The Singapore Government has recently revamped its Singapore Personal Access orSingPass solution with the aid of the nation’s eGovt solutions provider, CrimsonLogic. SingPass, is a common onlineID and password used by users to transact with the Singapore Government online...

Microsoft’s community of 2.2 million Microsoft Certified Professionals (MCPs) will now receive new benefits that will help them successfully deploy and support new technologies through increased access to internal Microsoft resources and networking with their peers. The new MCP benefits...

Microsoft has appointed a new president to lead its 8,500 staff strong Sales and Marketing force in North America. Robert Youngjohns, who will officially assume his new role on December 3...

HP announced financial results for its fourth fiscal quarter that ended Oct. 31, 2007, with net revenue of 28.3 billion dollars, up 15 percent from a year earlier and up 11 percent when adjusted for the effects of currency...

Verizon Business has enhanced the reach and capabilities of its network across South Asia as part of its continued investment in, and long-term commitment to, the Asia-Pacific region. The company said this week that additional private...

SAP Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) has appointed Mark Gibbs as its President and CEO for its North Asian operations. Gibbs--who joins SAP from Oracle where he was senior vice president of...

Dell and Sun Microsystems have signed an OEM agreement for Dell to make the Solaris Operating System (OS) and Solaris support services available directly to customers for select Dell PowerEdge servers...

Next generation contact centers may be the key competitive differentiator for businesses in Singapore, according to a research commissioned by Avaya. The report, Avaya Contact Centre Consumer Index Score Report Singapore 2007, undertaken by research firm callcenter.net...

Internet goliath Yahoo will be extending its recently launched oneSearch capability to nine mobile operators in the Asia Pacific region. The mobile search capability, which was introduced earlier this year, will now be available...

Business-IT alignment is the greatest challenge Chief Information Officers (CIOs) are struggling with today, according to survey results from the CIO Roundtable Seminar. The seminar, which was jointly organized by Compuware and academic...

Enterprise management solutions provider BMC Software has collaborated with Singapore’s tertiary institution, Republic Polytechnic, to formulate a new academic program that will certify students with an Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) diploma....

A new set of customized fonts have been designed and engineered for use in the system User Interface (UI) font for the Android platform built by the Open Handset Alliance. The creator, Ascender who is a provider of font products and innovative applications for mobiles, said it worked with the Android team to develop the system fonts for the Android platform....

i-mate has made its entry into the South East Asia (SEA) market with the establishment of its regional base office in Singapore and the launch of six of its new smartphones, powered by Windows Mobile. Founded in 2001, i-mate has...

HP has introduced an enhanced network platform to help telecom operators provide services to millions of customers. The HP Service Delivery Platform (SDP) 2.0 enables operators to offer their customers greater access to convergent, multimedia and “Web 2.0” services on their mobile devices. The platform also addresses the need for operators to...

EMC made headlines last Thursday with the opening of its South Asia Development Laboratory (SADL), a first ever of its kind in South East Asia, in a bid to bring its product development and engineering closer to its customers in the Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) region....

A broad alliance of leading technology and wireless companies have joined forces to announce the development of Android-- the first open and comprehensive platform for mobile devices. The brainchild of the Open Handset Alliance, Android aims to develop technologies that will significantly lower the cost of developing and distributing mobile devices and services...

Verizon Business will be expanding its network capacity in Australia to support the evolving voice and data needs of its multinational customers based in, or operating in, the country...

Asia Pacific Mobile alliance group Bridge Alliance, has launched a new mobile data roaming plan catering to frequent travelers who need to access their emails or perform downloads from the mobile internet without incurring high charges...

Research firm Forrester has recognized software giant Oracle as a leader for its licensing and pricing strategies in the October 2007, “The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Apps Software Licensing and Pricing, Q4 2007,” report...

Internet behemoth Google has released OpenSocial -- a set of common APIs for building social applications across the web -- for developers of social applications and for websites that want to add social features. The release of OpenSocial which is said to mark the first time that multiple social networks have been made accessible under a common API...