Nokia Comes With Music launches in Singapore
$138 for a brand new Nokia 5800 Xpress Music touchscreen phone plus one year's subscription to Comes With Music - Nokia's new unlimited music downloads service from over 2 million…
Meet the Techgoondus: March 10th
Interested in free publicity? Techgoondu is organizing a "Meet the Techgoondus" session next month on March 10th (Tuesday) for tech startups in Singapore. The reason we're doing this is because…
More Androids landing in S’pore by June?
This piece of disclosure by StarHub CEO Terry Clontz, which I wrote about in an article in the Business Times on StarHub's fourth quarter results earlier this month, seems to…
Relic responds to Techgoondu on Dawn Of War 2 issue
John Capozzi -Relic Entertainment Said, February 26th, 2009 @6:35 am You can put Steam in offline mode, and use an offline profile with GFWL. The only time you NEED to…
Dawn Of War 2 won’t run without Internet connection
Yes. you heard it right. Even if you are playing a single player campaign or a 1vs1 skirmish against the computer. You need to first launch Steam and log in…
The future of reading
Amazon recently released the second generation Kindle ebook reader that offers more storage and a slimmer design. There's a text-to-speech feature that reads out books, magazines and newspapers to you,…
A smaller Rampage II board from Asus
Want the power of Intel's Core i7 CPUs in a small "shoebox-sized" PC chassis? One new motherboard to consider may be Asus' Rampage II GENE, a "small brother" of the…
Phokki: turn photos into pictures
Ever wanted to turn your photos into pop art? As a personalized gift to be printed on a T-shirt or mug? Singaporean start-up Phokki allows you to do just that.…
Techgoondu is off Creative Commons
We hate to eat our own words. Unfortunately, in this case, we have to. Techgoondu is off creative commons, an initiative I pushed for a few months back. Even though…
S$238 to S$438 for SingTel HTC Dream
The first Google Android phone will go sale in Singapore tomorrow with prices ranging from S$238 to S$448, and will be tied to SingTel's cellphone plans just like the iPhone…
E71 gets bigger and smaller sibling
My beloved and well-worn Nokia E71 now has a pair of bigger and smaller siblings. The Finnish phone maker yesterday did a glitzy catwalk launch of the E75 (left in…
StarHub pay-TV goes fully digital
The writing's been on the wall, but StarHub is finally going to turn off its analog cable TV channels and go fully digital from June 30, 2009. Already, 96 per…
Whipping up a BlackBerry Storm in Hong Kong
The BlackBerry Curve 8900 was launched in Hong Kong earlier this week. So it's touted as the "thinnest and lightest full-QWERTY BlackBerry". OK, next. What's really whipping up a bigger…
Are ads killing good journalism?
Journalism is dying. Or to be more precise, old-school newspapers and traditional media is dying. Venerable newspapers like the Chicago Tribune have filed for bankruptcy protection, and even the New…
HTC Android phone comes to Singapore and Australia
After months of waiting, phone lovers in Asia will finally get their hands on the HTC Dream, the first gadget to use Google's Android operating system. The phone will be…
‘Tis the season to go pink
This Valentine's Day, one way to impress your girlfriend or wife (or maybe even a guy friend) is to buy a pink gadget. Going by the press releases we've got…
Gothere.sg: now with Streetlevel views
I'm really glad that the Gothere.sg folks got their 90 seconds of fame when Minister of Finance Tharman Shanmugaratnam mentioned them in the recent unveiling of the Singapore budget. Gothere…
ATI’s not idling, comes up with new Catalyst 9.1 drivers
The latest AMD Phenom IIs, while closing the performance gap on Intel's new dual-core chips, are no benchmark-busting CPUs. Fortunately, the perennial challenger and alternative CPU maker is doing much…
Want to win a tech grant of S$50K from MDA?
Start-up@ Singapore 2009, a national business plan competition with a 10-year pedigree, is giving away this to potential winners, amongst other goodies like S$200,000 cash prizes. The initial executive summary…
How to convert YouTube music to mp3
A friend asked me about this, so I thought it's good to share in a post. You'll need an audio editor/recorder. One that I highly recommend is the open source…
