Microsoft says hello to Skype
Microsoft has completed its US$8.5 billion acquisition of Skype, officially bringing the Net telephony household name under its fold. On October 13, Skype was formally inducted into the Redmond family as…
Souped up Sony Ericsson Xperia arc S and neo V ship in Singapore
The Xperia arc S, an updated version of the large-screen Xperia arc, now comes with a faster processor but costs S$788 - considerably less than top models from HTC and…
One out of three Singaporeans has experienced fraud, phishing online, says Paypal survey
Singaporeans are still leery of doing financial transactions on the Internet, according to a recent survey by Paypal. The research study, which was commissioned by PayPal and executed by Nielsen,…
Oracle zeros in on the cloud and big data
Amidst the brouhaha surrounding the spat between Oracle and Salesforce at Oracle Openworld this year, Oracle unveiled a public cloud service to strengthen its position in the SaaS market. The world's…
Beats Audio debuts on S$908 HTC Sensation XL and S$868 Sensation XE
Just two months after it said it was buying a majority stake in Dr Dre's Beats Audio, HTC has come up with a couple of souped up versions of its…
Four ways Steve Jobs changed our computing lifestyles
Not all his decisions and products went well with users, and not everything he touched turned to gold, but there is no doubt the former Apple CEO and founder of…
Rent a network over the cloud through Juniper’s Junosphere
Planning to make large-scale changes to your computer network? Yet don't want to invest lots of money to run tests through a real physical lab? You can now model a…
No-show for Salesforce at Oracle OpenWorld this year
The growing rivalry between Salesforce.com and Oracle reached a pinnacle this week when Oracle reportedly canned a Salesforce.com keynote at its annual confab. In a statement today, Salesforce CEO Marc…
Apple’s iPhone 4S – in a word: underwhelming
Apple is playing catchup and this time, and it's obvious even to non-techie users. It will still sell lots of iPhones 4S phones, but it will not likely haul back…
SanDisk unveils new storage devices
Among them is the Memory Vault, which promises to keep important data like photos stored securely for 100 years, according to the company's tests.
Goondu review: travel apps we love
Singaporeans are a cellphone-crazy lot. Even while on vacation, most will remain tethered to their smartphones, checking in from obscure locations to earn bragging rights and lapping up tips left…
Sony Ericsson takes aim at sports and music fans with Xperia Active, Live with Walkman
Gym rats and music lovers now have two new Sony Ericsson smartphones to choose from. Making its debut yesterday is Xperia Active, a ruggedized model that sports a dust proof…
TIBCO: predict the future with a two-second advantage
What if we could predict the future? TIBCO’s CEO Vivek Ranadivé believes that we can. Speaking at TUCON 2011, which is the annual customer event that software infrastructure player TIBCO…
Sony’s Tablet S sells from S$668 in Singapore, available in October
Only Wi-Fi versions available though they do come with Playstation capabilities to play games on Sony's platform.
TIBCO moves into clouds with their Silver platform
Few technology vendors -- if they have any ambitions -- can ignore the cloud. Customers demand it and vendors better have an answer. Case in point software stack infrastructure player…
Here comes the US$199 tablet from Amazon, but is it yet another “iPad killer”?
After weeks of speculation, Amazon has finally unveiled its new Kindle Fire, a 7-inch tablet that will help sell its e-books and streaming movies and, according to experts, be the…
Survey: Internet as important as air, food, water and shelter to Gen Y
Going on the Internet is so important to its wired Gen Y users today that they rate it as something as essential and basic as air, food, water and shelter,…
Samsung claims 10 million Galaxy S IIs sold
The Korean electronics giant said today that it has sold 10 million of the popular Galaxy S II phone worldwide, even as its legal battles with Apple rages across several…
Parallels eyes SMB cloud market in Asia
Parallels is poised for a cloud boom in Asia Pacific. According to the virtualization software maker, demand for their hosting and cloud services software in Asia Pacific grew over 75…
Goondu review: Sony Vaio Z, a new standard to follow
Let's start by getting the price of this state-of-the-art laptop out of way, because S$3,999 is certainly not everyone's idea of how much a good laptop should cost. No, not…
