U.S-based ISP (Internet service provider) Freei.Net this month will begin offering free Internet and e-mail services in five Southeast Asian countries -- Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand, the company announced late last week.
Internet stock corrections, the death of pure-play "dot.coms" and an explosion of free 'Net access services are the main predictions for 2000 made by International Data Corp. (IDC) Senior Vice President Frank Gens.
SINGAPORE (01/01/2000) - All major countries in Southeast Asia passed the Year 2000 rollover without problems, according to government Web sites set up to monitor critical industries.
Vietnam is preparing for "unexpected accidents" caused by Year 2000-related failures and has set up a task force which will be on round-the-clock alert from December 31 to January 3, the country's Year 2000 Contingency Committee said.
Greg Maffei has resigned as chief financial officer (CFO) at Microsoft and will be replaced by John Connors, the current vice president of the software giant's worldwide enterprise group, Microsoft said in a statement issued on Wednesday.
The Telephone Organisation of Thailand (TOT) will build the world's first nationwide IP- (Internet protocol-) based telephone network, according to the project's main contractor NEC of Japan.
Singapore-based ISP (Internet service provider) Pacific Internet has bought two small ISPs in Australia as part of its regional expansion plans, the company announced yesterday.
Corel and multimedia specialist Creative Technology, have signed an agreement that will advance the development of Linux applications for high-quality audio and video.
Eight participating Asian telecommunications operators this week inaugurated the AIN (Asian Internet network), a project to build direct Internet links between the countries and so reduce the need for Internet traffic in Asia to go via the US.
Telstra yesterday launched a portable ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) satellite communications service in Asia, the company said in a statement.
Asian countries are ready for the year 2000; their citizens, apparently, are not.
Telstra will merge its global satellite business with Netherlands Telco Koninklijke KPN in order to strengthen their position in the global mobile satellite communications market.
IBM is bringing its Internet privacy initiative to the Asia-Pacific region and will limit its advertising on Web sites in the region which do not follow IBM guidelines, the company announced here Monday in a statement.
The 10 Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries have formally endorsed a plan to form a regional electronic community and have set up a special task force to accelerate its development.
National carrier Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) announced Friday that profit for the six months ended September 30 fell 3 per cent to $911.3 million on revenues down 4.3 per cent.