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Meeting With Google’s Jolly Good Fellow

July 31, 2008August 11, 2008 | Technology | Yesterday was the inaugural launch of the IDA’s InfocommLIVE series of talks. For the first talk, they invited Google’s first Singaporean employee, Tan Chade-Meng, to share his personal experiences, philosophy and ...

One Week After iPhone 3G

July 18, 2008July 29, 2008 | Technology | Apple claims to have sold 1 million units of the new iPhone 3G in the first weekend of its launch. Just three days to sell 1 million units. I find it incredible, considering that there were so many complaints of delays due to ...

WordPress 2.6

July 15, 2008August 18, 2016 | Technology | WordPress 2.6 has been officially released today. One of the highlights of this version is a new revision tracking mechanism for posts and pages. Also, there’s support for Google Gears. Most of the other changes are minor ...

iPhone 3G Has Arrived

July 12, 2008February 13, 2017 | Technology | The iPhone 3G has been launched yesterday in 22 countries worldwide. First to get their hands on the iPhone 3G were New Zealanders when the iPhone 3G went on sale at midnight on July 11 local time. Although there were queues for ...

3G iPhone Selling Price in Singapore

June 16, 2008August 19, 2008 | Technology | Even though the new 3G iPhone will sell for quite cheap in the US (US$199 and US$299 for the 8GB and 16GB models respectively), I did not expect the prices in Singapore to fall as low. Yesterday’s Sunday Times carried an ...

3G iPhone is Announced

June 10, 2008December 28, 2008 | Technology | Apple has announced the much anticipated 3G iPhone at WWDC 2008. Finally, the iPhone is catching up with comparable specs of other multi-function smart phones out there: 3.5G, Wireless LAN 802.11b/g, GPS, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, ...

Bungled Software Upgrade

June 4, 2008May 18, 2009 | Technology | Software upgrades are usually not terribly complicated things. Of course, the newly upgraded software many introduce new problems, such as incompatibilities or interoperability issues with other software or systems. The same is ...

Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist Visits NUS

May 25, 2008May 11, 2016 | Technology | Vinton G. Cerf, Google’s Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, came by NUS to give a talk on Tracking The Internet Into The 21st Century. If you didn’t know, he’s also known as the Father of the ...

How To Make Your Notebook Batteries Last Longer

May 21, 2008September 1, 2008 | Technology | Everyone wants to make their batteries last longer, both in terms of runtime powering our mobile equipment as well as charge-discharge cycle counts. There’s lots of information out on the Internet, but there’s just as ...

How to Sell Computers

May 17, 2008June 4, 2016 | Technology | I’ve always found it rather amusing, even hilarious, to listen in on computer sales people trying to make sense of technology to the non-PC literate consumer. For example, this afternoon I was just overhearing a customer ...

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