Optus is expecting calls and messaging across its mobile network to go gangbusters right through the Christmas and New Year period, with we Aussies expected to pass on cheer and goodwill by making over 34 million calls and sending more than 65 million SMSs on the Optus network on Christmas Day alone.

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

Rolling around the world, at 6pm in every time-zone, Saturday May 21st was the day all good christians would ascend to heaven, leaving the rest of us heathens to flounder in the mud.  Unfortunately (for the christians) nothing happened.

The Vietnames government has issued a statement denying that it had anything to do with recent malware attacks against Vietnamese-speaking computer users.

Statistics collected by Opera Software show that Google is still the go-to search engine for mobile users in the US.

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."

The Asia Pacific security market grew at a solid rate of 28.3 percent in 2008 – albeit it, down from 36 percent in 2007 - with Australia becoming the second-largest market for security software in the region after China.

Cloud computing vendor, NetSuite, is rolling out its SaaS ERP software solution to hundreds of fast food outlets across the United States and Asia in a contract with Filipino company, Jollibee, as it undergoes rapid worldwide expansion of its chain of fast-food stores.

The market in the ASEAN region for network security vendors grew a very healthy 20 percent last year, while the Australian market grew by around four percent over 2007.

Server shipments have plummeted in the Asia Pacific region as the economic crisis sweeping the region and the rest of the world worsens.