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Dell sees the future - and it's mini!
News President of Dell Asia Pacific South, Paul-Henri Ferrand, said: "We see mobility as a big trend. In a sign that the convergence trend is even reaching technology's stalwarts, Dell has hinted its customers could force it to release a laptop with an... [08 Feb 2008]
Super-speed broadband heads to Kent
News Asia Pacific, including countries such as South Korea where fibre deployments are more widespread, offers broadband services with the highest average speeds in the world, according to analyst Point Topic. [10 Jan 2008]
Revealed: The top 30 offshoring destinations
News China is India's closest rival in Asia-Pacific in terms of scale but is held back by language issues. Asia-Pacific: South Africa Analyst group Gartner assessed 30 countries for their suitability for offshoring to help sourcing managers who are... [11 Dec 2007]
Three-quarters of world to have mobile by 2011...
News Around 1.5 billion new mobile consumers are forecast to emerge over the next four years, with 65 per cent of these coming from the Asia Pacific region, according to mobile research company Portio Research. [25 Oct 2007]
Barclays Bank Deploys SecureWave Sanctuary Device Control to Remove USB Security Risk
White Paper Barclays is a UK-based financial services group and an international banking organisation, with branches throughout Asia-Pacific, Europe and South America, engaged primarily in banking, investment banking and investment management. [11 Sep 2007]
Cheat Sheet: FTTx
Cheat Sheet However, in certain parts of Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, you might get your broadband delivered over a fibre optic network. Japan and South Korea are thought to be world champions in the fibre stakes and analysts estimate there will be more... [11 May 2007]
Hotel Management Firm Integrates Call Center, Saves $100,000 With Hosted Solution
White Paper Outrigger & OHANA Hotels and Resorts, which operates hotels and resort condominiums in Hawaii and throughout the South Pacific, employs 55 customer service agents at its call center. Previously, agents handled thousands of guest reservations a day... [31 Mar 2007]
Avery's 17,000 Employees, Across 200 Locations in 89 Countries Rely on Trend Micro ScanMail for Lotus Notes
White Paper It has an enterprise- wide computing network containing 150 servers and 8,500 desktops operating in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe, South Africa and the Asia Pacific region. Avery Dennison is a global leader in pressure-sensitive... [07 Mar 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 23.02.07
Round-Up You see the issue is this: earlier this week, on the morning of Tuesday 20 February, around 11am, the entire silicon.com editorial team won more than £10m on the Spanish National Lotto and from tomorrow will all be sunning themselves indefinitely... [23 Feb 2007]
Broadband growth fastest in Eastern Europe
News The fastest growth in FTTx uptake was in the Asia-Pacific and North American markets, at more than 20 per cent. Western Europe and South-East Asia were the only two regions to show a decline in growth rate during the period. [20 Dec 2006]
150 million DSL users and counting
News The EU is followed by South and Southeast Asia (21 per cent), Asia-Pacific (19 per cent) and North America (17 per cent). South Korea Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) appears to be winning out over cable as the most popular broadband connection method... [26 Jun 2006]
Set 3.5G free, says analyst
News In the Asia-Pacific region, Australia, China, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan are among the countries that plan to roll out HSDPA networks, or are in the midst of doing so. Mobile operators should look at offering single... [08 Mar 2006]
Data services' take-up lacklustre - even in Asia-Pac
News New research by IDC has discovered that non-SMS data services in the Asia-Pacific region are used by less than 10 per cent of consumers. The study, which examined mobile phone usage in Australia, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea... [03 Mar 2006]
Africa beats India on offshore call centre costs
News That compares to a range of $24,500 to $33,100 for a call centre worker in the UK and Europe and $22,000 to $36,200 in the Asia Pacific region. The report covers 331 respondents from call centre managers in 38 countries, with 44 per cent from the... [27 Feb 2006]
Pacific Steel and Recycling Improves Profitability and Customer Service
White Paper Pacific Steel and Recycling is a 100-year-old, employee-owned company with 37 branches in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, and South Dakota. When Pacific Steel and Recycling decided to replace its manual inventory management... [21 Dec 2005]
