The Huawei Band 6 entry-level fitness tracker will launch in Singapore on April 15. Customers can enjoy get one for just S$68 (usual price is S$88) from launch till May 15, 2021 when they present […]
US blacklists 7 China supercomputing organisations
Under the Biden Administraion, the US Department of Commerce is continuing on its trend of blacklisting China companies deemed to be linked to or supporting China’s military. The latest strike involves seven supercomputing — Shanghai […]
OnePlus partners with M1
OnePlus is finally teaming up with a telco in Singapore. The OnePlus 8T is now available at M1 for just S$90 with a two-year plan. This is a evolution of sorts for the China phonemaker […]
RIKEN and Fujitsu team up on quantum computing
RIKENand Fujitsu have established the RIKEN RQC-Fujitsu Collaboration Center to research and develop foundational technologies to put superconducting quantum computers into practical use. The partners will develop hardware and software technologies to realise a quantum […]
Photogram shooting for a smarter camera
Ever wished for a better camera for the smartphone to take nicer photos? While camera capabilities are limited by the phone’s size, startup Photogram is developing an alternative that brings the benefits of the mirrorless […]
LG shuts mobile phone business
LG Electronics has confirmed the closure of its mobile phone business after its faillure to find a suitable buyer. According to the company, the decision to exit the incredibly competitive mobile phone sector will enable […]
Social and collaboration software market to grow 17% in 2021
The worldwide social software and collaboration market is expected to reach US$4.5 billion in 2021, up 17.1 percent from 2020, according Gartner. Two key growth factors are the need to support remote work during COVID-19, […]
ANZ honours Women in AI
The inaugural Australian and New Zealand Women in AI Awards was held on March 26 to honour women who have made invaluable contributions in the field of AI. Held at MCA in Sydney, the awards […]
GS1 celebrates 50th anniversary of GTIN
On March 31, 1971, GS1 introduced the Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) that transformed the global economy and took commerce towards digitalisation. GTIN is the code in the barcode that contains product information stored in […]
80% of IT leaders to adopt cloud-based IAM
Four in five global IT decision-makers have already adopted, or plan to adopt or expand, cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) initiatives over the next two years, according to a ForgeRock and Google Cloud commissioned […]
Half of APAC healthcare organisations to increase IT spending
With COVID-19 vaccinations underway in many countries, more than 45 percent of healthcare organisations in the Asia-Pacific region are planning to increase IT spending to prepare for the next normal, according to IDC. The India […]
Lotte Hotels & Resorts deploys IBM’s ITSM system
Korea’s Lotte Hotels & Resorts has successfully deployed an IT service management (ITSM) system from IBM. The implementation gives it an established standardised IT service processes and systems for chain hotels around the world and […]
Microsoft in Discord acquisition talk
Microsoft is reportedly in talks with Discord over a US$10 billion acquisition. According to sources, the messaging platform has been on the lookout for either a deal or even to go public. It seems that […]
Brazil slaps Apple with US$1.2m fine for selling iPhones without chargers
Apple’s decision not to include a charger for the iPhone 12 series has cost it US1.2 million. Brazil’s Procon-SP consumer protection agency has dished that fine on the smartphone maker. While Apple has defended its […]
Global PC monitor up 8.3% in 2020
Persistent demand powered by the impact of COVID-19 drove the global PC monitor market up 8.3 percent in 2020. This trend is set to continue with another 8.7 percent rise in 2021, according to IDC. […]
Informatica accelerates with NVIDIA
Informatica has boosted its serverless, Spark-based cloud data integration engine with NVIDIA RAPIDS Accelerator for Apache Spark. The accelerated computing power will give users access to end-to-end machine learning operations capabilities by operationalising machine learning […]
Qualcomm seals NUVIA deal
Qualcomm Technologies has completed hte US$1.4 billion acquisition of CPU and technology design company NUVIA. It expects to integrate next generation CPUs across a wide portfolio of products, including powering flagship smartphones, laptops, and digital […]
Facebook to end Watch Party on April 16
Facebook’s Watch Party, which lets users watch videos together, will become history on April 16, 2021. No reason was given for the removal of this feature, which was introduced in 2018. Watch Party comes in […]
VinBrain improves quality of healthcare with AI-infused solutions
Driven by its mission to infuse artificial intelligence (AI) into healthcare, VinBrain has developed AI-based healthcare solutions that help doctors make faster and better-informed decisions, improving the quality and consistency of healthcare to the public. […]
Wearables market shoots up 28.4% in 2020
2020 was a remarkable year for the wearables market. With more people working and learning remotely, demand for such devices rose an astonishing 28.4 percent to 444.4 million units, according to IDC. The research firm […]
Xiaomi off US blacklist
Xiaomi has gotten a reprieve from the US court — it has been taken off the list of companies the US claimed to have links to China’s military. If effected, the blacklist would make it […]
Baidu Apollo wins bid for 5G intelligent driving project in Chengdu
Baidu Apollo has won a US$16.1 million bid to build a 5G intelligent driving project in Chengdu. Under the first of its kind project in Sichuan Province, it will develop 30 kilometres of intelligent connected […]
Renowned AI pioneers to speak at GTC21
This is usually around the time of the year when thousands will gather in San Jose for the annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC). With the pandemic still in the air, this year’s event will be […]
IBM adds executive team members to new services business
IBM has made two key leadership appointments for its new managed infrastructure services business. They are Elly Keinan as Group President and Maria Bartolome Winans as Chief Marketing Officer. Keinan has more than three decades […]
WhatsApp enables voice and video calls on desktop app
WhatsApp has made its desktop app more appealing by adding voice and video call features, bringing it on par with Signal and an edge over Telegram which only allows voice calls. These features were previously […]
Neuron Mobility expands to Korea
Singapore-based Neuron Mobility is launching its fleet of safety-first e-scooters in Seoul, Korea on March 5. This is hot on the heels of the rental electric scooter operator’s success in three cities in Australia and […]
Upping drone flying experience
Drone flyers are in for a treat with the new DJI FPV (first person view). Instead of viewing the flight on a screen, they can now have a cockpit view that takes the flying experience […]
Baidu and China Huaneng Group ink MoU on intelligent energy
Baidu and China Huaneng Group have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to drive the intelligent transformation of the energy industry. Under the MoU, the partners will collaborate on information technology, digital technology and other […]
Pandemic fuels growth in India tablet market in 2020
It took a pandemic to stem four years of decline in India’s tablet market. COVID-19 fuelled a 14.7 percent year on year growth to 2.8 million units in 2020, according to IDC. The rising demand […]
HP guns for HyperX
HP has agreed to acquire HyperX, the gaming division of Kingston Technology, for US$425 million. The move will strengthen HP’s offerings and drive growth in the gaming and peripherals market. HyperX’s gaming-related products include headsets, […]
Australia passes news media bargaining code
Australia has passed the News Media Bargaining Code to get Facebook, Google and other tech platforms to pay Australian publishers for showing their contents in posts and searches. Under the code, Facebook and Google will […]
NVIDIA to speak on AI and HPC in COVID-19 battle at SCA21
With the world still reeling from COVID-19, NVIDIA will be sharing at SupercomputingAsia (SCA) 2021 how high performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) are playing integral parts in the battle against the pandemic. At […]
Facebook and Australia: Friends again
Australia should be able to view news on their Facebook feeds again in the next few days. This about turn comes after the Australian government agreed to change its proposed media bargaining law aimed at […]
Samsung tops smartphone market in 2020 as Apple inches closer
Despite a 14.6 percent year-on-year decline, Samsung maintained its pole position in the global smartphone market in 2020, according to Gartner. Apple sailed past Huawei to take the second spot with 3.3 percent annual growth. […]
Dell opens US$50m Global Innovation Hub in Singapore
Dell Technologies has set up a US$50 million research and development (R&D) facility in Singapore that’s plugged in to its network of Global Innovation Hubs around the world. The Singapore centre will focus on R&D […]
TransferWise becomes Wise
London-based TransferWise has been renamed as Wise and expanded its Singapore office to larger premises with more than 70 additional headcount in 2021. Launched in 2011, the money transfer company has built a cross-border payments […]
WhatsApp presses on with update
Despite the pushback from users, WhatsApp is determined to press on with its privacy updates. Since news broke of the changes to privacy terms and conditions, the messaging app has faced what it deemed as […]
Enter the CMP
NVIDIA seems to have adopted a two-pronged approach towards solving its GPU availability challenge and the high demand from cyptocurrency miners. The first step by halving hash rate or cryptcurrency mining efficiency of the new […]
Epic takes Apple battle to EU
Epic Games has upped the ante in its battle with Apple by filing an antitrust complaint in the European Union (EU). The move follows similar lawsuits in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom. […]
No more news sharing and viewing on Facebook in Australia
Facebook has taken the drastic step of blocking publishers and people in Australia from sharing or viewing Australian and international news. This ban is in response to the Australian government’s proposed new Media Bargaining law, […]
Parler returns
One month after it was hooked offline by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Parler has returned online. In various reports, it seems that Parler’s lifeline came from SkySilk, a Los Angeles-based cloud platform. Its resurrection must […]
Google, Microsoft and Qualcomm up in arms against NVIDIA deal
NVIDIA’s US$40 billion acquisition of Arm has gotten Google, Microsoft and Qualcomm all worked up. According to reports, the three tech companies have made their concerns known to regulators in China, the European Union, the […]
Baidu rolls out MaaS platform in Guangzhou
Baidu has partnered with the Guangzhou Huangpu District government to roll out a multi-modal autonomous driving mobility as a service (MaaS) platform in Guangzhou, China. Utilising a fleet of more than 40 Apollo Robotaxis and […]
Xiaomi unveils Mi 11
Disregarding its battle with the US government, Xiaomi has forged ahead to launch it Mi 11 flagship globally. The latest smartphone comes with Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 chipset, 108MP triple rear camera, cinematic audio, and 50W […]
Parler axes CEO
Parler CEO John Matze has been fired by the company’s board. According to his memo to staff (reported by Fox News), Matze noted that on January 29, 2021, “the Parler board controlled by Rebekah Mercer […]
South Korea tops world innovation ranking
South Korea has reclaimed the top in the latest Bloomberg Innovation Index ranking. It ousted Germany, which slide to fourth behind Singapore and Switzerland. Sweden, Denmark, Israel, Finland, the Netherlands, and Austria complete the top […]
Explore Singapore on Monopoly
First Wave Agency and Hasbro have launched Monopoly Explore! SG to give those in Singapore an engaging digital experience of the island from their devices. Downloadable from Play Store now and AppStore from February 22, […]
Bridge builds 3rd data centre in Malaysia
Bridge Data Centres is building a third data centre in Malaysia. When completed in Q2 2022, it will deliver 16 megawatts (MW) of IT capacity. Called MY03, the new data centre is located at Bukit […]
Budget Direct Insurance offers 24-hour online emergency assistance
Singapore’s Budget Direct Insurance has launched a 24/7 online emergency support for motorists and travellers seeking assistance while on the road in Singapore or travelling in Malaysia or South Thailand. The link from the company’s […]
Xiaomi sues US government
Xiaomi has filed a lawsuit against the US government in a bid to be removed from the list of companies the US claimed to have links to China’s military. The blacklist, if effected, would make […]
Telegram sweetens WhatsApp migration by enabling chat history move
Telegram has gained more than 100 new users in January, the bulk of whom were probably former WhatsApp users who were peeved by new terms and privacy policy. And Telegram has just added an incentive […]
Apple drives smartphone market growth in Q4
The success of its iPhone 12 series propelled Apple to the top of the smartphone market with 23.4 percent share in Q4, according to IDC Apple shipped 90.1 million devices in that quarter to drive […]
NVIDIA certifies AI systems
With AI systems on the rise due to increasd interest in the technology, NVIDIA has introduced the NVIDIA-Certified Systems programme to qualify systems that deliver the performance, programmability and secure throughput enterprise AI needs. Optimised […]
Qualcomm integrates Alexa with Snapdragon automotive cockpit platform
Qualcomm Technologies is pre-integrating Alexa Custom Assistant with its Snapdragon automotive cockpit platforms. This arrangement is designed to support automotive OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers to build customisable, in-vehicle intelligent assistants. It is offered as an […]
Digital key enables car access with smartphone
LG Innotek has deveoped a digital car key module that can be used to lock or unlock, as well as start a vehicle using a smartphone. Once installed in a car, the digital car key […]
Gartner expects IT spending to grow 6.2% in 2021
Worldwide IT spending is expected to reach US$3.9 trillion in 2021, up 6.2 percent from 2020, according to Gartner. Enterprise software is expected to have the strongest rebound of 8.8 percent as remote work environments […]
Google in Aussie showdown
Faced with a proposed new Australian law on having to pay news sites for links to their articles, Google is threatening to pull the search engine out of the continent. Google is not the only […]
PT Telkom to develop AI applications with new NVIDIA DGX A100 supercomputer
As Indonesia’s first NVIDIA DGX A100 supercomputer user, PT Telkom plans to use the system to develop artificial intelligence (AI)-based computer vision and 5G-based applications to support and advance its businesses. With NVIDIA DGX A100 […]
LG reviews mobile business
Amid reports that it is exiting the smartphone business, LG Electronics has shared that it is thoroughly reviewing the direction and open to all possibilities. The move comes on the back of 23 consecutive quarters […]
Goodbye, DBS 2FA token!
Come April 1, DBS Bank customers need no longer use the physical 2FA token for online and mobile transactions — that’s one less device to carry. The bank has decided to go fully digital and […]
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