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Year of the Dragonet?

Early in 2011 it was revealed that China was going ahead with an experiment to set up an Internet Special...

1 Jan 2012 Reports
Year of the Dragonet?
ASEAN ICT Masterplan 2015

ASEAN ICT Masterplan 2015

As various free trade negotiations hit the headlines –AFTA, TPP, BTAs, etc – ASEAN seems to be finding a new...

1 Nov 2011 Reports
Singapore as a Data Hub

Singapore as a Data Hub

Singapore

16 Oct 2011 Opinion
The Business Dynamics of Social Network Sites (SNS)

The Business Dynamics of Social Network Sites (SNS)

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

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

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
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
The Risk Game

The Risk Game

In the latest in an ever growing number of massive cyber security breaches the Sony PlayStation Network (PSN) and Online...

1 May 2011 Opinion
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
IPv6

IPv6

Finally it happened. ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has run out of IPv4 numbers. The world now...

1 Feb 2011 Opinion
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