TechTouch Asia

By Sumir Bhatia, President – APAC, Lenovo ISG The evolution of cutting-edge technologies has replaced the legacy chalkboards with touchscreens, evolving the game of football over decades. With the advent of AI, new technologies such as video assistance referee (VAR) and limb tracking are bringing the sport closer to fans and teams alike. For instance, video analysis uses conditioning technology to understand players' strengths and weaknesses. Through such technologies, team and club managers are empowered to make quick data-driven decisions. Ahead of the most-awaited football game of the year, Lenovo, in a recently concluded virtual chat show called Smarter Changes The Game , highlighted the role of smarter technology in transforming the game of football. Topics discussed during the show included the new technologies introduced this football season, such as stadium cooling, AI-driven VAR offside technology, sensor-based navigation for traffic management, AI, and drone-based crowd ...

by Chua Chee Pin, Area VP, ASEAN, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea and Taiwan, Commvault The cloud has allowed organisations to operate with more efficiency and flexibility, and it has also brought about much cost efficiency. In a way, these benefits have also made it possible for organisations to stay competitive in today’s business landscape. However, the dynamic cloud environment also comes with increased exposure to cyber and data risks. A brutal irony is that the same transformed infrastructure that helps organisations scale, pivot and innovate also makes it harder for them to protect their data. Organisations cannot assume their current cybersecurity infrastructure and data management approaches will continue to work well once their data is off premise. Instead, they need a cloud-first strategy that can adapt to and capture the full potential benefits of their cloud deployments. Data security remains one of the biggest challenges faced by organisations even as they adopt cloud techno...

By Lim Teck Wee, Head of ASEAN, CyberArk Source: CyberArk. Lim. One often turns wary and perhaps cynical when considering what type of insurance coverage to get. Questions like ‘I have never required it before’ and ‘Is it necessary?’ race through one’s mind when faced with the steep costs of premiums. Unless you have generously deep pockets, you might never be at ease no matter how prudent you are. The same could be true for businesses surveying the rapidly increasing costs of cyber insurance. As more businesses grow their presence online, cyber insurance is slowly gaining traction as a protection against future catastrophes. Commenting on the insurance industry’s growth in 2021, the President of the General Insurance Association, Ronak Shah, shared that “For 2022 and beyond, cyber risks and sustainability will become increasingly pertinent issues for the sector”. As the name suggests, cyber insurance policies are designed to help organisations mitigate losses incurred in the even...

Following the successful rollout of six robots in high-traffic areas across Singapore and Japan, Ella, Singapore’s first fully autonomous AI-powered robotic barista, is facing increased demand from corporate offices in Singapore. Already present at SAP, Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) at Changi Business Park and following a pop-up at The URA Centre on Maxwell Road, Crown Digital has seen an uptake of more than 100 enquiries from corporate clients, who are looking for innovative ways to boost employee morale and productivity, the company said. “Ella consistently brews high quality coffee in an efficient, convenient, and novel manner, which employees are seeing as a wonderful benefit as they return to the office,” said Keith Tan, CEO and Founder of Crown Digital. “The innovative spirit of Ella is also recognised; beyond providing excellent cups of coffee, Ella is a great conversation starter, and she sends a message to visitors and business partners that these organisations value their...

by Don Tan, Senior Director APAC at Lookout It is becoming increasingly difficult to guarantee a safe boundary for your sensitive data. In the wake of the pandemic, accelerated digital adoption was crucial for business continuity. However, as employees work from home, traditional perimeter security solutions have proven ineffective in the face of an expanding threat surface and highly sophisticated cyberattacks. This new climate does not just put proprietary information at risk, it also makes complying with regulations much more difficult. When users, applications and data sit outside your perimeter defences, it becomes difficult to provide geospecific access or enforce encryption over regulated data. To ensure data is protected while productivity remains high, organisations need an integrated, cloud-delivered approach to cybersecurity. Security Service Edge (SSE) as defined by Gartner in 2022 has become the go-to framework to achieve that. SSE is closely related to Secure Access...

Searidge Technologies is working to make air traffic control more safe and efficient with artificial intelligence (AI)-powered software. The company is part of NVIDIA Metropolis , which aims to bring to market new vision AI applications that make the world’s most important spaces and operations safer and more efficient. Pat Urbanek, Searidge VP of business development for Asia Pacific and the Middle East said of the company's beginnings in 2006: “Video processing software for air-traffic control didn’t exist before. “It’s taken a decade to become mainstream — but now, intelligent video and machine learning have been brought into airport operations, enabling new levels of automation in air-traffic control and airside operations to enhance safety and efficiency.” Searidge's Digital Tower and Apron solutions, powered by NVIDIA GPUs, use vision AI to manage traffic control for airports and alert users of safety concerns in real time. Searidge technology enables airports around...

Yealink, a global unified communications (UC) solution provider, has launched an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered 360-degree all-in-one camera, the SmartVision 60. The Yealink SmartVision 60 makes hybrid meetings accessible for everyone. Designed for small to medium-sized meeting rooms, the SmartVision 60 is fully compatible with Microsoft Teams and integrates a 10K resolution 360-degree camera, two sets of multifunctional microphones, and speakers to deliver an inclusive and immersive experience at hybrid meetings. The Multi-Stream People Feed feature creates individual video feeds of four in-room active speakers and stitches them together, showing the panoramic view of the room at the same time. The feature enables everyone at the conference table to appear facing front and in the centre of the screen. With two sets of microphones, the SmartVision 60 can cover a 6 m audio pickup radius from all angles in medium-sized rooms. The camera supports AI features including the Cort...