iTwin wins Singapore’s National Infocomm Award for Most Innovative Product or Service

October 31, 2012 by  

itwiniTwin has been awarded the National Infocomm Award in the ‘Most Innovative Product/Service’ category.

The award, which is Singapore’s highest accolade for infocomm innovation, was presented to iTwin by Dr Yaacob Ibrahim, minister for Information, Communications and the Arts at a gala dinner on 23rd October. Read more

iTwin’s thumbdrive can now act as a key to your Dropbox files

October 20, 2012 by  

itwin dropboxThe iTwin, a Singapore-developed, double-sided thumbdrive that lets users securely and remotely access files from another location, now has a new feature. Called SecureBox, it enables the device to act as a ‘key’ to your Dropbox files.

When you attach the USB device to your laptop, you can associate it with your Dropbox account. Any file that you drag into the SecureBox folder will be automatically encrypted and sent to Dropbox.  Read more

Live blog: Pitches from cloud and enterprise startups

March 1, 2012 by  

Get a glimpse into promising startups that could to be the next big thing in the cloud and enterprise space.

Companies launching their products in this session are: Rival Edge, Hoiio API, E-Xefs, Vulnerability Firewall, Tradesparq, Urban Cook, and DropmySite.

Startups doing Alpha Pitches are:  Semantic3, iTwin, Sheer Industries, and Aftership. Read more

Singapore’s iTwin wins Popular Science award, gets recognized by CES

November 10, 2011 by  

iTwin, a Singapore-invented USB device that allows users to securely access their files from anywhere around the world, just won Popular Science’s 2011′s Best of What’s New in the computing category, reported TechCrunch.

“We are honored & thrilled to have been recognized by Popular Science,” said Lux Anantharaman, iTwin’s CEO and co-founder in a statement yesterday.

“Winning this award validates a successful launch year for us. Moving into 2012, we are working on improving iTwin in multiple directions – new collaboration-centric features, strengthening iTwin’s inbuilt privacy & security and making it even easier to use.” Read more

1st Amazon Web Services Asia Pacific Region Finally Opens

April 29, 2010 by  

Amazon Web Services logoWe got the news last November of Amazon setting up “Availability Zones” in Singapore for Amazon Web Services (AWS). Now, it’s finally reality. Developers and businesses can access AWS services from the new “Singapore” Availability Zones beginning today, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon CloudFront, Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS). More details on each of these services and specific pricing for each is available here. Read more

Hold Your PC In The Palm Of Your Hand

November 24, 2009 by  

I-Flapp Logo“To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.” ~ William Blake. While most of us would have much trouble grasping infinity, we can quite literally hold our PC in the palm of our hands. Read more

eChelon 27 – 24 Oct

October 17, 2009 by  

e27 logoExclusively for this event, the TechStars team in Colorado are coming down to Singapore. TechStars provides seed capital and mentorship support for startups and run a summer program for emerging startups and entrepreneurs where startups get seed money up to $18,000 and get a golden opportunity to interact with VC’s, industry leaders and mentors. Read more

Interview with Lux and Kal, Founders of iTwin

September 26, 2009 by  

itwin iTwin is a Singaporean based start-up that made it to the presentation stage on the TechCrunch 50 conference. The founders, Lux and Kal designed and implemented a product known as iTwin that allow plug & play remote file access. So, we catch them both here to tell us their story, the product iTwin and its features and also their next steps on the product. Read more

Singapore Startups At TechCrunch50

September 17, 2009 by  

TechCrunch50 2009 LogoThe most talked about startup conference in the world, TechCrunch50, concluded a few days ago in San Francisco. Three Singapore startups were at the conference and one, Socialwok, even won DemoPit of the Day for the second day of the conference. Check out the three Singapore startups here, look at their presentation videos and pictures. Read more

After unConference Singapore 2009

May 20, 2009 by  

unConference 2009 - Mohan

unConference Singapore 2009 saw a turn out of about 400 people, with a 85-15 male-female ratio (what else, did you think it was the other way round? I had actually thought female representation would be slightly smaller). It had certainly grown in size from last year, more than doubling its number of attendees. Read more