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Azenqos bridges digital divide
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 05/01/2011
» A Thai telecommunications start-up has taken off-the-shelf smart phones and turned them into powerful network monitoring tools thanks to a lot of hard work and a grant from the NBTC. The drive test tool costs a small fraction of the cost of similar units from the big name telecommunication equipment makers.
Ericsson sets out smart pipe plan
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 05/01/2011
» Ericsson has set out a plan to help mobile operators return to profitability and evolve into a smart pipe, while the longer term focus is now on LTE and 50 billion connected devices by 2020.
Future shock: We got it wrong
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 22/12/2010
» I must have spend much of my childhood wondering about the future. As a child of the '70s, I grew up seeing a bleak, post-apocalyptic vision. Whether it was in the aftermath of a war with the USSR or just a meteor shower leaving humanity blind and eaten by man-eating plants (as in Day of the Triffids) or brainwashed and put into bubble-skinned suits (The Prisoner), the future was scary, yet intriguing, and something to be held in awe.
Island proving an IT hotbed
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 22/12/2010
» Phuket is a hotspot for software development. One of the pioneers has been developing software there from the days of dial-up modem to today's hyper-connected social media millennials.
Where will the new world order unfold?
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 15/12/2010
» When Amazon took down the WikiLeaks site from its EC2 cloud, it opened a whole new can of worms as to what can be put in the cloud and what cannot. But for some, there will be a collective sigh of "I told you so", and the loser in this, again, might well be the United States, while the winner... well, that would be whoever moves quickly enough to take advantage of the upcoming exodus.
Rising to data centre challenge
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 01/12/2010
» SINGAPORE : Huge virtual data centres present new challenges in networking and network security, prompting Cisco to come up with a series of solutions where the boundaries of the data centre are no longer confined to one building.
Industry looking to fine-tune performance as popularity grows
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 24/11/2010
» New 3G technology on the network side could mean a 30 percent improvement in battery life for smart phones, while development of 2G networks continue to increase data capacity in a world that will soon be dominated by handsets sending small amounts of data all day.
Brocade mulling move into IP networking space
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 17/11/2010
» BALI, INDONESIA : Brocade, ruler of the SAN (storage area network) in the data centre is looking to move into the IP networking space to bring data-centre class resiliency, security and performance to the greater Internet as the explosion of connectivity continues.
Categorising the world's websites
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 17/11/2010
» Blue Coat has launched a new traffic-shaping appliance aimed at giving IT departments visibility as to what is personal, what is business and what is the grey area in between, now that everything from games to social networks to corporate enterprise applications are accessed via Internet browsers over the HTTP protocol.
Microsoft as an unfamiliar underdog
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 17/11/2010
» With tablets becoming all the rage, I, like many, wondered what happened to Microsoft.