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• Sydney promoted as Asia Pacific digital hub

  The NSW government is keen to promote Sydney as an Asia-Pacific digital hub. The government used CeBIT to launch the initiative — a showreel will showcase NSW digital strengths during CeBIT Australia, the Vivid Festival and globally.

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  Asia-Pacific continues to be the darling for IBM

  The Asia-Pacific is proving a gold mine for IBM with the region again achieving the highest revenue growth as the company posted its 2010 second quarter results.

• Asia Pacific leads strong growth in mobile payments

  Mobile payment technology continues to rapidly gain ground around the world, with Gartner Inc. projecting 55% more mobile payment users this year than in 2009.

• Asia Pacific tech enterprises fear rising protectionism

  More than one third of Asia Pacific technology companies now fear the rising wave of protectionism by governments as a threat to enterprise expansion, according to new research by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

• Cisco: Borderless networks will bring collaboration to APAC

  Borderless networks will address the region's IT's evolving need for collaboration because it will allow working at anytime from anywhere, according to Cisco Asia Pacific. "

• Asian suppliers step into telepresence: Ovum

  The Asia Pacific is one of the regions experiencing strong growth from managed telepresence services over the next five years, according to Ovum, an analyst and consulting company.

• Asia Pacific leads world in WiMax adoption: Frost & Sullivan

  The Asia Pacific region continues to lead the world in WiMax innovation, as countries like Japan, India and Korea continue to invest in the technology, with maverick operators in neighboring countries following suit, industry analyst firm Frost & Sullivan reported recently.

• Asia Pacific provides growth opportunity for IT security

  Sales of information security products in the Asia-Pacific region grew by 28.3 per cent throughout 2008, according to a report by ICT research institute Gartner.

• Australia left behind in high speed broadband: ex-ICANN chief

  The former chief of domain name regulator, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), says that while the NBN will put Australia on par with the world’s Internet leaders, the country is still years behind.

• Asian carriers plan big regional cable network

  Eight of Asia's largest telecommunications carriers plan to jointly build a fiber optic cable that will interconnect the region's most important economies, they said Monday.

• Asia-Pacific managed print services market to grow

  The managed print services market in Asia Pacific is forecast to grow at a compound CAGR of 15.5 percent from US$419.9 million in 2008 to US$863.4 million in 2013, said IDC recently.