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Information technology (IT) in ASEAN

• June 20, 2018 20 Jun'18

  More APAC consumer goods firms expected to adopt blockchain

  The adoption of blockchain technology is likely to increase in the consumer goods industry as more businesses use the technology to address fraud and improve supply chain management

• June 19, 2018 19 Jun'18

  Singapore remains hotbed for cyber threats

  Singapore was a victim of advanced persistent threats, phishing and website defacements in 2017, according to the latest threat landscape report by the Cyber Security Agency

• June 18, 2018 18 Jun'18

  Singapore faced cyber attacks during Trump-Kim summit

  Russian attackers allegedly scanned IP phones in the city-state for vulnerabilities, although it was unclear what they were after or whether they were successful

• June 18, 2018 18 Jun'18

  Equinix, Digital Realty and NTT lead datacentre colocation market

  NTT had the biggest market share in Asia-Pacific, while Equinix ranked third in the region during the first quarter of 2018, according to market research data

• June 12, 2018 12 Jun'18

  Alibaba Cloud touts AI smarts to keep pigs healthy

  The Chinese cloud supplier has developed an AI program that has improved the yield and productivity of pig farms

• June 11, 2018 11 Jun'18

  Singapore career website hit by PageUp malware scare

  A Singapore government career website was among others affected by a malware attack on an Australian recruitment technology supplier

• June 11, 2018 11 Jun'18

  APAC remains a hotbed for software piracy

  The Asia-Pacific region is still seeing the highest use of unlicensed software installations globally, making enterprises more susceptible to cyber attacks from malware

• June 10, 2018 10 Jun'18

  Singapore government to regulate eSIM technology

  The government is gathering feedback on key proposals such as forbidding telcos to lock embedded SIM-enabled devices to their networks

• June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18

  What SAP C/4 Hana means for the APAC enterprises

  The cloud-based CRM suite could find takers, but it may not be enticing enough for Salesforce.com CRM customers that also run SAP’s ERP software to make the switch

• June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18

  Singapore government to form AI advisory council

  New council will develop standards and guidelines to address ethical issues arising from the growing use of artificial intelligence

• May 30, 2018 30 May'18

  AWS to bolster cloud skills development in Singapore

  The training arm of Singapore’s labour movement is rolling out training courses in cooperation with Amazon Web Services to improve cloud computing literacy among SMEs

• May 27, 2018 27 May'18

  Dedicated HPC infrastructure still rules, says Huawei

  A Huawei executive makes the case for dedicated high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure, despite the growth of public cloud services that have democratised access to HPC and AI capabilities

• May 24, 2018 24 May'18

  Grab outlines its approach to cyber security

  Singapore-based ride-hailing company prefers detective controls rather than preventive ones to deter cyber threats – an approach it claims is less intrusive and costly to implement

• May 23, 2018 23 May'18

  Singapore to adopt European e-invoicing standard

  The city-state is the first country outside Europe to embrace the Peppol e-invoicing standard to speed up business transactions and lower operating costs for SMEs

• May 22, 2018 22 May'18

  Thailand’s Ascend Money finds agility with OpenShift

  Besides implementing Red Hat’s OpenShift application platform, Ascend Money adopted an open source governance model to keep IT teams aligned with business goals