Compaq Computer Corp. wants to double revenues from its services business by the end of 2002, a market that is projected to grow to S$92.6 billion (US$53.2 billion) in Asia-Pacific by 2003. According to figures from GartnerGroup Inc., while companies in the region have reduced spending on computer hardware, they have increased their investment in IT services.
The Internet population in Singapore is not only increasing in number, it is also growing in sophistication, according to ACNielsen eRatings.com, a firm that tracks audiences and user activity on the Internet.
Intelligent Communications Pte. Ltd., a local provider of unified messaging system (UMS) services, recently announced it has fused its UMS offerings with online calendaring capabilities, a move which it said is the first in Singapore.
The dot-com fever has finally broken, with both analysts and venture capitalists (VCs) predicting a major shakeout in this market which will see rapid consolidation, and the emergence of traditional brick-and-mortar companies looking to initiate dot-com projects of their own.
While other players in the industry express the need for devices to converge, touting the marriages of devices such as that of mobile phones and the Internet, and PCs and mobile phones, at least one company firmly believes that not all devices should be integrated.
While others ring the death knell on adopting a channel strategy, networking vendors such as Nortel Networks Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. remain deeply focused on strengthening their reseller relationships, which they say are key to success in the small and medium business (SMB) market.
Broadband adoption here is set to leap ahead with the introduction of new players which the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) roped in to help propel this market to a higher level.
The Mercurix subsidiary of National Computer Systems Pte. Ltd. (NCS), will offer a digital rights management service which it said will allow content providers to protect and obtain payment for the sale of their content such as music, video, data, and other intellectual properties.
While the continued growth of the Internet and mobile access has created many business opportunities, it has also created a wild, wild world of Web and wireless insecurity, where companies must now look more closely at guarding their networks against an increasing number of hack attacks.
DataOne Asia (D1) Pte. Ltd. last week announced its alliance with Novell Inc.'s Singapore subsidiary, becoming the company's Internet Commercial Service Provider (ICSP) and authorised value-added reseller (VAR), and earning itself the title of being the first Internet service provider in Southeast Asia to deploy Novell's eDirectory.
Amongst a swelling sea of new dot-com companies, how can a startup yell loud enough to be heard? Computerworld spoke with some new dot-com companies and examined how these firms hope to differentiate themselves from their competitors.
Pinnz Solutions International, specializing in Internet Protocol (IP) telephony infrastructure and applications, is looking to make good here with Singapore's telecommunications market due to be liberalized next month.
It has now become a norm for telecommunication service providers to merge with Internet service providers (ISPs) in a bid to steal a ride on the Internet wave. But where does this leave pure ISPs who have neither the financial backing, nor the communication infrastructure of a telco carrier?
The National Science and Technology Board (NSTB) is lending a hand to local startups who find themselves hitting a brick wall in their attempt to convince private venture capitalists to invest in their companies.
Privacy issues concerning the Internet never seem to let up. Yet another dot-com company in the U.S. is currently grappling a lawsuit that alleged it is unlawfully obtaining and selling consumers' personal information, and tracking their movements on the Internet.