WITH New Year celebrations and year-end breaks out of the way, firms and their top managements will have to quickly come to grips with the hard realities that lie ahead in 2009, with almost every major economic forecast predicting doom and gloom.

(NEW YORK) For some owners of the Zune, the portable media player that is Microsoft's answer to the Apple iPod, it was a day without Kanye West and Girl Talk.

ASIAN enterprises will look to technologies that can help stretch their IT dollar in the year of the Ox, according to a BizIT poll of more than 50 regional tech chiefs.

LG Electronics Asia has appointed Arthur Huang and Adrian Lim as corporate marketing director and marketing director of consumer electronics, respectively.

WITH the sub-prime mortgage crisis, liquidity crunches, and even the possibility of a recession dominating the headlines these days, companies are increasingly becoming cost-conscious and actively considering options to reduce business expenses, including expenditure on telecoms.

THE fast-changing dynamics of the financial services sector has the power to make or break the economy.