Hands on: Archos 70 and 101 Internet tablets
After being not particularly successful with early Android tablets, the French company is back with a couple of tablets you really have to check out before buying an iPad or…
A visit to A*CRC’s secret computation facility
A*CRC's secret lab, where a crazed AI is poised to take over the world. No, wait, it's just the server room. Techgoondu had the chance last Tuesday to visit A*Star's…
Goondu review: Philips CushionSpeaker
This nifty gadget could be interesting to folks who spend hours on the couch with their laptops on their, er, laps. The Philips CushionSpeaker, as its name suggests, is a…
Creative surprises with low-cost ZiiO tablets
After staying quiet for a good while, the Singapore firm yesterday surprised many techies by pulling two Android-based tablet computers out of the hat with prices starting from a mere…
Oracle acquires online commerce vendor
Oracle is making its sixth acquisition this year with an announcement today to buy Art Technology Group (ATG), a provider of eCommerce software and related on-demand commerce optimization applications, for…
Galaxy Tab ships in Singapore on Nov 13
Samsung's Galaxy Tab is shipping in Singapore on November 13, with the Wi-Fi cum 3G version hitting stores before a Wi-Fi-only version that could appear later at a yet unspecified…
Microsoft debuts Office 365 cloud
Microsoft made a dash for the business cloud computing market last week with Office 365, a cloud service that repackages its two-year-old Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) under a new…
Goondu review: LG Optimus 7 and Windows Phone 7
If Apple thinks it knows everything you need, and if Google Android gives you a totally blank slate, Microsoft has smartly chosen the middle road - offering just enough of…
Environment agency website up and down as haze gets worse
Just as the haze is getting more serious - into unhealthy levels - in Singapore, the government agency responsible for monitoring the situation here has its website going up and…
iTwin goes commercial
Finally. After a year of hearing lots of buzz at Unconference 2009 and TechFest 2009, mentions on TechCrunch and Gizmodo, and a few stories in Straits Times and Digital Life,…
HTC HD7 goes exclusive to SingTel
The red operator has snagged the exclusive for HTC's HD7, one of several key Windows Phone 7 phones unveiled today at Microsoft's much-awaited smartphone OS launch.
Medal of Honor Tier 1 edition delayed at Singapore retailers?
During a check at Sim Lim Square earlier on Monday evening, the word is that the Tier 1 Edition (boxed version) of the much-awaited shooter, which comes with extra in-game…
How your brand can be hijacked on Twitter: a SingTel case study
A case study of how SingTel's brand was hijacked on Twitter. Here's a video that talks about the relationships Singapore twitter users have with our local telcos, and how we…
Savvis looks to Asia and private clouds
During the downturn about a year ago, the American and European IT companies were freezing growth, if not pulling out of Asia all together. Now, they are all coming back…
HTC Desire HD and Desire Z go on sale in Singapore in November
The two new numbers from HTC, which I had a brief hands-on with recently, are hitting shelves here next month, as they join an increasing bunch of new phones arriving…
Scientific data crunching on the cloud
Cloud computing is becoming an attractive option for scientists who require massive computing power to run experiments in high-energy physics and astronomy, among other scientific fields. In 2008, the U.S.…
Singapore Android users get paid apps in two weeks
In a blog post today (SGT), Google said it was expanding the number of countries where users can buy paid apps from 14 to 32. These include Singapore, which means…
The future of Mozilla and Firefox
Mozilla's chairman Mitchell Baker gives Techgoondu a 1-on-1 interview where she talks about IE9 beta and the future of Mozilla and Firefox.
IE9 beta geek verdict: Not bad, surprisingly
We put IE9 beta through it's paces by asking the opinion of several power users about what they thought of Microsoft's latest browser.
Oracle unwraps Fusion Applications
Five years in the making, Oracle's line of next generation business applications is finally out of the box. The subject of almost every Oracle Openworld event for the last few…
