Haven’t gotten dearest Mum a gift when Mother’s Day is in less than a week? No sweat. Get her a tech gift that makes life better every day.

Here’s a Geek-Girl’s Emergency Everything Know-It-All Mama’s Day Gift Guide. You can call it the Geek MA gift guide. …

Map and GPS company TomTom has come up with a couple of smart fitness watches that not only pack in the navigation features but also look the part for folks who run, cycle or swim. …

The next time you can’t find a boutique or restaurant at one of Singapore’s dozens of shopping malls, take out your phone and let it guide you there.

Google has started providing indoor maps to Android phone users in Singapore this week, after first releasing the feature in the United States in 2011. …

Android users in Singapore are finally getting turn-by-turn driving guidance from their smartphones today, years after the feature became available in the United States and several other countries.

This essentially turns just about any Android phone out in the past few years into a GPS device that offers voice prompts, for example, in finding a route between Orchard Road and Beach Road on a Saturday. …

Comex is here again this year at Suntec Singapore, and you can expect bargains in tech gizmos and services. Here are a few deals we feel are worth checking out as you squeeze your way through the crowded show floor.

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TomTom is giving away unlimited free maps and updates of seven Asian locations when you buy its new Via 620 GPS device between now and end-October 2012.

With a free subscription, users can sync their device regularly and get updated directions for Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Thailand, Brunei, Indonesia, Macau and Hong Kong, when they go overseas for a road trip. 

Costing S$299 in Singapore, the Via 620 sports a large 6-inch screen – take that, Samsung Galaxy Note – and has a rather sharp 800 x 480 resolution compared to rival GPS devices.  …

What happens when you marry mobile technology with an art production?

You get Songbird, Singapore’s first experiential play totally played out on your iPhone or iPad.

Debuting at the Singapore Arts Festival last week, Songbird played to sold out crowds over the four days it ran, according to the staff at the information booth at the Singapore Arts Festival Village.

Being a big fan of alternate reality experiences, I was immediately intrigued by the concept of this experiential play.

Songbird, a mysterious singer about to make her debut, disappears just before her show. The audience, instead of listening to a concert performance, goes in search of her based on clues that they receive on their phone.

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It’s April Fools’ Day and Google is playing a prank on users with an 8-bit version of Google Maps. The pixelated maps are meant to emulate the low-resolution graphics of the original Nintendo and Famicom video game consoles that many of us grew up with.

To switch to the retro-looking “8-bit Quest Maps”, click on the Start Your Quest box at the bottom left hand corner of the screen in Google Maps. In a dig at users, Google says the “8-bit Quest Maps is our Beta Maps technology and has certain system requirements. Your system may not meet the minimum requirements for 8-bit computations”. …

Don’t call it a watch, even if it looks like one of those digital wonders that you wore to school in the 1980s. This new gizmo from Epson is touted as the world’s lightest GPS monitor that runners can wear on the go to track their runs.

Just 13mm thick, the device comes with a readout screen that runners would immediately recognise. On it, you’ll find your distance covered, pace and, of course, timing. …

Singapore is so small that if you don’t know how to get around town, you really shouldn’t be driving around much. That was my response to in-car GPS kits in the past, being the smart driver that I thought I was.

Then I started using Google Maps on my Android phone to start getting around town. I realised the suggested route sometimes helped me rethink how I always went around town – it often got me there without me testing out routes and missing a turn to a building’s car park, for example.

Thus when I placed the TomTom Go 2050 in my car a few weeks ago, I was more than happy to hear a friendly female voice tell me how best to get from, say, Takashimaya shopping centre to Alexandra Road. …