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Alfred Siew

Alfred is a writer, speaker and media instructor who has covered the telecom, media and technology scene for more than 20 years. Previously the technology correspondent for The Straits Times, he now edits the Techgoondu.com blog and runs his own technology and media consultancy.
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S$77 for Windows 7 tonight – for the first 177

There's a fabulous deal for Windows 7 tonight at the Singapore launch…

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S$23 a month to watch EPL from next year

SingTel has come up with prices to tune in to live EPL…

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Hands on: super-thin Sony Vaio X netbook

It's not called the "thinnest and lightest Vaio" for no good reason.…

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All I want for X’mas is…

... a Logitech Harmony 1100 universal remote. Yes, the holidays are still…

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Commentary: SingTel wins EPL bid

Less than 48 hours after SingTel and StarHub confirmed their bids for…

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Sony PS3 Slim at S$512 in Singapore

Singapore will get the much-awaited Sony Playstation 3 "slim" game console here…

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Hands on: Nokia N97 mini plus X3 and X6

Nifty yet powerful; pretty yet functional. That's how you'd describe Nokia's recently-launched…

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Good deals at Comex 2009 – a Techgoondu guide

From cut-price LCD TVs to portable hard disks, this year's Comex has…

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Commentary: Is a SingTel-StarHub joint BPL bid still on?

Without the protagonists even speaking a word about it, the market has…

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Free 1Mbps Wireless@SG from today

From today, users of Singapore's Wireless@SG service are getting a speed boost,…

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When a router is also a photo frame

D-Link has thrown in the kitchen sink, sorry, an LCD photo frame,…

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A netbook by any other name…

In the surest sign of the convergence between smartphone and netbooks, Nokia…

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SingTel users affected as submarine cable cut

SingTel broadband users are seeing their webpages load slower than usual today,…

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SingTel comes up with “free football” on TV

Free football in a small pay-TV market distorted by exclusive content deals?…

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Fibre’s coming to your home – what you need to know

Some 95 per cent of homes, schools and office buildings in Singapore…

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Seagate closes Singapore factory, cuts 2,000 jobs

Hard disk maker Seagate said today that it was closing its Singapore…

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Goondu review: Seagate FreeAgent Theater

Why, in a time when people are streaming videos at home with…

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Chio Lian Li hard disk enclosure – finally!

Finally, after the entire world seems to have moved on from buying…

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Goondu review: StarHub 21Mbps HSPA

For the past month, Techgoondu has been testing the MobileMobile Elite service…

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Commentary: Former M1 chief to be StarHub CEO

In one of the surprises of the rather boring telecom scene here…

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