SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's industrial production in November rose at the fastest annual pace in more than 2-1/2 years as electronics output jumped, a welcome boost to an economy flirting with recession. Singapore's economy has been on the ropes in ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Unveils Its First Petascale Supercomputer
The facility is connected to research institutes at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) locally, while users at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) can access the system via the ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Makes Blockchain a Priority
Set to become a global fintech leader, Singapore has made blockchain technology one of the city-state's top priorities. In November 2014, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong officially launched Singapore's Smart Nation initiative, an ambitious project aimed at ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore revs up its efforts to help institutions exploit blockchain
“The non-exclusivity of R3’s technology choices leaves the option open for members to contract with Singapore-based systems integrators and fintech firms to implement production-ready systems, therefore streamlining implementation of DLT in the region ... ( read original story ...)
New market study, "Singapore Consumer Electronics Report Q1 2017", has been published
Singapore ' s consumer electronics market is expected to return to growth over the medium term after a period of contraction as the market adjusted to replacement demand after short and sharp booms in new product categories , such as smartphones and ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore exports post surprise 11.5% expansion in November
thanks to stronger shipments of both non-electronics and electronics, trade agency International Enterprise (IE) Singapore said on Friday (Dec 16). The increase, a reversal from the 12 per cent contraction in October, beat economists’ expectations for ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore exports surge, surprising experts
In the non-electronics sector, the highly volatile pharmaceutical exports soared 44.8%, after a 47.0% slump in the previous month. Production and exports of pharmaceutical drugs in Singapore often swings wildly as the sector is dominated by a small number ... ( read original story ...)
Instagram stops users from pretending to be in Singapore to go viral
Instragram has released an update that prevents users from tagging themselves in Singapore when they're not there in a bid to go viral. The update to its algorithm comes after a swathe of users realised geo-tagging their posts with Singapore gave them ... ( read original story ...)
New global electronics connections
SINGAPORE’S largest electronics incubator with links to thousands of local members and companies is looking to invest in South Australia’s growing industry after meeting with industry members at the World Electronics Forum. The agreement between ... ( read original story ...)
Willas Array Electronics : Overseas Regulatory Announcement – Other
Please refer to the following pages for the document which has been published by Willas-Array Electronics (Holdings) Limited (the "Company") on the website of Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited on December 13, 2016. As at the date of this ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore’s ‘city brain’ project is groundbreaking — but what about privacy? (with video)
Ultimately, Singapore will create a system to "analyze that data and create actionable steps," according to Balakrishnan's vision, which he described in a keynote earlier this year at a technology conference called InnovFest unBound. Here's a look at some ... ( read original story ...)
The Big Read: Technology helps break down barriers for workers with disabilities
There is a plethora of assistive technology devices in the international marketplace. In Singapore, devices available here range from optical character recognition scanners which can read a passage of text at twice the normal reading speed of 70 to 80 ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore IT Decision Makers Turn to Open Source for Digital Innovation
72 percent of survey respondents from enterprise organizations embrace technology innovation to help enable business success SINGAPORE/PRNewswire/ -- Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore has quietly taken the global lead in LiFi technology development
pureLiFi, and Edinburgh-based company developing the cutting edge internet technology called LiFi, revealed this week it is working closely with Singapore’s Info-communications Development Media Authority (IMDA) to eventually trial its product in the city. ( read original story ...)
Upcoming retail stores step up technology adoption
The retail landscape in Singapore remains tough with overall rental declining ... Edmund Tie&Co notes that several upcoming developments are integrating technology with their physical stores to manage manpower constraints, as well as to attract the ... ( read original story ...)
How technology redefines the role of government
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Liu Feng-Yuan is Director of the Data Science Division at the Government Technology Agency. This piece first appeared in The Birthday Book 2016, a book of essays by 51 different authors on Singapore’s Next Big Thing. TODAY will be ... ( read original story ...)