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GUEST OPINION:  “Traveling for business or leisure?”This is a question commonly heard in the hospitality industry. People either travel for work-related purposes – to meet with remote collaborators in person, attend conferences, visit suppliers, sign deals, and conduct other professional activities – or they do it to explore the world's many wonders, relax, and have fun. At least, that’s how travel was once categorised. 

Japanese mobile phone operator NTT Docomo plans to deploy new radio dual connectivity using three frequency bands—two Sub-6 (3.7GHz and 4.5GHz bands) and millimetre-wave (28GHz band)—to deliver what it claims Japan’s fastest download speed of up to 6.6Gbps using standalone (SA) architecture.

Australia yesterday launched a new $18 million cable connectivity and resilience centre to help undersea cable networks in the Indo-Pacific area.

Seagate Technology Holdings plc (NASDAQ: STX), a leading innovator of mass-capacity data storage, today named Futoshi Niizuma as its vice president for Asia-Pacific and Japan sales. In this role, he will oversee the company’s sales and technical support activities across the region.

The AlmaLinux Foundation, which produces the community-owned and governed CentOS alternative AlmaLinux, has announced support for the Raspberry Pi.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government will launch an official dating app aimed at boosting Japan's dwindling birth rate.

The United States is attempting to further tighten the screws on China by asking some of its allies to reduce exports of chip-related technology and tools to the country.

Global imaging, print, and hardware manufacturer Epson has announced that it is planning the construction of the company's first biomass power plant in Japan, with the plant using renewable electricity.

In the same way that a hungry traveller who has been wandering in the wilderness without food or water for months would grab at any sustenance, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has leapt upon a throwaway remark from US President Joe Biden about freedom for WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange.

Omnichannel supply-side platform OpenX Technologies has promoted Mitchell Greenway to Managing Director, APAC.

A total of 1,843 deals involving mergers & acquisitions (M&A), private equity and venture financing deals were announced in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region during January-February 2024 according to the latest report on deals by data and analytics company GlobalData.

Dicker Data Australia has been named Distributor of the Year for the Australia-New Zealand (ANZ) region by cybersecurity provider SonicWall.

GUEST RESEARCH: Informatica, an enterprise cloud data management leader, released the findings of its annual survey of global data leaders – CDO Insights 2024: Charting a Course to AI Readiness.

Industrial property and digital infrastructure specialist Goodman Group has entered agreements to deliver up to 1,000MW power in Japan, commenced construction of a new 50MW data centre in Tsuen Wan in Hong Kong SAR, and has opened a new regional office in Singapore to support its data infrastructure initiatives in Asia.

Australian startup Quasar has launched its world first Space Domain Awareness (SDA) capabilities, a fully digital multibeam satellite ground stations.

Cloud cybersecurity company Cloudflare has appointed 25-year industry veteran Steve Bray as Head of Australia & New Zealand.

A day without the internet in the world would cost US$43 billion with the US and China almost making up half of the sum together, accumulating US$21 billion, according to data presented by Atlas VPN.

Japan’s Narita International Airport has extended the reach and capacity of its mission-critical TETRA communications network with Motorola Solutions “innovative broadband push-to-talk communication service”, WAVE PTX.

APJ hyperscale data centre specialist AirTrunk has unveiled its inaugural data centre in Osaka, Japan, the OSK1, which boasts scalability of 20MW.

Despite the depreciation of third-party identifiers and global economic turbulence, sustainability is a key focus for professionals within the Japan and Asia-Pacific (JAPAC) region, according to a new research report by ExchangeWire in association with OpenX.