Wave goodbye to Google Wave
Google will retire its Wave collaboration platform for good next year in an “off-season spring cleaning” exercise. In a e-mail to Google Wave users yesterday, the search giant said all…
Eye-catching deals at Sitex 2011
Heading down to SITEX this weekend? Here are some deals we spotted to whet your appetite!
SPH sues Yahoo! – a first here for old media versus new media?
Singapore is set to see a rare face-off between old and new media, after news emerged yesterday that Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) had sued Yahoo!, claiming that the digital media…
Hands-on: CSL Spice Mi350
Malaysian cellphone maker CSL is targeting business travelers with the Spice Mi350 dual-SIM smartphone that lets you pop in two SIM cards into a single device. That means you could,…
Goondu review: this week’s app round-up
Popcorn: SG Movie Showtimes, free from Android Market Previously exclusive to the iPhone, Popcorn is a nifty app that lets you search, browse and book movie tickets from local cinema…
Hands-on: Lenovo U300s ultrabook joins the tussle for your holiday spending
Eschewing the wedge-shaped design championed by Apple and ASUS, Lenovo’s take on the ultrabook is a sensible book-shaped machine that has a nice heft and overall feel.
Made-in-Singapore app takes aim at Twitter
Like Twitter, the app lets users feature – or feecha – an event or an object that’s close to him/her, which friends of that user can discover. Unlike Twitter, however,…
Singapore social media: Attack of the Birds and the Bees
Singaporeans are a well-connected socially networked lot. When Straits Times first broke the news of the bee attack at Ngee Ann Poly yesterday, with 35 students and three staff stung…
SingTel unveils local e-book service with skoob
Lovers of e-books in Singapore are getting their own local e-book fix, after SingTel said on Tuesday that it was offering Singapore’s first e-book service. This service, named skoob, will…
M1 gets S$300,000 fine for outage, appeals immediately
M1 is facing one of the stiffest fines meted out to a telecom operator in Singapore in years, after faulty hardware cards caused some of its users to be locked…
Sony’s new photo frames come with Wi-Fi
The DPF-WA700 and DPF-W700, once connected, can automatically retrieve and display photos shared on Facebook. Users can also hook up to an existing email account and view photos through it.
Toshiba joins the ultrabook party with the Portege Z830
Asus and Acer may have been slightly earlier to the game, but the battle for the slimmest, lightest and most powerful laptop is just getting hotter with new arrivals like…
Most free security apps do not guard against Android malware
If you've been using a free Android anti-malware app to protect your phone against malicious software, take note. According to tests conducted by AV-Test, which bills itself as an independent…
Hands-on: ASUS Zenbook hits Singapore, starts from S$1,398
The ultrabook market just got more crowded with ASUS joining the party; the Taiwanese company officially jumped into the fray when it unveiled the super-thin Zenbook laptop here in Singapore on Tuesday.…
Singapore firms warm up to cloud computing amidst security concerns
Cloud computing is gaining momentum in Singapore despite concerns over data privacy and security, a new survey has found. According to the Cloud Maturity Index commissioned by VMware, 63 percent…
Hands on: Samsung Galaxy Nexus
One of the most loved Android phones and certainly the most long-lasting - the Google Nexus One - looks to finally have a worthy successor in the Samsung-made Galaxy Nexus…
Goondu Review: SingTel’s deF!ND
It was a strange sight: A group of geeks seated at a coffeeshop round table, shouting/speaking at their phones, rather than through their phones. My friends and I were testing…
Google Galaxy Nexus reaches Singapore in Jan 2012, costs S$948
The Galaxy Nexus, the first of many phones bearing Google's latest Android 4.0 operating system, will hit the shelves in Singapore in January 2012, to the delight of Android fans…
Hands on: Motorola’s new Razr in Singapore
Despite being one of the first with an Android phone when it released the Droid and Milestone about two years ago, Motorola has not had a top-end phone that stood toe to…
Dell takes wraps off Latitude ST business tablet
Dell is making a dash for the enterprise tablet market with the Latitude ST, a 10-inch Windows-based slate powered by an Intel Atom Z670 processor.
