While taking a break during the Lunar New Year last week, I stumbled upon a fascinating story on my Google Currents reader about how Walldorf, Germany-based SAP is trying to re-invent itself in a bid to take on the new paradigms facing today's fast-paced computing world.
2012 will see mobile and cloud continue to lead growth, with country expected to clock US$10 billion in enterprise IT spend. But challenges await, including IT skills shortage and security concerns.
Happy belated new year, dear readers. After a long hiatus, I'm back blogging, courtesy of some very interesting stories I noticed during my year-end break.
Country's finally awards long term evolution licenses to nine local telcos, but analyst questions if market big enough to support so many players, while one licensee questions validity of other licensees.
Efforts to move up value chain and become knowledge process outsourcing hub not yielding results as Malaysia's outsourcing services providers still seen as only "generic", with little emphasis on niche specialization.
Reuters had an interesting story last week, in which it reported that Google is pondering an Internet service to help consumers shop online and take advantage of same-day delivery in a bid to stanch the loss of Web traffic to Amazon.com.
Allowing financial heads to act unilaterally in making IT investment decision will not be in keeping with good industry practices, note market observers, who say CIO-CFO relationship central to how IT investments are made.
Study unveils 34 percent of businesses in country don't feel engaged in government's critical infrastructure protection programs. Symantec describes finding as worrisome amid attacks on critical networks.
About three months ago, I bought myself a tablet computer, the Asus Transformer 101, with a docking station.I had been toying with the idea of getting a tablet since the beginning of the year but had held back because I was waiting for a worthy Android-based tablet, as well as one that would sport the latest Honeycomb operating system.
I woke up this day to the reality that one of the greatest and most iconic figures in the tech world has passed on--Steven P. Jobs, the co-founder and chief creator of Apple Inc.
