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Asian Stories

Retail stories

Travel opportunities abound for China-based companies despite ongoing global uncertainty

More than half of China-based companies believe the country's Belt and Road initiative is creating opportunities for business travel.

By Shannon Williams • 4 min read • Fri, 25th Oct 2019

Social Media

Social commerce growing in South East Asia markets

Social commerce in South East Asia is booming, with 96% of marketers in a new survey foreseeing its growing importance over the next five years.

By Shannon Williams • 3 min read • Thu, 24th Oct 2019

Global Stories

Retail stories

Data Analytics

Alibaba Cloud achieves 'record' in big data performance

Alibaba Cloud's MaxCompute sets new global benchmark in big data and decision support tests, solidifying its market leadership with TPC validation.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Tue, 29th Oct 2019

Gaming

Seeing all the games at Auckland Armageddon Expo 2019

his year was headlined by both PlayStation and Nintendo bringing with them their best new and upcoming video games.

By Damian Seeto • 4 min read • Tue, 29th Oct 2019

Gaming

Hands-on Review: One month with the Apple Watch Series 5

After a month with the Apple Watch Series 5, our in-depth review reveals it as the ultimate gadget for Apple enthusiasts, but is it worth the upgrade?.

By Lama Farhat • 6 min read • Fri, 25th Oct 2019

Endpoint Protection

The cost of securing BYOD with mobile agents - Bitglass

A security solution like mobile device management (MDM) fails to respect user privacy and should not be a common security practice.

By Dave Shephard • 4 min read • Fri, 25th Oct 2019

Virtualisation

You're invited: Veeam shares latest trends, practices in cloud data management

Join Veeam's annual tour in Australia and New Zealand to explore the latest trends and best practices in cloud data management with industry experts.

By Kai Ping Lew • 2 min read • Fri, 25th Oct 2019

Gaming

Minecraft Earth is now available in New Zealand

It's great that Kiwis get this early opportunity to join Minecraft as it takes the leap from the screen into the AR world.

By Darren Price • 3 min read • Thu, 24th Oct 2019

Artificial Intelligence

Online retailers adopting AI high rates, but still have room to improve

Despite high adoption of AI, retailers still need improvements in hyper-personalisation and customer intent understanding, reveals Lucidworks research.

By Shannon Williams • 3 min read • Thu, 24th Oct 2019

Data Science

The dawn of a new age: Google cracks quantum supremacy

Google's Sycamore quantum computer achieves quantum supremacy by solving a complex computation in 200 seconds, outperforming classical computers.

By Sara Barker • 3 min read • Thu, 24th Oct 2019

Unified Communications

How cloud technologies are shaping the data-driven contact centre

According to a global Ecosystm cloud study, more than half (53%) of organisations have increased work processes and efficiency as a result of using the cloud.

By Audrey William • 4 min read • Wed, 23rd Oct 2019

Digital Transformation

Only 17% of banks have deployed digital at scale – report

Despite the push for digital transformation, only 17% of banks have successfully implemented it at scale, says a report by Infosys Finacle and Efma.

By Staff Writer • 4 min read • Tue, 22nd Oct 2019

Digital Signage

realme smartphones launch into Aussie market

The Oppo-supported up-and-comer has announced the release of four devices, three of which include quad-camera, all under $500.

By Ben Moore • 4 min read • Tue, 22nd Oct 2019

Software-as-a-Service

'Be data ready': Breaking buzzwords with Chris Powell of Commvault

Commvault's CMO champions 'data readiness' as cyber threats surge, stressing the need for robust data management.

By Catherine Knowles • 7 min read • Tue, 22nd Oct 2019

Online fraud

Cost of fraud averaging 3.4 times lost transaction value - study

The LexisNexis study found that there was an average of almost 400 successful monthly fraudulent transactions in the South East Asia region.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Mon, 21st Oct 2019

Digital Transformation

Hitachi vows to improve DX in Asia's real estate sector

Hitachi and Frasers Property invest SGD $50 million each to fuel digital transformation in Asia-Pacific's real estate, eyeing a USD $82 billion market by 2025.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Mon, 21st Oct 2019

Endpoint Protection

Elastic launches endpoint security offering

The offering is based on its acquisition of Endgame, a company focusing on threat prevention, detection, and response based on the MITRE ATT&CK matrix.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Mon, 21st Oct 2019