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In the past few months, it’s been photographed and it’s been talked about to no end. No, I’m not thinking of the iPhone, which has a fast-growing list of flaws that now includes a faulty charger that may electrocute users.I’m talking about Google’s Android phone, dubbed “Dream”, which will be out tonight Singapore time (Tuesday ...
“Social media is like teen sex.Everybody wants to do it.Nobody knows how.When it’s finally done there is surprise it’s not better”– Avinash Kaushik, analytics evangelist, GoogleAn amusing anecdote that social media consultant Yongfook brought up during last week’s Blogout ‘09, but nonetheless very true. Run on 6th and 7th March …
This is the first of our Geek Buy series, where we bring you the best buys in town whether it’s a laptop, cellphone or pair of speakers.Let’s start with one of the best bang-for-buck PC speakers you can get - the Acoustic Energy Aego M. I went down with my pal Marcus yesterday to Sim ...
SingTel broadband users are seeing their webpages load slower than usual today, after what appears to be a pretty serious cut to the APCN2 submarine cables carrying Internet traffic in and out of Singapore.
Just when I thought that Techgoondu readers back home are spoilt for choice when it comes to picking a netbook, I read from a Techgoondu friend’s (Wins) article in The Business Times that Samsung was planning to have another stab at the notebook market … and still hasn’t launched the NC10 in Singapore!Gosh, it must ...
From 32-inch LG TVs going for S$499 to super-slim laptops priced at S$1,188, check out the bargains at the PC Show that are Goondu-certified.
Starhub Hubstation HDSomehow we didn’t catch this piece of news last week, but it’s still worthwhile to mention that StarHub has a Hubstation PVR that now does HD as well.This is indeed good news for HD buffs who want to also record their favourite programmes on TV. Previously, there was the useful Hubstation PVR which ...
Spot the Windows crashUnless you have a bigger screen at home, this is probably the biggest screen on which you’ll see a Windows error on.Spotted this screwup at the big display ad at Suntec City, while I stopped at the traffic lights in my car about half an hour ago. Clearly, the PC used to ...
We have Social Media Breakfast (SMB), Mobile Mondays and Web Wednesdays.We have groups like The Digital Movement (TDM) and e27 running all kinds of events from Barcamps to Blogouts to Unconferences, with much of the content revolving around social media and start-ups.Do we really need another social media get-together platform in Singapore?The folks behind 24seven ...
Definitive ProCinema 600My new home theatre setup just got delivered today!It’s a Denon 1509 AVR (audio-visual receiver, sorry, not adult-video receiver for you, Billy) plus a set of Definitive Technology ProCinema 600 5.1 speakers that I ordered from KEC at Adelphi.I’m just dying to set up these chio speakers and fire up a DVD in ...
Arc MouseHere’s a mouse that will feel comfy whether you use in on the desktop or on the go. Say hi to Microsoft’s Arc Mouse, which as its name suggests, is shaped like an arc.The real innovation, however, is that it folds up to 60 per cent of its original size, making it easy to ...
Do you want an Asus Eee PC or an HP mini? That seems to be the choice that Sitex shoppers are being asked to make by SingTel and StarHub, as the two broadband operators slug it out in an increasingly saturated broadband market.Counting personal broadband services like 3.5G offerings, Singapore has a residential broadband penetration ...
Microsoft Singapore is giving a 43 per cent discount on Office 2007 Home and Student edition so you can now get it for $143. The software giant issued a press release on this hailing it as a special 43rd National Day discount for Singapore.But I checked online and Microsoft’s website shows it is going for ...
HTC Touch Diamond 2 Got my first touch-and-feel of HTC’s upcoming Touch Diamond 2 phone, which will run on Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 6.5 when launched later this year.As the n …
Microsoft, as you may have heard, is launching a new search engine called Bing.com. What a horrendously silly name. Now I know why. Dr Qi Lu, President of Microsoft’s Online Services Group …
Just returned from a trip down to the computer centre in Mongkok here in Hong Kong and found that the prices of many Netbooks have been slashed - and they are really selling well.Was there with a friend to buy the Asus Eee PC 1000H 80GB and found that in the month and a half ...
Anyways, here the deals/gadgets that caught my eye at the show.(1) The Ultimate HP Student Offer (but they were willing to sell to this 39-year-old as well) at Booth 8428 level 4It’s the new HP Pavillion dv5-1034TX running on Centrino 2 with a 512MB GeForce 9600M GT graphics card, Vista Home Premium, 15.4 inch WXGA ...
From today, Twitter will no longer deliver outbound SMS messages over their UK number. While you can still post updates using the default UK number via SMS, your followers will no longer receive your tweets on their cellphones. According to an e-mail I’ve just received from Twitter, the cost of relaying your tweets to followers ...
What earns Samsung's Full HD B7000 its S$5,399 price tag is Blu-ray movies. I was quite blown away when I watched Pearl Harbour on the 40-incher, which has 4 HDMI ports to hook up to your PS3, AV amplifier and other gear. The sharpness and clarity were the best I've seen lately. I've had an old Samsung Full HD TV for almost a year now, and seeing the same movie on the B7000 …
MSI P45-8D \"Memory Lover\"Yeah, you read that right. MSI has come up with a mobo that has twice as many slots for memory modules than the average mobo out there.Four slots on the P45-8D, dubbed “Memory Lover”, supports cheap DDR2 modules and the other four slots support newer DDR3 modules.Okay, that means you only still ...
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