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Steve Jobs (1955-2011): A Man of Our Times

Obituaries are best written before death, and in the media they are. They can be written in relative calm and...

1 Oct 2011 Reports
Steve Jobs (1955-2011): A Man of Our Times
The Business Dynamics of Social Network Sites

The Business Dynamics of Social Network Sites

Social networking has become global, based as it is on the Internet. Less certain has been its transformation into sustainable...

1 Oct 2011 Reports
Regulation Wars

Regulation Wars

The need for regulation arises for 3 reasons: to assign scarce resources; to protect citizens; and to promote public policy....

1 Sep 2011 Reports
Phony Patent Wars

Phony Patent Wars

Anyone following technology markets cannot have missed the growing use of patent wars to cripple or extort or hamper or...

1 Aug 2011 Reports
Wither Media?

Wither Media?

The demise of Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World in the UK had nothing directly to do with competition from...

1 Jul 2011 Reports
The Death of Telecommunications

The Death of Telecommunications

The profits warning by KPN (Netherlands) in Apr set off alarm signals. When the CTIA, the wireless telecoms industry association...

1 Jun 2011 Reports
Beyond Borders: The Implications of ICT on Trade

Beyond Borders: The Implications of ICT on Trade

Digitization & web boom in the past two decades has led to the evolution of IP issues. There is a huge...

1 Jun 2011 Reports
Beyond Borders: The Implications of ICT on Trade

Beyond Borders: The Implications of ICT on Trade

The digitization and web boom in the past two decades has led to the evolution of IP issues. There is...

1 Jun 2011 Reports
Social Networking and the Grassroots Voice

Social Networking and the Grassroots Voice

In 1381 the nobility of England were rocked by the Peasants Revolt. There was no Facebook. In 1848 the ruling...

1 Apr 2011 Reports
Japan’s Tragedy

Japan’s Tragedy

Natural disasters are at one and the same time to be expected and yet shock us to the core when...

1 Mar 2011 Reports
Next-gen Technologies & Cloud Computing: The Trade Agenda

Next-gen Technologies & Cloud Computing: The Trade Agenda

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1 Mar 2011 Reports
Quantifying the impacts of structural reforms in telecommunications markets in APEC economics, in The Impacts and Benefits of Structural Reforms in Transport, Energy and Telecommunications Sectors

Quantifying the impacts of structural reforms in telecommunications markets in APEC economics, in The Impacts and Benefits of Structural Reforms in Transport, Energy and Telecommunications Sectors

Chapter 7: The Impacts and Benefits of Structural Reforms in Transport, Energy and Telecommunications Sectors in Quantifying the impacts of structural...

1 Jan 2011 Reports
Chinese New Year Resolution

Chinese New Year Resolution

The Wall Street Journal (16 Dec 2010) cited an interesting research paper from the Asian Development Bank Institute in Tokyo...

1 Jan 2011 Reports
WikiLeaks and Mirrors

WikiLeaks and Mirrors

Let’s put WikiLeaks into some sort of perspective. In the UK from the 1960s onwards Private Eye became a satirical...

1 Dec 2010 Reports
Net Neutrality

Net Neutrality

The net neutrality issue has raised its head again, and this time Asia is getting involved in the debate. the...

1 Nov 2010 Reports
Broadband Wireless Access in Asia Pacific: From Opportunity to Profitability

Broadband Wireless Access in Asia Pacific: From Opportunity to Profitability

This paper does not dispute the ongoing central importance of the network operators and their ability to command revenue on...

21 Oct 2010 Reports
ICTs Post-recession

ICTs Post-recession

As the global economy slowly pulls itself out of the greatest recession since the Second World War, the role of...

1 Oct 2010 Reports
Mobile Banking in Indonesia: Assessing the Market Potential for Mobile Technology to Extend Banking to the Unbanked and Underbanked (Final Report)

Mobile Banking in Indonesia: Assessing the Market Potential for Mobile Technology to Extend Banking to the Unbanked and Underbanked (Final Report)

Mobile Banking in Indonesia: Assessing the Market Potential for Mobile Technology to Extend Banking to the Unbanked and Underbanked (Final...

1 Oct 2010 Reports
Will Obama Have to Give Up His Blackberry?

Will Obama Have to Give Up His Blackberry?

Next time President Obama visits the Arab Gulf States, he can leave his Blackberry at home. Because of its unique...

28 Aug 2010 Reports
Content Factories and The New Media Model

Content Factories and The New Media Model

Google has recently patented an algorithm that identifies search subjects that are under-represented on the Web. For companies such as...

1 Jun 2010 Reports
The Changing Face of TV

The Changing Face of TV

The famous off-hand remark by Lord Thompson of Fleet who in 1960 described his Scottish TV station as a “licence...

1 May 2010 Reports