Press Releases

Clearbridge BioMedics makes a big impact at the 2012 Asian
Innovation Awards

21 November 2012, Singapore – Clearbridge BioMedics won the top three awards at Asian Innovation Awards 2012, which were announced yesterday evening in Hong Kong. Clearbridge BioMedics took the grand prize for The Asian Innovation Awards 2012, which recognises innovations that break conventional processes to improve quality of life or productivity. Clearbridge BioMedics also received the Credit Suisse Technopreneur of the Year Award, which honors the entry that best applies technology with the greatest potential for commercial success. The Company
proved to be well-liked amongst the guests at the event, and also claimed the Audience Choice Award. Clearbridge BioMedics beat 11 other finalists who were vying for these awards and who had been short-listed from more than 240 applications. The Asian Innovation Awards 2012 erepresented by The Wall Street Journal in partnership with Credit Suisse.

November 2012

Fujitsu Advances Healthcare Innovation in Collaboration with National University of Singapore

Singapore, and London, UK, 26th November 2012 —Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe Limited, Fujitsu Asia Pte Ltd and the National University of Singapore (NUS) today announced an important collaboration to establish anew joint research programme - Body Sensor Network for Disease Management and Prevention-Oriented Healthcare. Fujitsu will be working closely with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the NUS Faculty of Engineering, as well as the NUS YongLoo Lin School of Medicine and the NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health.

26 November 2012

Singapore students’ entrepreneurial attitudes, intentions and
activities remain high, according to latest international survey

Results from the latest Global University Entrepreneurial Spirit Students’ Survey (GUESSS), revealed today by the NUS Entrepreneurship Centre, showed a healthy level of interest in entrepreneurship among students in Singapore Institutes of Higher Learning (IHLs).

22 August 2012

MobDis helps businesses and marketing agencies get on mobile!

Singapore, March 1 2012 - Imagine if you could build your own mobile site as easily as you could create a PowerPoint deck? Now you can, through MobDis, an easy-to-use mobile site builder, developed by 2359 Media Pte Ltd. MobDis has been used to build over 4,000 mobile sites for businesses as well as rich media campaign sites for mobile advertising campaigns. 2359 Media is launching the latest iteration of MobDis - MobDis v4 – today at the DEMO Asia 2012.

Epsilon Mobile launches Papyrus, taking the digital publishing industry a step further

Singapore, 1 March 2012 – Epsilon Mobile, a Singapore-based start-up company specialising in digital publishing on mobile and tablet, takes self-publishing service a step further with the launch of the beta Papyrus at DEMO Asia 2012. The new service is the first to enable content providers to create and publish interactive content easily on the iPhone and iPad at an affordable cost.

Cool gear from a hot country!

Singapore, 1 March 2012 – It is snowing, it is cold and you are in full winter gear. How are you going to answer your phone or use a tablet outdoors with bulky gloves on? This was the question running through the mind of Charmain Tan, a Singaporean student, who found herself in the middle of winter in Sweden, while on the NUS Overseas Colleges (NOC) programme. With temperatures getting as cold as -30°C, she was not able to find gloves that would allow her use a touch screen phone, while keeping warm. So, she invented one – hybrid touch screen gloves that double up as mittens!

Semantics3 Launches Data Marketplace

Singapore, 1 March 2012 – Are you looking for a comprehensive listing of restaurants in a particular city? How about data on all the private schools in the United States? Good news for organisations and individuals searching for data; Semantics3 has announced the launch of the public beta of its online data marketplace ( www . semantics 3 . com / @Semantics3) at the DEMO Asia conference today.

Getting a hug… from a jacket

Singapore, 1 March 2012 - Autistic children may get distressed by simple things as loud noises and new faces. When they cannot cope, they go into fits or have tantrums, which hamper learning and disrupts regular daily activities. T.Ware is a start-up company, developing the T.Jacket to help these children, their parents, teachers and therapists. T.Ware is pitching T.Jacket at DEMO Asia 2012, Asia Pacific’s launchpad for emerging technology and trends.

Creating a community for photographers

Singapore 1 March 2012 – Ubersnap is about sharing and discovering high quality photographs and the social interactions that arise from it. It is a photosharing website for amateur and professional photographers, with game elements integrated throughout the user experience. This will provide positive feedback, validation and a sense of progress to its users; something that current photo-sharing platforms have not achieved.