Republic Polytechnic
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Robotics a catalyst for technology advancement
News Singapore educator touts robotics as platform to spur tech-savvy students to be innovative, and pick up technological skills relevant in commercial world.
Tags: Entrepreneurship, Components, Battery, Robotics, Student, Electronics, Singapore, Storage, Republic Polytechnic, Hardware
Small bites help digest big IT projects
News Chart large IT implementation into smaller parts to ensure successful rollout, and take advantage of economic downturn to review goals, experts advise.
Tags: IT project management, Data warehousing/business intelligence, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Business, SAP AG, Project, IT Manager, Tool, ERP, Business Process
Asia's demand for IT security staff to grow
News Education sector must keep pace with increasing demand from businesses looking to hire security specialists, urges teaching staff.
Tags: PC security, Business security, Security Management, Recruiting
Diploma to fill ITSM skills gap
News Singapore polytechnic teams up with BMC Software to train students in IT services management, a move aimed at easing a skills shortage.
Tags: Standards, Infrastructure/architecture management, Service level management, Business development/management
Fortune lists top IT women in Asia
News Fortune magazine has published lists of the world's most powerful women, and four Asians are represented in the list of those based outside the U.S.. Of the Asians, the top two are in the IT industry.
RFID comes out of Cold Storage
News One of Asia's top retailers completes 12-month trial on radio frequency identification technology and hopes to deploy it on a wider scale.
Tags: RFID
Asia investing in 'modern' mainframe
News First introduced in the 1960s, mainframes remain hot among Asian companies, IBM exec says. But human resources are growing thin, notes analyst.
Tags: Mainframes, Open source, Mainframe, India, business intelligence, software, China, revenue, Linux, technique
S'pore students get taste of mainframes, Linux
News With IBM and Red Hat as partners, Republic Polytechnic aims to arm country's IT professionals with expertise to manage Linux in a mainframe environment.
Tags: Open source, Linux, Mainframes, IT training, Mainframe, IBM Corp., Virtualization, Red Hat Inc., IT Professional, Server
Programming contest targets healthcare
News update Singapore annual software development contest, dubbed CodeX, will focus on healthcare applications built on Android and Python, says organizer.
Tags: Software engineering/development, Open source, Singapore, Information Technology Standards Committee, Programming, software, Google Android, Python, industry, information technology
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
Microsoft touts high-end storage features for all
Techguide The software giant's availing of high-end features on the Windows storage platform has attracted one Singapore academic institution.
S'pore developers create open source buzz
News Local developers helping to grow Singapore's interest and expertise in open source technology, with mobile realm particularly hot, say user groups.
Tags: Open source, Linux, CRM, Singapore, Developer, Cloud Computing, e-mail, Google Android, Python, Linux
IBM partners S'pore institutions to skill students
News Its Academic Initiative will help train some 3,500 students in more than 40 technologies, including J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) and Linux.
Tags: IT training
Bedding, wine get a taste of RFID
News Singapore's Republic Polytechnic partners a bedding retail chain and a logistics player to implement the radio frequency technology to track and monitor products.
Tags: IT outsourcing, RFID, Sales force automation, Supply chain management (SCM)
Microsoft gives S'pore schools developer tools
News The software giant announces a plan to give students in all schools island-wide free access to its developer tools, starting with tertiary institutions.
Tags: Software engineering/development, Digital media
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