Google Voice users will have the option to port their mobile phone number in the coming weeks. The service costs $20 for U.S. users only, but will it boost adoption of the service? – Google on Jan.
25 officially made number portability part of its Google Voice repertoire,
allowing users to take their longtime mobile phone number to the phone-management
service.
Google
Voice is a phone-management application that lets any user route all their
landlines, work and mobile call…
DBS’ (D05.SG) sale of its asset management arm to Japan’s Nikko Asset Management, announced during midday break, not expected to have material impact on share price near term.
Move deemed strategic, allowing DBS to focus on banking operations in core Singapore, HK markets while letting more established Nikko drive asset management business.
There is a risk that financial institutions may ease lending standards and extend more loans to make up for narrowing interest margins, the Monetary Authority of Singapore said in its Financial Stability Review today. Buyers may also take on “excessive leverage” amid expectations of a sustained period of low rates, the central bank said.
Roughly 20 percent of online U.S. adults have conducted video calls via the Web or their cell phones, according to Pew. Apple FaceTime, Skype and Google Chat will fuel the rise. – Some 19 percent of 3,001 American adults surveyed said they have
participated in a video call online from their computer or their
cellphones, according to new data from Pew Research Center’s Internet amp; American Project.
Users joined video calls, chats or teleconferences from the Web via
th…
The Myelin Repair Foundation will hold an online gaming event this fall to foster a conversation among academics, doctors and patients about innovative ways to find cures for as-yet incurable diseases. – Nonprofit medical research foundation The Myelin Repair
Foundation will host a real-time online gaming event Oct. 7 and 8 and Nov. 9
and 10 as part of its Breakthrough
to Cures initiative to promote collaboration between the medical field and
academia to increase the number of cures for illnesse…
“Our ADR offering gives customers new opportunities to act quickly on information and news-flow on major Asian companies,” Magnus Bocker, chief executive officer of the Singapore Exchange, said in a statement. The initiative will help “reinforce SGX’s Asian Gateway proposition as a preferred venue for international issuers and investors.”
Lobbyists for the Information Technology Industry Council, whose members include Microsoft, Cisco and Oracle, began network neutrality talks after Google and Verizon failed to secure the confidence of businesses and consumers alike. – Days after four Democratic members of Congress expressed concern about
Google and Verizon’s broadband proposal, lobbyists took up the cause to create
their own proposal for network neutrality.
The Information Technology Industry Council, a lobbying group that includes
tech companies such as Micr…
Good Technology has tacked on more than 1,500 enterprise deployments since it began supporting Apple’s iPhone and Google Android smartphones in December. That’s a 43 percent hike, portending good things for enterprise mobility. – A good way to determine how smartphone use is picking up
in the corporate workplace is to look at the uptick in software purchased to
manage mobile devices.
Good Technology, which competes with Research In Motion
as a maker of software for securing and managing e-mail on mobile devices, said
it…
Growth is supported by a broad range of industries that will remain “largely intact” in 2010, the Monetary Authority of Singapore said in its annual report today. The central bank said it will issue as much as $20 billion in bills starting next year as a new instrument in money-market operations to help lenders manage liquidity.
Google is launching Android 2.2 on several smartphones this summer, but analysts Michael Gartenberg and Jack Gold differ on just how enterprise ready the Froyo build is. The consensus is good for some businesses, but not those with the most stringent lock-down needs. – Google’s Android 2.2 operating system is geared toward catching the eye of
more businesses. While it won’t be confused with the lock-down cachet of Research
In Motion’s BlackBerry platform, it does boast some solid enterprise
capabilities.
Unveiled
at Google I/O in May and released to open
sou…
Rise in Singapore private home prices by more than 10% so far this year to levels above 1996 peak has raised affordability concerns, may trigger more government measures to cool property market, says CIMB, according to Dow Jones.
Dell says that it’s introducing a new suite of hardware, software and services to support cloud computing infrastructures just in time to take advantage of customers’ growing interest in developing private cloud computing platforms inside their corporate data centers. The center piece of this package is the new Dell PowerEdge C-series servers designed to support high performance computing with efficient energy consumption and affordable total cost of ownership.
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SAN FRANCISCO – Dell is counting on the development of private
cloud computing systems within corporate and academic data centers to help
drive sales of its latest line of servers and software.
Dell executives were here March 24 to introduce their enhanced servers, software and serv…
Desktops are making a major comeback in 2010, thanks in part to adoption of Microsofts Windows 7, new Apple iMacs and stabilizing selling prices, says a new report from NPD. In February, desktop sales rose 30 percent.
– Desktops are making a comeback.
After nearly 10 rocky years of losing sales to mobile PCs, the retail
desktop market is soaring, according to a March 18 report from NPD
Group.
In February, sales of desktop units increased 30 percent, while dollars
year-over-year increased by 33 percent…
Desktops are making a major comeback in 2010, thanks in part to adoption of Microsofts Windows 7, new Apple iMacs and stabilizing selling prices, says a new report from NPD. In February, desktop sales rose 30 percent.
– Desktops are making a comeback.
After nearly 10 rocky years of losing sales to mobile PCs, the retail
desktop market is soaring, according to a March 18 report from NPD
Group.
In February, sales of desktop units increased 30 percent, while dollars
year-over-year increased by 33 percent…
The Electronic Privacy Information Center and nine other groups file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission calling for an investigation into privacy on Facebook. The groups say Facebook’s recent privacy and security changes exposed user information.
– Ten privacy and consumer groups filed a complaint Dec.
17 with the Federal Trade Commission over Facebook’s
recent privacy changes and urged the agency to open an investigation.
quot;This is the most significant case now before the Federal Trade
Commission, quot; Marc Rotenberg, executive dir…
Good news, says IDC. After three quarters of slumping, worldwide PC shipments grew in the third quarter. And while desktops sales will remain flat in 2010, portable PCs will continue growing both internationally and in the United States.
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Back-to-school sales helped the
worldwide PC market achieve positive growth in the third quarter of 2009,
according to a Dec. 17 report from IDC. Consumer mobile devices, which grew
33.5 percent from a year earlier, helped to propel the overall market, which,
after three consecut…
China XLX Fertiliser’s (1866.HK) roller-coaster ride is set to spark more controversy for HK stock listings by way of introduction, which create a secondary listing with no new shares issued, says Dow Jones.
At 12 noon in Hong Kong, China XLX was trading at HK$6.55 ($1.17) after earlier spiking to HK$10, sharply higher than Singapore-traded shares (B9R.SG), despite jumping 18% on the SGX, trading at equivalent of HK$3.35.
