Tag archive: 2011
ASEAN ICT Masterplan 2015
As various free trade negotiations hit the headlines –AFTA, TPP, BTAs, etc – ASEAN seems to be finding a new...
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...
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...
Regulation Wars
The need for regulation arises for 3 reasons: to assign scarce resources; to protect citizens; and to promote public policy....
Phony Patent Wars
Anyone following technology markets cannot have missed the growing use of patent wars to cripple or extort or hamper or...
Wither Media?
The demise of Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World in the UK had nothing directly to do with competition from...
The Death of Telecommunications
The profits warning by KPN (Netherlands) in Apr set off alarm signals. When the CTIA, the wireless telecoms industry association...
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...
The Risk Game
In the latest in an ever growing number of massive cyber security breaches the Sony PlayStation Network (PSN) and Online...
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...
Japan’s Tragedy
Natural disasters are at one and the same time to be expected and yet shock us to the core when...
Next-gen Technologies & Cloud Computing: The Trade Agenda
Downloads 2011-03_PL_Next-genCloud_Presentation
IPv6
Finally it happened. ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has run out of IPv4 numbers. The world now...
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...
Chinese New Year Resolution
The Wall Street Journal (16 Dec 2010) cited an interesting research paper from the Asian Development Bank Institute in Tokyo...