June 2011

The sheer number of mobile apps has exploded in the past year making it that much quite harder for users to separate the apps they are interested in from those that they are actually not.

The Digital Quotient, test launched in 2010 by Microsoft Advertising to help digital marketers in Asia gauge their digital aptitude, is back! This time, however, it is an even more exciting challenge – the Digital ZENSES Championship.

The Israeli start-up do@ has developed an app that browses other apps and their innovation has gained a lot of attention at the IT convention TechCrunch Disrupt in New York, where the company launched its mobile search platform.

ICANN’s Board of Directors has approved a plan to usher in one of the biggest changes ever to the Internet’s Domain Name System.

Voice over IP now has over 120 million subscribers worldwide, according to the latest analysis from Point Topic, and its growth looks set to accelerate as predictions indicate a $40 billion annual VoIP market by 2015.

GetIT Comms and the Singapore Infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF) presented recently the results of their annual State of Marketing Singapore Industry Report 2011.

Magnaglobal, a division of IPG’s Mediabrands, released an updated global advertising forecast alongside a comprehensive model including data for more than 60 countries covering the years 2000 to 2016.

The security technology company McAfee, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation, unveiled in their recent Threats Report that Q1 2011 was the most active first quarter in malware history and confirms that mobile malware is the new frontier of cybercrime. With the ever expanding prevalence and growing importance of mobile applications, a further shift

InMobi, the world’s largest independent mobile ad network, just revealed that the Singapore mobile ad market grew by 18% to 139 million monthly ad impressions from January to April 2011 and that the Android platform saw a staggering increase of +12.7 share points in ad impressions over January 2011, now serving over 37 million impressions

Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc. the global leader in mobile messaging and mobile commerce services, unveiled the inaugural edition of its annual Sybase® mCommerce Guide 2011.