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…

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BIS 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 ,…

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Non-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…

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RMIT 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…

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Singapore 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…

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Flight 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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