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AT LEAST 33 research projects in interactive digital media (IDM) have Insight reason
been given $14million in funding in the past year. Sports
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The sum is part of a $500million kitty which the Government set up
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last year to power Singapore's growth into an IDM hub.
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Mr Michael Yap, deputy chief executive of the Media Development Podcast lawsuits over
Authority (MDA), which manages the five-year fund supplied by the Vodcast DVT to
National Research Foundation, said: 'The culture of R&D is shaping up Columnists proceed
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e-Motion. It is working on an online publishing system for multimedia facility
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Other recent grant recipients include ecPresence Technology, Sparky
Animation and Wholetree Technologies. The first two are developing animation software that mimics real-life actions. Wholetree Increase Jurong Island
Technologies, on the other hand, is developing a digital concierge system that can schedule multi-party meetings with voice font
commands. SINGAPORE
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The Straits Times understands that, in selecting projects for research funding, the MDA pays more attention to the technical summons
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