Are you between 13-19, studying an in institution in Singapore and have a kick-ass creativity to produce a cool video? The Media Development Authority and Google Singapore jointly launch a local competition to promote cyber-wellness and good online practices among the youth of Singapore. By submitting a video of any format and style up to a [...]
Google and Barclays Pledge Support for PinkDot
Google and Barclays are the corporate sponsors or partners for this year’s PinkDot event at Hong Lim Park. Here are the gist of what they describe in support of PinkDot. “Google aspires to be an organization that reflects the globally diverse audience that our search engine and tools serve. And we believe that in addition [...]
The Google Drive Terms
I should heed my own advice. Read the actual fineprint instead of relying on someone’s tweet. Lesson learnt. Please read this article by Phone Arena not to hunt Google Terms of Service. “http://www.phonearena.com/news/Stop-the-Google-Drive-Terms-of-Service-Bogeyman-hunt_id29524″ Holy cow…how google drive terms compare to dropbox and Microsoft. ..wow. twitter.com/jmacdonald/sta… — Jonathan MacDonald (@jmacdonald) April 25, 2012
Ice Cream Sandwich Upgrade for Sony Xperia Begins
I missed this announcement. The upgrade for Ice Cream Sandwich for Sony Xperia GingerBread smartphones have been initiated. It starts with the Nordic countries for the next four to six weeks before doing a global upgrade. I am using a Sony Xperia Arc S (LT18) so this news is significant to me. Read more of [...]
UNWIRED conference 2012
Unwired 2012 – Singapore’s independent wireless and mobile conference, is back this year. It is happening on 31st May 2012 at Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Level 3, Angsana 3F. Last year, the topic mostly centered on LTe-4G implementation and the Mobile OS wars. You can read the summary here. What I like about Unwired, [...]
Wego Travel Search
When talking about wego, we have to first define what wego is not. It is not a travel site. It is not hotel booking site. It is not a tour agency. Wego is a travel metasearch, offering travellers a complete view of available flights, hotels, travel packages and deals, from over 150 travel websites. Wego [...]
David Beckham on Google+
International soccer star David Beckham will live stream an interview with Googlers and then interact with his fans via a Google+ hangout, live from Google’s Mountain View headquarters. There are two ways for his fans to get involved: • Watch the live streamed interview at YouTube.com/davidbeckham, 1am Singapore time (20th January 2012, Friday morning) [...]
Google Adds Theme to GMail
This is pretty cool. I got my interface enabled today (it was launched on the 18th) and as with all tools and labs from Google, I’m very keen to try them out. The result was fantastic; this is one way of keeping its users together and attracts new cohort of folks to try out GMail! [...]
Google: Video-ing into the Flu Pandemic
Actually, the title is not very descriptive about what I intended to write. What I do want to point out is this. Google launched audio & video interaction right into their (still beta) online mail application, GMAIL. Google is also helping out with Centers for Disease Control to track flu. Click here for a one-time download-and-install of a plug-in that [...]
e27 UnConference Summary
Overall, I think it was a pretty good turn-out for this event. It was my first time, turning up for an e27 conference and I feel very positive for the future of Singapore start-ups. The keynote that was represented by Daniel Ingitaraj started very slowly, plagued with technical failures. That didn’t dampened his enthusiasm. I [...]