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You may think you know technology and hence be able to predict what sites Singaporeans are visiting, but the truth is the more you know, the higher the chances that you will get the order wrong. A point to note is the this top 100 list is provided by Alexa and is by no means ...
Singaporean Start-up Patsnap launched the Alpha-version of their portal last week which aims to bring patent search to a new level of simplicity and enable research to be done more easily. This puts the company in direct competition with Google’s Patent Search functionality that was launched in 2006. Google’s Patent Search, in my opinion, has ...
The founders of Google were graduate students studying computer science. Mark Zuckerberg has been programming since he was in his teens. Bill Gates was the quintessential geek. It seems like the most successful software/web companies are those that were founded by technically able people. This then brings a fundamental question…. do you really need someone ...
ZopIM has been in beta for quite a while now and recently relaunched its homepage. This is definitely a wise move as the previous homepage did not provide much information and is definitely not a homepage geared for a full commercial launch. With this new look, visitors to the site are able to understand the ...
Singapore’s premier research facility, A*STAR (Agency for Technology and Research) has launched a competition called “The Star Challenge 2008″ last week to develop “a rich media search engine that will be smart enough to identify text, audio and video containing any word, even if that word, or search term, has not yet been tagged in ...
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Singtel has today sent to people who opted-in to their wait list, a confirmation that the iPhone 3G will be launched on the 22nd of August. This confirms the rumour that has been speculating for quite some time.Singtel has yet to indicate the price it will be sold at or the subscription plans that will ...
After day 1 of the Adtech conference, there is 1 major lesson that stuck with most delegates. During the Keynote presentation, a speaker said the following:“Digital Advertising is like having sex, it requires experimentation to get it right eventually….…Another way digital advertising is similar to sex is that when you have not tried it, you ...
Twitter has become amazingly popular in the western countries but uptake within Asia is still relatively low. Many tech experts have called Twitter a "micro-blogging" tool and tipped it to be a lifestyle-changing web application.So what is Twitter and how does it really affect our lives and help us. CEO & Founder of Twitter.com explains…Share ...
Guys, this is serious HARDCORE geek talk. We all learn about how everything is made up of Protons and Neutrons and Electrons, but physicists has theories that explain beyond that. With the Large Hadron Collider being completed, they may very well prove their theories.This recent TED speaker talks about the theory of Higgs Particles:This one ...
It was recently reported that Singtel has finally concluded talks with Apple to bring the iPhone to Singapore and be the first in Asia to do so. Considering the high demand of the iPhone, one doesn’t need to be Einstein to know that Singtel paid a high price for this.Piracy in Asia has been so ...
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