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Window shopping is getting easier for technology innovations in Singapore.
Window shopping is getting easier for technology innovations in Singapore.
Mention innovation in China and some would scoff and point to the "innovative" imitations the Chinese have become so apt at producing. The increasing popularity of Pinterest, for instance, already has spawned numerous clones in China.
For first time, country will hold three global events together--World Cities Summit, Singapore International Water Week and inaugural CleanEnviro Summit--to provide wider and integrated platform for exchange of ideas to tackle increasingly complex problems.
We take stock of Singapore government's Intelligent Nation 2015 and find out how organizations in the island-state have adopted ICT to drive business growth and innovation.
On the surface it's an iPod knock-off, with an FM radio and talking clock. But it also has a scanner and digital recorder. All the buttons are voice-activated, telling you what they do when you press them. It comes with 20 RFID labels which you can program (and re-program) to describe, say, the medicine bottle in a cabinet.
Duncan Fisken, managing director (Asia Pacific) of e-business solutions provider Netegrity, is not about to succumb to the superfluous overspill of technological trappings that surround us.
Singapore - The Singapore Prisons Department (SPD) has adopted the use of NEC Plasma monitors for their video-conferencing system to make communication between prison inmates and their families more convenient and effective.NEC’s Plasma Monitors will be deployed for this system and the first units were installed in March this year.