Archive for February, 2022
Monday, February 28th, 2022
Seagate’s cloud storage services and data-harnessing solutions are now available for businesses and start-ups in Singapore to accelerate growth in the digital economy.
“Lyve Cloud and Lyve Labs represent Seagate’s evolution to serve mass data ecosystems. With Singapore being a hub for regional and global industry-leading businesses, innovators and disruptive startups, it was a natural choice for us to bring these offerings to Singapore. I am delighted to mark Seagate’s 40th anniversary in Singapore with these transformative platforms,” said Dave Mosley, Seagate CEO.
Seagate Technology Holdings, a world leader in data storage infrastructure solutions, announced today the launch of its Lyve Cloud and Lyve Labs in Singapore.
Lyve Cloud is Seagate’s premiere cloud storage-as-a-service platform and Lyve Labs is a collaborative innovation hub to create solutions that harness the flow of data.
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Tags:cloud, EDB, Equinix, launch, Lyve, offices, Seagate, Singapore
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Sunday, February 27th, 2022
At the Huawei Spring 2022 Smart Office Launch, Huawei announced an enhanced Super Device concept for its Smart Office Scenario, as well as seven new PC products.
Huawei Smart Office: Seven new PC products and an enhanced Super Device concept.
At the launch event, Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei Consumer Business Group announced the launch of seven PC products for Smart Office, including: its latest flagship laptop, its first all-in-one PC, a new 2-in-1 laptop, its first E-Ink tablet, a new HarmonyOS tablet, the company’s first-ever printer, and a new portable speaker.
Huawei has announced a slew of seven new products during its Spring 2022 Smart Office Launch online.
He also announced an enhanced Super Device capability to extend support of the feature to projectors.
The seven new PC products for Huawei’s Smart Office are below.
- Huawei MateBook X Pro
- Huawei’s latest flagship laptop
- Huawei MateBook E
- Huawei’s first OLED laptop
- Huawei MateStation X
- Huawei’s first all-in-one PC
- Huawei MatePad Paper
- Huawei’s first E-ink tablet
- Huawei MatePad
- Huawei PixLab X1
- Huawei’s first multi-functional laser printer
- Huawei Sound Joy
- Huawei’s first portable speaker
These launches work towards Huawei’s vision of “Boundless Creation and Seamless Communication” for its Smart Office.
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Tags:AIOs, computers, events, Huawei, new arrivals, printers, speakers, tablets
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022
Developed in-house, Singtel boasts that Paragon is the industry’s first all-in-one orchestration platform for 5G edge computing and cloud services.
The Paragon platform significantly reduces the complexity and time needed to adopt 5G MEC and low latency applications and services – lowering the barriers to entry for enterprises, enabling faster deployment of use cases while removing considerable operational and cost overheads. Photo shows Bill Chang, Chief Executive Officer, Group Enterprise, Singtel. Credit: Singtel.
Singtel today launched Paragon, a platform that enables enterprises to tap into Singtel’s 5G network to activate network slices on demand, deploy mission critical applications on Singtel MEC (multi-access edge compute) as well as access a robust eco-system of partner applications, offering them control and choices.
The platform also empowers enterprises to securely deploy applications in a hybrid fashion across the edge at Singtel MEC and a public cloud of their choice.
More details below from the press release.
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Tags:5G, events, networking, SingTel, telcos
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Wednesday, February 16th, 2022
FastCo, the company behind FastJobs, one of Asia’s non-executive job portal for both jobseekers and employers, today announced the official launch of its new app FastGig.
The launch of FastGig rides on the recent growth of the gig economy.
FastGig boasts that it is Singapore’s first “workforce as a service” (WaaS) platform that helps to match qualified flexible workers with businesses looking for solutions to headcount constraints and labour shortage, especially during seasonal peaks.
It claims to be one of the first job apps for gig workers in the Southeast Asian region.
More details below from the press release.
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Tags:Apps, FastCo, FastGig, new arrivals, Singapore
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Tuesday, February 15th, 2022
Google Pixel 6 (S$999) and Google Pixel 6 Pro (S$1,299) have arrived in Singapore. They are now available exclusively on the Google Store online, together with a selection of phone cases and accessories.
Google Singapore had sent me both the Pixel 6 Pro and the Pixel 6 to try out prior to today’s launch, so I’ve been playing with both phones for a while now.
Both the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro ship with Android 12 installed and come with 128GB storage.
Powered by Android 12, Google has given the new phones a new user interface (UI) they call “Material Me”, which provides themed UI skins and widgets that are supposed to be highly customised to your you needs.
The Google Pixel 6 Pro (S$1,299) is available in Stormy Black and Cloudy White with cases (S$49) in Stormy Sky, Soft Sage, Light Frost and Golden Glow.
The phones are powered by Google Tensor, the company’s first processor that’s basically a mobile system on a chip designed specifically around Google’s AI engine.
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Tags:flagship, Google, new arrivals, Pixel, reviews, smartphones
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Friday, February 11th, 2022
Dell has announced major updates across its Alienware gaming mobility family and peripheral ecosystem, including the world’s thinnest 14” gaming laptop; its most powerful 17-inch AMD Advantage gaming laptop; and the world’s first Quantum Dot OLED gaming monitor.
For extreme gaming performance that delivers a competitive edge, Dell boasts that the Alienware m17 R5 blasts past the competition as the most powerful 17-inch AMD Advantage gaming laptop in the world.
Highlights of Dell’s latest announcements for Alienware include the following.
- The new Alienware x14 – Alienware’s thinnest laptop to date, designed for mobile gamers who want excellent portability.
- Key upgrades to the improved Alienware x15 R2 and Alienware x17 R2, which include a new set of graphics options from NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series, 12th Gen Intel Core processors, faster memory, AlienFX stadium lighting and other features.
- The new Alienware m17 R5, the most powerful 17-inch AMD Advantage gaming laptop in the world and the first available laptop to feature AMD SmartAccess Graphics.
- The Alienware 34 Curved QD-OLED Gaming Monitor (AW3423DW) – the world’s first Quantum Dot OLED (QD-OLED) gaming monitor – which offers stunning colour performance and high luminance with crystal-clear visuals for an immersive gaming experience.
- Other gaming peripherals including the Alienware Tri-Mode Wireless Gaming Headset (AW920H) and the Alienware Tri-Mode Wireless Gaming Mouse (AW720M).
Below are the prices and availability in Singapore as of now.
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Tags:Alienware, DELL, gaming, laptops, monitors, new arrivals
Posted in Accessories, Alienware, Announce, Availability, Dell, Entertainment, Gadgets, gadgets, Gaming, headphones, Monitors, Mouse, newArrivals, Notebooks, notebooks, Press Release, Prices, Specifications | 2 Comments »
Thursday, February 10th, 2022
The fully autonomous vehicles of the not-so-distant future promise tremendous gains in automotive safety and transportation efficiency.
In this guest commentary, Thomas Goetzl from Keysight Technologies shares his insights on how automotive OEMs must move beyond contemporary levels of vehicle autonomy to fulfill this promise.
Keysight’s Radar Scene Emulator (RSE) closes the gap between software simulation and roadway testing, and training ADAS and autonomous driving algorithms to real-world conditions.
SAE International (formerly the Society of Automotive Engineers) defines six levels of vehicle autonomy, with Level 0 representing fully manual and Level 5 representing fully autonomous.
Today’s most advanced autonomous vehicle systems rate only Level 3, which means they are capable of making some decisions such as acceleration or braking without human intervention.
“In order to make the leap to the tremendous gains in automotive safety and transportation efficiency that fully autonomous vehicles promise, OEMs will need to overcome a unique set of challenges for testing automotive radar sensors in advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving systems, as well as developing new methodologies for training algorithms that conventional solutions are ill-equipped to address,” says Thomas Goetzl, vice president of automotive and energy solutions at Keysight Technologies.
Getting from Level 3 to Level 5 will require many breakthroughs, including closing the gap between software simulation and roadway testing, and training ADAS and autonomous driving algorithms to real-world conditions.
Keysight’s latest innovation, the Radar Scene Emulator (RSE), goes a long way toward bridging these gaps.
Software simulation plays an important role in autonomous vehicle development.
Simulating environments through software can help validate the capabilities of ADAS and autonomous driving systems.
But simulation cannot fully replicate real-world driving conditions or the potential for imperfect sensor response — something that fully autonomous vehicles will inevitably have to contend with.
OEMs rely on road testing to validate ADAS and autonomous driving systems prior to bringing them to market.
While road testing is and will continue to be a vital and necessary component of the development process, it is time-consuming, costly, and difficult to repeat specifically in the area of controlling environmental conditions.
Relying on road testing alone to develop vehicles reliable enough to navigate urban and rural roadways safely 100% of the time would take decades.
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Tags:insights, Keysight, opinions, safety, Tech Focus, technology, vehTech
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2022
Samsung Electronics has just unveiled the Galaxy S22 Series 5G flagship smartphones (up to S$1,998) and Galaxy Tab S8 Series tablets (up to S$2,188) during the livestream of their “Unpacked 2022: The Epic Standard” event online. Prices below.
The new Galaxy S22 Series and Galaxy Tab S8 Series were unveiled during Samsung’s Unpacked 2022 event.
The Galaxy S22 Series 5G comprises the following variants.
- Galaxy S22 5G
- Galaxy S22+ 5G
- Galaxy S22 Ultra 5G
The Galaxy S22 Ultra 5G has assimilated the Note series with a built-in S Pen.
Prices, colours and configurations for Samsung Galaxy S22 Series 5G.
The Galaxy Tab S8 Series consists of the following variants.
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Tags:Android, flagship, Galaxy, new arrivals, Samsung, smartphones, unpacked
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Tuesday, February 1st, 2022
Happy Lunar New Year to all the people from cultures that celebrate this traditional festival! And to all Chinese around the world, Happy Chinese New Year!
Watercolour painting of a tiger roaring auspicious wishes for the new year. Painted by @kkmakesandbakes.
It’s the first day of the Lunar New Year. This year, it’s the year of the Tiger, according to the Chinese zodiac.
May you and your family enjoy a healthy and prosperous Lunar New Year, and a blessed 2022!
Tags:Chinese New Year, CNY, greetings, holidays, Lunar New Year
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