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		<title>YOG social media initiatives don&#8217;t get enough love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The more I talk to the Youth Olympic Games folks to uncover stories for Digital Life, the more I find out that some of the really interesting YOG social media content is hidden behind &#8220;official&#8221; content and not given enough publicity.
Take a look at the Youth Guru YouTube video below. It&#8217;s quite a hilarious series, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techgoondu.com/2010/03/12/youth-guru-yog-youtube-videos/</link>
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		<title>MeeGo steering group easing platform concerns?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Valtteri Halla, the Nokia member of the MeeGo Technical Steering Group recently attempted to allay the concerns of the open source community by underscoring the importance of openness in the development of the MeeGo operating system. 
In a blog post last week, the veteran Nokia executive who has been working to get Linux onto Nokia [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techgoondu.com/2010/03/08/meego-steering-group-easing-platform-concerns/</link>
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		<title>Free iPad for beta testing? Nope, you&#8217;ve been scammed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the oldest trick in the book when it comes to scamming: Play on people&#8217;s greed.
Take a look at a current one involving free iPads for beta testing :

The difficulty lies in telling whether a freebie giveaway is a scam sometimes. Some are scams, and some are supposedly real contests giving out free iPads, like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techgoondu.com/2010/03/08/free-ipad-for-beta-testing-nope-youve-been-scammed/</link>
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		<title>YOG launches virtual world to reach out to youths</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of the worldwide promotion to create buzz around the inaugural Youth Olympic Games (YOG), the Singapore Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee (SYOGOC), together with the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA), is creating a virtual world called Singapore 2010 Odyssey.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techgoondu.com/2010/03/07/yogs-virtual-world-odyssey-launched/</link>
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		<title>Apple goes after HTC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The internet is abuzz with Apple&#8217;s lawsuit today in the US, claiming that HTC has infringed about 20 of their patents. Gizmodo has an excellent breaking story of this, and they quote responses from both the Apple and HTC camps.
If successful, Apple&#8217;s action will get HTC&#8217;s phones banned &#8212; both Androids and Windows Mobiles &#8212; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techgoondu.com/2010/03/03/apple-goes-after-htc/</link>
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		<title>Samsung 3D TVs go on sale this month</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Get ready to put on your 3D glasses and watch Wayne Rooney leap up in 3D to score his latest headed goal. If electronics behemoth Samsung is to be believed, you will be watching 3D programmes that seem to jump off the screen instead of the current flat images we have known for decades.

So confident is the Korean firm that it will launch more than 20 TVs featuring the 3D feature this year. The first models will go on sale here in Singapore this month.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techgoondu.com/2010/03/02/samsung-3d-tvs-go-on-sale-this-month/</link>
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		<title>Linux OS &#8211; A Rose By Any Other Name</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote a piece for the Sunday Times published today about the emergence of the smartbooks &#8211; netbooks which use mobile processors and Linux/Google operating systems instead of the usual Wintel duopoly. I drafted the specs from the info provided and e-mailed it back to the computer company for them to confirm the specs. Everything [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techgoondu.com/2010/02/28/linux-os-a-rose-by-any-other-name/</link>
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		<title>B&amp;W&#8217;s first computer speakers promise hi-fi on the desktop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[British hi-fi speaker maker Bowers &#038; Wilkins is offering its first ever PC speakers, the MM-1, for pre-order here in Singapore before they ship in April 2010.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techgoondu.com/2010/02/26/bws-first-computer-speakers-promises-hi-fi-on-the-desktop/</link>
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		<title>Commentary: The anti-virus market</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The anti-virus (AV) market is increasingly getting to be a difficult business for market incumbents. 

The top players in this space -- notably Symantec's Norton and McAffee, followed by Trend Micro -- have seen their market shares taken on by a slew of smaller competitors in their market, including Kaspersky Labs, ESET, Panda, AVAST and AVG, amongst others.

What's more interesting is that some of these AV solutions from these smaller firms are good, and might even be better than the incumbents.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techgoondu.com/2010/02/25/commentary-the-anti-virus-market/</link>
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		<title>Techgoondu gets a new facelift</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's the third incarnation of Techgoondu since its inception more than 18 months ago, but the tagline remains the same: The revolution has begun.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techgoondu.com/2010/02/23/techgoondu-gets-a-new-facelift/</link>
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