It’s confirmed – Singapore has incomplete number portability
Further to Alfred's post on number portability in Singapore ... ST Forum has published IDA's response to my original letter. The reason they provided for not mandating true number portability…
Bands encouraging online music downloads
What with the surge in the number of bands trying to cut their teeth in the music realm, the battle of selling CDs to music junkies seem to be intensified…
Massive price drops for Nvidia cards
The anticipated price wars have begun! Reports everywhere are suggesting that Nvidia are finally lowering ther crazy S$999 prices for their GTX 280s. If you go to Newegg.com, you' see that…
When will ATI HD4870x2 cards be here?
According to local distributors, it will be in end of this month (July), when these power-packed graphics cards will make their way to shops here. What we have now are…
No 3G iPhones from HK to SG … yet
Hutchinson/3 here in Hong Kong recently announced their iPhone prices and their mandatory subscription plans here. To cut to the chase, it seems like if you're thinking of getting an…
Firefox 3 gets world record
It's official - the Guinness World Records has bestowed Firefox 3 as the most downloaded software in 24 hours! From June 17 to 18, the browser was downloaded over 8…
Use your breasts
Yeah, you can do a striptease in Age Of Conan. I tried to see if the barbarians would stop to have a chat but i think they were too busy…
The benefits of number portability -free calls, free phones!
The street battles for mobile users are intensifying here, and these days, with cellphone operators fighing tooth and nail for customers, you can not only get a phone for free, but even free…
Welcome to the new Techgoondu
We thought we'd not do it so fast, but since we've been getting some traffic - mostly from frens and colleagues in the industry - here we are at the…
Back up yer vinyl records
Here's the latest in bit-perfect, lossless music encoding: vinyl-to-plastic audio backup. Now, being a vinyl record nut, I was naturally excited but also aghast to find this backup-yer-vinyl-record tip in…
Samsung Omnia vs HTC Touch Diamond – fight!
As the hype from the 3G iPhone rests a little, the spotlight has now been trained on two "iPhone killers" these past two weeks - the Samsung Omnia and HTC's…
Please port my number to pfingo
In this week's Digital Life, I ran a story about how VOIP services like pfingo, Skype and mediaring are now moving to the mobile phone. The value proposition is simple…
Need for “fuller” number portability?
As a letter writer in the ST Forum mentioned today, full number portability in Singapore does not mean you can switch from a post-paid to a pre-paid plan when you…
Go, Singapore game developers!
Scrawl Studio's Bunny Bounty, a game for bunny lovers - not! Can Singapore be a buzzing computer game developer city? I was at a Media Development Authority's (MDA) news conference…
HDTV rocks
Serious couch potatoes got a big boost last week, when news emerged that HD5 is finally going to be shown on StarHub's cable TV service. What's the big deal with…
HTC Touch Diamond sold out everywhere
It's the latest sign that the "touch-screen" fad is heating up to fever pitch, thanks in much to the iPhone hype. HTC's excellent Touch Diamond, said to be the best…
Qwerty chic!
Just got to fiddle with the new E71 (the one on the right), which was launched at Nokia's own show on CommAsia week. From a 30-minute hands-on take today at…
Touch-screen phones galore
Late post here for CommAsia, as you'd expect the stories with ST have been coming thick and fast, and there's little time to update this little blog (interesting note to…
Two-factor authentication for e-Govt services
It's CommunicAsia week this week, and the tech reporters here at the newsroom are running around Singapore Expo (where the exhibitions are) and Suntec City (where the conferences are). At…
Despatch from the USA
Singaporeans have it good when it comes to mobile services. As we read about the rivalry going on among the three telcos in the run-up to full number portability, my…
