looked into the massive SingHealth data breach was the startling fact that a non-IT staff was tasked with managing the server which was ...

• Fighting dengue fever with AI

  Aaron Tan - TechTarget 20 Sep 2018

Singapore’s National Environmental Agency (NEA) is roping in Alphabet life sciences research outfit Verily’s technology to separate male mosquitoes from female ones in an ongoing project to tackle ...

• Fixing “bad code” isn’t always a bad thing

  Aaron Tan - TechTarget 14 Sep 2018

A study commissioned by Stripe has revealed that the Singapore economy has the potential to grow by S$1.6bn each year, if companies harness developer resources more effectively. Conducted by ...

• An inside look at Alibaba’s deep learning processor

  Aaron Tan - TechTarget 29 Aug 2018

From Huawei’s Kirin 970 system-on-chip (SoC) that packs in a neural processing unit to Google’s new Edge TPU that performs machine learning tasks on IoT devices, the use of dedicated chips to speed ...

• Australian e-commerce company shrugs off US behemoths with cloud move

  Aaron Tan - TechTarget 17 Aug 2018

Australia's eCorner has signed a deal with Macquarie Cloud Services to help it use public cloud services to fend off growing competition from larger US providers. The Sydney-based e-commerce ...

• Who should bear responsibility in cyber attacks on healthcare IT systems?

  Aaron Tan - TechTarget 02 Aug 2018

On 20 July, the Singapore government revealed that the non-medical personal details of about 1.5 million patients who had visited SingHealth’s specialist outpatient clinics and polyclinics between ...

• App users in developing APAC prefer convenience over security

  Aaron Tan - TechTarget 26 Jul 2018

By Kimberly Chua Mobile app users in developing Asia-Pacific (APAC) countries prefer convenience over security, signaling a potential rift between companies and users, a new F5 Networks study has ...

• New blockchain network to ease pan-Asian trade

  Aaron Tan - TechTarget 20 Jul 2018

Singapore-based Global eTrade Services (Gets) has launched an open trade blockchain (OTB) network to boost cross-border trade between China and the rest of Asia. Aligned with China’s Belt Road ...

• How APAC airlines are harnessing the IoT

  Aaron Tan - TechTarget 06 Jul 2018

By Kimberly Chua In recent years, airlines have been able to trying to lower operating costs by taking advantage of internet-of-things (IoT) devices and satellite connectivity to gather real-time ...

• APAC CIO interview: Kwong Yuk Wah, National Trades Union Congress, Singapore

  Aaron Tan - TechTarget 21 Jun 2018

As a veteran in Singapore’s IT industry, Kwong Yuk Wah has played a part in major IT initiatives over two decades, starting with the government’s computerisation programme that paved the way for ...