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Grace Chng

A seasoned writer, author and industry observer, Grace was the key tech writer for The Straits Times for more than three decades. She co-founded and edited Computer Times, later renamed Digital Life. She helmed this publication, the de facto national IT magazine, for nearly 19 years. Grace is also the editor and co-curator of Intelligent Island: The Untold Story of Singapore’s Tech Journey, a book highlighting Singapore’s ICT development.
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Softbank Robotics launches first rent-a-robot offering for cleaning services in Singapore

Managers of shopping malls, airports and big office buildings can now “rent”…

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Can governments drive the adoption of blockchain?

Malaysia’s national applied research and development agency, MIMOS, is using blockchain to…

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Oracle goes AI in a big way with cloud, database services

With a new logo and a true-to-form performance from executive chairman Larry…

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Online video streaming war looms with Apple’s S$7 video streaming service

An online video war is looming. The maker of iPhone, Apple is…

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Uncover the vulnerability and exploit internally, don’t rely on bug bounties alone

Organisations should not use bug bounties as a lazy way to detect…

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Integration of global trade flows necessary to survive in digital economy

To survive in the digital world, countries and companies have to support…

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Enhance cybersecurity with human-centric approach, beware of bias

A human-centric approach to cybersecurity focuses on how, when and why people…

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Red Hat shows off multi-cloud strategy as it completes deal with IBM

Multi-cloud is the new thing for many enterprises that base their compute…

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Apple boosts privacy and security with new login feature

Sign-in With Apple is a smart approach to privacy for the company…

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At Apple WWDC 2019, a gleaming Mac Pro and software de-coupling

Apple opened its yearly developers conference on June 4 in San Jose…

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Latest virtual mobile operator Giga launches in fast-saturating Singapore market

The Giga no-contract service is targeted at millennials who travel, play video…

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Singapore looks to “sandboxes” to test out new innovations

Facing disruptions in a digital economy, the Singapore government is using "sandboxes"…

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Eyeing next wave of 5G deployments, Ericsson to focus on security and enhance supply chain

Ericsson believes more deployments are emerging and is readying itself to catch…

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Instant fraud detection is growing area of concern in era of e-commerce: ACI

Real-time fraud detection is becoming important to merchants and financial institutions, as…

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Zeemart Zoom promises to let F&B industry procure food items easily

Singapore F&B outlets have an online service that promises to let them…

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NetSuite unveils free market research for customers

NetSuite is offering its mostly mid-sized customers a dedicated business research and…

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NetSuite expands internationally after Oracle acquisition

Life after Oracle is good for NetSuite, one of the oldest software-as-a-service…

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Apple News+ appeals by removing friction for magazine readers

The Apple News+ service launched this week offers a buffet deal that…

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Singapore shoots up supercomputing rung with Aspire 1

With an upgrade planned this year, a Singapore supercomputer called Aspire 1…

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Managing a chatbot like a typical employee

Chatbots have to be better managed as more of them are involved…

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