Jamie Yap

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Jamie Yap covers the compelling and sometimes convoluted cross-section of IT and homo sapiens, which really refers to technology careers, startups, Internet, social media, mobile tech, and privacy stickles. She has interviewed suit-wearing …C-level executives from major corporations as well as jeans-wearing entrepreneurs of startups. Prior to tech reporting, she spent three years after graduating from university as a print and online writer chronicling the feats and foibles of another species known as celebrities in TV, movies and music lands. Jamie is also an inner fangirl of sci-fi, comics, Comic-Con and special featurettes on DVDs.

Jamie Yap has nothing to disclose. She doesn't hold investments in the organizations she covers.

Latest from Jamie Yap

Nokia Siemens Networks to expand Philippines R&D efforts

Company plans to double the size of its research and development lab in the Southeast Asian market, as it focuses on technologies to improve 3G and 4G mobile networks.

April 1, 2013 by Jamie Yap in Networking

Chinese users may have to pay for WeChat use

The government is looking into the possibility of making users of Tencent's mobile messaging app pay local operators for the service, but will prevent collusion among operators to fix the prices.

March 31, 2013 by Jamie Yap in Developer

Indonesia to use IT to help curb subsidized fuel sales

A new IT system to monitor quotas is the government's latest attempt to help it limit the costs of fuel subsidies for cars in Indonesia, which is eating away state funds.

March 31, 2013 by Jamie Yap in Government: Asia

SK Telecom launches B2B mobile healthcare service

South Korean telco launches mobile-based health management service for corporate users, in attempt to diversity its business and grow new revenue streams.

March 27, 2013 by Jamie Yap in Enterprise Software

Chinese firm sues Apple over patent used in Siri

Shanghai's Zhizhen Network Technology has accused Apple of violating its patent used in Siri, claiming it developed and patented a product with similar speech recognition technology before Siri was developed.

March 27, 2013 by Jamie Yap in Legal

Adobe: Cloud gives 'best value' for users

Subscriptions for pay-as-you-use software needs to be viewed in terms of the "real" value from online access to tools and collaboration, says Adobe exec.

March 27, 2013 by Jamie Yap in Cloud

Trademark Clearinghouse launches to protect brands amid gTLD expansion

The new database is aimed at helping companies protect their trademarks with the impending influx of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), but it will not be a silver bullet for conflict resolution.

March 26, 2013 by Jamie Yap in Developer

Asian biz tapping startups as external R&D

Rather than rely solely on in-house innovation, Asian companies are also turning to startups as an external R&D source to get first dibs to technologies to help further their business.

March 25, 2013 by Jamie Yap in Startups

South Korea mulls cybersecurity secretary post

The proposed cybersecurity secretary position will help coordinate actions from multiple agencies and speed up response time.

March 24, 2013 by Jamie Yap in Security

Philippines govt sites to have standardized 'look and feel'

Various are learning to build their sites based on a standard template to improve ease of use and enhance the government's online identity.

March 24, 2013 by Jamie Yap in Developer

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