EMC plans to open its big data analytics lab and increase partner collaborations to engage local small and midsize businesses, in line with Singapore government's 2013 priorities. SINGAPORE--EMC will be aligning its key business activities in Singapore with local market needs and gove...
Singapore regards cybersecurity as a key challenge. Singapore is shoring up its cybersecurity comptencies with the set up of a new Cyber Security Lab, aimed at providing law enforcers a realistic platform to hone their skills in countering cyberattacks. "Countries around the world are...
From next month, speeds on Singapore's free public Wi-Fi network Wireless@SG will be doubled as part of the government's efforts to boost the country's wireless infrastruture. The access speeds will be raised from 1 megabit per second (Mbps) to a maximum of 2 Mbps, according to Singap...
RSA will hold its APAC conference in Singapore for the first time. SINGAPORE--Security vendor RSA will hold its Asia-Pacific Conference here for the first time, and said the city-state gave it the most support had ever received from a government. To be held in the island-state on June...
StarHub has become Singapore's first telco to launch high definition (HD) Voice, aimed at delivering local calls with higher quality sound. The technology improves speech clarity and reduces background noise, significantly enhancing customers' mobile call experience. "Just like how HD...
Singapore beauty-box startup plans to "conquer" Southeast Asia as it looks to leverage its geographical market advantage, wide network and strong customer service, and target higher end consumers. According to Douglas Gan, CEO and co-founder of VanityTrove , while Southeast Asia is sm...
SINGAPORE--BlackBerry has on Thursday unveiled its flagship smartphone powered by the BlackBerry 10 operating system (OS) in Singapore. In a statement issued Thursday, the Canadian company noted the all-touch Z10 smartphone offers a "faster and smarter experience" that will continuous...
Singaporean men performing sexual acts recorded via Webcam and blackmailed. SINGAPORE--The number of extortion cases involving local men blackmailed over sexual acts recorded via Web-based cameras is increasing. According to a statement released Wednesday by the Singapore Police Force...
KKBOX, a cloud-based music service provider from Taiwan, will officially launch an unlimited pay-per-month service in Singapore and Malaysia this March, as part of expansion plans into Southeast Asia. The company wants to grow its footprint beyond Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan to other ...
Singapore's high mobile penetration and familiarity with location-based services (LBS) mean consumers are prepared for location-based marketing, but more work needs to be done for the necessary supporting infrastructure to catch up. The country's mobile space is coming into its own wi...
Singapore's Ministry of National Development has been instructed to look into corporate governance and the protection of public funds in Town Councils, which are autonomous bodies introduced in 1989 by an Act of Parliament, funded by government monies, and run by elected politicians. ...
SINGAPORE--Google Enterprise will be placing less emphasis on the Singapore market, with its public relations effort now concentrated out of Australia, and there is no longer a dedicated PR executive for its enterprise business here. Google Apps provides e-mail, calendaring and docume...
Singapore is set to have its first 4G spectrum auction in mid-2013, where 27 blocks of airwaves in the 1800 MHz and 2.5 GHz band, will be put up for bidding at a total reserve price of S$360 million (US$294 million). In a statement Wednesday, the Infocomm Development Authority of Sing...
The SEA-ME-WE 3 subsea cable running between Perth and Singapore has been severed, affecting a number of services in Australia and New Zealand. Telecom New Zealand confirmed today that the issue is affecting outbound emails from xtra.co.nz email addresses. The cable was reportedly cut...
Singapore's smallest telco M1 has suffered a partial disruption on its 3G network, preventing some of its customers from using services such as voice and data. In its Facebook post at around 6am Tuesday, the telco advised customers to switch their devices from its 3G network to its 2G...
Singapore's Parliament has passed the amended Computer Misuse Act, which enables the government to thwart potential cyberattacks on critical infrastructure. According to a statement by The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Monday , the government organization is now allowed to order a...
The first effects of the recently discovered Ruby on Rails exploit are beginning to be felt, with the Dutch government pulling its digital ID system briefly offline after realising that it was vulnerable. The Dutch system, called DigiD, allows users to access a number of the governmen...
A critical vulnerability has been discovered in Ruby on Rails that affects almost every version of the framework. A contributor to Rails, Aaron Patterson, raised the issue on a Google Groups thread , which focuses on security issues in Rails, stating that due to the way Rails parses c...
Singapore Polytechnic has launched a Cyber Wargame Center, a facility to train "the cyberdefenders of tomorrow", where students are immersed in an environment to deal with real life security scenarios. According to a statement by the institute on Thursday, the center is part of a coll...
Isn't Apple already a premium, branded consumer company? Wasn't it before it ever experienced its massive growth? Couldn't it be argued that Apple is even less a premium company than it is today, and it's just riding on perception alone? Its most popular product, the iPhone, is priced...
BlackBerry Expert Center frontage SINGAPORE--Research In Motion (RIM) has launched its first BlackBerry Expert Center (BEC) here as part of efforts to step up customer service ahead of the upcoming launch of its operating system, BlackBerry 10 . Singapore is the second country in Asia...
SINGAPORE--German software giant SAP officially opened its SAP Next Business and Technology Research Center in Singapore, which marks the first of the company's refreshed research and development (R&D) centers globally. "While SAP continues to do applied research, that's no longer all...
Paymium, the company running Bitcoin-Central, has entered into a partnership with payment processor Aqoba and French bank Credit Mutuel Arkéa, enabling it to create accounts to hold the bitcoin currency. (Stack of bitcoins isolated on white. Computer generated 3D photo rendering image...
An Austrian man has had his house raided and his hardware confiscated for running a TOR exit node. Austrian man William Weber could face up to 10 years in jail for the distribution and/or production of child abuse material, only, he was never involved in the crimes — his computer was....
SINGAPORE--Big data can help companies gain a competitive advantage, but knowing the context behind the data collection is important to avoid making spurious decisions. "For [Singapore], it's a new natural resource--which we don't have much of," said Janet Ang, managing director of IB...
For many small and midsized busineses (SMBs), freeing up resources from time-consuming tasks can provide a big boost to their productivity and bottomline. According to Singapore-based real estate agency, ECG Property, figuring out how to improve the way it handles paperwork has helped...
Singapore and Bangalore are ranked the world's 17th and 19th most influential startup ecosystem, respectively, signifying a global startup revolution. These findings were published Tuesday in Startup Ecosystem Report 2012 , released by Startup Genome and Telefónica Digital. Based on d...
In a bid to harden Singapore's cyberdefense, the government has proposed upgrades to its Computer Misuse Act. To signify the change in tack, the Computer Misuse Act will be renamed Cybersecurity Act. The new Section 15A will now cover detection in addition to prevention and countering...
In a bid to harden Singapore's cyberdefense, the government has proposed upgrades to its Computer Misuse Act. To signify the change in tack, the Computer Misuse Act will be renamed Cybersecurity Act. The new Section 15A will now cover detection in addition to prevention and countering...
Executives from Singapore and New Zealand have arrived in Sydney to detail to the Australian industry how their own national broadband networks are comparing to Australia's. For starters, both projects are substantially cheaper, albeit for land masses much smaller in size, with lower ...
