Games Development
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Games development gets training boost in S'pore
News update Center set up by Nanyang Polytechnic and Sony Computer Entertainment Asia will train students to develop games on PlayStation platforms.
Tags: Games, Product development and design, Training, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Sony Playstation, Sony PlayStation Portable, Singapore, Games Development, Sony PlayStation 3, industry
S'pore govt, Razer unveil games R&D lab
News New US$21 million initiative aims to mentor local game startups and allow them to learn from, and exchange ideas with global game powerhouses.
Tags: Games, Game players, Digital media, Software, Gamer, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, game company, Digital media, Microsoft Xbox
Virtual currency small but growing threat
News Online money is still small threat to real-world economies, but its growth could translate into numerous issues for countries, says analyst.
Tags: Banking, Legal, PayPal, Money, e-mail, payment, research director, Tencent, Second Life, Legal
Hot tech jobs in Singapore
Insight Jobs in higher demand are still in core technology areas like software development, but Singapore will increasingly need people with both technical skills and business domain knowledge to help drive the economy.
Tags: Career, Trends, IT training
Philippine carrier overhauls BPO business
News Bayan Telecommunications ups its capital expenditure to US$61.2 million this year, and tweaks its outsourcing services.
Tags: Outsourcing, IT outsourcing, Offshoring, Investments
A question of ecosystem
Blogs There are growing signs in the mobile market in China that content providers are trying to establish channels directly w...
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Mobile
Intel unveils its 32/64-bit chips
News The Xeon rival to AMD's Opteron debuts in workstations, with server versions said to be on the way.
J2ME for you and me
Blogs J2ME (Java 2 Micro Edition) is a scaled-down version of the Java platform that is available on most mobiles phone and ma...
Barrett: One chip to rule the radio waves
News Proliferation of wireless channels calls for chips that can be tuned to each through software, Intel's CEO says.
Tags: Consumer Technology, WiMax
Smartphones: A bigger target for security threats
News As the iPhone, BlackBerry and other devices become more popular, harmful software such as viruses and spyware is emerging to exploit their vulnerability.
Tags: Smart phones, Mobile, Security applications/tools, Apple Inc., Phone, Security, software, mobile, handset, Smart Phone
Report: Microsoft bans 1 million Xbox Live players
News Players who were caught modifying their consoles to play pirated games have been booted from the popular service, InformationWeek says.
Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Game players, Games, Gamer, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox Live, Microsoft Xbox 360, console, digital-rights management, Activision Inc.
All the world's a game...
Blogs ...And the men and women merely players? Probably not quite what William Shakespeare had in mind, but it's what anot...
The business reality of being a S'pore gamer
Blogs The Beijing Olympics came to a close last weekend, and Singapore spent much of this week celebrating the nation's lone m...
Can Mickey and Frodo revive virtual worlds?
News Disney gets into the online gaming business, as signs of new growth in "massively multiplayer" games emerge.
Ex-MySpace CEO wants to gamble on social games
News In Chris DeWolfe's new venture, sources say, he'll attempt to snowball a bunch of social online games properties and pit himself against industry leader Mark Pincus of Zynga.
Tags: Games, Facebook, MySpace, Rupert Murdoch, CEO, Online Game, News Corp., entertainment, TechCrunch, private equity
