Tag: technology

SINGAPORE: A starting seed grant of S$45 million a year will be given to two new laboratories in the Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) and DSO National Laboratories organisations, Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen said in Parliament on Friday (Mar 3). ( read original story ...)

... problems (http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/education/going-beyond-grades-evolving-the-singapore-education-system). The advent of disruptive technology in the job market creates new challenges that the Singapore society needs to adapt to. Faced ... ( read original story ...)

The mobile industry in Singapore is in some pain right now. In 2016, StarHub Ltd’s (SGX: CC3) mobile revenue fell by 2%. M1 Ltd (SGX: B2F), meanwhile, also reported a similar percentage drop in revenue for the year. Then, there’s Singapore ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE – Drivers looking to buy second-hand cars in Singapore can now add one more online platform in their search for used vehicles. Carousell Motors, a new mobile app by local online marketplace Carousell, will be available on the App Store for iOS ... ( read original story ...)

Cross-border online shopping is also forecasted to grow by 23 percent this year. According to PayPal's Ipsos Cross-Border research report in 2016, more than a third of Singaporeans (38 percent) think they will be spending more online this year. Seventy ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: There is a new breed of technology entrepreneurs looking to cater to the country’s emphasis on education. By building automated homework assistance tools, online marketplaces to find and book tutors, as well as using data analytics to take a ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd (SGX: S63) is an engineering conglomerate with four main business segments, namely, Aerospace, Electronics, Land Systems, and Marine. The company recently announced its 2016 full year results. Given the complexity of ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE - Lawyers will soon get support from the Government to adopt technology in their law practices, under a new $2.8m scheme launched on Monday (Feb27). The Tech Start for Law programme will fund up to 70 per cent of the first-year's cost for ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: A S$2.8 million programme was launched on Monday (Feb 27) to help small- and medium-sized Singapore law firms adopt technology, announced the Ministry of Law, the Law Society of Singapore and SPRING Singapore. Small and medium firms - those ... ( read original story ...)

And check out what other tech plans PM Lee has in mind. Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong envisions the country to shape technology more as it gears toward the realisation of the Smart Nation Initiative. During the dialogue at Camp Sequoia ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE – To get small and medium-sized law firms to start using technology to be more productive, a S$2.8 million kitty has been set aside, giving firms up to 70 per cent discounts when they buy new tech solutions. These can be practice management ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE - Singapore plans to roll out sweeping technology initiatives to boost efficiency and improve lives, from a national digital identity service to an integrated network of sensors islandwide. But the Republic is not moving quickly enough to adopt ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: A year after the completion and launch of the first made-in-Singapore commercial Earth observation satellite, TeLEOS-1, ST Electronics is poised to build a second one, it announced on Thursday (Feb 23). TeLEOS-2, which will be developed in ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE, Feb. 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Enterprise Solutions and Nanyang Technology University's (NTU) Business School are joining forces to analyze and better understand economic and insurance loss experienced by global insurers from ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore, 23 February, 2017 - Singtel and Ericsson are working together to pilot Massive MIMO and Cloud RAN on Singtel's 4G LTE network. Both technologies are key components in the evolution to 5G that will enable Singtel to expand its mobile network ... ( read original story ...)

Norway, Singapore and Hungary all topped 30 megabits, a cut-off that OpenSignal calls "a high bar to achieve, as it requires not only having powerful LTE networks but also extremely high access to those 4G connections." Canada fared comparatively well ... ( read original story ...)