We are informed by Mr Douglas Gan, CEO of ShowNearby.com that their service is now open for beta. The features of the portal uses Google maps for all Singapore street and building locations and provides a comprehensive listing of all addresses, postal codes and building names. It also allows the users to find friends nearby and set places as favourite locations and upload photos of locations (e.g. buildings, roads, etc.). Do check out this site if you are interested.
This week in 65bits from the Tech65 team features the following news: (1) Psystar’s OpenMac Apple Clone is Close to a Cease & Desist Letter, (2) Mac Clone Maker Psystar Vows to Challenge Apple EULA, (3) Psystar says rumors of its demise highly exaggerated, still selling Open Computers, (4) OSx86 Project not too happy with Psystar either, (5) Psystar Expose: Looks Like A Hoax, (6) Windows Mobile 6.1 Official, new version of IE Mobile gets H.264, Flash, (7) IN DEPTH: Official Eee PC with XP, (8) Eee PC 900 to launch in Singapore on…, (9) Microsoft Accomodating Eee with Lightweight XP and Byte of the Week: PortableApps.com. So go and check out their latest podcast.
iXiGO, an investee company of local firm, BAF Spectrum announces a new hotel search service. New Delhi, April 9, 2008: iXiGO.com, India’s fastest growing travel search engine, today announced the launch of India’s most comprehensive hotel search. With iXiGO’s hotel search, customers will be empowered to search and book accommodation in real time with instant confirmation at best prices across 4500 hotels in 320 Indian cities. Read more
Start-Up@Singapore (S@S) and the National Library Board (NLB) are proud to present the NLB Series! Comprising 3 events for aspiring entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs-at-heart and supporters of entrepreneurship, this series aims to educate the general public through interactive and insightful events and seminars conducted by past winners and top performers in our yearly S@S business plan competitions. Read more
From our friends in Tech65, here is the 65th episode, and here are their synopsis: “Our 65th episode was EVEN BIGGER and BETTER than our 50th episode, and of course Sexier. We had early morning champagne, courtesy of the fabulous host of Geek Terminal, Danny! In this episode, we get fooled-ish by certain April Fools from all fronts, we feel foolish in somehow believing that Vista’s SP1 would really fix everything, but are buoyed by the 2nd Anniversary bash thrown by Microsoft for the Xbox 360!”. So go and check out their latest podcast.
Press Release On March 28, 2008, Yebber celebrated its 1st Anniversary with a bang at Mint Museum of Toys. Members of Yebber, guests from the local blogsphere and partners of Yebber gathered for a night of great food, lots of fun and great company. With the coming of one for Yebber, we hope to provide our users and consumers a more informative and interactive experience at Yebber.com. We hope with the growth and popularity of Yebber, we can all help to make Singapore a better place for tourists, and a more service and quality oriented country. Read more
Live from the Geek Terminal, the Tech65 team has finally reached their first milestone in history: the 65th podcast. You can check out their shownotes from NTT’s site. Check out their ustream webcast which is live now from Geek Terminal. We have a long group of tech bloggers in town. We congratulate them and will release the podcast when it is done after this live cast. :)
Early Mover in Accelerated Computing Technology to Open Offices in US and India. Singapore / Redwood City, April 4, 2008: Progeniq Pte Ltd, a leader in the acceleration of High Performance Computing (HPC) applications, today announced it has received an undisclosed sum of pre-series A financing from BAF Spectrum Pte Ltd, a leading Singapore-based investment firm with the participation of SPRING SEEDS Capital Pte Ltd, the financing arm of SPRING Singapore. Read more
This half-day industry forum is organized by A*STAR’s Exploit Technologies together with the Institute for Infocomm Research. The objective of the forum is to update the local digital media industry players on worldwide market trends and technological developments in the mobile media arena. In addition, the forum serves as a platform to engage the industry to call for proposals that could leverage on A*STAR’s wide array of media technologies for the development and deployment of mobile applications. Read more
