
Asia Pacific to Add 600 Million New Mobile Subscribers by 2020, GSMA Reports
The number of mobile subscribers in the Asia Pacific region reached 2.5 billion at the end of last year and will grow to 3.1 billion by 2020, according to a new GSMA study published at GSMA Mobile World Congress Shanghai this week...

Gartner Forecasts Public Cloud Services in Mature Asia/Pacific to Reach $8.1 Billion in 2016
The public cloud services market in the mature Asia/Pacific (AP) region is on pace to grow 12.8 percent in 2016 to total $8.11 billion, up from $7.19 billion in 2015, according to Gartner, Inc. By 2019, Gartner predicts that total public cloud services spending in the mature AP region will rise to $12...

IBM Research Converts Old Smartphones into Non-Toxic, High-Strength Plastics
IBM Research announced that researchers from the Almaden lab in San Jose, Calif. have discovered a new, one-step chemical process that converts polycarbonates into plastics safe for water purification, fiber optics and medical equipment...

GSMA: Customers Seeking Rich Services from Operators
Global mobile subscribers are demanding richer, global and open IP-based messaging experiences from mobile network operators, according to a new report called ‘The Future of Mobile Communications,’ released today by the GSMA...

Covestro Develops New Materials for 3D Printing
Covestro currently is developing a comprehensive range of filaments, powders and liquid resins for all common 3D printing methods. “We market products with a variety of properties like toughness and heat resistance as well as transparency and flexibility that support a number of new applications,” said Dr...

LCD Panel Prices to Recover Despite an Increase in Market Supply During Q2
The first quarter conventionally is when the LCD panel market has abundant supply. However, the February earthquake in southern Taiwan and Samsung Display (SDC) having problems with transitioning to a new manufacturing process resulted in some loss of the panel industry’s overall capacity during the period...