David Legard

A comprehensive plan to combat unsolicited e-mail (spam) involving the participation of Singapore

Though China continues to be the main Asian focus for the world's telecommunication vendors, other Asian countries, India in particular, are beginning to emerge as important market drivers in their own right and are worth closer attention, according to Dilip Modi, chief executive officer of Spice Communications Ltd.'s Spice Telecom unit.

The backlash against offshoring will deepen over the next few months, but will be consigned to the wastebasket of history by the end of 2005, according to Craig Baty, group vice-president, Global Tech Industries Group, Gartner Inc.

A comprehensive plan to combat unsolicited e-mail (spam) involving the participation of Singapore's three main ISPs and a variety of industry groups has been announced by the country's information and communications technology regulator Infocomm Development Authority (IDA).

Vietnamese authorities raided the premises of three of the country's largest computer assemblers in the capital Hanoi on Wednesday, discovering large amounts of pirated software on the premises, according to a government statement.

A new series of worms released onto the Internet exploits a critical security vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.'s Windows XP and Windows 2000 OSes and does not need users to open e-mail attachments in order to propagate, experts said Saturday.

Asian end users expect IT budgets to rise significantly in 2004, but strategic IT focuses differ widely in countries across the region, according to Peter Hind, manager, end-user program, IDC South Pacific.

A consortium of 16 Asian and European telecommunications carriers are to build a 1.28Tbps submarine cable linking 14 countries between Singapore and France, the consortium announced Monday in a statement.