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X-mini, a brand of Singapore-based Xmi Pte Ltd, has made a name for themselves with their line of small portable self-powered speakers. At CES in January 2014, they announced two new tiny thumb sized speakers, the X-mini ME and ...
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Shellshock hit us last week. It’s a severe IT security vulnerability that threatens to affect most Unix type of operating systems. Now, Mac users, do you know that OS X is also a Unix based operating system? Well, if you ...
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This is about the fourth weekend of HillV2’s opening. Seeing the crowds throng the mall, even on weekday evenings, seems to say something. There is a tremendous pent-up demand for such a mall in this neighbourhood. ...
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Last week we had M1 and K Box exposing personal data. Let’s up the ante a little. How about military data? Suppose you are the enemy, wanting to gather some intelligence on the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF). Say, for ...
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We use cloud based services for so many things these days. Storage, for example, is one of them. Popular names that come to mind include Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive. You probably use some or even all of them. I use them ...
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It’s easy to say that K Box is a victim in the matter of their membership database leak. No organisation wants such a thing to happen. But the question is, did K Box do their due diligence to secure their systems? Are they ...
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K Box membership database was poured out on the Internet today by a hacker group calling themselves The Knowns. Leaked details of K Box 317K members included names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and NRIC numbers. The ...
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M1 had to suspend its iPhone 6 pre-orders last night because of the discovery of a security vulnerability in its pre-order system. The details shared by Channel News Asia (CNA) revealed that information of other customers could ...
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HillV2 just opened its doors two weekends ago, on Saturday 6 September. That is, if just two tenants ready to receive their first customers count. There is Starbucks on the ground level, and Hillview Market Place (Cold Storage) ...
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My Apple Magic Mouse stopped working this week. It was totally dead, even with a fresh set of known good batteries. I was sorely disappointed, for two important reasons. First, the Magic Mouse was a really great mouse, and I ...
