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Mediacorp is transmitting all free-to-air channels in digital format since December 2013 under the DVB-T2 television standard.

By the end of 2017 existing analogue TV signals will stop broadcasting.

After creating a Slack Bot Using AWS API Gateway and AWS Lambda, I decided to port the tutorial over so that it will work for Telegram Bot too.

There are some differences between the two tutorials:

Internally over here in Tech in Asia, we use Slack for communications.

Even between Li Xiang and I, we use Slack for communications.

Bought the Samsung Series 5 55″ SUHD Smart LED TV (UA55JS7200) from Best Denki at VivoCity on 20th February 2016. Best Denki is having their Fortune Sale for Chinese New Year. This television is for my new house that will be ready in end April 2016.

When the television was launched in April 2015, the price was S$3,699 but now it dropped to S$2,949. For the fortune sale, there is a 8% discount (capped at S$200) and hence the final price of the television is S$2,749. It comes with a free Samsung 320W 2.1 Ch Soundbar (J551) worth S$549 and I paid extra S$50 for the wall mount.

The Samsung Galaxy S7 4G+ and Samsung Galaxy S7 edge 4G+ will be officially available in Singapore from Saturday, 12th March 2016.

In Singapore, both the S7 and S7 edge will come in only one size which is 32GB because it now comes with expandable memory slot via microSD (up to 200GB).

I backed the Dash microSD and SD Card Reader on Kickstarter on 16th November 2015. The project was funded on 1st December 2015 after raising a total of US$11,492 out of their initial goal of US$10,000 from 717 backers.

I chose the US$22 reward level and shipping to Singapore cost another US$3 (despite it stating US$2). So in total, I paid US$25 (S$36).

In a press release by Samsung entitled “Samsung Pay Continues Global Momentum in 2016“, Samsung announced that Samsung Pay will be available in Singapore later this year.

In 2016, Samsung Pay will start global expansion beginning with China in March, followed by Australia, Brazil, Singapore, Spain and the U.K. later in the year. Additionally, Canada will be added to the new launch roadmap. Samsung Pay is currently available on select Galaxy devices including S6, S6 edge, S6 edge+, Note5 as well as premium and mid-range options such as the 2016 models of both Galaxy A5 and A7.

The Dell UltraSharp InfinityEdge monitors are finally available in Singapore. I have been waiting for it since I heard of the products last month.

InfinityEdge monitors means they comes with an ultra-thin borders on all sides.

Li Xiang has been drawing a lot on the free FiftyThree’s Paper iOS app lately. That is because she is designing for our new house which is going to start renovation after Lunar New Year (8th February 2016).

I knew about the FiftyThree Pencil when it was launched back in November 2013. I figured that Pencil should work very well with Paper, much better than a normal stylus.