It has been a while, but Motorola has finally returned to the mobile phone scene – its first Android smartphone, the Dext, was launched here last week.
Running on the older Android operating system version 1.5, the Dext packs a 3.1-inch touchscreen display, a 5-megapixel auto-focus camera capable of video capture in H.264, and Assisted-GPS. It [...]
US book publishers are smiling again, after years of watching digital versions of their titles sell for below what they thought they were worth.
A host of rivals to the market-dominating Kindle electronic reader has given newfound hope to publishers that they will finally be able to dictate their own terms after being at the mercy [...]
The Singapore Airshow opens its doors to the public this weekend and it’s proving to be a crowd-puller as tickets for the first day were sold out.
However, the biennial airshow has drawn some mixed reviews this time round.
As soon as doors opened at 9.30 am on Saturday, the crowd started streaming in.
Those who were at [...]
Resorts World at Sentosa has been awarded its casino licence. It is the first of Singapore’s two integrated resorts to get the go ahead for its casino operations.
Although the opening date of the casino at Resort World has not been announced, preparations are in full swing.
Resorts World Sentosa chairman Lim Kok Thay said: “We are [...]
Toyota, reeling from safety woes that have sullied its reputation around the globe, will this week announce the recall of 300,000 Prius hybrid vehicles because of brake flaws, reports said Sunday.
The move by the Japanese auto giant will affect the latest model of the Prius, a car beloved of Hollywood stars and environmentalists, following scores [...]
Well known Chinese publisher and blogger Hong Huang has dismissed speculation that Wendi Murdoch, wife of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, is behind the ‘black paint incident’ targeted at Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi.
The ‘black paint incident’ referred to an incident on the night of December 23 when a group of men barged into the Park Hyatt [...]
Hong Kong actress Jessica Hsuan’s boyfriend, South African veterinarian Ruan Bester, has been found to have a history of embezzlement and dishonest conduct, according to Hong Kong media reports.
In 2008, 35-year-old Bester opened the Royal Veterinary Centre, the biggest veterinary clinic in Macau at the time, with Faye Ho, the eldest granddaughter of Macau’s ‘Casino [...]
Susan Boyle, the Scottish singer whose talent show performance catapulted her to global stardom, arrived in Japan on Tuesday to perform on a New Year’s Eve music gala watched by millions.
Boyle waved cheerfully to fans as she was escorted through Narita airport east of Tokyo, declining a request by television networks to give an impromptu [...]
Chelsea won for only the second time in eight matches to extend their Premier League lead to five points after coming from behind to beat Fulham 2-1 in a dramatic west London derby on Sunday.
Fulham needed just four minutes to go ahead at Stamford Bridge through Zoltan Gera before Carlo Ancelotti’s side scored twice [...]
Al-Qaeda claimed the failed December 25 bombing of a US-bound aircraft in a statement picked up by US monitors on Monday, as the jihadists threatened attacks on the West and Yemen vowed no let-up against them.
Al-Qaeda’s Arabian peninsula franchise acknowledged in the Internet posting that a “technical fault” had caused the failure of the plot [...]
President Barack Obama vowed on Monday to hunt down extremists wherever they plot attacks against the United States as Al-Qaeda claimed it hatched the attempt to blow up a US-bound airliner on Christmas Day.
Obama pledged to “disrupt, to dismantle and defeat the violent extremists who threaten us – whether they are from Afghanistan or Pakistan, [...]
Dear diary,
Been long time since my last personal post. Very busy lately on work and some special event, let’s hope everything turn out nicely as according to the planning.
I’m currently on he train towards orchard meeting wm & Vivien, while k will be joining us later on, the toot currently doing some voluntary event at [...]
Google on Thursday provided a peek beneath the hood of its new Chrome operating system, making the software public and promising it will run netbooks by the end of next year.
Google-crafted Chrome OS will be tailored exclusively for applications hosted as services in the Internet “cloud” and debut on low-cost, bare-bones netbooks that have been [...]
The late King of Pop Michael Jackson ruled the Internet this year, with his name crowned the most popular search term at Google, Yahoo! and Bing.
Jackson dethroned pop princess Britney Spears, a controversy plagued music star that had reigned supreme in annual Top 10 search results at Yahoo! for the previous four years, the California-based [...]
The new operating system from Microsoft has been flying off the shelves since its official launch in October.
Is it a case of good press? Not really.
Having tested Windows 7 in its Beta stage, the success of the successor to Windows Vista has come as no surprise.
So after the 22 October launch of Windows 7, I [...]
Google, under fire from Rupert Murdoch and some other newspaper owners, said Tuesday it will let publishers set a limit on the number of articles people can read for free through its search engine.
The Google announcement came as the News Corp. chairman, who has threatened to block the Internet giant from indexing his newspapers, and [...]
For the first time in a decade, the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) is in the red. In its latest fiscal year ending June 2009, NKF had a deficit of S$900,000.
The lack of donations and a dip in investment income were cited as reasons for the deficit.
S$18.5 million were received in donations, a 26 per cent [...]
Dell’s slimmest laptop ever still isn’t shipping out to eager consumers, but at least the Win7-packin’ Adamo XPS is now configurable over on the outfit’s website. The base $1,799 configuration includes a 1.4GHz Core 2 Duo SU9400 CPU, a 128GB solid state drive, 13.4-inch WLED panel, 2 megapixel camera, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, GS45 integrated [...]
There is a sleek new Wi-Fi tablet on the market that is only 0.9 inches thick, gets months of battery life from four AAA batteries and is so durable that its manufacturer encourages users to regularly step on it. After all, it’s a scale — the Withings WiFi Body Scale.
The market for Internet-connected fitness [...]
For as long as we can remember, AMIMON’s WHDI technology has been reserved for use in high-end AV components — HDTVs, Blu-ray players, set-top-boxes, etc. Today, the outfit has finally figured out a way to break free from its current box and get all up in the grille of the mainstream market. As of now, [...]
It’s looking increasingly unlikely that Google’s Chrome OS is really launching this week (not that we were really that convinced anyway). What is true, however, is that the company is hosting an event later this week at its Mountain View, CA headquarters to showcase its progress, provide an overview of the platform, and give information [...]
No knock on Acer, who got here first with the Aspire 5738DG, but it sounds like the ASUS G51J 3D has the technology edge in the nascent 3D laptop category. We’ll have to see it in action to be sure, but the laptop is using NVIDIA’s 3D Vision tech for extensive game compatibility (around 400 [...]
APEC finance ministers will reject any premature moves towards fiscal tightening and advocate a steady retreat from stimulus measures, according to a draft communique obtained by AFP on Tuesday.
“We agree that the solution is not to rush to fiscal tightening, especially while credit markets are still recovering,” the draft said. “Careful planning and timing withdrawal [...]
Low cost carrier Jestar Asia is widening its reach. Its CEO, Chong Phit Lian has confirmed that the carrier’s applied to fly twice daily to Haneda in Japan, using the wide-bodied A330, from its hub in Changi Airport.
Once accepted, this would mark its foray into the long-haul, wide-bodied aircraft market.
Typically, low cost carriers always use [...]
Hey guys how’s day? I just happened to find out that you can link yuur wordpress with the iPhone together, simply visit the iTunes store and download the wordress 2 app!
Don’t panic, we haven’t gone back in time. What we’re looking at here is the world’s first but still-yet-to-be-released phone that runs on Windows XP, and its Chinese maker has just released some juicy specs and interface images to tease us all. The ITG xpPhone will be blessed with the chutzpah-filled AMD “Super Mobile” CPU, [...]
The fine folks at both HotHardware and PC Perspective have run the new ASUS P7P55D-E Premium motherboard through its paces, which has the particular distinction of handling both USB 3.0 and the up-and-coming SATA 6G through controllers by NEC and Marvell, respectively. Lucky for us, both sites’ tests came to similar conclusions. The Seagate Barracuda [...]
Like it or not, we’ve got it on pretty reasonable authority that HTC’s first “DROID” phone is nothing more than a rebadged, shape-shifted Hero (something we’ve been hearing for a while now), and that it’ll be launching on Verizon on November 6th, the same day as Motorola’s DROID. That means Android 1.5 “Cupcake,” Sense UI, [...]
Whoa, is that webOS 2.0 we see on the horizon? No, sorry, it definitely isn’t — but we can say with relative confidence that the upcoming Pixi will be shipping with a newer, slightly more feature-rich version of webOS than its Pre brethren around the world; if nothing else, Synergy supports Yahoo on the new [...]
And now… fighting out of the red corner, weighing in with two Evergreen GPUs, and wearing black trunks and red trim, it’s the Radeon HD 5970. ATI’s latest challenger for the title of undisputed graphics champion has been snared in the wild, and its photo shoot reveals a suitably oversized beast. Measuring in at 13.5 [...]