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…
What Android applications do Singaporeans buy?
As part of their research into the tablet market, Lenovo recently did a study of Android applications that Singaporeans buy. The online survey, which ran for a week from 12th…
Hong Kong Apple store pre-opening queue
The queue outside the Hong Kong Apple Store this morning - photo courtesy of Techgoondu buddy Dominic A day before opening and as expected, the queue has begun outside Hong…
Apple to dominate tablet market by year-end despite Android gains
Apple’s iPad will continue to account for the lion’s share of the tablet market this year, with rival Android devices slowly closing in from behind. According to latest estimates by…
Apple Store to open on 24 Sep in Hong Kong
Hong Kong's getting the real deal this weekend, and it comes in the form of huge Apple Store right smack in Central. And the curtains have literally come off. MIC…
Jabra’s ruggedised Bluetooth sport earphones look the part
The Jabra Sport receives the music wirelessly via Bluetooth from your smartphone or a compatible MP3 player, doing away with the annoying cord that usually runs down to your MP3…
Goodu review: Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1
I’d bet the most common question that any Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 owner would have gotten is,“How does it compare with the iPad 2?”. So having spent more than two…
Better roaming rates as StarHub and Conexus ink deal with Vodafone?
Flat-rate fees for surfing the Web on the phone in Europe could be something on the cards for StarHub users after the telco and its regional telecom partners signed a…
S’pore companies to outsource majority of IT infrastructure by 2021
A new outsourcing wave is expected to emerge in a decade, a new survey has found. By 2021, three-quarters of Singapore companies say they will outsource the majority of their…
Goondu how-to: Setting up two-factor authentication for Gmail
If you've been paying your credit card bills online, you should be familiar with the token PIN that's required to access most Internet banking services in Singapore. This security mechanism…
Sony Playstation 3 now comes in blue and red
Come November 17, the game console will ship in Singapore in "splash blue" and "scarlet red" - colours that will surely liven up your boring console table as well as…