Techgoondu Sony Ericsson contest roundup
Firstly, a big thank you to all readers who participated in the recent Techgoondu Sony Ericsson G705 Giveaway contest. The challenge given to contestants this time round was to submit…
SingTel users affected as submarine cable cut
SingTel broadband users are seeing their webpages load slower than usual today, after what appears to be a pretty serious cut to the APCN2 submarine cables carrying Internet traffic in…
SingTel comes up with “free football” on TV
Free football in a small pay-TV market distorted by exclusive content deals? That's not a National Day joke. It's one fierce promotional ploy that SingTel is announcing today, just days…
Fibre’s coming to your home – what you need to know
Some 95 per cent of homes, schools and office buildings in Singapore are being wired up with fibre optic cables for the country's next-generation broadband network, which promises an almost…
Seagate closes Singapore factory, cuts 2,000 jobs
Hard disk maker Seagate said today that it was closing its Singapore factory and cutting 2,000 jobs in the process, even as the United States appears to be coming out…
Goondu review: Seagate FreeAgent Theater
Why, in a time when people are streaming videos at home with an Xbox or Playstation 3, or playing back DivX movies on compatible DVD players, would they turn to…
Chio Lian Li hard disk enclosure – finally!
Finally, after the entire world seems to have moved on from buying external hard disk enclosures and slotting in your own hard disks, along comes Lian Li, the venerable aluminum…
Microsoft contributes Linux drivers
Last week, the open source community was abuzz with conversations on Microsoft's contribution of 20,000 lines of code to the Linux kernel. While some are skeptical over the software giant's…
Goondu review: StarHub 21Mbps HSPA
For the past month, Techgoondu has been testing the MobileMobile Elite service that promises as much as 21Mbps downloads on the go. And we have to say it rocks! The…
Commentary: Former M1 chief to be StarHub CEO
In one of the surprises of the rather boring telecom scene here in Singapore, StarHub has just announced that it is going to be led by the former CEO of…
StarHub to replace CEO with former M1 boss
What's one of the best ways to go one up on the competition? Hire their former CEO. That's just what StarHub announced today, when it said that its current CEO…
Fixed Mobile Number Portability … in HK
With the telco regulator in Hong Kong giving its stamp of approval for fixed mobile number portability last Friday, fixed line phone numbers here can finally be set free. Right…
Google Chrome OS – game changer or loss maker?
The free OS is meant to make apps on the Net run more smoothly, when you are at a cafe, say, getting documents on your Gmail and Google Docs. A…
Techgoondu Sony Ericsson G705 giveaway
Fancy a phone that not only lets you talk to friends, but also watch YouTube videos, find your way around with Google maps and surf with Wi-Fi on the go?…
Goondu review: Samsung B7000 LED TV
What earns Samsung's Full HD B7000 its S$5,399 price tag is Blu-ray movies. I was quite blown away when I watched Pearl Harbour on the 40-incher, which has 4 HDMI…
Cisco’s cloud ambitions
Look into the world's tech crystal ball and you'll see only clouds. Even with my limited divination skills, this trend isn't hard to spot. For the past year or so,…
RIP, MJ
Rest in peace, moonwalker. On the day when an iconic part of music died, I dug out Off The Wall and Thriller from my record stash, cued them up and…
Getting Straits Times articles online for free
Here's a secret. Normally you need to have an online ST subscription to read the full length of ST articles online. Those that you get to access for free are…
Microsoft sets Asia prices for Windows 7
We just heard from the folks at Microsoft on its Windows 7 Upgrade Option Program, availability and pricing offer for Asia. According to the software giant, from June 26, anyone…
Sennheiser HD800
What do you gain by upgrading from a pair of $100 earphones, say my trusty Sony MDR EX85LP, to a pair of cans worth some $2,200, like the Sennheiser HD800?…
