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Category Archives: Hardware
Goodbye from Watching the Connectives: hello from The Digital Watcher
To all my readers, thank you and goodbye. This blog is now an ex-blog. The first post of this blog was published six years ago in December 2010. Since then, there have been over 90,000 views of the 165 posts … Continue reading
Posted in ASEAN, Belgium, Brexit, Broadband, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Cloud computing, Commercial activity, Corporate governance, Court decision, Data protection, Data Protection Act 1998, Data Protection Directive 1995, director, EU, Fixed, Foreign direct investment, France, GDPR, GDPR, Germany, Government policy, Gulf, Hardware, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, M&A, Malaysia, Media, Mobile, Myanmar, Outsourcing, Payment, Philippines, Regulatory action, Risk management, Satellite, Services, Singapore, Software, Spain, Technology, Telecoms, Thailand, UK, US, Vietnam, WiMax
Tagged Goodbye
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Global IT tariffs eliminated? WTO wakes up?
“Mr. Praline: Look, matey, I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I’m looking at one right now. Owner: No no he’s not dead, he’s, he’s restin’! Remarkable bird, the Norwegian Blue, idn’it, ay? Beautiful plumage!” – Monty … Continue reading
Posted in ASEAN, China, EU, Government policy, Hardware, Technology, US
Tagged Technology tariffs, WTO
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MAS Embraces Cloud: A Silver Lining
There should be relief at the moment felt by financial institutions and cloud service providers alike, following the release of the MAS’s consultation on the proposed new outsourcing notice and updated guidelines as mentioned in Rob’s previous post. The MAS doesn’t … Continue reading
Posted in ASEAN, Government policy, Hardware, Outsourcing, Regulatory action, Services, Singapore, Software, Technology
Tagged Financial Institutions, MAS, Monetary Authority of Singapore
Why bring your own device (BYOD) is not just an IT issue
I was fortunate this week to be both a speaker and a panellist at Questex Asia’s ‘BYOD and Mobile Security conference held in Singapore. It turned out I was the only lawyer in a room of 200 plus IT people, which … Continue reading
How serious is India about foreign investment as an engine for growth?
I will be spending next week in Mumbai and Delhi (with @singarbitration), and in preparation have been contemplating the impact of the recent budget proposals on foreign investment, and in turn the implications for the Indian economy. Before going on any trip, … Continue reading
Posted in Commercial activity, Court decision, Foreign direct investment, Government policy, Hardware, India, M&A, Media, Mobile, Satellite, Services, Software, Technology, Telecoms
Tagged Economy of India, Foreign direct investment, Government of India, India, India budget, India Supreme Court, retrospective tax, Vodafone
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Continued growth in Asian technology, media and telecoms sectors in 2012 despite Eurozone troubles
With the launch party of Olswang Asia happening tonight, I have been musing on the economic outlook for Asia in 2012 and beyond. At a very micro-level I have been very pleasantly surprised by the (extraordinarily high) level of interest in our launch … Continue reading
Posted in ASEAN, Broadband, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Commercial activity, EU, Fixed, Hardware, India, Indonesia, Laos, M&A, Malaysia, Mobile, Myanmar, Philippines, Services, Singapore, Software, Technology, Telecoms, Thailand, Vietnam
Tagged 2012 growth, economic prospects for Asia, TMT industry growth
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New EU Data Protection Proposals: what you need to know
Today’s blog post is courtesy of my friends and colleagues Clive Gringras and Claire Walker who have published a helpful guide to the new European Data Protection proposals. “Today, 25 January 2012, the European Commission unveiled its proposals for far reaching changes … Continue reading
Posted in Belgium, EU, France, Germany, Government policy, Hardware, Outsourcing, Regulatory action, Services, Software, Spain, Technology, Telecoms, UK
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What will the Trans-Pacific Partnership mean for the technology, media and telecoms industries?
Apologies to readers for the long hiatus between recent blog posts. With hindsight (and English understatement), I may have rather underestimated the time that would be taken up in relocating personally from London to Singapore to set up our office … Continue reading
Posted in ASEAN, Brunei, China, Commercial activity, Government policy, Hardware, Malaysia, Regulatory action, Services, Singapore, Software, Technology, Telecoms, US, Vietnam
Tagged TPP, Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership
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Patent power (part 2) – Google buys Motorola Mobility
Today’s big news is Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility. What is fascinating is the logic for the deal. This is not a deal driven by customers or operating synergies – it is all about Motorola’s patents. The give-away is the final … Continue reading
Posted in Commercial activity, Court decision, Hardware, M&A, Mobile, Software, Technology, Telecoms
Tagged Android, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Motorola, Motorola Mobility, Nortel, Patent
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RIM and Google compete to acquire Nortel’s patents
Readers with long memories will remember Nortel’s glory days of the 1990s, when it expanded rapidly by supplying equipment on the back of significant investment in competitive telecoms networks unleashed by the first wave of telecoms market liberalisation. It was badly hit by … Continue reading
Posted in Commercial activity, Hardware, Mobile, Software, Technology, Telecoms, US
Tagged Android, BlackBerry, Cross-licensing, Google, Nortel, Patent, patent box tax, PatentPortfolio, Research In Motion, RIM, Telecommunication
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