Stories by: Veronica C. Silva

Tablets are selling like hotcakes in South-East Asia with sales reaching $US167 million in the first four months of the year. Among the more than 10 brands available in the regional market, Android-run tablets are the favourites, according to a recent study by GfK Asia.

The mobile device market is dominated by smartphones, according a recent study by Gartner. And among the mobile device brands, Apple, Samsung and HTC reported strong first quarter results.

Cloud computing is the next big thing in outsourcing, according to the outsourcing professionals themselves.

A recent study reveals the irony of smartphones -- they are so "smart" that consumers are having difficulty using them. And service providers are challenged supporting their users.

Organisations around the world are now more willing to invest in IT, according to a survey by Gartner. But those in the Asia Pacific region are a little bit more bullish, with more than 72 per cent of respondents saying they will invest 10 per cent more than this year's budget.

An environmental watchdog in the US recently released the 2010 list of top companies worldwide that have been doing more than their fair share of work in the reduction of carbon emissions.

Global telecommunication services provider British Telecommunications (BT) has unveiled details of its growth plans for the Asia-Pacific region. These included investments in IT infrastructure and new staff in the region, starting with the appointment of a Southeast Asian head.

Japan's NEC Corporation may have found the answer to the nagging debate between saving the environment without necessarily starving the population. And NEC found the answer while addressing the demand for durable plastic for the electronics industry.

Major industry players recently forged an alliance to collaborate on cloud computing, which has recently become the buzzword in the IT industry.

A decade after the Love Bug virus attacked millions of computers worldwide and put the Philippines in the IT world map in a negative way, computer security experts have noticed that today's computer attacks are more malicious than the original computer security threat.