CA Private Cloud Accelerator for VCE Vblock Platforms Announced

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Feb 012012
 

CA Private Cloud Accelerator for Vblock Platforms is a new solution that drives Business Service Innovation by enabling IT to provide rapid, predictable and secure provisioning and delivery of cloud infrastructure and critical IT and business services.

Enterprises and managed service providers (MSPs) use cloud management software to enable their Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings. Many organizations are evaluating and testing converged private cloud architectures, such as Vblock Platforms, that allow IT resources to be dynamically pooled and shared across multiple physical and virtual computing environments.

CA Private Cloud Accelerator for Vblock Platforms is designed to address these expectations by offering standardization, a rapid provisioning process and performance predictability.

Adobe Announces Flash Media Server 4.5 and Flash Access 3.0

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Sep 082011
 

With Adobe Flash Media Server 4.5, media publishers are able to expand their mobile reach via Flash-enabled devices and deliver content to Apple’s iPad and iPhone devices. Additionally, Adobe Flash Access 3.0 will enable content owners to deliver on-demand content with massive scale and strict studio-level security across a broad range of devices. The launch of these two solutions are aimed at streamlining the creation to delivery workflow for developers and publishers.

New features of Adobe Flash Media Server 4.5:

  • Delivery to iPad and iPhone enables businesses to use the same media and live streams to deliver full adaptive bit-rate experiences to platforms supporting Flash, as well as Apple devices, including iPad and iPhone.
  • Integrated Content Protection simplifies deployment and reduces infrastructure cost, enabling seamless streaming for advertising-funded online video.
  • On-demand Stream Packaging eliminates the need to prepare and protect assets ahead of time, reducing complexity and storage costs and simplifying publishing for businesses so they can use one set of source video to reach multiple downstream devices.

New features of Adobe Flash Access 3.0:

  • Support on Mobile Devices will include Android tablets and smartphones, as well as other mobile devices.
  • Scalable License Delivery and in-band Key Rotation enables Multichannel Video Programming Distributors (MVPDs) and programmers to offer television experiences over IP, whether over the open Internet or on a managed network, at massive scale.
  • Compatibility with Industry Standards including UltraViolet, an industry-standard cloud-based digital rights locker system that will allow consumers to create personal virtual video libraries and access them across multiple devices.

SingTel offers SAP Business One hosting on SingTel PowerON

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Aug 232011
 

SingTel launches their new SAP Business One hosted on SingTel PowerON cloud-based business management solution for Small and Medium Enterprises (SME). SAP Business One gives SMEs the freedom to streamline and manage their sales, customer relationships, inventory, business processes and operations on-the-go via internet-enabled smartphones, tablets and PCs.

Powered by SingTel’s cloud computing capabilities, SAP Business One  is offered on a monthly subscription basis. SMEs do not need to make upfront investments in equipment, avoiding the on-going costs of managing and maintaining complex systems and hardware. This allows them to save up to 60% on their operating costs and reduces the set-up time from months to days. Companies can make the most of their resources and focus on their core business competencies.

Key Features:

  • Mobility: Manage customers, inventory and sales information, carry out approvals on-the-go via smartphones, tablets and PCs.
  • Business Management: Automate, integrate, and manage all business processes.
  • Warehouse and Production Management: Manage inventory across multiple warehouses, track stock movements, and manage production orders based on material requirements planning.
  • Customer Relationship Management: Grow customer profitability and increase customer satisfaction with effective sales and opportunity management, and after-sales support.
  • Purchasing: Automate procurement processes from purchase order to vendor invoice payment.
  • Intelligence and Reporting on the go: Act on instant and complete information with comprehensive, real-time reports with Crystal Reports.

Pricing:
Set up cost – SGD$4800
5-user subscription for 1 year – SGD$8448

For more information, visit http://info.singtel.com/large-enterprise/cloud-computing-poweron.

RIM Launches Free Online Service BlackBerry Management Center for Small Business for Singapore

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Aug 232011
 

RIM launches their free online service – BlackBerry Management Center – for small businesses to centrally manage company- or employee-owned BlackBerry smartphones in the cloud and protect business-related content stored on the handsets. The service is designed for businesses with up to 100 BlackBerry smartphones that access email services from an Internet service provider (ISP) or web-based email services like Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo!.

BlackBerry Management Center makes it easy to manage company- or employee-owned smartphones in the cloud, and helps to minimize risk from lost or stolen handsets to keep business moving forward.

Small businesses can use the service to:

  • Wirelessly back up BlackBerry smartphones automatically on a daily, weekly or monthly basis to aid in the recovery of lost business-related content stored on the handset.
  • Protect content on an employee’s lost or stolen BlackBerry smartphone by remotely locking it and, if necessary, wiping the contents, including the microSD card.
  • Locate a lost BlackBerry smartphone by remotely locking it, initiating a loud ring, and displaying a message on the Home screen.
  • Easily restore the settings and content on a new or replacement device.
  • Reset a password.

Using Facebook to Recognize You and Getting Your Information

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Aug 152011
 

Alessandro Acquisti from Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University presented a research on how they could essentially get every private data about you from just your face, with the help of Facebook’s database of images.

The research called “Faces of Facebook: Privacy in the Age of Augmented Reality“, shows how the lack of privacy on Facebook (and other social networks), or rather the lack of awareness and privacy management, can allow anyone including yourself find out about their names, where they live, cell numbers, birthdays, monikers, sexual orientation, credit ratings, social security numbers (or NRICs), even inferring various information – basically everything about you in an instant by just your face.

Combine that with your phone’s camera, Augmented Reality, and cloud computing to crunch and data-mine those data, and I can walk down the street, flash my phone at you and I will know everything about you.

Scary? It’s becoming a reality. It’s only a matter of time.

Find out more about the research, experiments, and capabilities - http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~acquisti/face-recognition-study-FAQ/

Kleekbots, FaceCars, ToyCloud – Combining Physical Toys with the Internet

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Aug 122011
 

MakeAffinity is launching Kleekbots and sneak preview of FaceCars at the Singapore Toy, Game and Comic Convention (STGCC).

Kleekbots is a website that lets owners of the Lego Mindstorms NXT robotics kit view and control their robot with their iPhone, iPod Touch, Android, iPad and other devices instantly. With Kleekbots, Lego Mindstorms owners can share control of the robot with their friends by sending it through email. The service requires a PC with Internet connection. The setup process involves 3 simple steps: Sign up to the service at the Kleekbots website; download and run the Kleekbots application on the PC; and connect the robot and a webcam (optional) to the PC. Mobile devices control and view the robot through a web app via the devices’ web browser.

Kleekbots is a service with free and paid plans starting from 99 cents.

FaceCars is a new kind of radio controlled car. It comes with a remote controller that has a USB connection for connecting to a PC. This allows the RC car to be controlled from an iPhone, Android, iPod Touch, iPad, and other smart devices as well as from a PC and even over Facebook.

Exact FaceCars pricing has not been announced, but it is hinted to be between $50 to $100.

MakeAffinity will also be launching a business to business service to help toy makers create social toy sites for their toys. The ToyCloud service helps toy makers to increase the value of their toys by integrating them with Facebook, YouTube and mobile devices such as the iPhone, Android, iPod Touch and iPad in as little as 30 days.

Winners of the SiTF Awards 2011

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Aug 032011
 

The Singapore infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF) announced the winners of this year’s SiTF Awards, the most coveted local infocommunications technology (ICT) industry awards today, which aim to promote and to recognize innovations developed in Singapore. This year, thirteen teams triumphed in their respective categories to clinch the top awards, out of the 177 entries received. The outstanding applications which emerged as winners this year are able to utilize ICT to improve processes and even help to save lives in exciting categories like Cloud Technology, Interactive Ideas, Mobile applications and more.

The full list of winners of the 2011 SiTF Awards is as follows:

# Award Categories Name of Organisation Name of Product/ Application Description
1. Cloud Technology m9 Tech Solutions Pte Ltd Oystor Leveraging on cloud technology, Oystor makes sharing, securing, and managing files easy and accessible, which results in boosting productivity.
2. Digital Media SingTel Idea Factory Pte Ltd De!ite SingTel’s De!ite is an e-magazine app that promotes interaction by letting users perform keyword searches, make side notes, bookmark articles and sync to Facebook and Twitter.
3. E-Enterprise SMRT Corporation Ltd Vehicle Damage Assessment System Using wireless technology, users can connect to the system while at the workshop via mobile devices, letting them capture vehicle repair information in real time.
4. E-Government Integrated Health Information Systems Pte Ltd Closed-Loop Medication Management System Leveraging on automation, human error is now reduced while ward efficiency improved with two-factor authentication. National University Hospital (NUH) and Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) were the first two hospitals in Asia Pacific to fully implement this electronic end-to-end closed-loop inpatient medication management system.
5. Emerging Technology Argentra Pte Ltd Print Access Management (PAM) An innovative solution that gives full control and visibility on every print job, including its content, increasing security and authenticity.
6. Interactive Ideas Dr. Dana Elliott Srither CROWDSAV – Mass Collaboration in Resuscitation This smartphone app will enable anyone to provide effective chest compressions during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on cardiac arrest victims.
7. Mobile Applications Multimedia Centre, Singapore Press Holdings STOMP* An iPhone app that empowers the citizen journalist to contribute material, view STOMP content and interact with other members.
8. Start-up YFind Technologies Pte Ltd Indoor Positioning Solution Tapping on existing WiFi wireless networks, this indoor positioning system that works as a mobile app, provides customers with accurate, affordable and hassle-free indoor localization solutions.
9. Primary Student Tampines Primary School Interactive Game on Global Warming These innovative solutions range from computer games that educate about environmental awareness, to mobile apps that promote easy learning through an accessible and simplified school portal, right up to an integrated system for civil defense agencies that can determine what an entire rescue operation requires.
10. Secondary Student Crescent Girls School iPortal: Improving Communication and Learning in School
11. Tertiary Student Singapore Polytechnic, School of Digital Media and Infocomm Technology Silver Radar
12. ICT Team Excellence – Technical Support Tata Consultancy Services Singapore The use of technology in business processes has enabled companies to improve the technical support resolution duration by 10 times. In marketing, it has also shortened the time to market and provided the ability to reach out to the right user at right time and place.
13. ICT Team Excellence – Marketing Smoov Pte Ltd

*Denotes the Judges’ Choice

Windows Server 8 Sneak Peak at WPC 2011 (Video)

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Jul 282011
 


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At Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2011, take a sneak peek at next step in private cloud computing with just two of hundreds of new capabilities coming in the next version of Windows Server, internally code-named “Windows Server 8.” Go to the 36:50 mark of this video for the demo.

Are you excited already?

Singapore infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF) Awards 2011 Finalists

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Jul 192011
 

The SiTF Awards provide recognition to innovative ICT applications or solutions which are developed locally. Having the best of the best in Singapore delivering their finest, the SiTF Awards serve as a good catalyst for industry leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, and anyone interested in the world of Info-comm to gain insights on the latest innovations while creating awareness and driving growth.

52 finalists from multinationals to start-ups, and academic institutions, even primary schools, will be pitching their best innovation to a panel of judges including luminaries of ICT industry, venture capitalists, investors and academia.

Here are the highlights from a selection of the finalists:

  • In the Start-up category – Skydoor created a technology that enables consumers to insert their pictures and videos into 3D virtual worlds and personalize for sharing; Time Voyager developed a 3D MMORPG game engine to provide a complete solution for developers creating next-generation games, virtual reality simulations and other 3D animated content.
  • In the Emerging Technology category – Argentra developed an innovative print access management solution that empowers organizations with full control and visibility on every print job, inclusive of all print contents; Smoov developed a set of motivational widgets for smartphones to help marketers drive e-commerce and has been used by more than a million users.
  • In the Interactive Ideas category – Prevview is the first portal in Asia to utilize Video Resumes in an interactive manner for jobseekers and recruiters; StarCr8 is a developer of education applications, facilitating the synchronous capture of audio and visuals by a tutor directly on an iPad, with various educational enabling tools such as handwriting and text entry, shape recognition, eraser and multiple boards.
  • In the Student categories – Tampines Primary School students created a fun interactive computer game around the theme of global warming; Crescent Girls’ School students developed Wheelopoly, a fun application to provide an interactive learning experience for Singapore’s places of attractions and historical sites; Nanyang Polytechnic students created an Android game leveraging Augmented Reality and made in 3D; Temasek Polytechnic students created an innovative Human-Computer Interaction application, SmartScreen II, that allows the user to direct presentation slides by natural hand gestures.
  • In the Mobile Applications category – Data Security Systems Solutions developed Mobile BetterThanPin, a patent-pending technology that provides two-factor authentication for mobile application users; Live360 developed LiveRun, the world’s first run-for-rewards programme based on the use of a mobile application.
  • In the e-Government category – Integrated Health Information Systems implemented an unique electronic end-to-end closed-loop inpatient medication management system in National University Hospital and Tan Tock Seng Hospital, the first two hospitals in Asia Pacific to do so. The system provides checks on doctors orders, supplies unit dose packaging of tablets with barcodes, automates pharmacy review, supply and billing.
  • In the e-Enterprise category – ITE College East developed an integrated Product Information Management System, consisting of mobile Tank Survey Recording Application and web-enabled Customer Service Portal for Kerry-ITS Terminal to reduce labour and improve business efficiency.
  • In the Cloud Technology category – Intalio offers an integrated platform for developing cloud applications that are natively elastic and multi-tenant; and SingTel PowerON provides an end-to-end suite of cloud-based services for businesses.
The winners of SiTF Awards will be unveiled on 2 August 2011.

Google+ is the Glue between the Google Services (Part 1)

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Jul 142011
 

Google launched Google+ just a few weeks ago, and it has boomed into a relentless hunger from the Social Media scene to be on the newest and hottest social media platform from one of the most popular brands on the planet, Google. However, I still hear a lot of people asking what exactly is Google+, why they should want to be on it, and how to use Google+. Well, I’m going to try to answer all those questions, and talk about what will become possible in future for Google with this new Google+ social media platform.

Be forewarned, this is a pretty heavy article. Read on after the break. Continue reading »

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