THOMAS Edison, generally recognised as the inventor of the light bulb, was said to have made almost 10,000 attempts before finally producing the incandescent lighting we see today. Thankfully for lighting company JK Lighting, the journey towards developing its core lighting competencies was not quite as tedious as that of the luminary. JK Lighting specialises in induction lighting, a green ...

THIS year's Comex show came to a close yesterday - after chalking up a record $74 million in sales. About 835,000 visitors in total flocked to the four-day event, Singapore's largest IT and consumer electronics exhibition. Together, they helped the show beat last year's sales tally of $73 million. Held at Suntec Singapore, Comex 2012 took up 330,000 sq ft of exhibition space. It was organised by ...

A FEW years ago, a typical business trip for Envipure staff was travelling from its Woodlands office to semi-conductor factories in Tampines. These days, employees at the air pollution control and industrial water treatment company fly to various foreign locations such as Qatar, South Korea and Papua New Guinea on work trips. The Singapore company has spread its wings overseas, breaking new ...

MICROSOFT's managing director for Singapore, Jessica Tan, will be taking on a new role, to lead the group's enterprise business in the Asia-Pacific region. Her promotion takes effect from Sept 1, though she will continue to oversee the operations here through the month. Ms Tan will be responsible for driving growth in one of Microsoft's largest business segments, spanning over 12 markets across ...

READING this on the move? If so, chances are you are using an Apple or a Samsung Electronics device. By the time you have finished (we give you 10 minutes), the two companies will have sold almost 5,000 smartphones. Everyone knows about Apple. The iPhone has been flying off the shelves since 2007. But it is currently being outsold by Samsung. Of every five smartphones sold by the two companies, ...

Lenovo sure it will rise above the Surface Lenovo has said it is confident that it will provide better hardware than its competitors, including Microsoft, reported the tech site Computerworld. The Chinese PC maker's chief executive Yang Yuanqing said last Thursday that Lenovo was "not that worried" about Microsoft Surface tablet. "I don't believe they can provide the best ...

The staff at Positive Engineering used to have to key in or import the same set of data 10 times into different databases in their office. Now, they do it just once. Since this maker of aluminium cladding and curtain walls installed an enterprise resource planning system, the software integrates the information used in the business, in every area from sales to finance. "Our data is no longer ...

ST ENGINEERING recorded a 9.7 per cent increase in its net profit for its fiscal second quarter to $143.15 million from $130.55 million a year earlier.

Q2 revenue rose 5.8 per cent to $1.57 billion from $1.48 billion, while profit before taxes was up 12.5 per cent at $187.82 million.

The group - which sits on a contract order book of some $2.5 billion for completion in FY2012 - ...

LIKE a scene out of The Jetsons, the aisles of fab three at GlobalFoundries have friendly autonomous bots roaming around, helping workers carry loads across the halls to other stations. The bots are chest-high mobile trolleys that help workers at the semiconductor manufacturer's plant at the Woodlands industrial estate. When workers signal for one, the system assigns a bot that is free. They come ...

THE challenges ST Engineering chief executive officer Tan Pheng Hock faces would keep most bosses awake at night, even though his term at the top has been hugely successful. The firm has grown from one that mainly served the defence industry in Singapore to a global giant with offices in 41 cities across 23 countries. Its main divisions of aerospace, electronics, land systems and marine serve ...

HIDDEN within the walls of Infineon Technologies' Kallang Way building is an imposing floor-to-ceiling storage system. The shelves of this two-storey-tall metal-grid frame are empty, for now. But by year-end, whirring conveyor belts along these shelves will whisk wafer boxes, each carrying 500 to 15,000 fully assembled products packed in trays or tubes, to and from the testing floor into storage. ...

JAPANESE giant Panasonic, as part of its restructuring, has increased the focus on its business- to-business (B2B) and business- to-government (B2G) sectors. Singapore will play an important role in this new growth strategy as the headquarters for the division which will be driving business in the Asia Pacific region. Panasonic Systems Communications Asia Pacific (PSCAP) was formed in January ...

A JAPANESE firm might have cracked the problem that bedevils many mobile game developers - how to make a living when you give your product away for free. Metaps, as the newly formed company is called, believes a virtual button on a game that leads to free upgrades, points or virtual currencies is the answer. Clicking on the button would bring up a sponsored list of, say, mobile games. Clicking on ...

THE global semiconductor industry's outlook may be overcast, but 2012 is set to be wafer foundry Systems on Silicon Manufacturing Co's best year yet. Chief executive Jagadish CV expects SSMC to deliver "best in class performance, best in class productivity, delivery, record shipments and record profits" this year, the result of relentless process development and improvement, he says. When ...

SYMANTEC has upped its presence in Singapore by opening its regional Security Response Centre here.

Over the next five years, around $20 million will go into the centre, and the security and information management company has plans to invest $100 million annually in Singapore.

Symantec's senior vice-president for Asia Pacific including Japan, Bernard Kwok, said the centre will ...