Accenture | August 14, 2011 | Press Release MELBOURNE, Australia; Aug. 15, 2011 – National E-Conveyancing Development Ltd (NECDL), the company charged with developing a national electronic system for property exchange, has signed a master agreement with Accenture to design and build a national e-conveyancing platform for Australia. Under the terms of the agreement, Accenture [...]

Accenture | August 17, 2011 | Press Release SYDNEY, Australia; August 17, 2011 – Australia’s Department of Health and Ageing has selected Accenture (NYSE: ACN)  to design and implement the country’s Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) system. The initiative will span all Australia-based health systems and enable patients with a single record to manage [...]

iTnews | July 19, 2011 | James Hutchinson The NSW Government’s new integrated transport authority has been handed formal responsibility for approving a wider rollout of free WiFi on the state’s buses, trains and ferries. Read the full article here via iTnews

BBC News | The BBC’s Cindy Sui visits one very successful Taiwanese firm – HTC – and examines the challenges facing other Asian technology companies. For more information visit BBC News here

AIC | June 14, 2011 | Press Release Hong Kong, 14 June 2011 — The Asia Internet Coalition (AIC), a new industry association founded by eBay, Google, Nokia, Skype and Yahoo! was launched today to promote the understanding and resolution of Internet policy issues in the Asia-Pacific Region.  Hong Kong Government Chief Information Officer Mr. Stephen Mak delivered [...]

The Mobile Entertainment Forum in Asia is hosting its annual board elections during Communicasia in Singapore next week, with hopes that some US based companies might be interested in running, to get their foot into Asia. The MEF, a global trade association for the mobile media industry, says it is looking for industry leaders “who [...]

Google’s senior vice president for Chrome, Sundar Pichai, said his firm would not have made the progress it had with its Chromebooks and ultraportables had it not been for the remarkable Taiwanese ecosystem. In a hat tip to the country which has given Google so much, the firm says it is setting up a laboratory [...]

Taiwan is poised to overtake Japan in 2011 as the world’s largest semiconductor materials market, according to data from SEMI (Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International). SEMI, a global trade organization, also said Taiwan’s market grew from $6.87 billion in 2009 to approximatelyS$9.11 billion in 2010, growing 36.2%. Meanwhile the global semiconductor material market rose 25% last year over the previous [...]

TAIPEI, Taiwan – While Computex may famously be the most famous computer show of the IT industry, the world of wireless is certainly having an effect on the Taipei trade show. Nothing says wireless more than antennas, of which a plethora were to be found in the Taipei World Trade Center. Local company Chinmore Industry [...]

Reuters | May 31, 2011 | Nadia Damouni and Jennifer Saba (Reuters) – Yahoo Inc has resolved a dispute with Alibaba Group over the Chinese company’s transfer of its online payment system, Alipay, to Chief Executive Jack Ma, two sources close to the matter said. …. Read full article here via Reuters