We thought we’d not do it so fast, but since we’ve been getting some traffic - mostly from frens and colleagues in the industry - here we are at the new Techgoondu site, with our own domain.
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Here’s the latest in bit-perfect, lossless music encoding: vinyl-to-plastic audio backup.
Now, being a vinyl record nut, I was naturally excited but also aghast to find this backup-yer-vinyl-record tip in blogoshere. Excited because, well, it is a pretty cool notion. Aghast because I can just see all those out-of-print vinyl records being damaged by the gooey [...]

As the hype from the 3G iPhone rests a little, the spotlight has now been trained on two “iPhone killers” these past two weeks - the Samsung Omnia and HTC’s Touch Diamond, which went on sale lately.
The Omnia, which went on shelves last weekend, costs almost identical to the Touch, about $500 to $600 with [...]

In this week’s Digital Life, I ran a story about how VOIP services like pfingo, Skype and mediaring are now moving to the mobile phone. The value proposition is simple - you can pay two to four cents per minute to make calls from your mobile phone in Singapore to any mobile or landline number [...]

As a letter writer in the ST Forum mentioned today, full number portability in Singapore does not mean you can switch from a post-paid to a pre-paid plan when you switch cellphone operators, and still keep your number.
It was pointed out that, number port exercises elsewhere, like in Hong Kong, allow for this to happen.
It’s [...]

Scrawl Studio’s Bunny Bounty, a game for bunny lovers - not!
Can Singapore be a buzzing computer game developer city? I was at a Media Development Authority’s (MDA) news conference yesterday, which announced a $500,000 carrot as well as a mentorship programme by game companies such as Ubisoft, to entice local game developers and I found [...]

Serious couch potatoes got a big boost last week, when news emerged that HD5 is finally going to be shown on StarHub’s cable TV service.
What’s the big deal with one more free-to-air HD channel? Well, finally StarHub users won’t need to get another Draco or other free-to-air HD boxes. And I’m glad I didn’t buy [...]

It’s the latest sign that the “touch-screen” fad is heating up to fever pitch, thanks in much to the iPhone hype.
HTC’s excellent Touch Diamond, said to be the best “iPhone killer” of the lot, is sold out everywhere, including many telco shops.
Last Friday, the Plaza Singapura shop at StarHub was sold out (customer service officer [...]

Just got to fiddle with the new E71 (the one on the right), which was launched at Nokia’s own show on CommAsia week. From a 30-minute hands-on take today at the office, this shiny metal-clad GPS smartphone might just be my favourite from Nokia. It’s thin! Definitely pocketable. Secondly - and this will be a [...]

Late post here for CommAsia, as you’d expect the stories with ST have been coming thick and fast, and there’s little time to update this little blog (interesting note to newspapers trying to do both online and print).
But this year’s gizmo turnout is not bad at all, starting with Samsung showing of its recently launched Omnia i900 at [...]