Nanyang Technological University
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IT execs urged to take MBA path to CIO's chair
News Frameworks, concepts, strategic thinking and business vocabulary taught in MBA programs are useful en route to senior management post, says academic.
Tags: Personnel management, Communication skills, Certification, Business, Nanyang Technological University, Banking Industry, business management, e-mail, teamwork, professor
S'pore facility delves into plastic electronics
News Japanese materials firm Nitto Denko sets up research site in Singapore; pumps US$6.6 million to develop integrated organic electronics with three partners.
Tags: R&D, Investments, Components, Electronics, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, polymer, data storage, partnership, technique
Technopreneurial spirit key to creating value
News Singapore sees need to cultivate technopreneurship among students as global IT industry remains relatively resilient despite economic climate, say educators.
Tags: Entrepreneurship, Venture capital, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, e-mail, knowledge, entrepreneur, industry, information technology, entrepreneurial
Data center planning needs new paradigm
News Businesses need to factor in scalability, flexibility and focus more on keeping operational costs low to equip themselves for cloud environments, says IBM exec.
Tags: Data centers, Cloud computing, Cost control, IBM Corp., software, Information Technology, High-performance Computing Setup, Larry Ellison, Nanyang Technological University, Cloud computing
How tech firms float despite a Watergate
News update Expert involvement, admission of guilt and transparency are some elements that help keep IT brands alive after major scandals, say academia.
Tags: Crisis communications, Corporate responsibility, Computer Associates International Inc., Nanyang Technological University, Chinese company, Crisis communications, phone, professor, brand, accounting
S'pore institutes invest in Linux competency center
News Singapore-based Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC) and Singapore/MIT Alliance (SMA) have invested over S$1 million to set up a Linux clustering high performance computing competency center here.
Locally-developed technology adopted by MPEG
News Technology developed by two researchers from the Nanyang Technological University has been adopted by the Moving Pictures Experts Group (MPEG) to form part of its MPEG-4 standard for video and audio on mobile phones and handheld devices.
IDA forms committee to promote S'pore's cable industry
News A committee has been formed to look into new cable technologies which can be adopted in Singapore.
SingTel to get new chairman
News SingTel will get a new chairman following its next AGM, as Koh Boon Hwee will not be seeking re-election to the board.
Sun, S'pore's NTU ink research pact
News Sun Microsystems and Nanyang Technological University have signed a US$5.7 million agreement for joint research and development in five emerging technology fields.
S'pore company gives bulk discounts to individual consumers
News A group of entrepreneurial young people have devised a way for individuals to enjoy bulk discounts when buying online by doing what the Internet does best, bringing people together.
Take lessons in entrepreneurship?
Blogs Entrepreneurship is the hot new course being offered in many universities around the world. For example, Nanyang Tech...
Tags: Business plans, IT Management, Entrepreneurship, Venture capital
SMS: You've got exam results
News Students at Temasek Polytechnic need no longer crowd around notice boards or wait for the postman to learn their test and exam results. Instead, their cell phones will beep them whenever any grades are afoot.
"ICQ pimp" gets a year
News An engineering student, who started chatting with a 15-year-old girl on ICQ and then let the conversation degenerate into threats to expose her promiscuous lifestyle unless she let him be her pimp, has been sentenced to a year's jail.
"ICQ pimp" gets a year
News An engineering student, who started chatting with a 15-year-old girl on ICQ, and then let the conversation degenerate into threats to expose her promiscuous lifestyle unless she let him be her pimp, has been sentenced to a year's jail. Two other men, who met the same girl via a chatroom and had sex with her, also got a year each.
