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Pa yment provider  Ingenico Group  has launched LinkPlus, a secure solution for businesses which handle payments over the phone. The solution enables online businesses to send payments through a link or QR code, removing the need to manually process unsecured credit card details or banking information.   Linkplus provides a secure environment where a card payment can be completed with full PCI compliance and without any sensitive data being stored on the premises. Businesses who adopt the new system will also benefit from easier navigation through typically complex security procedures and regulations, supported by Ingenico.   Linkplus also enables businesses to generate foreign exchange (FX) revenue and protects costs and exposure by giving the flexibility to add a spread on top of the daily base exchange rates.   "LinkPlus enables businesses to deliver a premium payment experience to their customers," says Gabriel de Montessus, SVP Global Online (Retail...

Source: KaHa. The new Smart Fitness tee. KaHa , a Singapore-based Internet of Things (IoT) platform company for smart wearables, has launched a second-generation Smart Fitness t-shirt. The new t-shirt makes use of conductive yarn that extends the signal to more areas of the garment, allowing the smart module to be placed at additional places on the shirt. The t-shirt also comes with increased ergonomic functionality. “Through our partnership with A*STAR SIMTech, we have been able to evolve our offerings with the creation of the second-generation Smart Fitness t-shirt,” said Pawan Gandhi, Founder and CEO of KaHa. “As a homegrown brand with a mission to transform the local smart wearables ecosystem, we are always looking for ways to improve our existing products and services and to introduce the Internet of Things to consumers that would help elevate their everyday life.” The Smart Fitness t-shirt is connected to KaHa’s smart module and mobile app that tracks electrocardio...

Source: Cisco ebook. The Cisco APAC SMB Digital Maturity Index measures digital maturity along four dimensions. · SMBs in Singapore ranked No. 1 on Cisco APAC SMB Digital Maturity Index* · Cybersecurity is the top technology that SMBs in Singapore are investing in, followed by cloud and analytics · Lack of digital skills and talent within the organisation and lack of insight into operational and customer data listed as the top challenge by SMBs across the country Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in Singapore are the most digitally mature across the Asia Pacific region, according to the APAC SMB Digital Maturity Index released by Cisco in mid-April. The index highlights that more than 60% of SMBs in Asia-Pacific have started to embrace digitalisation, driven by improved Internet access and growing smartphone ownership. These SMBs are redefining customer experience and expectations, disrupting sectors and in some cases creating entire new ones, while capturing i...

Huawei and NGO Rainforest Connection (RFCx) are working together to refine a rainforest research platform that includes equipment collection, storage services, and intelligent analytics. The news was shared during HUAWEI CLOUD SUMMIT 2019 in Singapore last week. US-based RFCx was founded in 2014 to help protect the world from illegal deforestation and illegal poaching. The organisation has projects in Indonesia among other countries. RFCx creates solar-powered audio monitoring systems called Guardians which are powered by old Huawei cellphones. Huawei's mobile phones can work around the clock for two years, collecting audio and uploading it to the cloud in real-time. Huawei's big data service then stores and manages the data. With help from telco towers and the cloud, the phones make a call every second to artificial intelligence (AI)-equipped servers so that the complex sounds of the rainforest can be captured throughout the day, and in all weather conditions. If any ...

Huawei is investing further in Singapore with HUAWEI CLOUD and a Cloud & AI Innovation Lab. Source: Huawei. HUAWEI CLOUD was launched in Singapore at HUAWEI CLOUD SUMMIT 2019 . Three flagship cloud services were released at HUAWEI CLOUD SUMMIT 2019 : ▶ ECS C6, the industry's first elastic cloud services using servers based on the Intel Xeon Cascade Lake processor. Cascade Lake performs 15% better than the industry average and can handle 10 million network packets per second (PPS). ▶ Object Storage Service (OBS), which uses unique HUAWEI CLOUD algorithms to achieve the highest performance in the industry. Single-stream bandwidth reaches 2.4 Gbps, one bucket - the unit used for storage - supports billions of objects, and data reliability reaches 99.99%, meeting long-term storage requirements for massive volumes of data. ▶ The new high-performance distributed Taurus database has seven times the performance of native MySQL databases. This solution provides t...

Source: Fujitsu. Dynamic risk hotspot predictions. Fujitsu has announced the results of a field trial conducted with the assistance of the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) in analysing marine traffic risks in the Singapore Straits. Fujitsu has demonstrated the usefulness of a novel ship collision risk prediction technology that leverages the power of artificial intelligence (AI) in predicting near misses between vessels. Using AI technology Fujitsu Human Centric AI Zinrai developed by Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd, this solution can detect ship collision risks and predict areas where collision risks are concentrated as dynamic risk hotspots. This technology has the potential to be deployed in a Vessel Traffic Service (VTS) system* to assist maritime traffic controllers to manage marine traffic proactively with the aim of improving the safety of navigation. Fujitsu aims to deliver services incorporating this technology for maritime traffic controllers a...

Source: Tableau. Minister Maliki addresses the audience. Guest-of-honour and keynote speaker Singapore Senior Minister of State for Defence & Foreign Affairs Dr Mohamad Maliki Bin Osman, discussed the use of data in the public service, as well as digital defence in a digital age at Tableau Software’s 5 th annual Public Sector Day .  In his speech the minister addressed the inter-connectedness brought about by digital technology, which has made us more vulnerable to cyberattacks, disinformation campaigns and fake news. He outlined examples of the economic damage, as well as the social and political disruption, that such scourges have had internationally and domestically, and called on all Singaporeans to recognise their role as the first line of defence against threats.  According to Minister Maliki, the government is building up data science and analytics capabilities. "At the launch of the Digital Government Blueprint last year, we committed to train...