With the increasing demand for small form factor desktop computers, Intel has adopted a purpose-built approach in identifying significant market opportunities for nettop computers powered by the same Atom processor of those popular netbooks.

Globe Telecom, a leading telecommunications company in the Philippines, launches Chat Assist, an online customer service assistance that can be accessed using the Globe website (www.globe.com.ph/support).

For mobile operators which have rolled out or are keen on introducing WiMax wireless broadband, a newly published report by a London-based research firm will surely put a damper on their business prospects.

The country’s first call center that employs only blind persons has begun its formal operations, marking an important milestone in the struggle of disabled persons to cross the digital divide.

Positioned to be one of the top global providers of the best value display technology, Taiwan’s Admiral Overseas Corp., targets to increase its market share of widescreen LCD monitors in the Philippines from 22 percent last year to 25 percent this 2009, according to Ula M. Ladrillo, product manager of Glee Electronics Inc., the local distributor of AOC.

IBM is helping companies leverage on the new opportunity from business analytics, the next mega trend and which is growing twice as fast as the rest of the information technology industry.

A quarterly report from research firm IDC has revealed that factory revenue in the worldwide server market declined 30.1 percent year-over-year to $9.8 billion in the second quarter of 2009.

More chief information officers in the Asia Pacific region are seeing the competitive value of business analytics and are considering investments in this area, a new study from research firm IDC said.

Viper Total Information Solutions, Inc. (Viper Solutions), a homegrown data management consultancy firm, has begun to strengthen its data management expertise with the addition of three pillars.

Google on Wednesday pitched its fledgling Wave communications platform as a way for businesses to turn routine email into collaborative exchanges that ramp up productivity.

Companies worldwide are slashing spending on information technology because of the global downturn and will have to learn to do more with less, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said Monday.

The International Telecommunications Union (IU) has approved a technical standard, called “G.hn,” that is expected to usher in a new era in “smart home” networking systems and applications.

An organization of GSM players has announced the availability of a global number portability service that will provide an interoperable, industry-wide solution that enables the routing of global IP service interconnect traffic.

Top mobile carrier Smart Communications has been nominated in a record 4 categories in the upcoming GSMA Asia Mobile Awards 2009.

A new report from US-based analyst firm IDC has cited a recent circular of the country’s regulatory body that mandates the shift to pulse billing for mobile usage, saying this will tilt the “balance of power within the mobile services market” in favor of consumers.

The synergy between the Land Transportation Office and Stradcom has resulted in innovations that bring services closer to the public.

A federation of Internet café owners have begun to examine deeply their respective manners of conducting business in a move to command respect from local government authorities and their client-aficionadoes.

Warning that the country’s post office is slowly sliding into oblivion, a lawmaker has urged the state-owned Philippine Postal Corp. to go into the remittance trade and install Internet cafés in order to stay competitive and relevant.

Defined by the “make.believe” philosophy, Sony recently introduced its new lineup of VAIO personal computers brand with emphasis on design and interface with digital media and communications technologies.

Consumer portables, particularly netbooks, were the only area of growth that salvaged the lackluster worldwide PC market, a new report from IDC showed.