Top five National Day songs (and no, Funpack isn’t on the list)
When this year's canned-at-the-last-minute Funpack song at Singapore's National Day Parade 2011 went viral, many people commented that there were lots of great National Day songs and there was no…
Goondu review: Bose SoundDock 10
Surprisingly clear and boasting bass unexpected from systems its size, the SoundDock 10 is impressive in what it delivers in a small, neat package. But its biggest problem is its…
Gmail calling goes global
Start calling your friends while you are accessing your Gmail. Google has extended its Gmail calling feature that lets users make calls to land lines and mobile phones to 150…
AWS beefs up private connections
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has rolled out its Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) service to its data centers around the world, including in Singapore, Tokyo and Europe. Launched in 2009,…
ITE and Cisco launch new collaboration centre to teach networking
Singapore's Institute of Technical Education (ITE) is using Cisco's unified communications technology to bring more skilled IT personel into the local workforce. At the launch of the ITE-Cisco Collaboration Technologies…
Dell and Microsoft go green with Bing Maps
Microsoft is partnering with Dell to build a green data centre that will power Bing Maps' suite of geospatial imaging applications. The centre is located on the grounds of a…
Microsoft mocks Gmail with “Gmail Man”!
Stand aside, browser wars; a new battle is heating up between Microsoft and Google and this time, the battlefield is email. Google fired the first shot by launching a new…
Microsoft brings RAW support to Windows Explorer, Live Photo Gallery
Serious photographers now can view their high-res images easily using Windows' native support for the image format often used by professionals.
Chinese student flees Singapore after posting racist video on YouTube
A video mocking Singapore by a Chinese national has been making its rounds in the Singapore social media scene in the last few days. Mr Wang Peng Fei, a 24-year-old…
Samsung rakes up Galaxy SII sales, passes 5 million mark
After several unconfirmed reports yesterday, Samsung has come out to say that it has indeed sold a cool five million Galaxy SII phones in just 85 days - a figure…
Asus Eee Pad tablets to get Android 3.2 update “over the air”
Owners of Asus' Eee Pad tablets will start getting an "over-the-air" firmware update for their devices from today, giving them a number of new functionalities offered by the latest version…
Microsoft sends Windows “Mango” to phone makers, hopes to crawl back market share
Microsoft has sent its next iteration of the Windows Phone software to handset makers, as it wraps up the operating system's features and software code ahead of a launch in…
Mozilla jumps into mobile OS fray with “Boot to Gecko”
The makers of the popular Firefox Web browser have launched a new project called “Boot to Gecko”, or B2G, to “pursue the goal of building a complete, standalone operating system…
HP TouchPad comes to Singapore for S$699
The tablet space in Singapore will get a little more crowded with a rather unique offering from HP next month, when the long-awaited TouchPad hits the shelves here.
OCZ Revodrive 3 comes to Singapore – and it’s not cheap
We just got word that the latest version of the PCI Express-based drive - yes, the chips are mounted on a card - is coming to Singapore via the local…
MacBook Air: the blueprint for all future laptops?
Laptops seem destined to go the way of the thin, light, and user-focused MacBook Air, while high-powered notebooks will be relegated to a more select market.
Goondu DIY: Optimising your Samsung Galaxy SII interface
Okay, so you've just bought your spanking new Samsung Galaxy SII but hate it that Samsung has put in those kiddy icons along with a lot of junk from your…
Goondu review: Samsung Galaxy SII
Find another that is as slim, as light, while offering the robustness and flexibility of Android 2.3, and showing everything off in such a bright screen, and I'll say that…
APAC companies plagued by downtime on the cloud
Almost all companies that have made the move to the cloud in the Asia-Pacific region have experienced some form of downtime from their cloud computing services, a new survey has…
Goondu Review: Motorola Atrix + Lapdock
The ability to transform from a regular cellphone into a crossover laptop of sorts makes the Atrix the first of a new breed of mobile devices. The rough edges are…
