Asia/Pacific

Health professionals have slammed Australian governments for a lacklustre investment in e-health, claiming the nation has slipped behind many countries in the field because of weak funding and unresponsive departments.  read more »

Opera Thursday unveiled a compression service it said speeds up browsing the Web on its mobile and desktop browsers.  read more »

There has been a lot of talk, maybe way too much talk regarding cloud computing. The fact that companies and individuals are willing to keep data on someone else's servers is interesting.  read more »

A new Windows-based smartphone for Vodafone will be launched by China's ZTE at next week's Mobile World Congress, it said Tuesday.  read more »

The global economic downturn has prompted chip giant Intel to cancel its yearly Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in Taipei and to trim its Beijing IDF to just a day.  read more »

The number of its users is growing by the population of Singapore (more than four million) every 12 days and nearly a third of its registered subscribers now use it for business purposes.  read more »

Tech companies are announcing layoffs nearly every day, and thousands are losing their jobs. Now pressure is being placed on companies to consider the nationality of workers when planning workforce reductions.  read more »

Opinion is divided as to whether there has been a move from IT contracting, towards employers hiring permanent staff and former contractors seeking fulltime roles.  read more »

During a recent re-run of a famous Simpsons' episode "Treehouse of Horror XI," I burst out laughing when, in the opening montage of various horror spoofs, Lisa Simpson walks out the door of the family home dressed as Marilyn Munster with a book on Copyright Law tucked under her arm. Shortly thereafter, a vigilante mob descends on the family and slays them all, except for Lisa who escapes. I had no idea intellectual property protection extended to immunity from death-by-pitchfork from unruly mobs!  read more »

Cable & Wireless (C&W) has received security approvals from the Indian government to set up communications gateways to and from the country.  read more »