Q&A

Q&A: Visa’s Ooi Huey Tyng expects swift takeup of mobile wallets in Singapore

June 23rd, 2016 | by Alfred Siew

Mobile wallets will take off swiftly in Singapore, because users are already familiar with the phone as an integral part of life, says...

Q&A: Accenture points to digital commerce for consumer packaged goods companies

May 3rd, 2016 | by Alfred Siew

Digital commerce will be a key factor in deciding who takes a bigger slice of a booming consumer packaged goods market in Asia-Pacific, says...

Q&A: Singapore can make engineering interesting again

March 16th, 2016 | by Alfred Siew

Since Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong called for more to join the engineering field during his Silicon Valley trip last month, there has been much talk of the importance of engineering in Singapore’s push to be a smart...

Q&A: Pay-TV piracy a sign of frustrated consumers, says Irdeto

February 10th, 2016 | by Alfred Siew

One reason why people pirate pay-TV content, says Irdeto vice-president for Asia-Pacific, Bengt Jonsson, is because they are frustrated....

Q&A: Open source still matters

January 21st, 2016 | by Aaron Tan

While open source software (OSS) used to be a divisive force in the IT industry, it's no longer the case today - more enterprises are now embracing OSS, from databases and storage to middleware in their IT...

Q&A: Disrupting the storage industry

December 22nd, 2015 | by Aaron Tan

Pure Storage’s chief technology officer in Asia Pacific and Japan tells us more about his company’s enterprise flash storage offerings and how they address customer...

Q&A: Opera looks to compression to solve mobile data woes

November 27th, 2015 | by Alfred Siew

Data compression increases the efficiency of global networks because the size of the images and videos transmitted is smaller, Opera...

Q&A: Democratising business intelligence

October 8th, 2015 | by Aaron Tan

Birst's chairman, founder and chief product officer Brad Peters tells us more about the challenges facing organisations in implementing their BI strategies....

Q&A: Smart homes are not just about fancy gadgets, says Lutron

September 28th, 2015 | by Alfred Siew

It has been developing automated lights, sensor-based dimming and remote controlled window shades which don't require an electrician to...

Q&A: Riding the OTT wave in Asia

August 19th, 2015 | by Aaron Tan

Ooyala's CEO Jay Fulcher shares his thoughts on the Asian OTT wave and reveals plans to enter the China...

Q&A: What’s driving Singapore’s online shopping craze

June 24th, 2015 | by Alfred Siew

A hassle-free and effortless experience is helping people overcome the need to "touch and feel" a product in a mall, says...

Q&A: Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise outlines growth ambitions

May 15th, 2015 | by Aaron Tan

Alcatel-Lucent concentrating its growth and R&D investment on becoming a specialist in IP networking and ultra-broadband...

Q&A: how users can trust their phones as e-wallets

April 10th, 2015 | by Alfred Siew

Can a wristband authenticate a user and through his cardiac rhythm in future? MasterCard has some...

Q&A: Is big data too big for SMEs?

March 9th, 2015 | by Aaron Tan

Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), which may generate just as much data, have similar big data needs, but are often not as savvy as the bigger boys in harnessing the full potential of big...