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An interesting Neowin article. Ten years ago Microsoft was the company everyone loved to hate, slammed as a greedy industry bully using its monopolistic, clunky, copycat operating system. The piece asks whether Apple is now the new Microsoft.
Apple has announced a new iPod branch, the iPod Touch, refreshed the Shuffle and Nano, and renamed the fifth-generation iPod the iPod Classic. Imagine an iPhone without calling, just 8mm thick, and you have the iPod Touch.
Microsoft has released Silverlight 1.0 to the web, a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering richer experiences online. Notably, Microsoft will also work with Novell to extend support to Linux, broadening the reach of the new rich-media technology considerably.
I got the black Canon Digital IXUS 860 IS at Comex 2007 for $669; the silver version arrives in September. Freebies included two 2GB SD cards, a digital kit bag, a case and a Samsonite waist bag.
I've scanned the data-sheet specifications for the Nokia N95 8GB, N81, 5310 XpressMusic and 5610 XpressMusic. Reading through, I realised the N81 comes in two flavours: one with microSD and the other with 8GB non-expandable internal memory.
I got three videos from Dinesh that were played at the press conference and, with his permission, uploaded them to YouTube. They came encoded in MPEG2, so I compressed them with DivX to meet YouTube's 100MB limit.
The second and final day of Nokia: Go Play was held in Ballroom 1 of The Oriental Singapore. There was an introductory speech, followed by two panel discussions, one on the Nokia N-Gage platform with senior Nokia multimedia representatives.
I nearly missed the opening speech, expecting it to run late around 5.30pm, but it began punctually at 5.15pm as scheduled. The night split into three parts: the speech, a live demo of phones, and dinner.
Gearfuse has press photos of upcoming Nokia phones. I'll be attending the Asia Pacific press conference here in Singapore at 5.30pm, with London hosting the global one. The five new phones are the N95, N81, 5700, 5610 and 5310.
I always wanted to try building a Facebook application, so I finally took some time and made a simple one called GaMerz.WordPress. It displays my live site traffic, users online, and the latest post from my GaMerZ.WordPress blog.
Anime distributor Odex has roped in a Silicon Valley-based former hacker to appeal against a court ruling. Last Thursday, Odex failed in its bid to force Pacific Internet to hand over the data of suspected illegal downloaders.
Anime distributor Odex has incurred the wrath of netizens over its anti-piracy crackdown, with an online lynch mob waging a high-tech war. Wikipedia entries on Odex, for example, have been turned into attacks on the firm amid the online backlash.
Anime distributor Odex has lost a court bid to force Pacific Internet to reveal the names of subscribers who allegedly downloaded pirated Japanese cartoons. The Subordinate Court handed down its decision in chambers on Thursday, with no details made public.
As you may have heard, Nokia will announce something on Wednesday, 29th August 2007 in London, at an event called Nokia: Go Play. The same event runs here in Singapore on the exact same date, concurrently with London's.
The Nokia N95 Black Edition has just passed FCC certification. As rumoured, it's all black with a large 8GB of internal storage, loses the camera lens cover, gains padded multimedia keys, and moves the Nokia badge to beneath the screen.
User mun420 paid $5 to dig up Odex Pte Ltd's ACRA information, and everything is in the report, from SS holding just one of a million shares to IC numbers and addresses. I've mirrored it for convenience.
The Bourne Identity, Supremacy and Ultimatum is one of the best trilogies I've ever seen, edging out Lord of the Rings for me. The storyline is fantastic, the action excellent, and crucially none of the three rely on CGI.
881 is without doubt one of the best local productions ever made. Royston Tan has done it again after 15 and 4:30, and I think he's already surpassed Jack Neo. His films portray a unique side of Singapore.
From the start, the girl's family strongly objected to her dating this guy, warning she'd suffer for life with him. Under that pressure the couple quarrelled often, and though she loved him deeply, the strain wore them down.
Odex has won the right to track down fans who illegally download programmes using StarHub accounts. A subordinate court has ordered the telco to hand over the names of suspected illegal downloaders.
These are the modules I'm taking in my second year, first semester: Introduction to Computer Networks, the Information Systems Development Project worth eight MCs, Management of Information Systems, and Introduction to Cybercrime. A heavy load for the new year.
This song, We Live In Singapura, sung by Hossan Leong, has been around since last year, but I only discovered it this year. Since it's Singapore's 42nd birthday, I'd like to bring the video back. Happy birthday!