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The Hong Kong's Education Bureau has launched a smartphone application that would help students gain access to program information from local educational instructions based on their interests and plan their pathway for future studies.
Security concerns are the top barriers to the adoption of Gov. 2.0 tools, a new study commissioned by HP and AMD showed.
An application that aims to encourage bicycle users to deposit bikes at underserved Bicing stations in Barcelona, Spain won the Green ICT Hackathon prize given by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and Telefónica.
IT spending by the government sector in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) should increase by 15.1 percent year on year in 2012 to reach $7.41 billion, according to IDC's top 10 technology predictions for 2012.
The Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (OGCIO) is inviting submissions from IT service providers on the provision of public cloud services to government bureaus and departments.
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has announced the establishment of a design institute that will foster innovations that will benefit society most.
The Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs recently signed a public-private partnership deal with SM Malls to transfer its passport offices to shopping malls nationwide.
An additional e-payment option for road travel tax was recently unveiled by the Singapore government to make it easier for motorists to make easy and secure payments in more than 100 iNETS kiosks across the country.
Businesses and consumers can now look forward to using full Chinese and full Tamil characters in their website addresses to better reach their customers and friends.
A new revolution is brewing in Asia as governments look to technology to drive efficiencies and build competencies for national competitiveness. The first element in this revolution is driving down infrastructure cost and moving toward cloud computing or basically using the IT resource as a utility or consuming IT in a different way.
