The Government is pumping in an unprecedented $250 million to help promising Singapore media companies like documentary producers, music companies and video game developers to develop the industry further this year. Yesterday, the Media Development Authority (MDA) announced that it had committed the amount to help ‘sustain the growth of Singapore’s media sector amid the [...]
Singapore, 12 March 2009 – Addressing key members of the industry at its annual Media Business Forum, the Media Development Authority (MDA) today announced that the Government aims to spend $250 million this year to sustain the growth momentum of Singapore’s media sector amidst the economic downturn. This spending, which includes funding from the National [...]
Making money off the web Four IDMPO funded companies were recently featured in Digital Life for their unique and viable business models, and who have been gaining traction (in terms of profit and user outreach) through social networking platforms such as Facebook, Friendster, Second Life and so on. The four companies profiled were iHipo (international [...]
FROM selling video games to mobile applications, Singapore’s growing influence as a digital media hub is opening more doors for local developers to showcase their creations to a global audience on a shoestring budget. The world stage is typically beyond the reach of budget-constrained developers such as students or niche IT outfits as they lack [...]
SINGAPORE’S fledgling online video game industry has attracted European animation giant Rainbow, which is investing $25 million to create a new game here. The amount is the largest put into the industry since Singapore embarked on a drive to attract such digital media companies in 2000. Rainbow, an Italian outfit with some ¥60 million (S [...]
IMAGINE you are in a library searching for a book – and simply cannot find it. Imagine being able to call up a 3D map of the library which can give you the precise location of the book, and show you how to get there. Or imagine you are in the market to buy a [...]
As technology moves towards interoperability, new mediums of interaction with intelligent meta-tagging, automation, sensor-based, geo-aware computing driven by the omnipresence of the Internet will emerge; resulting in new mediums of navigation, search and data access on multi-modal devices. The future of the Web will go beyond “linking (HTML) pages”, to embracing geographical space; and the [...]
We have defined the area of Co-Space as technologies, applications or service that allow for the simultaneous interaction between both the digital and physical environments. We believe that the area of Co-Space provides much potential for Singapore; and it is premised on the belief that the content contextualisation in a natural, unobtrusive, but pervasive semantic [...]
German firm is working with local partners to create a virtual Singapore LOCAL Internet users and their life-like 3D digital avatars can soon sip virtual cuppas in virtual Shenton Way cafes. What’s more, they will also be able to chat, work and play in other true-to-life, online 3D cityscapes of Singapore. This virtual world that [...]
sLOCAL Interactive Digital Media (IDM) start-ups and companies will be getting a boost in their pockets from the Singapore government, thanks to the i.MATCH initiative, which is aimed at bridging funding gaps in the local IDM sector. RAdm (NS) Lui Tuck Yew, Senior Minister of State for Education and Information, Communications and the Arts, announced [...]