Exclusive interview with Ken Lee, CEO at DHL Express Asia Pacific and Jimmy Yeoh, CIO at DHL Express Asia Pacific. How can the C-suite work together to drive the digital agenda? Ken: I believe collaboration, trust and transparency are the guiding principles here. Driving the digital agenda is everyone’s responsibility so…
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Tech trends in India
PC sales continue to remain robust, while smartphones sales remain stable. The India traditional PC market (inclusive of desktops, notebooks, and workstations) continued to be robust as the shipments grew by 50.5 per cent year-over-year (YoY) in 2Q21 (Apr-Jun), according to new data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly…
Read MoreStarHub announces data breach
Has started reaching out to affected customers. StarHub has found that a third-party data dump website, an illegally uploaded file, containing limited types of personal information related to certain individual customers. The hack was discovered during a proactive online surveillance, its cybersecurity team discovered, the personal data appears to be…
Read MoreBusinesses must adapt to the digital hybrid workforce
Ensure investments in workforce management initiatives. The office was once a place to go to work; its four walls provided a physical space entirely devoted to work. Now, the home has become the gym, the office, the movie theatre, the kids’ playground, the hospital, the kitchen, the restaurant, you name…
Read MoreBIS Innovation Hub and MAS pushes out global real-time retail payments network connectivity
Model builds on successful connection of Singapore and Thailand’s national payment networks. The Bank for International Settlements Innovation Hub Singapore Centre and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) today published a proposed blueprint for enhancing global payments network connectivity via multilateral linkages of countries’ national retail payment systems. Titled Project Nexus ,…
Read MoreOptus pushes 5G innovation
Showcases the use of NR-DC technology to aggregate its mid-band 3500 MHz spectrum assets. As part of its Australian 5G network, Optus, in partnership with Ericsson and MediaTek, has completed a demonstration with the use of New Radio Dual Connectivity (NR-DC) technology. The demonstration in Sydney showcased the use of…
Read MoreNon-C-Suite employees are attractive targets for attackers
An average organisation is targeted by over 700 social engineering attacks each year. When it came to business email compromise attacks (BEC), a whopping 77 per cent of attacks target professionals outside of finance and executive roles, including personnel working in roles like sales (19 per cent), project management (10…
Read MoreRMIT set to implement a dedicated cloud supercomputing facility
AWS to boost research capabilities. RMIT is set to become one of the first Australian university to implement a dedicated cloud supercomputing facility on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to drive digital innovation in research and education at scale. RMIT’s cloud supercomputing facility is designed to help more researchers and students…
Read MoreSingapore increases ICT spending in FY2021
Accelerating government digitalisation. The Singapore Government will spend up to an estimated S$3.8 billion on info-communications technology (ICT) procurement this year, an almost 10 per cent increase from FY20’s procurement value of S$3.5 billion. This spending will go towards transforming government digital services used by both citizens and businesses, and…
Read MoreFlight Centre Travel Group turns to digital products during volatile time
FLT has also hired a global CTO. The Flight Centre Travel Group (FLT) continues to respond to the challenges posed by COVID19 and the unprecedented travel restrictions that are in place to slow its spread. In releasing its 2021 fiscal year (FY21) first half (1H) accounts, FLT said that while…
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