If you’re an aspiring technopreneur based outside Silicon Valley, you can do a lot worse than Singapore, where there are plenty of opportunities. And if creating mobile app experiences is your sort of thing, you ought to check out Mobile Ventures (MoVe) Fellowship 2012.

Initiated by Standard Chartered Bank, in partnership with the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), the fellowship is looking for 10 software engineers to undertake a traineeship programme in mobile app design and development.

The one-year programme is part of the bank’s in-house mobile development team, and the positions will be based right here in Singapore. …

Never lose your ticket for a concert again.

This is the promise that mobile ticketing holds, said SISTIC, Singapore’s largest ticket provider.

At a press conference earlier this week on the 1st of December, SISTIC launched their m-ticket service, a paperless, mobile ticket service. The driving idea is that you’re more unlikely to misplace your phone than a paper ticket.

Tickets are delivered to your mobile phone via SMS. Tap on the link in the SMS, and you will be redirected to a secure webpage with a unique 2D-barcode that is your mobile ticket.

At the event itself, simply flash the ticket on your mobile phone, and the venue operators’ scanners will pick it up and let you through.

Thus far, the service will be piloted at shows at the Drama Centre, and will slowly be extended to other event venues like the Esplanade, said SISTIC CEO Kenneth Tan.

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Samsung Jet

Samsung launched what it calls a phone that is “smarter than a smartphone” at a press event earlier today. This is the touch-screen  Samsung Jet, which boasts of some interesting features including:

Speed – 800 MHz processor
Graphics – 16 million colours in a 3.1-inch AMOLED display
Web – Dolfin web browser lets you view up to five web pages at the same time. Multi-tasking capable
Video – supports DivX, Xvid and H.263/4

Other Specs – HSPDA 3.6 Mbps, 5 Mega camera, 30fps video recording, music player, MS Exchange Active Sync, A-GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, 1100 mAh battery
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