As Mainstream Media Scales Back Regional Coverage, Niche News Sites Move in with a New Business Model to Fill the Void. Asia Chronicle, an online journal of Asian news and analysis, is the newest and most innovative on the scene. (PRWeb May 18, 2009)

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) March 5, 2009 -- Admax Network, Southeast Asia's leading website representation and digital advertising network of premier local and international sites, has announced a partnership with Malaysiakini to extend its reach into Malaysia market. The new partnership is set to strengthen the network as a leading advertising platform in the Southeast Asia region.

Admax Network Partners Malaysiakini

) December 15, 2008 -- Senior Asian information technology (IT) executives are cautiously confident about maintaining staff numbers through 2009, despite the economic downturn.

Although the global economic crisis dominates their thinking, 43 per cent of CIOs across the Asia Pacific expect to increase their IT staff headcount in the year ahead. More than a third (36 per cent) of this group indicated they planned to increase IT staff by between one and 10 per cent.

More than a quarter (28 per cent) expect their tech staff numbers to remain unchanged through 2009. Less than 10 per cent expect to have to cut IT staff numbers.

Asia's leading Enterprise IT publisher, Fairfax Business Media Asia (FBM Asia), is significantly expanding its digital information services anchored at its MIS Asia web portal (www.mis-asia.com). Eight new, specifically-targeted weekly eNewsletters, providing niche industry, geography and technology-specific market intelligence and information, will be available to subscribers before the end of the year. (PRWeb Oct 14, 2009)

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DotAsia Partners with Web2Asia to Launch GoingEast.Asia Survey

) August 31, 2009 -- WSI Corporation (Weather Services International), the global leader in weather information, and the Centre of Excellence on Lightning Protection (CELP) at Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) have collaborated to provide detailed lightning detection data for Southeast Asia. Through the efforts of the Centre, both UPM in Malaysia and Jahangirnagar University in Bangladesh are hosting lightning detection sensors for WSI's recently announced Global Lightning Network (GLN). The Global Lightning Network provides high quality real-time lightning stroke data throughout the world.

WSI Logo

August 8, 2008 --

Senior Asian IT executives are generally cool, calm and cautious about the impact of the global economic downturn, according to newly-released research by MIS Asia magazine. More than half the Asia Pacific decision makers surveyed planned to either maintain 2008 levels of IT spending, or even increase it in 2009. The top four IT initiatives where executives plan to increase spending in 2009 were IT security, virtualisation, business intelligence and IT service management (ITSM). (PRWeb Feb 19, 2009)

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The Asian headquarter of PWI—Pacific Wellspring Asia (PWA) — has been established in Hong Kong. Korea, China, Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong will be their first step to expand their market in Asia.

Enterprise IT magazine CIO Asia has won an inaugural award from the Magazine Publishers' Association of Singapore (MPAS). CIO Asia, which circulates to senior business executives in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and across Asia Pacific, won the Best Cover/Feature Story (Trade Magazine) at the inaugural MPAS-Pressmart Awards Nite 2009 in Singapore. (PRWeb Apr 1, 2009)

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) March 3, 2009 -- Admax Network, a leading website representation and digital advertising network based in Southeast Asia, has recently launched their new website which sports a sleek new look with easier navigation and up-to-date audience information. The new website will help showcase the largest Ad Network in South East Asia to the global advertising community.

Admax Network

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) April 23, 2009 -- This complimentary research, taken from the extensive portfolio of just-drinks research covers Northern and Southern Hemisphere wine reviews, global market reviews of vodka, brandy and Cognac along with 25 management briefings. All of this research has been provided on an easy- to-use CD.

) January 26, 2009 -- Admax Network, Southeast Asia's leading website representation and digital advertising network of premier local and international sites, has announced a partnership with Sinchew-i.com to extend its reach into Malaysia market. The new partnership is set to strengthen the network as a leading advertising platform in the Southeast Asia region.

Admax Network Partners Sinchew-i.com

) September 28, 2008 -- Asia's leading Enterprise IT publisher -- Fairfax Business Media Asia (FBM Asia) -- has expanded its regional newsstand and paid circulation channels to satisfy demand for the broader availability of its print titles.

The move makes FBM titles -- MIS Asia, CIO Asia, Computerworld Singapore, and Computerworld Malaysia -- available in major regional bookstores across Asia.

These outlets include: Singapore (Borders, Kinokuniya, MPH Bookstore, Page One and Times Newslinks); Malaysia (MPH, Popular, Kinokuniya, Borders, My News and Guardian); and Hong Kong (Dymocks , Page One, Cosmos Books, Jumbo Grade and Commercial Press).

Drishti's Ameyo enhances customer experience and process efficiency at BPO Asia, Malaysia.

Information technology projects to empower the workforce, improve customer service and to streamline supply chain operations are among the 45 finalists in one of the Asia Pacific region's most prestigious IT management award competitions. Projects by banks, tertiary institutions, government departments and private enterprises have made the finalist list for the MIS Asia magazine IT Excellence Awards 2009 to be presented at a gala event in Singapore on Friday, 24 July 2009. The finalists come from Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Despite the economic downturn, the 2009 awards received the highest number of entries in its seven-year history. (PRWeb Jun 17, 2009)

Hacker Halted Asia Pacific 2009 is the BIGGEST Asia Pacific Ethical Hacker Workshop, covering vendor neutral “LIVE” Security Training. The main objective is to provide the C-level management, senior IT professionals as well as Technical Infosec professionals with the best practices in acquiring, implementing, managing and measuring information security postures of their organizations.

) June 9, 2009 -- Leading digital advertising companies have come together to announce plans to form a Singapore-based Interactive Advertising Bureau.

The IAB welcomes all members who are keen to get involved and passionate about developing the interactive industry in Southeast Asia

September 2, 2008 --
According to a new research report “Global Portable Electronics Market” by RNCOS, the global shipment of mobile phones surged by 12.3% YOY in 2007 on account of upgrade sales in the developed countries and addition of new subscribers in the emerging markets of Asia, Africa and Latin America. This impressive increase in mobile phone shipment presents huge growth opportunities for different players in the mobile handset value chain.

) August 27, 2009 -- Forum One Networks, a division of Forum One Communications, specializing in strategy and research for online communities, and ReadWriteWeb, a top ranked blog that provides Web Technology news, reviews and analysis, announced a partnership to provide research on best practices in online community and social media management.

) October 18, 2008 -- Red Herring Magazine announced today that BoxSentry, an innovative email deliverability solutions provider that ensures business-safe email protection in multiple languages, has been short listed as a forerunner of the Red Herring 100 Asia 2008 awards. The 100 winners will be announced at the Red Herring 100 Asia event in Hong Kong, on December 2-3, 2008.

) September 9, 2009 -- Hewlett-Packard Singapore, Microsoft Singapore and Cisco extended their market leadership by taking 21 out of 45 available categories in the 14th edition of the Computerworld Singapore Readers Choice Awards (RCA). The winners of the 2009 RCA, which are also commonly referred to as the 'Oscars of the Singapore IT industry', were announced on 7th of September by leading technology and business publication Computerworld Singapore.

In all, Hewlett-Packard Singapore took ten awards, Microsoft six, and Cisco five. Other star performers who took home more than one award were SAP and Symantec Corporation, each with four, and SingTel with two.

) October 29, 2008 -- BPOVIA, the leading Virtual Assistant and Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) service provider in China, has been selected in the list of 200 companies that are forerunners for the "Red Herring 100 Asia" Awards 2008. The awards are conferred on the most promising private technology companies from across the Asia/Pacific region. Previous winners include Google, Baidu, Skype and eBay.

BPOVIA Named Finalist for Red Herring Asis 100 2008

) July 28, 2009 -- The Society for New Communications Research (SNCR) and Middleberg Communications today announced the launch of the Second Annual Middleberg/SNCR Global Survey of Media in the Wired World to examine the effects of new media and communications developments on journalists and journalism. The research team will examine the effects of new media and communications developments, social media, and citizen journalism on journalists and the journalism profession. The survey seeks to:

SNCR Senior Fellow, Don Middleberg

Stockholm, Sweden – March 30, 2009 – Tobii Technology today announced its launch of a new widescreen Eye Tracker, bringing unique new benefits to the market research industry and usability testing.

Stockholm, Sweden – March 30, 2009 – Tobii Technology today announced its launch of a new widescreen Eye Tracker, bringing unique new benefits to the market research industry and usability testing.

) October 17, 2008 -- Vocus, Inc., (NASDAQ: VOCS) a leading provider of on-demand software for public relations management, today announced that it will sponsor a free webinar offering marketing and public relations professionals a preview of the Society for New Communications Research on the ROI of online press releases. The webinar will be held on Thursday, October 23, 2008 at 3:00 pm ET. To register for the webinar, click here.

) October 28, 2009 -- Admax Network, Southeast Asia's leading online ad network and a subsidiary of the DMS Group, today announced the launch of Her Network, the largest online women's network that enables premium brand advertisers to connect with millions of women in quality and content-safe environments.

Admax Network's Her Network

) September 16, 2008 -- The Asia Pacific lags behind some European countries in recruitment-based social networking, according to a survey conducted by Aquent, the leading global staffing firm specialising in marketing, communications and creative talent.

Greg Savage, Aquent International CEO

The Aquent Orange Book 2008-2009, a salary survey and industry monitor of key Asia Pacific and European markets, revealed a minimal uptake of social networking websites in the Asia Pacific by candidates and employers for recruitment purposes.

) December 7, 2008 -- Discover the beautiful and spectacular, often hidden wonders of Asia's most sought after travel destinations -- a guided tour where Asia comes alive.
                                    
SuncasTV will host its newest Asian channel, Living Asia Channel (LAC). It is a cable/satellite television channel that features the most authentic travel destinations of Asia and the Pacific, its fascinating people and their unique lifestyles. These intriguing journeys are available now on SuncasTV.

The popular MIS Asia Summit and IT Excellence Awards--now in their seventh year--recognise IT organisations and CIOs for management excellence and for the original and creative use of technology to help attain business goals. They have established a reputation as one of the Asia Pacific's leading IT management accolades. The deadline for nominations, from enterprises, public relations agencies, and vendors for the MIS Asia IT Excellence Awards 2009, is Friday, 22 May 2009. (PRWeb May 16, 2009)

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) July 31, 2009 -- The Society for New Communications Research (SNCR), a global nonprofit research and education foundation and think tank, today announced the launch of a new research study to explore how business leaders use online communities and peer networks to support their decisions. SNCR Fellows Vanessa DiMauro, CEO, Leader Networks and Don Bulmer, vice president, SAP, are conducting this study. This study will examine the role of social media has on decision-making among enterprise users.

Specifically this study will explore the following questions:

) April 3, 2009 -- Admax Network, Southeast Asia's leading website representation and digital advertising network has been selected by Sky Digital Media to represent its portfolio of leading UK-originated websites. Sky's portfolio of website includes well known and highly popular wholly owned websites such as skysports.com, skynews.com, skyshowbiz.com and the Sport365 Group, as well as a wide range of 3rd party websites including premierleague.com, Teamtalk.com and Sportinglife.com.

) April 6, 2009 -- Global Digital Rights Management market is projected to cross $2.4 billion by 2015. North America represents the largest Digital Rights Management (DRM) market. The North American DRM market is led by DRM solutions for the media and entertainment industry. Asia-Pacific (including Japan) represents the fastest growing DRM market over the period 2006-2015. Despite being a relatively smaller market in terms of revenue, Asia-Pacific promises excellent growth opportunities for DRM.

) September 9, 2009 -- Microsoft Malaysia, Hewlett-Packard Malaysia, and Cisco extended their market leadership by taking 21 out of 45 available categories in the 8th edition of the Computerworld Malaysia Readers Choice Awards (RCA). The winners of the 2009 RCA, which are also commonly referred to as the 'Oscars of the IT industry', were announced on 7th of September by leading technology and business publication Computerworld Malaysia.

In all, Microsoft took ten awards, HP six, and Cisco five. Other star performers who took home more than one award were: IBM and SAP, each with four; Symantec with three; and, 3Com, Dell and Telekom Malaysia with two each.

The honour roll also includes APC, Blue Coat, Fuji Xerox, Nokia, Oracle, Polycom, Samsung and Sony.

) March 27, 2009 -- The agreement relates to cooperative R&D and dissemination activities in the area of semantic technologies. Initial plans within the agreement foresee the adoption and implementation of the STI International education and training program in Asia Pacific region, the evaluation of this year's industry-focused Asian Semantic Technology Conference and the establishment of the first Malaysian Semantic Web school.

) May 27, 2009 -- Market Research Media announces a new tabular report U.S. Federal IT Spending Forecast 2010-2015.

Federal IT spending in the years to come will be fueled by two major driving forces - pressure to cut federal IT budgets without losing efficiency and implementation of new technologies. The Federal information policies in 2010 - 2015 will focus on:

) March 16, 2009 -- The Poynter Institute has launched a yearlong project to help the public develop skills for making sense of news in the digital era. Funded by a grant from the Ford Foundation, the Sense-Making Project will focus on the impact of new, emerging sources of news and information as the reach and capacity of professional journalism lessens. The project includes a research component, a four-day conference of industry leaders and a series of three public events to be held around the country.

The new recession proof built-in ready VAS Application launched by Bay Talkitec today at VAS Asia 2009,essentially supports all voice based services quickly with low TCO and high ROI