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65Bits : Episode 80 - YYYYYYYYAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY!!!

NTT — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:40:49 +0000

OH YEAH Babie! We’re Ping’s 2nd Anniversary Podcast of the year! And so we begin on an appropriate note with a nice big YYYYEEEAAAYYYYY!!!!! We’re blown away with all the new things that are before us from E3, Microsoft’s new Xbox console interface, all the other consoles have revealed fabulous new toys and Intel unleashes upon us speed bumps with a drop in power consumption for their laptops. And most importantly we say, YYYYYAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY. Congratulations to… US! and all the other winners on Ping.sg Blog Awards..

Yours Smilingly,
Fabbo, Flabbo, and the Province of Fantastico.

[2:20]65Bits Wins the Best Audio/Video Podcast Award - Thank YOU!.
- [3:31]The Ping Lipdub Video

[4:27]Shoutout to Singapore GarageBand Meetup.

[5:57]E3 Round up.
- [6:46]New Dashboard for xBox360
- [7:24]Portal : Still Alive on XBLA
- [9:28]Play Without your Disk
- [11:24]Access Live Marketplace remotely from your Browser
- [13:10]Finally Final Fantasy XIII comes to xBox360
- [16:02]Microsoft Lips

- [17:01]Wii Speak
- [17:18]WiiMote Motion Plus
- [19:29]GTA for Nintendo DS
- [20:24]Guitar Hero : On Tour Sequel for Nintendo DS
- [20:40]Wii music

- [21:52]PS2 Bundle
- [24:12]The 256-player MAG

- [27:45]Starwars : The Force Unleashed for the iPhone

[28:36]The Intel Centrino 2.0 launched in Singapore.

[33:12]Apple says turn-by-turn GPS coming to iPhone, copy / paste not a high priority.

[39:20]Apple files suit against Psystar for copyright infringement, mellow-harshing.

[41:40]MIT opens new ‘window’ on solar energy

[45:32]Hands-On With the Voodoo Envy’s Instant-On OS.

[48:55]Byte of the Week : Google Gears.

65bits Episode 79: Now in Low Quality!

Daniel — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:51:37 +0000

This week we were only able to provide you with the sweet sounds of Macbook microphone recordings and that is all. Nevertheless it comes filled to the gills with sweet sweet tech news. Of both the iPhone sort and the any other possible sort of news kind of news. Such as Creative’s new Zen X-Fi. Which looks to be quite a competitor to the Colossus that is the iPod. We’re in awe at hard drives with awesome capacities and last but certainly not the least, Google has decided that it’ll get into that whole “second life” thingy with Lively!

With honor and valor (blehh)
The Recruit, The Driver, The Desk Jockey

[03:00]Vote for us in the Ping.sg Blog Awards

[04:05]Creative launches the ZEN X-Fi with Wireless LAN

[10:25]The Singapore iTunes Store is live! Sort of…
- Side story: [13:52]SquareEnix’s Song Summoner RPG for the iPod Classic and iPod Nano

[15:00]The International iPhone Launch. What will ours be like?

[20:29]Seagate comes up with new 1.5 terabyte hard drives

[23:31]Xbox 360’s Mid-range console receives further price drops. What is Maxsoft doing with the Wii?!?

[27:31]Konami lodges patent suite against Harmonix, MTV over Rock band

[30:03]Google launches their own Second Life called Lively

[33:00]Byte Of The Week: Evernote: Remember Everything

Don’t forget to catch our bloopers at the end of the episode!

65 Bits Episode 78 : Cheap iPhones?

NTT — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:55:08 +0000

This week’s episode is brought to you because we love you listeners. We talk about providing technologies to those with disabilities to help them use technology more effectively. Creative is going to release the iPod Killer… again. We look at Hong Kong’s pricing policies for the iPhone and what that means for us in Singapore and it looks like its gonna be the calm before the storm for those Diablo lovers out there as Diablo 3 is coming out soon! Those security minded folk out there also have a new way to log into your WoW account!

We love ya!
Satay, Stingray and Roti Prata

[1:09] Vote for us in the Ping.sg Blog Awards

[3:20]Technology library to loan test gadgets for disabled.
-The Infocomm Accessibility Center of the Society for the Physically Disabled

[6:44]The Creative ZEN X-Fi rumored!

[14:37]Hutchison Telecom (Hong Kong) has revealed its pricing and service plans for the iPhone 3G.

[24:05]iCall App Enables GSM to WiFi / VoIP Switching On The iPhone.

[26:48]Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today revealed Diablo® III

[31:50]Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. introduces Blizzard Authenticator, an optional extra layer of security for World of Warcraft®

[34:30]Byte of the week : Mozilla Labs - Introducing Weave

65Bits Episode 77 : The end of an Era

NTT — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:46:44 +0000

Some people live forever, immortalised by the greatness they have inspired or the people they’ve destroyed. Bill Gates is a man who arguably has done both in the tech industry. We drool and gush over HP’s newest and sexehest PC, the HP Touchsmart. You can now rest assured that someone is working to ensure that those who want to apply Creative Commons to their work will soon be able to do so. Nasi Lemak style! We love Microsoft’s extended love for XP, and Nokia’s arms wide open embrace of Open Sauce. Mmm Teriyaki.

Loving Each Day,
The Jedi, The Airplane and the Pokémon

Stories this week :

[2:19]Good Bye Billy Boy Gates

[5:05]HP Touchsmart showcase in Singapore
- Shout out to Podfire and Suyuen.

[19:01]Creative Commons in Singapore finally
- Support Creative Commons in Singapore

[23:39]Microsoft promises to support XP until 2014

[26:29]Nokia buys Symbian, turns software over to Symbian Foundation

[32:35]Byte of the Week: Street directory Alternatives

65Bits Episode 76 : The one with open secrets

NTT — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:48:32 +0000

The future is here and its an open secret. Apple has unveiled the way it plans to make all applications online, and we don’t even know about it. Sproutcore’s its name, and we can wait to see what it does. Youtube launched a thing specially for its Partners, we talk about all the iPhone wannabes and killers and wonder if they do or do not actually match up, and question the future of graphics cards/processors/kitchen sinks. Lastly, Singapore Airlines makes a very BLOCKY impression on us.

Tupolev, Iluyushin, Fokker

[3:00]Apple’s open secret: SproutCore is Cocoa for the Web.

[6:30]Youtube tries long form content.

[10:15]Communicasia and multitude cellphone announcements.

[14:25]iPhone wannabes and why they don’t cut it or why they DO!?:

[21:00]ASUS gets official with Atom-powered Eee Box

[24:00]Nvidia and AMD launch TONNES of new graphics cards and Snow Leopard

[30:56]Solar energy concentration by 1000 at a low cost and SMALL sized?!

[33:35]Opera 9.5 vs Firefox 3

[39:40]SIA A380 Super-Jumbo made from Lego.

[44:30]Byte of the Week: Spore Creature Creator

65Bits Episode 75 : Firefox 2 is dead! Long Live Firefox 3!

NTT — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:53:20 +0000

This week, we begin with more iPhone news, and a startling new invention given to us by the fine folks down @ Apple. We also find that people’ve come up with ways to wriggle their way out of His Steveness’ grasp. Dell has also decided to take on both Apple and Asus/MSI/Acer all at once and we’re worried for the future of humanity for Skynet is here. We must protect Sarah and John Connor. By the by, make sure y’all download ~~Opera9.5~~ Firefox 3 this Tuesday! Help set the world record for most downloads in a day!

Ryu and Joe Hayabusa!

Stories this Week :

[1:20]More iPhone Talk.

[3:55]Apple Introduces iPhone 3G Videoconferencing Kit, ZOMG!

[4:28]EFiX: OSx86 with a twist.

[7:23]Dell E and E Slim revealed, taking on Eee and Air in one fell swoop.

[10:05]Yahoo ends all talks with Microsoft, shares plunge.

[12:55]Britain Launches Final Real-Life Skynet Satellite.

[14:30]Opera 9.5 Brings Speed and Syncing to the Browser

[16:39]Google Browser Sync To Be Discontinued

[18:40]Byte of the Week : Firefox 3 to Drop on Tuesday

65Bits Episode 74 Plus : Apple’s 3G Pie

NTT — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:40:06 +0000

Dan and NTT do a midweek special episode of 65Bits, discussing the announcements made by his Steveness at WWDC. We cover, the iPhone2.0 SW announcement, the iPhone 3G and pricing plans in the US and also, when and how it will come to Singapore!

Links for this week’s discussion.

Apple iPhone in Singapore

Engadget’s coverage of Apple’s Announcement

Singtel’s Pre-order Website.

Kevin Lim’s Post on iPhone pricing.

65Bits Episode 74: Netbooks galore

NTT — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:56:35 +0000

Computex brings us a world full of Netbooks, Tiny Ass Notebooks (TABs), promised to deliver a convenient mobile experience like no other. And, to get everything in perspective, we bring on the explorer extraordinaire and gadget guru, Preetam Rai himself. We also look at Plurk, the supposed Twitter Clone (or Killer), and follow up on the @%$!#$@ VueStar Patent case. A quick look at the new HTC Touch Pro, which is basically a Diamond with keys, and Penzu, the web2.0 Notepad application. And a final reminder to watch out for his Steveness’s Keynote on Monday night SGT.

- NTT, Daniel and our awesome Guests Preetam Rai and Hisham

Stories This Week :

[1:45]NetBooks at Computex :

- Acer’s Aspire One (8.9″)
- MSI Wind (8.9″)
- Gigabyte M912 (convertible tablet)
- AMD enters netbook game
- Ubuntu’s going netbook too.
- Nvidia’s GPU for laptops

[12:15]Plurk.. The new Twitter?

[17:55]HTC Touch Pro launched.

[20:50]VueStar Patent : An official reply from IPOS

[23:13]Byte of the Week : Penzu.

65Bits Episode 73: Goodbye Farinelli

NTT — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:11:30 +0000

This week we discover the joys of having an ethernet switchbox bring gigabit ethernet right to your room, instead of creating tons of hazards by running wires all over the house.

Ok no, this is “WTF is Wrong with the Net” week. On our very own island, VueStar claims the most ridiculous patent yet, and on the other side of the world, automated crusaders cause trouble for everyone’s favorite vidcast production house with a positive DDoS and then deny it. Some deeper discussion about how Nokia is considering using Linux as a cellphone platform, followed by a distinctly more comprehensible rant on “the new MP3 standard” my fat Farinelli a*se. Joy o joy at news of Dell’s foray into the netbook scene with the Mini-Inspiron, before going into our byte of the week, the dropbox-like Windows Live Skydrive.

Stories this Week

[4:10]Singapore Firm Claims Patent Breach By Virtually All Websites.

[9:00]Revision3 under attack.

[17:30]Linux May Power New Nokia Phones

[23:10]New MP3 Revolutionizes Way You Listen to Music.

[28:35]Dell’s “mini-Inspiron” Eee PC killer revealed.

[37:22]Byte of the Week. Windows Live SkyDrive

65 Bits Episode 72 : Penguin Killers

NTT — Mon, 26 May 2008 05:48:49 +0000

As we look closely at the mating rituals of the Emperor penguin, we notice a delicate pose, a.. HEY! what the. It just dropped dead… Someone must’ve said. DON’T WAIT… Lie-Nux. NO!!!! WHY GOD! WHY!!!!!

This week’s stories include a sober warning to students out there who need to protect themselves from the dangers of identity theft, a slight blockage in certain tubes, a NEW way to consume television on your cellphone and its NOT DVB-H, and a brand new way to ROCK YOUR FACE OFF!

It’s a great episode so stick around! Also, We got the ROCK!
Pedra, Branca and the South Ledge (Coz we want that other rock.. its useless but dang it we want it)

Stories this Week:

[2:15]BarcampSingaporeII

[4:31]S’pore students putting their identities at risk?

[9:11]StarHub ‘blocking file-share program’ aka BitTorrent

[14:40]SingTel launches mio TV on Mobile

[21:00]HTC Touch Diamond launches in Singapore

[25:55]Asus to embed Linux into all motherboards

[28:05]MS Office to support outside open formats

[30.34]Guitar Hero World Tour

[33:00]Byte of The Week: Google Browser Sync