Phil Muncaster
Phil Muncaster has been an IT journalist for 15 years. He started out as a reporter on enterprise IT title IT Week in 2005 and progressed to the role of News Editor before leaving to pursue a freelance career. Since then, Phil has written for titles including The Register, where he worked as Asia correspondent whilst based in Hong Kong for over two years, MIT Technology Review, SC Magazine, Infosecurity Magazine and others.
Will China’s single stack IPv6 plans give it an unassailable tech lead?
China’s authorities are pushing to speed up nationwide IPv6 rollout and have a single-stack network running by 2023. At the moment, it is the only country advocating for a single-stack IPv6 network. Could this be a much-needed...
Asia 2021: Set to embrace the next normal with digital spurt
2021 is unlikely to see a thaw in US-China relations, despite a new resident in the White House, and like the rest of the world, Asia's tech industry will be looking for ways to recover from a damaging 2020.
Could Hong Kong's security law accelerate the global splinternet?
What's the global impact of western tech firms operating in HK announcing suspension of police cooperation there.
Death by a Thousand Talents: How China's brain gain is harming western firms
Are Chinese-government-sponsored 'talent recruitment' programs a threat to other Western nations' research data?
China's new IP plans: a vision for an authoritarian global internet?
Is China's 'New IP' a solution to a 'broken' internet? Or a plan to govern the internet?
Coronavirus Covid-19 sweeps in to upend global IT supply chains
How is the coronavirus affecting IT supply chains and the wider market for smartphones and other tech goods?
Chinese government's tech decoupling a blow to US firms
China's latest move in the US-China trade war is the first real sign by China of a "decoupling" from US tech
What's new for 2020: APAC set for another year of tech turbulence
Despite an overall market slowdown, APAC's businesses continue to spend big on tech in 2020, providing an attractive opportunity for Western suppliers.
China's new corporate social credit system is a major new threat to data security
China's new social credit scoring system raises a number of questions over corporate data security and integrity.
