Stories by Anuradha Shukla

Regional mobile roaming improves in Asia Pacific

Regional mobile roaming is set to significantly improve in Asia Pacific as nations in the region have come together to meet the burgeoning demand for mobile broadband.

67 percent of Asia Pacific employees work from home

Sixty-seven percent of employees work from home, according to the VMware New Way of Life 2013 study that shows the use of personal technology is eliminating the boundary between separate work lives and personal lives.

89% of Chinese information workers use smartphones at work

Eighty-nine percent of Chinese information workers use smartphones at work, according to Forrester's second annual Forrsights Workforce Employee Survey.

Smartphone users consume more data than tablet users

Smartphone users are consistently consuming more mobile data than tablet users, according to the "Smartphones Trump Tablets: Recent Trends in Extreme Data" report from Arieso.

NFC mobile payments to exceed $US180 billion in 2017

Near field communications (NFC) mobile payments will exceed US$180 billion worldwide in 2017, according to a May 2012 report by Juniper Research.

Global increase in technology mergers and acquisitions

Global technology mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deals grew during the first quarter (Q1) of 2011, according to Ernst & Young's quarterly report, Global Technology M&A Update, January - March 2011.

Asia Pacific region unable to meet IPv4 demand

The Asia Pacific region is no longer able to meet IPv4 demand due to the unprecedented fixed and mobile network growth in the region, according to the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), the regional Internet registry for the Asia Pacifi...

Global IT spending to total $US3.6 trillion in 2011

In 2010, worldwide IT spending totalled US US$3.4 trillion and this year spending will be US$3.6 trillion, according to a Gartner report titled 'Forecast Alert: IT Spending, Worldwide, 4Q10 Update'.

Polycom delivers video applications for Samsung tablets

Digital convergence technologies provider Samsung Electronics and unified communications (UC) provider Polycom have teamed up on delivering UC solutions for mobile platforms.

More contributors join Open Cirrus cloud computing test bed

HP, Intel and Yahoo have announced that four organisations are to join the existing group already participating in Open Cirrus, the global open-source test bed organised to fuel advancements in cloud computing research.

Cloud can deliver more efficient e-government in APAC

Most public sector agencies need to urgently coordinate and integrate the various e-government functions, according to a newly released report by IDC Government Insights.

Symantec notes continued cautiousness among IT buyers

Global provider of security, storage and systems management solutions Symantec saw longer procurement cycles due to continued cautiousness among IT buyers.

Cashless society? Not in the foreseeable future: Ovum

The amount of cash in circulation is continuously increasing and the vision of a 'cashless society' will not become a reality in the foreseeable future, according to Ovum.

IT managed services market in India to hit $US3.8 billion in 2013

The IT managed services market in India is growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22.8 per cent, according to IT market research specialist Springboard Research's newly released report 'Indian Managed IT Services Market'."