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.

Japan’s Panasonic is to expand its smartphone business to the European market in March next year, and has also a set target of 15 million units for overseas sales of its smartphones by the end of the fiscal year in March 2016, using Europe as a stepping stone to the global market.

Fibre to the premises connections in Asia Pacific are expected to exceed DSL in 2014, a technology industry analyst is predicting.

Tablet vendor Handii has agreed to pay Microsoft $70,000 to settle legal action over unauthorised copies of Windows 7 Professional.

When materials handling solutions provider Dematic was divested from Siemens, the Asia Pacific operation had to make a quick decision concerning ERP software. Four years later, it doesn't regret the choice it made.

Australia's smart grid market is at an evolutionary stage, with many utilities considering smart grids at the same time as trying to validate the usefulness of different smart grid technologies and understand the business case for smart grids.

NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N), the industry's leading provider of cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) / financial suites, today announced a strategic partnership with Sunway E-Systems (SES), one of Southeast Asia’s leading integrators of technology-enabled business transformation and a subsidiary of the Sunway Group. The partnership gives SES the exclusive rights to distribute, resell, implement and support NetSuite’s cloud computing business management suites in Malaysia.

Professional services company Datacom has appointed Michael Browne as group CEO.

Apple has published the results of investigations into working conditions at the plants that build the company's products. The company found violations including underage workers and mishandling of hazardous waste.

Telstra International has unveiled what it says is a series of initiatives that will "deepen its connectivity in key Asian growth markets in Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia and Indonesia."