Opinion
TRPC and IIC Singapore Forum: International and Domestic Broadband Connectivity in Singapore
Singapore
Trust
Fewer, if not few, people have much trust in the banking and financial system after recent experiences of inter-bank rate...
WebRTC Asia Forum: For a Fixed and Mobile Web-Connected World. Hong Kong & Singapore – January 2014
Singapore, Hongkong
Another Age
I have just finishing reading the posthumously published lectures of British Marxist historian, Eric Hobsbawm who died October 2012. Fractured...
In Pursuit of Adequacy: Data Privacy Protection in the US-EU FTA
by Justin Streight In US-EU Free Trade negotiations, making business regulations compatible, harmonized and simple will be the lead. Not...
Try Forecasting the Past
In 2010, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, two respected Harvard economists, shot to fame for publishing a paper that seemed...
Lost and Found in Translation
Words. Here is an example of some, imaginatively (and unexpectedly) cited by the ITU’s Trends in Telecoms Reform 2013. (And...
It Ain’t Necessarily So
In the world of social media and instant online news feeds, what actually constitutes ‘news’ is rather problematic. The 140-character...
No News is Bad News
In March, two announcements were made pointing in opposite directions. First, Google announced the closing down of Google Reader, a...
TRPC Director response to FT article Jan 26: China’s subtle censoring of overseas scholarship
Deng foresaw the last door to open From Prof John Ure. Sir, Mark Elvin (Letters, January 26) gives some examples...
What’s there to think about?
2013 is the year of the Water Snake in the Chinese zodiac. Water is considered to have the colour black,...
TRPC Research Director Lim May-Ann quoted on ZD Net article: Competition to force Asia’s telcos to diversify faster, 17 Jan 2013
Summary: Declining revenues from core businesses and increasing competition from OTT providers mean operators need to move to new markets and...
TRPC Director response to FT article Dec 27: Asia must free itself from the chains of the west
It’s not western ideology that poses threat to Asia How To Get Your Ex Girlfriend Back Using Psychology Sir, The...
Information over the Internet
At Davos this month Tim Berners-Lee, regarded widely as the father of the World Wide Web, warned of silos that...
Dotty.com
2012 ended on a discordant note for the Internet. The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is the forum at which governments...
Research Analyst Michael Khoo quoted on ZDNet article on “S’pore fiber network needs ecosystem support”, 5 Nov 2012
“Singapore’s retail broadband space has seen lower prices and a slew of new offerings since the rollout of its next-generation...
Irrational Expectations?
Nate Silver is a clever man. Using “quants” he correctly predicted the outcome of the US presidential race in every...