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Winners of the SiTF Awards 2011

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

Innovations shown at HP Labs Singapore

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Jun 032011

HP Labs Singapore opened in February 2010 and is HP Labs’ third research site in the Asia Pacific region and seventh worldwide. It serves as a hub for open innovation in the region and represents HP’s investment in driving its Everybody-On vision.

There are two labs in HP Labs Singapore. The Service Platform Lab aims to advance state-of-the-art cloud computing through exploratory and indepth research. The Applied Cloud Computing Lab complements this by focusing on applying existing and new cloud computing research to real world situations.

5 innovations were showcased at the HP Labs Singapore recently:

Mobile Health Monitoring System

Providing anytime anywhere health monitoring system and other related healthcare services through the use of lightweight medical sensors, mobile devices and the cloud. The lightweight medical sensor collects raw health data, the mobile app receives the data and posts them to the data collector in the cloud. The health data is then processed and viewed by subscribers and doctors. Anomalies in the health data will trigger alerts to healthcare service providers to carry out follow up actions instantaneously.

Cloud Dashboard

Cloud Dashboard aims to provide comprehensive cloud infrastructure management in a hybrid cloud environment. It focuses on providing the capability to manage heterogeneous cloud resources across multiple providers, and proposes to be empowered by a multi-tenanted infrastructure management portal with featured tools to meet the requirements of enterprise operations, such as account aggregation, reporting and analytics, corporate account, policy implementation engine, etc.

Trust Cloud

In order to increase the level of confidence in using the cloud, there are preventive measures (e.g. security and privacy) and deterrent measures (e.g. accountability and audit-ability). While preventive measures are actively being researched, there is still little focus on deterrent measures. Trust Cloud aims to propose and develop a suite of inventions and industry solutions which will empower end-users of cloud services with the capabilities to trace, log, and investigate the access, modification and transfer histories of their sensitive data stored within a cloud.

μCloud

μCloud explores the approaches to allow cloud-enabled mobile apps to be easily built by layman users without programming efforts and explores green (i.e., energy efficient) and scalable methods for deploying such apps in a multi-tenancy platform. These include methods to prolong battery life of mobile devices by intelligently offloading resource-intensive tasks to the Cloud.

SoMA

SoMA is a system to support discovery, analysis, and modeling of social intelligence with data mining, natural language processing, and other related technologies. Social intelligence includes a spectrum of knowledge that characterizes human communication, interaction, and collaboration. Examples include insights about what products/features users are discussing, what users’ sentiments about those products/features, and which sets of users are most influential. They have built a Proof-of-Concept system, Voters’ Voice, which applies our technologies to analyze netizen’s online discussions about Singapore General Election 2011 on Twitter and Facebook.

Office 365 is moving to Public Beta

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Apr 182011

Microsoft Office 365 beta is now open to public for registration. If you haven’t done so yet, go join the public beta and try out Microsoft Office 365. It will take about 2-4 weeks to get your registration approved. After you get into the beta, you can visit the Office 365 Community site for more information on using Microsoft Office 365.

Microsoft Office 365 (Plan P1) Beta is a subscription service that combines the familiar Microsoft Office Web Apps with online versions of our next-generation communications and collaboration services:

Email & Calendar
Office Web Apps
Websites & Collaboration
IM & Online Meetings

Encounter SharePoint 2010 Workshop in Singapore

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Apr 012011

Attend the “Encounter SharePoint® 2010″ workshop and discover how to streamline your business processes and drive productivity. At the event, you will experience hands-on sessions for the latest features of Microsoft SharePoint® 2010. Learn how this new Microsoft collaboration solution can:

Improve productivity by gaining more operational insights with centralized administration and new management capabilities to control your SharePoint farms
Scale unified infrastructures for better control over IT resources, improve performance of large lists, and protect server farm availability
Enable flexible deployments with quick-and-easy installation and configuration to maintain more governance control, centralize SharePoint management and run custom codes

Transform the way you collaborate with Microsoft SharePoint 2010.

Diagramming and Collaboration Online Tool

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Jan 052010

When I saw this tool, I thought to myself, “This is what Visio is like on the web, except better.” Cacoo is a an online diagramming tool much like what Visio offers to you, except it has better looking stencils. With the added benefit of being online, it allows you to collaborate between multiple people in real time!

Not only can it just draw simple diagrams like flowcharts, network diagrams, office layout diagrams, UML diagrams, but what I like is the freehand wireframe stencils! Check out my horrible looking UI I drew from the stencils in just a few minutes.