Asia Pacific
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A former US telecom and IT worker was sentenced to four years in prison for passing on information about Chinese dissidents to the Chinese government. -
The Taiwan Semiconductor Research Institute (TSRI), part of the National Applied Research Laboratories, has purchased its first full-stack superconducting quantum computer from IQM Quantum Computers, a global leader in quantum technology.
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Recent damage to undersea cables in the Baltic Sea has sparked fears of sabotage, but experts urge caution before assigning blame.
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The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) of Taiwan has partnered with the UK’s Digital Catapult to drive forward Open RAN innovation.
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Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS) has formed a joint venture with investment firm RMZ to invest $1.7 billion in the Indian data centre market.
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Samsung Electronics has inaugurated its new semiconductor research and development facility, NRD-K, in Korea.
Forthcoming events
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Back for series 3, this episode features Melanie Mingas, editor at Capacity Media; editor-at-large, Alan Burkitt-Gray; deputy editor, Natalie Bannerman; and special guest Carl Roberts, partner at Hadaara Consulting.
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Amazon Web Services was hit with a six-hour outage in Japan today which crippled online trading, communications firms and transport companies, among others.
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SoftBank and its flying base station unit, HAPSMobile, say they have found a way to increase coverage from its Sunglider uncrewed solar-powered aircraft.
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The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has opened applications for the upcoming auction of 5G spectrum in the 850/900 MHz band.
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Equinix has moved into India with the completion of the acquisition of the Indian operations of GPX Global Systems, in an all-cash transaction of $161 million.
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There’s a lot going on in space today: new satellite mega-constellations are springing up in multiple orbits, high-throughput satellites (HTS) have been launched into the skies, and SpaceX, OneWeb and Amazon are planning huge rollouts of satellites in a low Earth orbit (LEO) over the coming years.
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Big Data Exchange (BDx) has entered into an agreement with Red Dot Analytics (RDA) to digitise BDx’s Asia-Pacific data centres, for greater efficiency and sustainability.
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Telstra has closed the part sale of Telstra InfraCo Towers, with the business now known as Amplitel Pty Ltd.
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Following the well-publicised CDN outages of 2021, Capacity’s Natalie Bannerman explores how we can future-proof this infrastructure to avoid such events happening again
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Capacity’s Natalie Bannerman speaks to Swarmio’s Vijai Karthigesu on how telcos can get a piece of the content gaming pie
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Colt Data Centre Services has started construction on a new data centre at Keihanna Science City, marking its fourth hyperscale facility in Japan.
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Andrew Wildblood, chief executive of Enterprise and Government at Vocus, speaks to Capacity about its recently announced $100 million cable interconnection creating the Darwin-Jakarta-Singapore Cable.
