Asia/Pacific

Undeterred by the effects of the global financial crisis, SMBs (small and medium businesses) are bullish in implementing strategic IT strategies to bolster operations efficiency, a new study by IT solutions and consulting firm IBM revealed recently.  read more »

IBM announced enhancements to its information infrastructure portfolio of enterprise storage products. The enhancements to the IBM XIV Storage System and the System Storage DS8000 include security, manageability and business continuity, claimed the company. Furthermore, the system will help customers reduce costs and energy consumption, while dealing with the increasing volume of information that needs to be stored, managed and analyzed, IBM added.  read more »

The cyberattacks that took down prominent U.S. and South Korean Web sites in the last week have apparently ended but the search for those responsible is only just beginning. North Korea has emerged as a likely culprit, especially among politicians, but was it really behind the attacks?  read more »

A denial of service attack that took down some of South Korea's highest profile Web sites on Wednesday is set to resume Thursday evening, according to computer security specialist AhnLab.  read more »

Google is already working with several companies to develop devices around the new Chrome OS, including Hewlett-Packard and Acer, the company said in a blog post late Wednesday.  read more »

Popular search engine Google not only dominates the web game but has taken to lead the mobile search domain as well, a report from Web browser company Opera said recently.  read more »

China has ordered Google to suspend its foreign Web site search service after warning that the company's filtering of pornography was too weak, state media said Friday.  read more »

T-Mobile will release a smartphone running Google's Android operating system in Europe in the late third quarter, the phone's Chinese manufacturer, Huawei Technologies, said Thursday.  read more »

The sluggish economic environment won't drag down growing demand for wireless broadband services in Southeast Asia, according to the chief executive of Malaysian WiMax operator Packet One Networks.  read more »

While two laptops based on Google's Android operating system made an appearance ahead of the annual Computex exhibition in Taipei, a senior executive at the search engine company declined to discuss what steps the company is taking to adapt the smartphone OS for laptops.  read more »