Singapore shares may rise on Thursday, tracking gains in U.S. markets overnight as a successful bond auction by Portugal eased investors’ fears about the euro zone debt crisis.
Singapore’s benchmark Straits Times Index <.FTSTI> gained 0.11% on Wednesday to 3,244.94 points.
Intel is offering certain promises to European regulators in hopes of alleviating antitrust fears over the chip makers bid to buy McAfee for $7.68 billion. – Intel is offering concessions to European regulators in hopes of gaining approval for its proposed $7.68 billion acquisition of security software maker McAfee.
The deal, which was approved last month by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, is still being reviewed by the European Commission, which re…
Dell will buy medical archiving company InSite One to boost its Unified Clinical Archive and allow doctors to share medical images in the cloud. – Dell has announced it will
buy InSite One, the developer of a medical archiving cloud application to make
it easier for physicians to share medical images and make quick diagnoses by
collaborating on images online.
Terms of the Dec. 22 agreement
were not disclosed.
The deal will combine InSi…
Research In Motion’s PlayBook may be the savior for the company’s flagging smartphone sales in the United States, some analysts posit. Then again, maybe not. – With Research In Motion’s share of the U.S. smartphone market eroding and
Apple poaching key sales employees, analysts look to the PlayBook tablet to
save RIM from being slowly squeezed to death in the mobile market.
RIM unveiled its PlayBook Sept. 27 at its annual DevCon conference as
an enter…
Singapore’s exports-led economy likely to level off after strong growth so far in 2010, may continue expanding next year at more modest pace, says David Cohen of Action Economics after data show October manufacturing output +31% vs upwardly revised +26.8% September, +26.5% Dow Jones poll estimate.
October data got unexpected boost from volatile pharmaceuticals sector.
Concerns over tension in Korean peninsula ease, helping Singapore shares recoup part of yesterday’s losses.
Fact that North Korea dropped shells on an island a sign they’re unlikely to expand aggression.
“If they really wanted to start a war, it would have begun at Seoul and not on some island,” says dealing head at foreign brokerage.
STI +0.5% at 3,141.87 midday, not expected to test yesterday’s 3,187 intraday high for rest of session.
Market breadth neutral vs more than 2 decliners for every gainer in early trade.
Overall volume modest at 1.06 billion shares worth $978 million, suggesting investor appetite subdued.
Among STI components, notable gainers include recent big decliners, with Genting Singapore (G13.SG) +2.1% at $1.99, Golden Agri-Resources (E5H.SG) +2.9% at $0.705, CityDev (C09.SG), +1.6% at $12.40.
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The index measuring purchases excluding automobiles climbed 5.3% from a year earlier, after gaining a revised 6.4% in August, the Statistics Department said today. Including vehicles, which are sold subject to government caps, total retail sales rose 0.3%, less than the median forecast for a 1.5% increase in a Bloomberg News survey of eight economists.
To watch Live TV channels is an experience, which is incomparable. It’s a way to get relieved from the boredom of life and…
Sorting useful data from the background noise that any serious logging regime collects isnt an easy task, but LogRhythms software does a good job of filtering out superfluous detail, putting needed information in ones hands accurately and quickly. LogRhythm works with the gamut of application, network and server platforms, and sets up quickly. It alerts IT staff when predefined events occur, provides complete reporting to match the requirements of numerous compliance regimens (including HIPAA, PCI and SOX), and makes data collection for investigatory use a matter of pointing and clicking. See our review here. – …
News flash: Summer’s over. Yes, the sun still may be out and the weather is warm, but there is a distinct smell in the air, which is telling you the lazy long weekends and beach days are fast approaching their end for the year. Now it’s back to work and buckling down for autumn and then winter. It’s not all bad, of course, and thanks to technologies such as Apple iPhone apps (and the enterprising and creative developers behind them) there are plenty of ways to ease out of the long hot summer and into the long, dark, cold winter. We kid, we kid! Here’s a compilation of apps to get you back into the work spirit and embrace the golden hues of autumn. – …
A PDF eBook refers to the electronic books or content in electronic version stored and displayed in a Portable Document Format. The advantage of using this application is that it is a portable as well as a secure file format. The digital book also remains secure as well as its contents intact. A Portable Document Format is easy to maintain as well as to create for a user. You can make use of graphics or multimedia content in a file.
The Symbian Foundation and Nitobi team up in an effort to make it easier for mobile application developers to create mobile apps for any device. – In
a move to help make it easier for developers to create mobile applications for
any device, the Symbian Foundation and Nitobi have joined forces.
Symbian and Nitobi,
quot;creators of the ground-breaking PhoneGap mobile
application development framework, [July 21] announced an open-source
…
Under international pressure, Israel is easing its crippling land blockade on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Israel’s security Cabinet gave final approval to allow a long list of non-military supplies into the Gaza Strip.
At the CA World 2010 show, CA Technologies officials are unveiling Mainframe Chorus, a new workspace designed to stem the drain of mainframe skills and make it easier to manage the systems. The first workspace will focus on the DB2 database. – CA Technologies is adding to its 18-month-old Mainframe 2.0 initiative with
a new set of tools to simplify the management of the massive systems
and to make it easier to attract a younger generation of programmers to
the mainframe.
At the CA World 2010 show in Las Vegas May 18, CA
officials unv…
Kaviza VDI-in-a-Box is a plug-and-play virtual desktop system that basically anyone can get up and running for a small-to-medium-size business. It truly is an automated turnkey way to do it; you install the software on a commodity server, and it just finds all the nodes automatically. When Kaviza is running, the virtual desktop runs in its own browser-type window with all the application functionality needed. Little or no latency is apparent. User can continue to use their local applications as normal. Talk about best of both worlds!
This is an alternative for companies that are reluctant to have to upgrade to new Windows operating systems every few years. With VDI, only one update is ever needed.
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CloudShare is looking to reduce the time and expense traditionally associated with moving virtualized IT environments to the cloud with its FastUpload product, which the company will introduce April 19.
– CloudShare, which makes products that enable businesses to quickly build and
share copies of their complex IT environments in a cloud computing environment,
plans to roll out a product that will let enterprises quickly upload existing
virtual machines as a cloud-based service.
FastUpload, to be …
Any data center manager who tells you software licensing isn’t becoming more treacherous to handle is blowing smoke straight at you. Virtualization has thrown the SAM (Software Asset Management) space into a spin, thanks to the proliferation of virtual machines and the applications that run on them in sometimes-far-flung corners of the world. Jeff Greenwald, director of Enterprise Product Management for Flexera Software, lives and breathes this topic daily, and he shares his expertise with eWEEK readers in this slide show. Flexera makes products that include InstallShield, AdminStudio and InstallAnywhere and has more than 80,000 customers in the SAM space.
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