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-Samsung Bada lives and is going to merge with the Tizen Project
-PlayStation Vita is coming to Singapore on 22nd February
-Hacker group threatens to release Symantec AV source code
-SOPA Blackout Day – 18th January 2012 at 8am EST to 8pm EST (9pm SGT to 9am SGT)

Last night is iPhone 4S official launch in Singapore. We take a look at how Singapore launches the iPhone 4S on all of our 3 service providers, and compare their different approaches.

Second part of the Interview with Mr Deepakjit Singh, Managing Director of Encompass.

In this interview, we explore more of Encompass role in converting videos created in older tape formats to digital formats.

We also ask on the reason Singapore was chosen as the base for Encompass Digital Media operations.

Last week, Justin and I went up to Fusionopolis to meet Chris Whitney, the CTO OF HP Singapore and the managing director of HP Labs Singapore, as we chatted with him all about his venture into technological innovations. Chris spoke to us about his childhood foray into technology right up to the point where he became a founding director of HP Labs in Singapore that focusses on cloud computing, mobile and immersive experiences among many others.

What struck me the most was how Chris was still very focussed on the human interaction element of every day life and using technology as an enabler and tool! Let’s hear from him as we chatted on that monday morning

We got a demo of the JamiQ‘s Social Media Monitoring Tool at the ad:tech Singapore 2011 event.

Also, we got to talk [5:50] to the guys behind the Singapore General Elections Visualization based on Social Media (Twitter), who told us how the visualization tells the story of the Elections.

NTT, Daniel and Aditya (@acmhatre)

[1:00] What have you been up to?
-NTT & Dan – Starcraft2 Replays
-Dan – Command & Conquer 4
-Aditya – Dell Mini10

[6:35] History of podcasts & the technology behind podcasts.
-The term podcasting – actually not invented by Adam Curry but by Ben Hammersley
- Dave Winer and RSS0.92
-How podcasts work.
- Podcasting in plain English

[10:35] Ideas behind podcasts.
-Time-shifting – You don’t have to consume it at the time it’s published.
-Place-shifting – You don’t have to consume it on one kind of device.

[15:40] What got you into podcasting.
-Wired – Adam Curry Wants to Make You an iPod Radio Star

[19:30] How Indicast/Tech65 evolved.
-WUI-Indicast
-Indicast -Live
-Tech65 -Live
- Gears65 – Tech65

[28:35] Overview of podcasting market & personal favorite podcasts.
-NTT – TWiT
-NTT – Rev3
-Aditya – Stuff you should know
-Daniel – TWiT
-NTT – Systm
-Aditya – Stripper Method
-NTT – QDT

[40:50] What’s in store for Indicast/Tech65 in the near future?

Hey there. Farinelli here. So um, the hamsters did in fact revolt again, nearly destroyed the episode but my l33t skills saved it somehow, and I’m basically left to apologize for the volume issues in this episode. You do not want to know what happened while I was working on this episode. And even if you do want to know, I don’t want to tell you. What I will tell you though, is that this week’s episode focuses on the last, newest, and debatably the most promising of the big 4 smartphone OSs – Google Android. Zi Yong from CodeAndroid joins us in sharing with you the pros (what, what cons?) of the Android system – what it has brought to the table, what companies have done, and what will be done with it in the near future. Be sure to catch the next episode as we do a grand wrap-up of what we have discussed in the past four weeks. Guess who’s back.

WANT TO FIGHT? WANT TO FIGHT?!

Daniel, DK, Fari, w/ Zi Yong

Refresh:
[2:20] Windows 7 Upgrade Options
[5:12] Tiny SG made MP3 Player Easy on the Wallet
[7:23] Amazing UK Plug Design
[10:56] Adsense Comes to Mobile
[12:43] MJ’s Death Brings Down Several Websites

[14:40] Android Discussion + HTC Hero

[33:25] BOTW: H1N1 Mask App

With Love and Affection

Daniel, NTT, Nicole, DK

[00:40] We’re on Engadget!

Refresh!
[02:10] HTC Magic
[03:45] Exchange-enabled HTC Magic explained: it’s not a “with Google” phone
[04:35] HP recalls 70,000 notebook batteries because of fire hazard
[07:05] Acer Aspire Timeline
[08:45] Ubuntu1 is in beta now
[11:05] Google goes down
[14:15] Microsoft vs Apple Ad wars
[17:25] End of NextBus?
[20:50] Singapore TweetUp

Stories :
[23:30] Recycling Electronics in SG
[30:00] Ideas for Code Extreme apps?

[38:40] Byte of the Week : VLC

This week, Love is in the air, with the bounties that the various tech leviathans have bestowed upon us: Videos on Flickr, Google’s app engine for FREE computing, The amazing little beauty that is HP’s Mini-Note, and of course more iPhone rumours. We also shower love and beg for the swift return of Streetdirectory.com, for without which we are simply lost in the wilderness of Singapore’s urbanity. With all this love floating around, we’re sure you guys will want to feel safe whilst practicing all this free loving, and such safety comes easily with Gadget Track, software that you can use to track your PC down, when you lose your laptop all you have to do is activate it and the programme will try to phone home. You may also want to keep all those naughty, naked, sprawled out on that carpet pictures of your Macbook safe, with EasySafe. Which is simply a key to all your sensitive files.

With Love and Adoration
Farinelli, That guy you checked out last night, asked for his twitter, gmail, FB, Myspace etc. etc., and realised that he’s too hot for you anyway
NTT, that guy who checked you out last night, and you felt a familiar stirring in your… Thinkpad
Jerrick, You just want him coz he’s that extra special 65th bit
Kai-Yi, You know you want a guy who drives a Lamborghini in Gran Turismo 5 Prologue

Stories this episode :

Flickr Adds Video Capabilities to Service – NO Video on Flickr Petition.

Google App Engine

HP Mini-Note 2133 announced – and previewed in Singapore

Australia to get 3g iPhone unlocked. Singapore implications?

Virtual Map shuts down Streetdirectory.com site after losing suit.

Byte of the Week: YouSwop

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