the(new)mediaslut

Thanks to The Digital Movement and IDA, Singaporeans got a chance to meet Tan Chade-Meng, one of Google’s first Singaporean employee.

However a blogger event highlighted one of the greatest irony of the event.

Wrote Zit Seng,

We were advised to bring our own notebooks for a “live chat”. Well, wireless was mostly not working, there was no Wireless@SG, and the only “live chat” was the conventional Q&A with moderator on stage and microphone passed around.

Okay, this is IDA’s first InfocommLIVE. Let’s hope it gets better.

Maybe IDA was pulling a “Google” prank???

IBM Slides via kwout

Woot! Singapore is involved in the testbed with Infocomm Development Authority of SIngapore (IDA) is a partner too.

Write BusinessWire,

Intel Corporation and Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO) today announced the creation of a global, multi-data center, open source test bed for the advancement of cloud computing research and education. The goal of the initiative is to promote open collaboration among industry, academia and governments by removing the financial and logistical barriers to research in data-intensive, Internet-scale computing.

The HP, Intel and Yahoo! Cloud Computing Test Bed will provide a globally distributed, Internet-scale testing environment designed to encourage research on the software, data center management and hardware issues associated with cloud computing at a larger scale than ever before. The initiative will also support research of cloud applications and services.

HP, Intel and Yahoo! have partnered with the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany to form the research initiative. The partnership with Illinois also includes the National Science Foundation.

Its 10mins to 11pm to the HP, Yahoo and Intel announcement.

This blogger did a Google search and this came up at ComputerWeekly.

hp yahoo intel - Google News via kwout

The link is no longer there which raises suspicion even more…

Commsday spotted an announcement on Asia Legal Business today of an Axia counsel annoucing that OpenNet has won the Singapore NetCo NBN bid. 

However, the release has since been withdrawn from the site. Both IDA and Axia are now denying that the announcement has been made.

Wrote Commsday,

OpenNet, a consortium consisting of SingTel (30%), Canada’s Axia (30%), Singapore Press Holdings Limited (25%) and Singapore Power subsidiary SP Telecommunications Pte Ltd (15%) has reportedly won the bid to Singapore’s National Broadband Network. But both Axia and the Infocomm Development Authority deny a decision has been made.

The news, posted but now withdrawn on the deals centre section of legal industry website Asia Legal Business and citing comments by Paul Supramaniam of Berwin Leigton Paisner - the counsel for Axia NetMedia, said that consortium has “been successful in a bid to establish design, build and operate the passive optic fibre infrastructure relating to the Singapore Next Generation National Broadband Network (Next Gen NBN).”

…“We were privileged to have been involved in this very significant transaction,” Supramaniam said. “Axia has extensive experience in operating Open Access next generation networks and their participation in the prestigious OpenNet consortium alongside leading Singapore listed companies SingTel, SPH and SP Telecommunications can help deliver a solution that will put Singapore in the global lead in the infocomm sector.”