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i.Bits Issue 9

By admin • Nov 27th, 2008 • Category: i.BITS Newsletter

It’s been an exciting 2 months for IDM as our fundees from NUS beat 56 teams from 17 countries in a competition lasting10 months to win the The Star Challenge@Fusionoplis organized by A*STAR, students from Team GAMBIT beat 350 other teams from over 100 countries to win the top prize in Microsoft’s XNA Dream-Build-Play Competition, [...]



More digital media firms dock in Singapore

By admin • Nov 24th, 2008 • Category: IDM News

SINGAPORE’S attempt to become a port-of-call for digital media companies is starting to materialise with more gaming studios and animation companies docking their regional operations in the city-state. The latest to join the fold is Italian firm Rainbow SpA, the studio responsible for the popular Winx Club animated series. BizIT understands that the company has [...]



From imagination to reality

By admin • Oct 31st, 2008 • Category: IDM News

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 [...]



MDA to offer $8.1 mil in digital funding

By admin • Oct 28th, 2008 • Category: IDM News

SINGAPORE — The Media Development Authority announced Friday its Interactive Digital Media Research and Development Programme Office will provide S$12 million (US$8.1 million) in funding to 15 projects in interactive digital media R&D. The projects, selected from 55 proposals involving some 200 companies, range from new exploration in Immersive 3D, virtual and digital media to [...]



Record $6b spent on R&D

By admin • Oct 19th, 2008 • Category: IDM News

Govt is ‘fully committed’ to investment as it is a key driver of economy for the future, says PM FUNDING from the Government for scientific research and development, which helped push it to a record 2.6 per cent of gross domestic product last year, will not be cut in the current economic downturn, Prime Minister [...]



IDM Captures the Imagination of Companies

By admin • Oct 17th, 2008 • Category: Press Releases

15 projects ranging from transport to heritage planning spur innovation and breakthrough in Singapore’s IDM sector Singapore, 17 October 2008 – Fifteen new projects on the concept of Co-Space™ have been awarded funding by the multi-agency Interactive Digital Media (IDM) Research and Development (R&D) Programme Office (IDMPO) hosted by the Media Development Authority. Collectively, these [...]



Bits Issue 7

By admin • Sep 29th, 2008 • Category: i.BITS Newsletter

In this month’s issue, Advisory Council on the Impact of New Media on Society The Move to Fusionopolis $18m boost for IDM projects International Experts Impressed with IDM Efforts KooBits and PGK Media Wins the InfoComm Singapore Awards 2008 Developments of GAMBIT



What is Co-Space

By admin • Sep 22nd, 2008 • Category: IDM News

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 [...]



New digital technologies on the centrestage

By admin • Sep 9th, 2008 • Category: IDM News

Many organisations have benefited from tie-ups with the Media Development Authority’s Interactive Digital Media Programme Office. Five benefactors share their success stories. A special report produced by the Special Projects Unit, Marketing Division, SPH.



Making S’pore a global media hub

By admin • Sep 8th, 2008 • Category: IDM News

Media 21, a blueprint of the Media Development Authority (MDA), envisions Singapore as a global media city where services and projects are created, developed, traded and distributed. Related link: The vision anchors Singapore as Asia’s leading media marketplace and financing hub as well as a test-bed for innovative concepts and ideas in digital media. MDA [...]