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Dec 28: OCBC, BRC Asia, HG Metals, Singapore Technologies, SingTel

December 28th, 2009 | No Comments

The following companies may have unusual price changes in Singapore trading today, say Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters. Singapore’s market was closed early for Christmas Eve. It was closed for the Christmas Day holiday. Share prices are from the previous close. Singapore’s Straits Times Index fell 0.1% to 2,837.7.

In a brief pre-holiday session last Thurday, US stocks rallied and closed at 2009 highs after data showed that initial jobless claims had dropped and growth in durable goods orders suggested signs of an economic recovery.

Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp (OCBC.SI) said today that it has invested 60 million yuan ($12.4 million) for a 19.99% stake in South China Trust Co, a new company in Jiangxi province in China.

Ace Achieve Infocom posts 28% rise in net profit to $1.7m

December 15th, 2009 | No Comments

Ace Achieve Infocom, the developer of telco products and solutions in China, posted a 1.2% rise in revenue for the six months ended Oct 31 (HY10) to RMB 76 million ($15.5 million) in HY10 from RMB 75.1 million in HY09.

The rise in revenue was led by the operation and business support solutions segment and the broadband data solutions segment, says Ace Achieve Infocom.

Low Keng Huat posts 28% rise in net profit to $16.6m

December 11th, 2009 | No Comments

Builder Low Keng Huat (Singapore) says it posted a 28% rise in net profit attributable to equity holders to $16.6 million for the three months ending Oct 31, 2009, from $12.9 million a year ago mainly due to higher construction profit and investment gain. This was however offset by lower profit from hotels.

â€œ28 percent of Kosovo Serbs to participate in electionsâ€

November 8th, 2009 | No Comments

Non-governmental organization Kontaktâ€™s surveys show that 28 percent of the Kosovo Serb population will participate in the coming local elections. A member of the NGOâ€™s Kosovo branch, Fatmir Sheholli, said that the survey was conducted in GraÄanica, adding that 125 persons were questioned.

eWeek Newsbreak, Oct. 28, 2009

October 28th, 2009 | No Comments

The open source community recently received a big boost. Thats because the US government has swapped out its old CMS and has decided to go for Drupal, an open source content management system. Tilera, which already has 36- and 64-core processors on the market, is announcing its third-generation products, Tile-Gx, which includes plans for a 100-core processor. IBM has created technology that makes it simpler for Webmasters to make their Web sites more readable on mobile devices. The technology will allow web masters of all skill levels to arrange their Web site content reading flow in a logically-ordered sequence — without changing the existing content — that can be easily read on small, mobile devices screens. A new report from Morgan Stanley Internet analyst Mary Meeker shows that the iPhone and iPod Touch have fueled the mobile Web to outstrip the growth of the Web on the desktop. SpringSource has launched Spring 3.0. Its a major new version of its popular Java development framework that is used by more than three million developers worldwide. Spring 3.0 enables developers and organizations to build the latest rich Web and service-based solutions on a mature, extensively tested and open application platform
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BlackBerry Storm2 Coming to Verizon Wireless Oct. 28

October 26th, 2009 | No Comments

Verizon Wireless announced that, like Vodafone, it will be offering RIMs update to touch-centric Storm. The Storm2 features BlackBerry OS 5.0, a faster browser and SurePress typing technology thats said to be improved.
– Following Vodafones Oct. 15 announcement, Verizon Wireless announced that it, too, will offer Research In Motions BlackBerry Storm2 smartphone beginning Oct. 28. The smartphone will be priced, after a $100 mail-in rebate, at $179.99 with a two-year contract.

The Storm2 is a fully touch-screen…

At least 16 dead, 28 injured in Venezuelan bus collision

October 18th, 2009 | No Comments

A collision involving a bus and another vehicle in Venezuela has claimed the lives of at least 16 people and left 28 injured. Jose Manuel Ruiz is civil protection director for Venezuelaâ€™s western Barinas state. He has told The Associated Press that the cause of Saturdayâ€™s early morning crash

Apple to Ship Mac OS X Snow Leopard on August 28

August 24th, 2009 | No Comments

Apple today announced that Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard will go on sale Friday, August 28 at Appleâ€™s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers, and that Appleâ€™s online store is now accepting pre-orders. Snow Leopard builds on a decade of OS X innovation and success with hundreds of refinements, new core technologies and out of the box support for Microsoft Exchange. Snow Leopard will be available as an upgrade for Mac OS X Leopard users for $29.