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Goondu review: Jabra Solemate
On first impressions, the Jabra Solemate impresses with it’s packaging and design aesthetics. Jabra’s foray into wireless bluetooth speakers ain’t priced at the mass consumer (read: inexpensive)...
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Oracle: Telcos, banks and government leading Big Data in ASEAN
Big data is like the cloud-season all over again circa early 2009. Having hit a threshold of mainstream respectability, every major IT vendor was talking about cloud in 2009 and trying to put their...
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Goondu Review: Fate of the World
It’s fair to say that never has global warming been given the centre stage as much as in recent days. With all eyes on the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, which wreaked havoc on the north-eastern coast...
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SAP: Why we’re the right vendor for Big Data
In the war to win mindshare on Big Data, SAP certainly is not pulling its punches. In a sit-down session with the media two days ago, SAP put out its own campaign on why they were the right vendors to...
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VMware: Cloud is maturing in Singapore and the region
Singapore is a big believer in cloud computing initiatives, according to the latest 2012 VMware Cloud index. According to the annual index, 84 percent of senior IT practitioners in Singapore are...
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Singaporeans’ dream-jobs: Engineers and teachers, say LinkedIn
According to a LinkedIn “Dream Jobs” study released today, Singaporeans are a pretty sedate lot when it comes to their dream jobs. The top dream job for Singapore men was to be an engineer and for...
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Asia Pacific suffers from digital marketing talent crunch, says Adobe-CMO...
Marketing skills capability scored only 1.4 out of a scale of 10, whilst mindset that digital marketing is important scored 6.7. The result? A talent crunch, according to the CMO Council. Digital...
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Walking Dead will make you cry, laugh and heart pound
Rare is the game that can really, really move me. The sublime exceptional game that has such great storytelling that you remember it long after the credits are done rolling. The ones powerful enough...
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Parallels moves into cloud storage for SMBs
If you’re a hosting company looking for an inexpensive cloud storage solution, Parallels just might have a solution for you. At the Parallels Summit 2013 in Las Vegas this week, the cloud technology...
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“There is no such thing as an SMB market. It does not exist.” At the Parallels Summit 2013 in Las Vegas this week, Tim Harmon, principal analyst at Forrester Research, proclaimed this during his...
View ArticleOuya’s US$8.5 million and the crowdfunding effect
Less than a week ago, crowdfunding site Kickstarter just concluded one of their biggest, most funded projects: Open-sourced Android gaming console Ouya. With over US$8.5 million raised for the console...
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Goondu preview: Borderlands 2 (and yes, Girlfriend Mode too)
Splice co-op shooter play with a Diablo-like deep loot table and a RPG-like tech tree, and you get Borderlands 2. Basically more of the mayhem unleashed in the first Borderlands with the same distinct...
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Nine IT themes that will impact Singapore and the world
The Infocomm Development Authority(IDA) of Singapore just released their forecast for IT trends in the next three to five years. A review of key disruptive IT trends that will impact Singapore and the...
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TAPPER: Sound without speakers
If you’ve never heard a vibration speaker (or more accurately a vibration transducer) in action, it can be quite amazing. The TAPPER tube is a relatively small product that can fit into the palm of...
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SingTel, Progress Software launch PaaS cloud offering
This week, SingTel announced the launch of a new cloud PaaS (platform as a service) offering in conjunction with IT enterprise company Progress Software. Together, the telco and software vendor will...
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Comex 2012: Best telco broadband deals
Banners at Comex 2012 for SingTel and M1 This year at Comex 2012 it is a marketing battle between the red and yellow, with a slice of purple thrown in. One of the bigger IT fairs held at Suntec City,...
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Comex 2012: The weirder stuff you can find at the fair
And the weekend crowds have rolled in to Comex 2011. It was pretty crowded yesterday — Comex’s third day on Saturday 1st — when I was there from noon all the way to early evening. If you’re going to...
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EMC: We are the face of big data
Steve Leonard, Office of the Chairman, EMC @ Human Face of Big Data event, Singapore Big data, when harnessed, will change the world. And EMC wants to own this space. At a swanky Asia Pacific media...
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Guild Wars 2: 10 reasons why you should play it
There was only one game for me I had to play in 2012. It wasn’t Diablo 3, nor was it Mass Effect 3. No, that game was Guild Wars 2. Launched about one and a half months ago in late August, it took me...
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M1’s 200mbps fibre now slashed to S$49 per month
And the price war rages between the telcos on fibre broadband prices. Every quarter this year — if our quarterly tech fairs IT Show, PC Show and the recent COMEX are any indication — prices have...
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