South Korea debates Qualcomm antitrust probe
South Korea is considering joining other countries by launching an antitrust investigation against the US chip maker.
South Korea is considering joining other countries by launching an antitrust investigation against the US chip maker.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
IT professionals in government, education and healthcare sector pulled average salary of 325,171 pesos a year.
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.
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...
On Jan. 1, 2010, Ronald James Panis wrote in his Facebook account: "Life is shorts.