Asia Pacific buyers of IT services and products seem to be hesitating on new purchasing commitments as the region appears to have been negatively impacted by the current global economic conditions, according to a new report just published.

Following the 'liberation' of source code for the 2006 versions of many of its products, Symantec initially indicated that the latest versions were so different that there wasn't a problem.  Perhaps that wasn't true of pcAnywhere.

Internet users in the Asia Pacific region, including Australia and New Zealand, last year generated around 67,000 petabytes of Internet traffic and forecasts now predict that over the next five years traffic will soar to almost 530,000pb, with China and India easily the biggest traffic generators.

The Indian mobile market is forecast to grow from 812 million connections by the end of this year to 1.36 billion in 2020, but it’s not the increase in new subscribers, but the retention of existing customers, that one market analyst says should concern the country’s mobile operators.

Telstra is ramping up its Asian presence. It has secured licences in Singapore and Japan that allow it to own network infrastructure and serve customers directly over this infrastructure, just months after obtaining telco licences in India.

TomTom continues to expand and consolidate its Asian regional buisiness, and has now taken full control of its Thailand joint venture, increasing its stake from 80 percent to 100 percent.

Kaspersky Labs' analysis of the Duqu malware shows it to be highly targeted and shows very clearly that it fits any reasonable definition of 'Advanced Persistent Threat.'

CA Technologies sees the Asia Pacific region as an important part of the company's future.

Verizon has expanded its Voice-over-IP (VoIP) services within the Asia-Pacific region, offering customers in Australia, Hong Kong, India and Singapore access to applications including social networking, video chats, mobile-device support, instant messaging and presence.

The latest Sophos spam report shows that since Q3 last year, Asia as a spam originator has increased from 35% to 50%.