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The non-IT folks sometimes get the thinking that IT projects are easy. After all, you often hear how easy it is to “develop websites”, or how some primary school kid has written iPhone and iPad apps. There are all ...
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We’ve all heard many times by now how the PAP says they are learning from their mistakes, and that they will improve. I think the mid-term report card delivered through Punggol East By-Election results says one thing very ...
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You’ve probably heard about and seen freshly toasted sandwiches dispensed from vending machines. They are a common sight in hospitals. You probably also know about instant microwave reheat-able TV dinners you can get from ...
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M1 has come out with more information surrounding its colossal 3G service outage from 15 to 17 January. Great, I was indeed hoping that M1 would share more information. As I last posted, their earlier press release raised many ...
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You must have heard about the two big developments in commercial passenger aircrafts in recent years. The first is the Airbus A380 which went into service in 2007. The other is the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, which went into service ...
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Today is sort of the equivalent of the Mayan apocalypse for M1. No voice, no text, and no data, for a pretty big chunk of their customers for a pretty big part of the whole day. This is for their 3G mobile service. 2G was still ...
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Two big bagfuls of shredded paper. Stuffs that I would consider confidential. Banking statements, insurance matters, tax matters, etc. I usually keep all these hardcopy records, but I’ll start to clear out the older ones ...
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I recently tried out Canon’s EOS M mirrorless interchangeable lens camera. This is their first entry, almost four years late, into this market of mirrorless cameras. I’d have expected that these cameras, like the ...
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Last year, IDC forecasted that that year would be the end of the hey days for Android. IDC didn’t think that iOS would replace Android, but instead, it would be Windows Phone that will see tremendous growth in the coming ...
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Many of us will have used external hard disks. External hard disks basically comprise an enclosure, with a standard notebook or desktop hard disk inside, and a host interface (typically USB) to the computer. You usually expect to ...
