After wowing crowds at the CommunicAsia show in June, Nokia’s “all screen” smartphone is coming to a shop near you as probably the only one to run the Meego operating system.

The 16GB version of the N9 costs S$799, while the 64GB model will go for S$899 at all three telcos here – SingTel, StarHub and M1 – with “attractive” operator subsidies, according to Nokia Singapore today. It comes in black, cyan and magenta. …

After Huawei released its MediaPad and Nokia unveiled the N9 in the past two days, there was quite a bit of anticipation when the media turned up this afternoon at Sony Ericsson’s global launch, held on the sidelines of the CommunicAsia show.

Unfortunately, the high-end gizmos some of us had hoped for were not there – we had to contend with the mid-range Xperia ray and the ruggedised Xperia active, along with a low-end messaging-centric model called the txt. …

Mediacorp plans to deliver its seven free-to-air TV channels over the Internet within the next year, providing another way to view the Singapore broadcaster’s local programmes as well as other content that it has the rights to.

Revealing this today, Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts, Dr Yaacob Ibrahim, said the new service offered a good way for Singaporeans overseas to keep abreast of events at home. …

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop’s presentation at this year’s CommunicAsia show was expected to be the event’s highlight, and he didn’t disappoint this morning by showing off a new smartphone that finally put a bit of the mojo back into the embattled phone maker.

No, he didn’t announce a new Windows Phone device, but instead the Meego-based N9 stole the show today in Singapore with a luscious screen and a quick, sleek touch interface that surprised many. It’s the device Nokia should have come up with a year, maybe two years, ago.

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Chinese handset and network equipment vendor Huawei created quite a storm today by unveiling what it says is the first Android 3.2 Honeycomb tablet, a day before the CommunicAsia telecom show opens its doors here in Singapore.

The MediaPad sports a 7-inch screen and runs on a Qualcomm 1.2GHz dual-core processor. Weighing just 390g and measuring just 10.5mm thin, it supports 1080p FullHD video playback, along with a 5-meg camera for taking pictures on the go.

Huawei executives told reporters today that the new tablet will come with both Wi-Fi-only and 3G+Wi-Fi models, when it ships worldwide in Q3 2011, in the Americas, Asia-Pacific and selected European markets. The 3G version supports download speeds of up 14.4Mbps downloads (HSPA+). …

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved a program to expand the Internet address system’s top level domains (TLD) beyond the familiar suffixes such as .com and .net.

Under a new TLD program, companies, entrepreneurs and communities can apply and run their own TLDs that incorporate their company names, trademarks and location names.

As an example, Sony could switch from Sony.com to .Sony, while cities such as Bangkok could have a domain name such .bangkok. The new domain names will also support languages such as Chinese, Japanese and Arabic. …