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Wednesday, May 14th, 2014
More than 4,000 fans from around Asia showed up at Shaw House in Orchard Road to catch Hugh Jackman, Fan Bingbing and Peter Dinklage walk down the blue carpet for the South East Asian Premiere of the latest installment of the X-Men movie franchise.
Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) takes a selfie with a throng of fans behind him. Photo credit: Twentieth Century Fox.
The show was an engrossing watch from start to finish, and was candy galore for X-Men fans to oggle at the huge range of mutants past and present, although, some only appeared for a short glimpse.
Fan Bingbing (Blink) taking a selfie with her fans. Photo credit: Twentieth Century Fox.
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Tags:entertainment, Fan Bingbing, Hugh Jackman, Lido, movies, Peter Dinklage, Premiere, reviews, Shaw House, Singapore, TCL, X-Men
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Friday, April 25th, 2014
Dell expects to begin offering switches with Big Switch Networks Switch Light operating system and the Big Switch Networks Big Tap Monitoring Fabric controller in the second quarter of 2014.
Tom Burns, VP/GM Dell Networking (left) and Doug Murray, CEO, Big Switch Networks (right) extolling the benefits of the offerings. Watch the video.
Dell’s open-networking initiative disrupts traditional networking switch model, enabling rapid innovation and customer choice through hardware and software disaggregation.
“Dell’s push into open networking, and this announcement with Big Switch and other vendors, are great examples of original thinking and innovation coming from the new Dell, “said Tom Burns, vice president and general manager, Dell Networking.
The strategic agreement that Dell signed with Big Switch Networks will expand its open ecosystem to provide customer choice for networking hardware and software.
It offers an alternative to “white-box” switching with Dell-branded, validated and integrated systems, global scale, logistics, and enterprise-class services.
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Tags:Big Switch Networks, DELL, enterprise IT, networks, SDN, Singapore
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2014
StarHub today announced the beta launch of Crowdtivate, a crowdfunding platform for entrepreneurs and artists to obtain financial contributions from supporters around the region via a funding system in return for specific rewards.
Watch the YouTube video on StarHub’s Crowd-Funding Platform – Crowdtivate.
Tapping on this crowdfunding platform, participants are able to create awareness of or gather feedback on their ideas or works.
Crowdtivate is currently open to entrepreneurs and artists to propose projects for crowdfunding.
Interested parties can visit www.crowdtivate.com to request for an Invitation Code to enter the platform.
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Tags:crowd, crowd sourcing, Crowdonomic, Crowdtivate, entrepreneurship, funding, StarHub
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Wednesday, December 11th, 2013
Internet connectivity to be boosted by up to 20 percent through the use of Self Organising Networks (SON) solution and small cells technology.
SingTel – Singapore Telecommunications Limited
SingTel is progressively rolling a range of network capacity enhancements to provide faster and more consistent data speeds in busy locations such as shopping malls, event and concert venues, and selected commercial and residential buildings.
Self Organising Networks (SON) solution
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Tags:networks, Singapore, SingTel, SON, telco
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Tuesday, October 1st, 2013
A*STAR’s Business Analytics Translational Centre (BATC) collaborates with Red Hat to Use open source solutions for data analytic applications development.
Witnesses and signing parties of the MOU collaboration between Red Hat and A*STAR’s Business Analytics Translational Centre. From L-R: Ang Wee Tiong, Director, Technology, BATC; Dr. Tan Geok Leng, Executive Director, Science & Engineering Research Council, A*STAR & Chairman, BATC Management Committee; Damien Wong, General Manager, ASEAN, Red Hat; Suresh Sachi, Deputy Managing Director (Corporate & Legal), General Counsel, A*STAR; Jim Whitehurst, President and CEO, Red Hat; Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for the Environment and Water Resources; Jacqueline Poh, Managing Director, IDA; Shankha Sen, Chief Financial Officer, Red Hat Asia Pacific.
Red Hat, Inc., a leading provider of open source solutions, today announced plans for a new collaboration with A*STAR’s Business Analytics Translational Centre (BATC) to help accelerate innovation and drive adoption of business analytics with open source solutions from Red Hat.
“Open source has evolved to become a foundation for innovation. As technology continues to become more of a commodity, the standardization of parts can help spur more rapid innovation,” said Jim Whitehurst, president and CEO of Red Hat.
Jim Whitehurst, president and CEO of Red Hat, was present for the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) today in Singapore with Dr Tan Geok Leng, Chairman of BATC Management Committee and Executive Director for the Science & Engineering Research Council (SERC), A*STAR.
Red Hat will be collaborating with BATC in areas of big data, middleware, Platform-as-a-service (PaaS), cloud and storage, for the innovation and development of current and upcoming analytics projects.
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Tags:A*STAR, analytics, BATC, Big Data, data, Linux, MOU, Open source, Operating System, OS, Red Hat, Singapore
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Friday, September 20th, 2013
Customers in Singapore queued at the three Telcos – SingTel, StarHub and M1 – as well as Apple Premium Resellers (eg. Nubox) as the new iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s became available today.
First two customers in the SingTel queue John Yap (24, accountant) and Doreen Chua (24, auditor). Photo credit: SingTel.
SingTel held its launch sale at the Marina Bay Sands Exhibition Hall E this morning at 8am although customers started queuing at 8pm last night.
Zhang HuanPu (left), 24 years old, had been queuing up outside StarHub Shop at Plaza Singapura since 5am this morning, even though the launch was only at 8am. Photo credit: StarHub.
The iPhone 5s in gold was sold out within the first hour across all 10 StarHub shops.
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Tags:Apple, iPhone, iPhone 5, launch, M1, Marina Bay Sands, news, Nubox, SingTel, smartphones, StarHub
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Thursday, August 22nd, 2013
First announced on 1 July, Canon’s latest DSLR – the EOS 70D – will be available (S$1,499 for body only) at Canon authorised dealers on Friday 23 August 2013.
Canon EOS 70D is embedded with a powerful DIGIC 5+ image processor and a 20.2-megapixel APS-C sized CMOS sensor.
The following are the recommended retail prices:
- Body only: S$1,499
- Kit I (EF S18-55 IS STM): $1,699
- Kit II (EF S18-135 IS STM): $2,049
- Kit III (EF S18-200 IS): $2,149
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Tags:availability, cameras, Canon, DSLR, EOS, photography, price, Singapore
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Tuesday, July 30th, 2013
In a groundbreaking ceremony today, Seagate announced that the new facility will be located at one-north and is expected to completed in early 2015.
“The Shugart’ is Seagate’s S$100m investment in Singapore, and will be completed in early 2015.
The new Design and R&D Centre will be named “The Shugart” – after Seagate’s founder, Alan Shugart – and provide world-class research and development (R&D) facilities for the mobile storage R&D team in Singapore..
“The Singapore R&D team plays a key role within Seagate’s global R&D efforts. With growing consumer demand for tablets and notebooks, the need to innovate within the mobile storage solutions industry is critical,” said Mark Re, Chief Technology Officer & Senior Vice President, Research & Development, Seagate Technology.
The facility will be able to house up to 900 employees, and have have a gross floor area of approximately 40,880 square metres.
The Shugart will comprise a nine-floor tower connected to a six-floor tower with three basement levels.
It will focus on the development of 2.5-inch small form-factor products for notebooks, ultra-books, convertibles and tablets.
The new facility will allow all R&D personnel to be housed together, thus fostering greater collaboration and innovation.
From left: Mike Troemel, Vice President, Development Engineering of Seagate Technology; Bob Whitmore, Technical Advisor of Seagate Technology; Julian Ho, Assistant Managing Director of the Singapore Economic Development Board; and Mark Re, Chief Technology Officer & Senior Vice President, Research & Development of Seagate Technology.
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Tags:data storage, groundbreaking, HDD, R&D, Seagate, Singapore
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Friday, July 12th, 2013
After extensive leaks, Nokia has launched the Lumia 1020 smartphone in New York. Adding the Nokia PureView 808’s 41MP sensor to the Lumia 920, the new Lumia 1020 promises greater image quality, especially in low light.
Expected to reach Singapore in Q4 2013.
Nokia Lumia 1020 will be available in white, black and yellow. The Windows Phone 8 smartphone will have a 41-megapixel camera.
The Lumia 1020 will be available in the US exclusively through AT&T (USD$299.99 with 2-year contract), which will accept preorders from July 16.
The Nokia Camera Grip also comes in 3 colours.
The Windows Phone 8 device will be available online and hit the shelves in the US on July 26.
The Nokia Lumia 1020 will be available in yellow, white and black.
The Lumia 1020 will be sold globally, with the launch in Singapore expected in Q4 2013.
The price of the Lumia 1020 without contract in the US is US$659.99, compared to the off-contract price of US$450 for the Lumia 920.
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Tags:AT&T, cameras, Espoo, Lumia, Lumia 1020, Lumia 920, Microsoft, New York, Nokia, PureView, Singapore, smartphones, Windows Phone, Windows Phone 8
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Monday, June 10th, 2013
This is Tim Cook’s second Apple WWDC at the helm of Apple, with a slew of announcements after a dearth of new products.
Tim Cook’s second WWDC at the helm of Apple.
The annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) this year is being held from June 10 – 14 at San Francisco’s Moscone West.
Tickets went on sale on 26 April earlier this year – with each ticket going for US$1,599.
A compilation of the main releases from the keynote can be found at the Apple WWDC 2013 event page on the tech4tea Facebook page.
Below are the main revelations at the keynote of WWDC 2013
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Tags:Apple, iOS, iOS7, iTunes, MacBook, MacBook Air, Mavericks, OS X, WWDC
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