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South Korea debates Qualcomm antitrust probe

South Korea is considering joining other countries by launching an antitrust investigation against the US chip maker.

February 12, 2015 by Charlie Osborne

Interesting times for Philippine tech industry

Despite the economic gloom that descended on other parts of the globe in 2012, things are looking up for the Philippines IT industry and, in particular, the local startup scene.

January 14, 2013 by Melvin G. Calimag

Of subliminal indoctrination, inept social media strategies

In a report I filed a couple of weeks ago, the Malaysian government, through ICT industry regulator, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), blocked the airing of a public service announcement (PSA) urging citizens to exercise their constitutional right to vote in Malaysia's next general election.

October 3, 2011 by Edwin Yapp

Mentoring global entrepreneurs

In my years covering the tech scene in Malaysia, I've waded in and out of interviews that touched on infocomm technology (ICT) entrepreneurship quite a few times.Conveniently coined as technopreneurship, this industry for Malaysia is still fairly nascent, with some tagging it to be about 16 years old, if we were to use the inception of the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) Malaysia as a reference point.

August 14, 2011 by Edwin Yapp

Twitter's promoted advertising services coming to Thailand

Bangkok-based digital agency McFiva has won the rights to manage adverts for Twitter in Thailand according to the Bangkok Post.The news, which comes hot on the heels of the announcement of a Facebook ad partner for Southeast Asia, demonstrates the speed in which the country's appetite for social media has grown over the last 18 months.

May 6, 2011 by Dwight Turner

Is there room for data roaming charges to go down?

Most of us now surf regularly on our mobile devices, but try doing that while overseas and you might grow a few extra strands of grey hair when you return home to a phone bill for hundreds of dollars--or thousands, if you're a Facebook stalker--in data roaming charges. So, a question begs to be asked: does it really cost our operators so much to support our need for ubiquitous connectivity?

March 10, 2011 by Eileen Yu

Philippines: IT Salary Benchmark 2010

IT professionals in government, education and healthcare sector pulled average salary of 325,171 pesos a year.

December 1, 2010

M'sian budget lacks holistic emphasis

Exactly a week ago, Prime Minster Najib Rajak unveiled the 2011 national budget and since then there have been literally hundreds of comments--a lot of which are negative--made on online news portals, blogsphere and the usual social media platforms of Twitter and Facebook.In a nutshell, the budget received a lot of attention primarily because there was a lot of proposed spending that didn't seem to resonate with ordinary Malaysians.

October 22, 2010 by Edwin Yapp

Does anyone dare say they hate the iPhone?

These days, it seems at least one person at every dinner table will have an Apple iPhone.And these days, it seems you can't get away with saying anything bad about the mobile device...

June 17, 2010 by Eileen Yu

Tribute to two key figures in IT

On Jan. 1, 2010, Ronald James Panis wrote in his Facebook account: "Life is shorts.

January 10, 2010 by Joel D. Pinaroc