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Microsoft Office 365 First Look

Renhao — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:35:47 +0000

On the 30th of June, Microsoft Singapore held an event to announce the launch of its Office 365 cloud-based productivity suite. Tech65 brings you this compilation of features presentations from each of the 6 stations, including mobile integration (WP7 Mango), collaboration (Sharepoint), security protection, live editing (Sharepoint), user networking (Lynx) and IT administration.

Microsoft Office 365 is available for businesses now, who can find out more and sign up for it at www.office365.com.sg.

65Bits Episode 129: The 129th Episode

Daniel — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:08:30 +0000

Singapore isn’t very good at naming things, and this week’s episode is dedicated to one such thing: the budget terminal aptly named “The Budget Terminal”. So in honour of that, this week’s episode shall be called… The 129th Episode. On this creatively named episode we share with you Starhub’s contractless pre-paid mobile broadband, Windows 7 RTMing, a new netbook OS, Twitter killing spammers and Facebook relenting the vanity URL policy, by a bit… And finally, iPhone and iPod Touch users can finally stalk and be stalked!

Daniel, Jerrick, DK, Nicole, Justin

Stories this week:

[03:00] Starhub’s Prepaid Mobile Broadband Plan
[07:40] Windows 7 RTMed
[13:30] Jolicloud (A Netbook OS designed for the Cloud) Alpha-ed
[20:20] Twitter Correcting Follower Counts: 1000s of Spammers Perish
[22:15] Facebook let you change your username – Just one more time

[24:30] Byte of the week: Google Latitude for the iPhone and iPod Touch

65Bits Episode 125: Month of Smartphones 4 – Google Android

Renhao — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:00:34 +0000

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 Wal let
[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

65Bits Episode 118: Live from The Sail

Daniel — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:55:58 +0000

We take a trip this week to 24Seven‘s offices at The Sail (special thanks to Claudia for letting us use the office) where we have an extra-long Refresh talking about the Samsung i7500 that we were fortunate enough to get our hands on, the Kindle DX which we are unfortunate to not be able to own, a kid friendly version of Guitar Hero, Windows 7′s extension and kill switch, and a possible lax in Apple’s iPhone App store with the introduction of the 3.0 software? This week we also have a special guest, Bernard Leong, who shares with us his trip to Nokia’s developer summit.

Daniel, DK, Nicole, Hisham, Bernard

This week’s stories:

Refresh
[02:00] Exclusive Samsung i7500 Android hands-on
[05:10] Sony Ericsson’s new Theme Creator
[07:10] Amazon launches the Kindle DX
[11:20] DJ Hero, Band Hero and Guitar Hero 5 announced
[13:50] Windows 7 RC1 given extension well into 2010, but will shut down every two hours after March 2010
[15:55] iPhone 3.0 to have parental control for apps
[17:00] CodeXtremeApps 2009

[22:45] Nokia’s Developer summit
- Prologue
- Day 1
- Nokia N97, N-gage and Symbian

[38:15] Microsoft Dreamspark – Free Microsoft Developer tools for students

[43:00] Byte Of The Week – TokBox.com

65Bits Episode 116: We’re all that’s left!

Daniel — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:52:19 +0000

While NTT, Nicole, Ryu and Naveen take a break from the demanding job of bringing you, our beloved listeners, readers and viewers new and better content every week, along with the already far away Jerrick, it’s left to the rest of us to take that huge burden!! We’re up to the challenge!! Yes we are!!

And what better way than to send DK on a trip around the island chasing after the latest in local tech this week for our brand new edition of Refresh!

Daniel, DK and Hisham

Stories this week:

Refresh
[01:10] Nokia’s new Messaging email service
[03:00] Sony Ericsson and Singtel’s PlayNow Plus music store
[06:30] Acer launches 5 new Windows Mobile smart phones
[09:15] Dell Swarm (Website not available to public yet)
[10:25] CodeXtremeApps 2009
[12:15] GMail now supports Powerpoint and TIFF viewing
[13:00] XM-I’s X-Mini Happy and X-Mini Max 2
[15:00] Windows 7 to have XP virtualisation mode
[16:45] Windows 7 RC out to public on May 5th

Discussion
[17:20] Bring Down IE6!
[26:15] Will cloud computing take over desktop computing?

Byte Of The Week: [35:15] CoverItLive.com

65Bits Episode 112: The Quietest Cafe in Singapore

Daniel — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:12:45 +0000

In the continuation of tech news draught that seems to be happening more often this year, we find ourselves sitting at the location where we recorded our very first out-door 65bits (How did we ever manage to talk for less than twenty minutes back then!?).

In summary, Fujitsu has a new service centre, HP has a new budget ultra portable, Singapore has a new rank to show-off, Windows has a new ad and Farinelli has a new feature in Gmail he totally should start using.

A great time to just talk about stuff that isn’t news?

- Daniel and DK

Stories this week:

[02:20] New Fujitsu service centre
[05:00] HP’s new Pavilion DV2 budget ultra portable
[09:10] Games Developers’ Conference 2009
- [10:00] OnLive – Cloud gaming console
[14:05] Singapore 4th most networked country… Yawn…

Let’s talk about Tech
[14:50] Windows Vista – Now no longer a technical failure but a PR failure?
- Microsoft’s latest “I’m a PC” ad
[22:50] Samsung TouchWiz UI (P.s. When I said “confirmed”, I really meant “convinced”)

[29:10] Byte of the week! Wait, let’s talk about Facebook first
[31:55] Byte of the Week: Gmail Labs: Undo send!

65Bits Episode 111: !!!!111oneOneONE

Daniel — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:06:41 +0000

Microsoft says they’re a platform company. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? And what it the iPhone’s impact on the rest of the smartphone industry and what makes them so succesful? These are just some of the thought provoking discussions that we have in this week’s relatively shorter but heavier episode of 65bits. Plus we discover NTT’s opinion on fancy IM features, and how he just doesn’t get what kids like these days.

- Daniel, NTT, Farinelli

Stories this week

[02:45] The Microsoft discussion, a discussion after a visit to Microsoft’s HQ.
- [03:00] Windows 7 – Our Gear65 episode
- [06:05] What’s “Windows Cloud”, not to be confused with Windows Live (Officially known as Windows Azure) or Microsoft Online
- [07:35] What’s going on with Windows Live
- – [08:00] Cool trick in Live Messenger: Video Avatars
- [10:15] MS Singapore working on specific frameworks in next Windows Mobile – Location Based platform. Will it ever happen?
- [16:00] Microsoft as a platform company – are they compromising the wrong things?

[19:50] The Dell Adamo – the slimmest notebook in the world today. Even we think so.

[25:05] The iPhone 3.0 – What Apple should have done in the first place
- [28:25] iPhone 3.0, what Apple is doing (post by Daniel and Jerrick)
- [28:55] Implications on the Palm Pre
- [30:15] Apple’s iPhone, the phone that developers hate to love and love to hate
- [33:15] HTML5 – what used to be Palm Pre’s strength is now Android’s, iPhones and Windows Mobile‘s extra feature

[38:05] Social Media… uhh… Breakfast ( in New York time…) 6
- Catch Daniel who is going to be one of the panelists of the event

[39:25] Byte of the Week: TwitterFall

65Bits Episode 106: Super Hybrid Engine Battery Conservation Technology

Renhao — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 13:06:40 +0000

SHEBaCoT.

See? It’s a nice name right? I tried to convince Daniel but he wouldn’t be. Find out why you shouldn’t dismiss the new Atom chip as only .06GHz faster. Also, the G Phone will be arriving exclusively on Singapore’s sunny-island-set-in-the-sea shores, thanks to not-so-Sink-tel’s clout. What though of the G1′s dependency on telco-pushed updates? But first, a promising fancy NAS from Linksys®byCisco, LG’s new Prada offering with its economically dubious accessory, and 6 versions of Windows 7 as compared to 7 versions for Windows Vista.

What a wonderful world.

- Daniel, DK, Farinelli, NTT and Willy

[1:22]Media Hub from Linksys® by Cisco

[13:35]LG Prada II

[17:30]The New Atom N280

[25:10]Six editions of Windows 7.

[31:10]Change in Windows Mobile team, and schedule of future releases.

[36:15]SingTel and HTC Introduce the HTC Dream in Singapore

[39:55]Google Latitude

[45:50]Yesterday.sg makes a splash!

[48:05]BarCamp Singapore 3

[52:10]Byte of the Week: Google Calendar Offline – *Post Production Note* We found out that this is only avaliable for Google Calender avaliable through Google Apps. We applogise for the misinformation.

Gear65 #7 – Windows 7 Beta

Daniel — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:50:15 +0000

7 episodes of Gear65!! And what are we gonna feature on our 7th episode? Windows 7 of course! Total coincidence, by the way. Honest!!

We’re taking a look at the brand new user interface of Windows 7 today, the very thing that will affect users directly when they use it. Windows 7 has lots of pretty neat features for finding and organising your open Windows, and that’s our focus today. No performance tests though, since the machine it’s running on, the Intel Core i7 rig from last week, is surely going to run super fast regardless of the operating system.

65bits Episode 102: Welcome back, Palm! It’s been a long time…

Daniel — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:59:26 +0000

It’s that time of the year again! CES + Macworld combo! It is therefore only appropriete for us that we should record the longest episode this week too! Have no fear!! Check out our shownotes, and use the time-stamps to listen to just the stories that you’re interested in! We’ve carefully picked only the best stories just for your listening pleasure.

The beginning of the year is an interesting one for the tech industry. First Apple surprises us (well, not really) by announcing minor products, while Microsoft over promises in their keynote by having their servers crash hours they released Windows 7′s public beta. And who would have guessed that the company that was going to steal all the thunder last week was going to be Palm? And interesting year, this is, indeed…

Daniel, NTT, DK, featuring our special guest, Willy Foo of LiveStudios.sg

P.S.: Apologies for the delay this week. Our producer fell ill, and was unable to produce this episode. Thanks for your patience!

Stories this week:

[02:05] Apple’s last keynote at Macworld 2009 (Keynote transcript | video)
- [02:35] iLife ’09
- [10:40] iWorks ’09
- [12:10] Updated 17 inch Macbook Pro with Unibody and integrated 8-hour battery
- [13:55] iTunes turns DRM free by end of 1st Quarter 2009

[16:55] Windows 7 Public Beta announced at CES09 Keynote
- [18:25] ZDNet compares Windows 7 with Vista and XP

[23:45] Sony reveals Vaio P “not-a-netbook” netbook

[34:20] Creative reveals what Zii is all about, turns out NTT was right after all

[38:45] Palm steals CES09 thunder with the Palm Pre and the Palm WebOS (Announcement transcript | Video)

[49:45] For more CES coverage, we recommend Engadget.com

[50:20] Byte of the week: Mozilla Prism (also mentioned is Fluid)

65Bits Episode 98: Time to get creative… commons!

NTT — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:00:07 +0000

Creative Commons is finally in Singapore! Woo hoo! Wait, so what’s Creative Commons all about anyway? Sure, lots of us have been declaring our stuff as CC, but do we actually know what’s it for? Good thing we have our resident Professor No Touchy Touchy attempts to explain his understanding of CC to us, and convince the rest of us why CC should be promoted in Singapore, among other local tech news. This week, on 65bits…

Daniel, NTT, DK & Nicole

Stories this week:

[10:30] InteresThink3
– Register Here

[14:10] The Sony Ericsson Xperia X1

[21:30] The Nokia N97

[26:50] iPhone sales exceed Windows Mobile sales for first time

[33:45] Six Apart acquires and shuts down Pownce

[39:03] Google shuts down Lively and Pages

[44:45] Singapore Creative Commons licenses are online!

[48:48] Creative Commons Singapore contest, anyone?

[51:40] Byte of the week: Phlook.com

65bits Episode 95: Touchsmart has a fan club??

Daniel — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 06:32:14 +0000

This week’s recording was a race against time because we weren’t at our usual location, and had a dying laptop and no power plug. This week’s recording also successfully proved that we’re in the pre-Christmas lull, that equally magical window of the year where 3 weeks worth of stories turn out to be less than one week’s usual worth. Well you’ll see the other extreme real soon. HP released Touchsmart’s codes to developers, Windows 7 is shown off at PDC and it looks promising, and Starhub malu-ated as they fail to deliver their declaration of all Singaporean telcos selling the iPhone by the end of this year.

Stories this week:

[01:50] HP opens up Touchsmart to Third-Party developers

[07:00] Windows 7 showed off at PDC
[15:55] Windows Azure revealed

[21:00] Starhub delays iPhone sale

[23:18] Apple activates podcast downloads in 2.2 firmware

[29:02] Byte Of The Week: Goosync

65bits Episode 93: I mean, who cares about Apple, right?

Daniel — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 08:49:23 +0000

Yes, it’s that time again. Another Apple event, another set of new Apple products. In this episode, the entire Tech65 crew attempts to avoid the Apple topic, and talk about everything else. How about a discussion on Digital Media in Singapore? Or finding out what’s the deal with Samsung’s new Innov8 phone? Oh, I know! Let’s talk about the next version of Windows! I’m sure everyone wants to find out what they decided to name it! And how about some tips on reformatting your Windows machine! I mean, who cares about Apple, right?

Featuring: Daniel, NTT, Farinelli, Ryu, Nicole, Naveen and special cameo by DK.

[01:29] Announcement: New 65bits podcast feed at http://feeds.feedburner.com/65bits for 65bits only. Stay with this feed for all future Tech65 audio podcasts.

[04:00] Pre-DigitalMediaFest 2008 Discussion. What is Digital Media in Singapore?

[09:50] Impressions of the new Samsung Innov8
- Review by Claudia.sg

[13:44] Kongregate Labs: Gaming tutorials on creating Flash Games

[16:13] HSDPA Eee PC 901 promotion with SingTel Broadband On Mobile

[20:35] Microsoft unveils final name for Windows 7

[26:57] Apple Time!

[28:03] Oh wait, before that, tips on reformatting your Windows machine

[33:48] Finally! The “dreaded” Apple event discussion
- New MacBook
- New MacBook Pro
- New Cinema Display

65Bits Episode 91: The One Before SMB4

NTT — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 10:26:53 +0000

As we creep ever closer to the magical hundredth, Singapore can expect to enjoy fibre to the curb up the rubbish chute in about three years time. Steve (no, the other one… yes that one) releases a confounding Cloud of information which we’re unsure whether to take with a pinch of salt or a barrel of salt. Nokia begins its water testing with the sleek and kinda innovative 5800 ExpressMusic phone. Apple decides to be a little bit less of a jerk, trackpads are set to get more complicated movements to get things done, and Nintendo announces it’s new DS, but will consider manufacturing for the rest of the world after it’s done with its 6 year marathon of Wii Sports Tennis. A photo and video social freak? Our Byte of the Week PixelPipe is perfect for you.

Njoy
Ntt, daN, reN

Stories this week:

[1:30]Social Media Brunch 4
– Audio recording of the panel discussions.

[2:04]OpenNet to be S’pore’s next national broadband network

[8:35]Microsoft will soon release ‘Windows Cloud’ OS, Ballmer says

[14:50]Zune to be ported to Windows Mobile, Ballmer says

[20:00]The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic launched

[29:30]iPhone NDA dropped, developers rejoice!

[35:00]Multitouch: Synaptics Adds New Multitouch Gestures To Trackpads

[38:25]Nintendo announces Nintendo DSi

[44:18]Byte of the Week: PixelPipe

[48:10] Podcamp Singapore

65Bits Episode 83 : The Chilly One

NTT — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:34 +0000

We begin this adventure with a nice strong dose of reality as we realise that as with all humans we make mistakes. We apologise to you our dear listeners and hope y’all will move on. We also see news about the iPhone and have a nice long discussion for Blogging @ NUS. We also see a fantastic new bargain from Microsoft for the Xboxes and at the same time they create a new operating system? We also look at tools for better syncing and a better way to protect that one password that you use.

Kiss me.
Sixpence, Richer and ChillyCraps

[1:50]A shout out to the editor of Streetdirectory.com

[3:47]iPhone to launch in Singapore on 22nd August.

[8:05]The soft launch of Blog.nus, Wiki.nus and the Online Mindmapping Tool.

[19:20]xBox 360 Pro (60GB) will be coming to Singapore.

[23:10]iriver Spinn caught on video, kills without words.

[28:35]The “Mojave Experiment” by Microsoft.

[33:00]Google Calendar gets simpler sync with CalDAV.

[37:45]Byte of the Week : SuperGenPass: A Free Bookmarklet Password Generator