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Researchers at NTU are exploring ways to bring the speed and quality of wireless network communications up to par with that of wired [...]]]> 2010-03-10 14:28

SINGAPORE, March 10 /PRNewswire-Asia/ — Good news for users of mobile devices who enjoy accessing multimedia content and social networking applications on the move!

Researchers at NTU are exploring ways to bring the speed and quality of wireless network communications up to par with that of wired communications. Better yet, their goal is to develop wireless devices that offer ultra-high-speed mobile broadband services at virtually zero cost to the user!

All these could become possible as Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and National Instruments (NI) join hands to develop the next-generation wireless communication technologies which are cheaper, faster, more reliable and more pervasive.

Both parties formalised the partnership by inking a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) at NTU today.

Under the NTU-NI Wireless Research Programme, NI will provide $2.07 million worth of equipment that will be installed at the Positioning and Wireless Technology Centre (PWTC), a centre under NTU’s School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE). One key goal of the NTU-NI Wireless Research Programme is to develop future wireless communication protocols. The research team will be using the equipment to research into the practicality and performance of various wireless techniques.

PWTC’s Programme Director for wireless network research, Assistant Professor Ting See Ho, explained, “One of the major problems faced worldwide currently is the increasing shortage of usable frequency spectrum, which is further aggravated by current spectrum allocation regulations. My research team aims to address these issues by developing the next generation of wireless communication technologies that are able to relay radio signals and scan for available ‘holes’ in airwaves without interfering with the incumbent users. This would mean that users can enjoy the highest quality, best performance and most cost-efficient networks.”

“This project will not only bring about a technology breakthrough; it will also have a profound impact on current business models and inspire new designs for various wireless applications for the benefit of both mass-market and military users,” added Assistant Professor Ting.

“Wireless communication research is gaining tremendous interest from the industry and NTU is a top-notch technological university with strong international standing in this field,” said Chandran Nair, managing director for NI ASEAN. “We are pleased to equip PWTC with NI’s technologies and support NTU’s research efforts towards developing wireless technologies that will impact everyday life.”

“This partnership demonstrates NTU’s active collaboration and sharing of resources and expertise with our industry partners,” said Professor Kam Chan Hin, Chair of EEE, NTU. “We look forward to leveraging on NI technologies in our research centre to expand our research and training capabilities at NTU. We will also make good use of the equipment for teaching purposes to prepare our graduates for professional careers in high-tech industries and to expose them to advanced research.”

“The NTU-NI collaboration is a testament to our long-term community engagement. We look forward to helping enhance science, technology and engineering education and research through partnerships that will take academic research to a whole new level,” said Victor Mieres, NI’s vice president of sales for Asia.

About Nanyang Technological University

Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is a research-intensive university ranked among the world’s top 100 universities. The Yunnan Garden campus, NTU’s main campus, is located in the south-western part of Singapore and will be the Youth Olympic Village of the inaugural Youth Olympic Games in 2010. The NTU@one-north campus, home to educational and alumni clubhouse facilities, is located near Singapore’s biomedical research hub, Biopolis; and the new engineering and physical sciences hub, Fusionopolis. For more information, visit http://www.ntu.edu.sg

About National Instruments

National Instruments (http://www.ni.com) is transforming the way engineers and scientists design, prototype and deploy systems for measurement, automation and embedded applications. NI empowers customers with off-the-shelf software such as NI LabVIEW and modular cost-effective hardware, and sells to a broad base of more than 25,000 different companies worldwide, with no one customer representing more than 3 percent of revenue and no one industry representing more than 10 percent of revenue. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 5,000 employees and direct operations in over 40 countries. For the past eleven years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America.

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National Instruments
Jessie Lee
Marketing Communications Specialist
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Email: jessie.lee@ni.com

Nanyang Technological University
Esther Ang
Manager, Corporate Communications Office
Tel: +65-6790-6804
Mobile: +65-9113-9654
Email: estherang@ntu.edu.sg

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SOURCE Nanyang Technological University (NTU); National Instruments

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Survey of 3,000 Reveals Top Skills in Demand and Recruitment Challenges

HONG KONG, March 5 /PRNewswire-Asia/ — Defying expectations amid a global recession, the (ISC)2(R) 2010 Career Impact Survey found that half of information security professionals surveyed received salary increases in 2009, while less than five percent of participants lost [...]]]> 2010-03-05 11:59

Survey of 3,000 Reveals Top Skills in Demand and Recruitment Challenges

HONG KONG, March 5 /PRNewswire-Asia/ — Defying expectations amid a global recession, the (ISC)2(R) 2010 Career Impact Survey found that half of information security professionals surveyed received salary increases in 2009, while less than five percent of participants lost their jobs. (ISC)2 (“ISC-squared”), the largest not-for-profit membership body of certified information security professionals worldwide with over 71,000 credentials issued to 66,000 members in more than 135 countries, today announced the results of its second survey tracking the impact of the economic climate on salaries, hiring outlook, budgets, threats and more. Nearly 3,000 security professionals, about 320 residing in the Asia-Pacific (A-P) region, including Japan, participated.

Globally, more than half of the professionals surveyed, 52.8 percent, (51.4 percent in A-P) received salary increases in 2009. Less than 11 percent (9.8 percent A-P) of respondents saw their salaries and/or benefits cut, while 4.8 percent (3.5 percent A-P) were laid off by their employers. Of the 800-plus respondents who identified themselves as having hiring responsibilities, more than half, 53.3 percent (68.4 percent in A-P) said they were looking to hire permanent and/or contract employees in 2010. Of those hiring, 40 percent (53.4 percent in A-P) said they will be hiring three or more information security professionals this year. These results indicate that the A-P region has the most promising hiring outlook for 2010 compared to the Americas and EMEA regions.

Over 85 percent of hiring managers both globally and in A-P said their biggest hiring challenges were finding candidates with the right skills and the right level of experience. The hiring managers surveyed in A-P said that they were looking for candidates with specific skills in these top five categories: information risk management; security management practices; auditing; security architecture and models and telecommunications and network security.

“The results from our latest Career Impact Survey show that in a very difficult economic environment, organizations are placing an even higher value on the work that information security professionals do, especially in Asia-Pacific economies,” said W. Hord Tipton, CISSP-ISSEP, CAP, CISA, executive director for (ISC)2. “It’s a sign of the private and public sectors’ ever-increasing dependence upon the stability and security of the online world, providing a plethora of career opportunities for knowledgeable, qualified, motivated security professionals.”

Other findings from the 2010 Career Impact Survey include:

— About half of the respondents (51.1 percent globally; 51.6 percent in
A-P) saw their information security budgets decrease somewhat or
significantly in 2009; 36.9 percent globally (46.8 percent in A-P)
expect no change in their budgets for 2010. This compares to over
two-thirds (72 percent) of respondents who reported that their budgets
were reduced in the 2009 survey.

— Approximately 54 percent (53.9 percent in A-P) of respondents expect no
personnel reductions or layoffs in 2010; while 20 percent (12.3 percent
in A-P) expect additional layoffs, compared to 40 percent of
respondents from the previous survey in 2009.

— In A-P, 28 percent of respondents believe the economic downturn is
causing an increased security risk within their organization; 53.5
percent of whom identified employee misconduct as the most common
security risk attributed to the economic downturn, compared to 37.7
percent globally. Outside attacks from hackers was identified as the
second most common risk by 31.3 percent globally and 25.3 percent in
A-P.

The (ISC)2 2010 Career Impact Survey was conducted from December 2009 to January 2010 with 2,980 respondents from 80 countries to gain insights into how the economic downturn affected the profession in 2009 and gauge the 2010 outlook. In A-P, the survey was conducted with the support of the Australia Information Security Association, the Data Security Council of India (DSCI), the Hong Kong Professional Information Security Association, the Singapore Association of Information Security Professionals and the Thailand Information Security Association. The most common sectors represented were government, at 30 percent (13.2 percent in A-P); information technology, with 28.5 percent (41.6 percent in A-P); professional services, with 18.2 percent (22.1 percent in A-P); banking at 11.3 percent (13.2 percent in A-P) and telecommunications at 9.9 percent (14.5 percent in A-P). The majority of respondents’ organizations had over 1,000 employees. Ninety-five percent of respondents hold (ISC)2’s Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP(R)) credential.

(ISC)2 conducts research regularly to gain insight on the state of the information security workforce and offers support for its certified members seeking employment and career enhancement; including free resume posting and job alerts on its Career Tools site ( http://www.isc2.org/careers ). Employers can post jobs and search resumes for free as well, giving them a direct line to an audience of qualified information security professionals.

Aggregate results for the 2010 Career Impact Survey can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/isc2-2010-Career-Impact-Survey .

About (ISC)2 (R)

(ISC)2 is the largest not-for-profit membership body of certified information security professionals worldwide, with over 66,000 members in more than 135 countries. Globally recognized as the Gold Standard, (ISC)2 issues the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP(R)) and related concentrations, as well as the Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP(R)), Certification and Accreditation Professional (CAP(R)), and Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP(R)) credentials to qualifying candidates. (ISC)2’s certifications are among the first information technology credentials to meet the stringent requirements of ANSI/ISO/IEC Standard 17024, a global benchmark for assessing and certifying personnel. (ISC)2 also offers education programs and services based on its CBK(R), a compendium of information security topics. More information is available at http://www.isc2.org .

(C) 2010, (ISC)2 Inc. (ISC)2, CISSP, ISSAP, ISSMP, ISSEP, and CSSLP, CAP, SSCP and CBK are registered marks of (ISC)2, Inc.

Follow (ISC)2 on Twitter ( https://twitter.com/ISC2 ) and YouTube ( http://www.youtube.com/isc2tv ).

Media Contacts:

Kitty Chung
(ISC)2 Asia-Pacific
Tel: +852-3520-4001
Email: kchung@isc2.org

SOURCE (ISC)2

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HONG KONG, March 3 /PRNewswire-Asia/ — J.P. Morgan Treasury Services today announced investments in Malaysia to further strengthen its domestic capabilities, as part of its US$1 billion global investment announced in 2008. J.P. Morgan has completed the integration of its [...]]]> J.P. Morgan Further Strengthens Its Domestic Treasury Management Offering in Malaysia

2010-03-03 11:34

HONG KONG, March 3 /PRNewswire-Asia/ — J.P. Morgan Treasury Services today announced investments in Malaysia to further strengthen its domestic capabilities, as part of its US$1 billion global investment announced in 2008. J.P. Morgan has completed the integration of its in-country treasury management service offering and core infrastructure to provide its clients with seamless working capital management solutions.

J.P. Morgan has a three-year plan to increase the number of employees working for its Malaysian Treasury Services operations. In addition, J.P. Morgan’s clients with operations in Malaysia are now able to benefit from using J.P. Morgan ACCESS(SM), the bank’s global internet banking platform for cash management, information reporting, trade services and foreign exchange.

J.P. Morgan Treasury Services provides cash management services with nation-wide coverage in Malaysia, including high value payments, paper clearing and payables & receivables management, as well as trade finance and liquidity management services.

Raof Latiff, managing director and Asia head of Treasury Services clearing and foreign exchange at J.P. Morgan said: “As Malaysia’s economy grows and trade flows increase, corporate requirements will become increasingly complex, driving the demand for efficiency and for integrated solutions. J.P. Morgan is in a unique position to provide its clients with sophisticated cross-border cash management solutions supported by state-of-the-art electronic tools. We are delighted to be able to strengthen our treasury management service offering in Malaysia to help our clients achieve their expansion plans.”

Clement Chew, J.P. Morgan’s senior country officer in Malaysia added: “These investments are an important thrust in our plans to build on J.P. Morgan’s franchise in Malaysia, where the firm’s presence dates back to 1964. They also add to our recent product expansion in various areas. For example, we have used our onshore securities platform to develop our futures and options and stock-borrowing lending capabilities locally to be able to offer our clients a wider range of services. We look forward to further growing our commercial bank in 2010.”

J.P. Morgan is the world’s largest U.S. Dollar clearing and commercial bank. J.P. Morgan Treasury Services leverages the services and products of the bank’s Worldwide Securities Services division, as well as its Investment Bank, Asset Management and Private Bank lines of business to provide its clients with integrated banking solutions.

About J.P. Morgan Treasury Services

The Treasury Services business of J.P. Morgan is a top-ranked, full-service provider of innovative payment, collection, liquidity management, trade finance, commercial card and information solutions to corporations, financial services institutions, middle market companies, small businesses, governments and municipalities worldwide. With more than 50,000 clients and a presence in 39 countries, J.P. Morgan Treasury Services is one of the world’s largest providers of treasury management services and a division of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., member FDIC. More information can be found at www.jpmorgan.com/ts.

About JPMorgan Chase & Co.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $2 trillion and operations in more than 60 countries. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers, small business and commercial banking, financial transaction processing, asset management and private equity. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase & Co. serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. In Asia Pacific, J.P. Morgan operates through 26 offices in 15 countries and has developed its wholesale banking franchise during a history of almost 160 years in the region. More information about JPMorgan Chase & Co. is available at www.jpmorganchase.com.

Media Contact:

Karene Dufour Lo
J.P. Morgan Treasury & Securities Services – Asia Pacific (ex-Australia)
Tel: +852-2800-1924
Email: karene.c.dufourlo@jpmorgan.com

SOURCE J.P. Morgan

Kingdee recognises Singapore as an important ICT hub in the region

SINGAPORE, March 4 /PRNewswire-Asia/ — Kingdee International Software Group Company Limited, a leading provider of enterprise management software and e-Business application solution in the Asia-Pacific region, today announced the official opening of its corporate premises and Research & Development Centre [...]]]> 2010-03-04 09:00

Kingdee recognises Singapore as an important ICT hub in the region

SINGAPORE, March 4 /PRNewswire-Asia/ — Kingdee International Software Group Company Limited, a leading provider of enterprise management software and e-Business application solution in the Asia-Pacific region, today announced the official opening of its corporate premises and Research & Development Centre in Singapore. Mr. Robert Xu, Chairman of Kingdee International Software Group and Mr. Leo Yip, Chairman, Singapore Economic Development Board led today’s ceremonial opening at the Raffles City Convention Centre.

Kingdee, which has been operating here since early last year, established its Asia R&D facility in the country as a testament to its long-term investment commitment and recognition of Singapore’s role as ICT hub in Southeast Asia.

“Kingdee chose to establish its South East Asia R&D Centre in Singapore as it provides a strategic platform for leading hardware, software and IT services and Internet companies to tap into new business opportunities in the region. The Singapore Government has been fully supporting the growth of the ICT industry and enabling excellent infrastructure. IT companies from across the value chain are drawn to Singapore because of its robust intellectual property protection regime, good logistics connectivity, and easy access to global talent.” Mr. Xu said.

“We congratulate Kingdee on the opening of its first R&D centre outside of China, here in Singapore. Kingdee’s R&D centre is the first software development initiative by a leading Chinese software company in Singapore. The investment attests to Singapore’s strong capabilities for innovation and knowledge intensive activities. Kingdee’s expansion also reflects Singapore’s growing role as a strategic location for Asian enterprises in their regionalisation and internationalisation thrust.” said Mr Leo Yip, Chairman, Singapore Economic Development Board.

The new office and R&D Centre in Singapore is Kingdee’s latest initiative to expand its network of competencies into strategically important regions. With this new set-up, Kingdee now operates its first R&D Centre outside of China to support the South East Asia market.

Kingdee Singapore will provide a variety of services for the ASEAN region that include research, development and software-related management consultation, implementation and technical support services. Kingdee customers come from diversify industries that include manufacturing, wholesales /retail, service, trading and logistics.

ERP solutions are the core of most companies’ IT applications and over the past decades, ERP has evolved and is considered a mature market. However, companies are always on the lookout for next-generation ERP solutions that have new capabilities and are easy to use and deploy.

“Kingdee will continue to invest in the creation and development of enterprise management software technology, improve its range of offerings to companies of various sizes and scales. We will remain steadfast in supporting our customers in this part of the region to improve their strategic business planning, and to enable enterprises to achieve faster returns on their investments, reduce total costs and own a flexible IT infrastructure that accelerates business growth.” said Zeng Liang, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Kingdee Asia Pacific, Kingdee International Software Group.

Kingdee enterprise software suite includes enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, knowledge management and business process management. With a strong heritage in the industry since 1993, Kingdee provides management consultation and information services to over 600,000 enterprises, government departments and organisations around the world.

About Kingdee
Kingdee International Software Group Company Limited (HK Stock Code: 268) is a leading provider of enterprise management software and e-Business application solution in the Asia-Pacific region, one of the fastest-growing independent software vendors in the global market, and a leading provider in China’s software industry, Kingdee is engaged in developing and selling enterprise management software and e-Business application software, and middleware of e-Business and e-government platforms for enterprises or government. Kingdee also provides software-related management consultation, implementation and technical support services for worldwide customers. With its unique product and service position of “Fast Configuration, Fast Implementation, Fast Application, and Fast Results,” Kingdee is able to help customers to easily face the challenges of uncertainty brought by the dynamic business environment, perfectly integrate the business processes and information technology, effectively manage changes, and ensure the fast, sustainable and healthy growth of the organization.

For more information, please visit: http://www.kingdee.com/en .

Press Contacts:

Rice Communications on behalf of Kingdee
Sonya Madeira Stamp
Contact: +65-9450-1090
Email: sonya.madeira@ricecomms.com

Suzanne Yap
Contact: +65-8522-3221
Email: suzanne.yap@ricecomms.com

Regina Yeo
Contact: +65-9661-9486
Email: regina.yeo@ricecomms.com

SOURCE Kingdee International Software Group Company Limited

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