Eyes on APAC

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• 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 ...

• The SAP link in Cirque du Soleil’s Toruk

  Aaron Tan - TechTarget 14 Jun 2018

Fans of Cirque du Soleil’s highly-anticipated Toruk – The First Flight were encouraged to whip out their smartphones during the performance in Singapore recently – with full blessings from the ...

• Markets will drive AI adoption: Gartner

  Aaron Tan - TechTarget 01 Jun 2018

Amid the growing arms race between the US and China to dominate the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence (AI), it is industry players and markets that will really drive adoption of the ...

• Data protection as a competitive advantage

  Aaron Tan - TechTarget 25 May 2018

By now, many consumers in Asia and elsewhere would have received at least a couple of e-mails from merchants asking for consent to continue receiving marketing messages under Europe’s General Data ...

• E-commerce in APAC is thriving, but so is online fraud

  Aaron Tan - TechTarget 17 May 2018

E-commerce in Asia-Pacific is booming, with 71% of consumers in the region already shopping online. But so is the risk of fraud, with one in five consumers falling victim, according to new report ...

• Hybrid cloud finds takers among Asian carriers

  Aaron Tan - TechTarget 10 May 2018

A growing number of Asian airlines are looking to the hybrid cloud to reduce IT costs. In October 2017, Malaysia Airlines (MAS) embarked on a massive project with TCS to migrate its core datacentre ...

• AI skills matter more than technology

  Aaron Tan - TechTarget 02 May 2018

A new study by Seagate has revealed that APAC organisations are warming up to artificial intelligence (AI), but a significant number have not invested in the data and technical solutions required ...

• How machine learning is used to detect fraud

  Aaron Tan - TechTarget 27 Apr 2018

One of machine learning’s most well-known use cases is fraud detection, an area that has drawn the attention of a growing number of technology suppliers looking to develop the best algorithms and ...

• Huawei’s industry vision offers glimpse into its priorities

  Aaron Tan - TechTarget 19 Apr 2018

At Huawei’s annual analyst summit in Shenzhen this week, the Chinese technology giant unveiled its predictions about what the future holds from a technology perspective in its Global Industry ...

• Farming goes high tech in Australia

  Aaron Tan - TechTarget 12 Apr 2018

The farming industry is arguably one of the last frontiers in digital transformation efforts, but not so in Australia, which has one of the biggest agriculture sectors in the world. Since 2013, ...

• Enterprises will be watching how this luggage tracker works

  Aaron Tan - TechTarget 06 Apr 2018

Asset tracking is arguably the lowest-hanging use case that enterprises can consider in testing the potential of the internet of things (IoT). From airport operators to mining companies, the use of ...