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Micropolis Calls In The Liquidators
News Coopers and Lybrand has been appointed administrator while in the US the company has filed for Chapter 11, with parent company Singapore Technologies retaining the storage products. Micropolis has been in trouble before and was bought by Singapore...
[November 17, 1997, 10:12]
Singapore Hopes To Lead Future Tech Trends
News Singapore's first technology blueprint, released in July 2000, identified broadband and mobile wireless technologies as key areas of focus while the second roadmap last March highlighted home networking and e-commerce security as trends to watch.
[March 4, 2002, 11:47]
Luxury Phone Sticks To The Basics
News Last month, the firm opened another retail store in Singapore and Rees said plans to expand its direct presence in Hong Kong and China are also in the pipeline. Mobile phones also serve as status symbols, especially in countries like Singapore and...
[February 10, 2004, 9:10]
IBM Teams Up With Singapore's Chartered
News Under the deal, IBM Microelectronics and Singapore's Chartered, a foundry that makes chips on behalf of companies that don't have their own factories, will jointly develop manufacturing processes for 90-nanometre chips and 65-nanometre chips on...
[November 27, 2002, 9:15]
Community Key To Businesses' Web 2.0 Success
News Driving home this message were bloggers and industry practitioners at Microsoft's recent Remix web developer conference held in Singapore. Jennifer Lewis, editor of Stomp (Straits Times Online Mobile Print), the online portal of Singapore newspaper...
[July 27, 2007, 9:16]
The Day Ahead: Sizing Up The Internet Incubators
News But the company has invested in some key startups such as Sino.com, a Chinese portal, Hifi.com, an e-tailer, Mediaring.com, a Singapore-based Internet telephony provider. Mediaring went public in November and trades on the Singapore Stock Exchange.
[February 7, 2000, 11:56]
Singapore Signs Up To US Copyright Law
News On Tuesday, the US and Singapore signed a trade agreement that affirms both nations' commitment to punishing people who bypass copy-protection technologies -- such as those used in most DVDs, a small number of CDs and some computer software.
[May 7, 2003, 11:43]
Japan Gets To Work On 4G Comms
News With our new Singapore centre and research alliances, we hope to develop technologies with results that can attain international standardisation," said Masayuki Fujise, director of CRL's Wireless Communications Laboratory.
[May 6, 2003, 15:47]
Simputer 'not Just A Poor Man's PC'
News They had pictures of farmers in India holding it, but it was for publicity," said Desiraju, CEO of Encore Technologies, the Singapore-based company designing, making and selling the handheld. And in Singapore, restaurant waiters are using Simputers...
[November 6, 2003, 11:00]
Oracle Bolsters Asian Marketing Fund
News Oracle's allies in the region include Singapore-based Ecquaria Technologies and ECS, Neusoft Group in China, and India's i-flex solutions and Satyam Computer Services. For example, partners can be paid up to 10 percent of the value of a successful...
[June 17, 2002, 7:32]
Freescale Joins IBM In Semiconductor Alliance
News Other chipmakers that have lined up with IBM include AMD, Sony, Toshiba, German memory maker Infineon and Singapore's Chartered Semiconductor. IBM, offers up similar technologies in its various alliances.
[January 23, 2007, 8:31]
Home Networking Spreads Round Globe
News In Singapore, the Info-communications Development Authority of Singapore in January commissioned a S$17m experiment to conduct trials of smart home technologies in more than 400 households. LG Electronics, one of Korea's largest firms, is rushing...
[August 8, 2003, 10:25]
IBM To Produce Nvidia Chips
News IBM has also teamed with Singapore's Chartered Semiconductor to share technology and manufacturing capacity. The graphics chipmaker will not use IBM's more exotic manufacturing technologies -- such as the silicon-on-insulator technique, which helps...
[March 26, 2003, 7:39]
SARS Illness Disrupts Asian Business Plans
News Thailand is taking strict precautions with travellers from countries affected by the disease, according to a report in The Straits Times of Singapore. The disease also has affected operations at a Singapore plant of Motorola.
[April 3, 2003, 10:04]
Seven Wants A Bite Of The BlackBerry Market
News Seven first managed a foothold, some years ago, in Asia to supply premium email to handsets through NTT DoCoMo and KDDI in Japan and SingTelGroup in Singapore. The acquisition vaults Seven, of Redwood City, California, past Good Technologies and...
[April 11, 2005, 10:10]
Akamai, Chartered Semi IPOs Take Off
News The Singapore semiconductor wafer foundry priced its 22.5 million shares at $20, way above its price range of $16-$18. Charter's top five customers are Hewlett-Packard, Lucent Technologies, Level One Communications, Broadcom and Conexant.
[November 1, 1999, 11:41]
Chipmakers Join Forces On Nano Research
News Next year, development will move to Singapore, where UMC already has struck separate deals with AMD and Infineon to build large wafer fabs. Chipmakers AMD and Infineon Technologies, together with Taiwan's UMC, are collaborating to create faster...
[July 30, 2002, 13:14]
US Exports DMCA In Trade Treaty
News In May, the United States and Singapore signed a free-trade agreement (FTA) with nearly identical provisions. The agreement "breaks new ground in emerging areas like e-commerce," Singapore prime minister Goh Chok Tong said at the time.
[July 16, 2003, 14:12]
Asian Surfers Set For Bandwidth Boon
News Internet users in Asia can look forward to enhanced online connectivity, thanks to an upcoming 1,000km cable spanning Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand. A consortium comprising Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel), the Communications Authority of...
[December 2, 2002, 11:38]
Asia-Pacific Pilots Wi-Fi Roaming
News Telstra and several Asian telecommunications carriers are understood to be preparing to launch a pilot of a roaming Wi-Fi service, encompassing networks in at least Australia, Singapore, China and Malaysia, from tomorrow.
[July 22, 2003, 8:57]
