New office to help get Singapore ready for digital society

SINGAPORE: A new digital readiness programme office will be set up under the Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI), to enable Singaporeans to have access to technology, be confident to use it and include it in various aspects of their lives. ( read original story ...)

Singapore's disciplined plan for economic resurgence

Singapore faces a rough year ... The fourth quarter of 2016 saw manufacturing – especially the electronics sector – bounce back, and signs point to the surge spilling over into the first half of 2017. But he expressed reservations that the recovering ... ( read original story ...)

Cheap Flights to Singapore Changi

The city has long been known as a shopper's paradise where you can buy just about anything from trendy electronics and the latest designer couture to herbal medicines and Malay crafts. Just a few miles away from the skyscrapers in Singapore's teeming ... ( read original story ...)

Supercomputing Frontiers 2017: Advancing HPC in Singapore

electronics, finance, healthcare, and marine and offshore engineering. NSCC’s task, he said, is thus to build the computational infrastructure needed to support Singapore’s universities, research institutes and industry. Supercomputing for Singapore ... ( read original story ...)

20 stores affected in 7-hour power cut at Junction 8

SINGAPORE - Shoppers and stores at Bishan's Junction 8 Shopping ... Shops affected at the mall at 9 Bishan Place include electronics chain Best Denki, BreadTalk, FairPrice supermarket and several restaurants. Some of the amenities such as escalators ... ( read original story ...)

Asia Mixed Wednesday

Shares of Toshiba were up 1% Electronics giant Samsung Electronics shares were ... the Taiex lost 20.2 points, or 0.2%, to 9,856.25 In Singapore, the Straits Times Index jumped 26.75 points, or 0.9%, to 3,184.57 In New Zealand, the NZX 50 moved up 68.34 ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore set to roll out driverless buses by 2020

... bus prototype unveiled in Singapore on 10 April 2017.Singapore Land Transport Authority/ST Kinetics He said the project will tap into cybersecurity experts from the Agency for Science, Technology and Research, the NUS and the Singapore University of ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore plans to develop and trial autonomous buses

The proposal from ST Kinetics, the land systems and specialty vehicles arm of Singapore Technologies Engineering (ST Engineering), came from the LTA’s Request for Information (RFI) that was issued in June 2015 on how AV technology could be harnessed as ... ( read original story ...)

Law industry in Singapore goes high tech

... apply for financial support from SPRING Singapore via the Law Society, which then helps to subsidise part of the initial costs that a firm will have to pay when using a certain form of legal technology and/or business development solution. Source ... ( read original story ...)

Fighting terror with technology

It helps automate detection of suspicious activity, working with cameras and microphones placed around the island. The system is able to spot and identify something suspicious, like an idling vehicle or an abandoned object. It then alerts a human operator ... ( read original story ...)