ITEM: When the Economist Intelligence Unit put Singapore at the top of its first Asian Digital Transformation Index, one angle it didn’t factor in was its smart-city initiatives – at least not specifically. The index Read more…
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Researchers in Singapore have come up with a solution to curb accidents involving phone-obsessed walkers, a self-driving mobility scooter that drives single pedestrians along footpaths. The one-seater, four wheel, 50 kg (110 Read more…
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore’s central bank on Wednesday said it will launch a pilot project with the country’s stock exchange and eight local and foreign banks to use blockchain technology for interbank payments including cross-border Read more…
Singapore telco StarHub says it has used Nokia’s AirScale platform to demonstrate in a ‘live’ setting how 5G centimeter-wave (cmWave) can deliver mobile broadband with a throughput speed of 4.3 Gbps and latency of just Read more…
Malaysian media company Astro and Singaporean telco StarHub have entered into a partnership to offer Go Shop, a 24/7 shopping platform for TV, online and mobile to customers in Singapore. Starting this month, StarHub customers Read more…
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singaporean telecoms service provider StarHub said intentional cyber attacks had caused internet connection disruption for some of its home broadband customers on Oct. 22 and Oct. 24. The company said it analyzed Read more…
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore’s Land Transport Authority signed an agreement with NTU (Nanyang Technological University) on Wednesday to start testing self-driving buses, as the city-state pushes ahead with its vision of using autonomous technology to help Read more…
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – A self-driving car being tested by nuTonomy on Singapore public roads collided with a lorry on Tuesday, the city-state’s transport regulator said, adding that no one was hurt. “The test vehicle was Read more…
Singapore’s lucrative fintech sector looks poised for growth as rivals around the world struggle with regulatory challenges and political upheaval, according to a new report from ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants). The report, Read more…
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Users of ride-hailing firm Grab will be able to book driverless cars from Friday as it partners with a start-up testing the technology in Singapore, just days after rival Uber debuted its Read more…
StarHub and the National University of Singapore (NUS), in collaboration with ComfortDelGro Bus and Veniam, announced the deployment of what is billed as Singapore’s first pilot wireless mesh network in which connected (and moving) vehicles Read more…
Singapore is rushing to reinvent itself as Asia’s financial technology, or fintech, hub to fend off a regulatory threat to its wealth management industry and revive a sluggish economy. Read more…
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