HTC HD Mini and Legend launches this weekend in Singapore
Availability: 9th April 2010, via all three telcos SingTel, StarHub and M1, and all authorized resellers Retail Price: S$748 (including GST), without plan Quick highlights: Windows Mobile 6.5.3 phone, 3.2…
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 comes to SingTel
Above all the din made by Android phones from Motorola and HTC, the somewhat forgotten Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 is hitting the shelves in Singapore from today, courtesy of SingTel.…
StarHub TV on Nexus One – finally
You can now watch StarHub's mobile TV channels, including some free ones, on your Nexus One phone by simply downloading the StarHub TV app via the Google Android market on…
Salesforce.com’s Chatter and the enterprise social networking market
The future of business collaboration is in web-based social networks, and software vendors of all stripes are all stampeding to gain mindshare in this space. For example, IBM has LotusLive,…
StarHub TV channel numbers to change – so what?
StarHub says this will let users easily locate their more than 100 channels, to which they added four more at today's announcement and demo. But the real reason for doing…
Sony to drop “Other OS” support
Sony is reportedly dropping support for other operating systems on the PlayStation 3 (PS3) through a firmware update that will be rolled out to users on April 1. In a…
Motorola Milestone comes to StarHub – and it’s cheap
It's official. Two months after Techgoondu first broke the news that the Motorola Milestone was coming to Singapore via StarHub in March, the companies have unveiled that the much sought-after…
Garmin-Asus M10 available in Singapore 27th March
Garmin and Asus made a big splash today at their media event for their upcoming launch of the M10 phone in Singapore, which they believe will be a breakout phone…
Commentary: Singapore’s pay-TV content sharing
After all these years, and facing the wrath of football fans deprived of live World Cup matches, Singapore's media regulators finally decided a fortnight ago to rule out exclusive pay-TV…
Sound like a Rogue or Mage
Creative's World of Warcraft Wireless Headset, which promises to let you sound like an Alliance or Horde character while fighting off enemies in the online game, goes on sale now…
Free Unlimited Plants vs Zombies, Bejewelled2, Zuma and more
Now you can play all your favourite Pop Cap Games for free, but only if you are in Singapore, Malaysia and possibly some other South-east Asian countries. PopCap - the…
Nokia N900 hits Singapore on Mar 27
Nokia announced today that the N900 can be pre-ordered in Singapore from now to Mar 26 from http://www.nokia.com.sg/n900/preorder. Available for S$999, the Maemo-based device has a ARM Cortex-A8 processor, up…
IT Show 2010: new Core i3 and i5 laptops rule
Fewer people seem to be carting away printers and TV sets at IT Show 2010, but laptops running Intel's new Core i3 and i5 processors are the best bargains at…
YOG social media initiatives don’t get enough love
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…
MeeGo steering group easing platform concerns?
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…
Free iPad for beta testing? Nope, you’ve been scammed
It's the oldest trick in the book when it comes to scamming: Play on people's greed. Take a look at a current one involving free iPads for beta testing :…
YOG launches virtual world to reach out to youths
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…
Apple goes after HTC
The internet is abuzz with Apple'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…
Samsung 3D TVs go on sale this month
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,…
Linux OS – A Rose By Any Other Name
I wrote a piece for the Sunday Times published today about the emergence of the smartbooks - netbooks which use mobile processors and Linux/Google operating systems instead of the usual…