WITH the world becoming digitised, data centres (DCs) have assumed the role of vital cogs in the IT infrastructure. DCs are today one of the fastest growing investment areas in IT and this plays well into Singapore s strategy of becoming a DC hub for the region.However, not all is smooth sailing. Energy needs of DCs are huge and this is becoming a major concern not only from the profitability ...

TELEVISION sets breathtakingly clearer than existing high definition displays wow visitors who care to step into the landmark Sony showroom in Tokyo s ritzy Ginza shopping district. These so called 4K TV sets will go on sale next month as part of the Japanese electronic giant s plans to resuscitate itself. Last month, the once iconic company launched a new super high speed fibre optic service ...

TOKYO Struggling Japanese electronics giant Sony booked its first annual net profit in five years, offering a glimmer of hope for the former market leader. However, Sony s jump back into the black was largely due to fluctuations in the yen s value and a string of asset sales, including unloading its Manhattan office building for more than US$1 billion (S$1.23 billion). The firm s chief ...

SCIENTISTS here are hoping to build robots able to respond to simple spoken instructions opening up many exciting applications. And they are developing ground breaking technologies to take the analysis of satellite imagery to a more sophisticated level. This is just some of the cutting edge work on the agenda at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), a unit of the Agency for Science, ...

SHIPMENTS of tablets will reach 172.4 million units this year and jump to 282.7 million units by 2016, according to International Data Corporation. The rise has been prompted by several factors including connectivity and the provision of information at people s fingertips.Connectivity engenders being socially connected, allowing for collaboration and the sharing of ideas.From a corporate ...

Local firm s software used in GPS devices, Google Maps mobile app FEW people would realise that the Singapore traffic data in their Google Maps mobile application is provided by a small start up that began at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Mr Saurav Bhattacharyya, the 34 year old co founder of Quantum Inventions, admits to his firm s relatively low profile. We need to ...

CYBERSECURITY firm FireEye, Inc plans to establish a regional customer support centre in Singapore, a move that is supported in part by the Economic Development Board. The regional customer support centre, which will be launched in roughly two to three months, is expected to tap Singapore s local pool of talent, creating more than a hundred new jobs within the next three years. This is a big jump ...

UNITED States information management giant EMC will be opening a big data analytics laboratory here in June. It will be EMC s first such facility to be located outside the US. Big data is one of the fastest growing areas of the tech industry. It refers to vast reams of complex data that many businesses are struggling to manage. This can range from old fashioned documents to the huge proliferation ...

AMERICAN technology firm Seagate Technology has become the first company to ship two billion hard disk drives worldwide. The hard disk drive manufacturer s journey to this milestone was fuelled by a recent explosion in demand for storage from mobile applications, cloud infrastructure, social media, business applications and a wide variety of consumer markets. It took Nasdaq listed Seagate 29 ...

DBS Group Research, Feb 18 Feb 18 close $4.04 RESULTS for Q4 2012 and FY2012 were in line with estimates. STE reported net profit of $576 million for FY2012, up 9 per cent y o y on the back of 6 per cent growth in revenue to $6.4 billion. Earnings were mainly driven by the Aerospace and Electronics segments, but all divisions showed improvement. Results would ...

IT IS best known as the go to site for all things made and shipped out of South Korea from frying pans to cosmetics. But online shopping site Gmarket Singapore s one million registered members have increasingly been buying local. Domestic sales now account for over 65 per cent of all monthly transactions at the e marketplace, which was renamed Qoo10 Singapore in May 2010. The site first became ...

A NEW set of training qualifications has been launched for the assembly and test sector, which is part of the semiconductor industry. The Assembly and Test Singapore Workforce Skills Qualifications framework comprises three qualifications certificate, advanced certificate and diploma. These cover workers from the rank and file to professionals, managers, executives and technicians. It was ...

IT seems investors can t get enough of Indian bonds. Yesterday, Tata Communications $250 million three year bond sale received over $3 billion in orders. Two weeks earlier, ICICI Bank, India s second largest commercial bank, sold its first public Singapore dollar bond here, also amid overwhelming demand. Orders totalled $3 billion for the $225 million seven year debt. Tata Communications is the ...

THE electronics arm of Singapore Technologies Engineering (ST Engg) reeled in $192 million worth of contracts in the closing quarter of last year.In the rail electronics and intelligent transportation segment, ST Electronics secured a project in Malaysia involving implementing a Facility Scada (Supervisory Control & Data Acquisition) System for the Sungei Buloh Kajang mass rapid transit line. It ...