Press Release: Malaysia Entrepreneurs is up and a joint collaboration with SGE

Before the gathering in Barcamp Malaysia, an interesting meeting happened between Daniel Cerventus, the main organizer of Barcamp Malaysia and BL, our editor in SGE here in Singapore (who also happens to be one of the organizers for Barcamp Singapore II). After an interesting discussion, both editors felt that it is necessary and win-win for people in both countries to collaborate a lot more on grassroots level in the realm of entrepreneurship, venture capital and technology innovation. At the same time, Daniel is preparing for the launch of the Malaysia Entrepreneurs blog while organizing the barcamp. A successful Barcamp Malaysia event brought the technologists, entrepreneurs and investors from both countries together. It is of no coincidence that something is borne from that meeting. SGE is pleased and honoured to announce that the Malaysian Entrepreneurs blog is finally up and running. To enhance cooperation between Malaysia and Singapore in the grassroots level, both blogs will start off with an initial joint collaboration with syndicating the news between both blogs and at the same time collaborate more on cross country level in related entrepreneurial initiatives in technology entrepreneurship. Our team in SGE wishes our friends from Malaysia Entrepreneurs good luck on their new initiative and we look forward to interesting times of collaboration with our counterparts.

ChupR, your online auction site

Now that Yahoo! Auctions has retired, some of our local boys have come up with ChupR – an online auction site to help you fulfill your buying or selling fix. It brings you many of the familiar features of what an auction site should do like building up your reputation as a buyer or seller, shopping for the best prices for your product and starting up your online business. While currently they allow only the standard auction mechanisms, in their words, “there are a lot of possibilities for Chupr in the future (online shops, trading .. etc) but as a start it’s about user, user, user!” So check out the site and leave your feedback here for them.

Press Release: Geek Terminal Launches ‘Geek Pass’

Introduces revolutionary stickkey® RFID as membership card. First organization to use Singapore-developed technology to replace traditional plastic membership cards. 26 August 2008, SINGAPORE – Geek Terminal, the world’s first business café, today launched its inaugural membership programme aptly called the GEEK PASS, a non-traditional stored value membership card that allows members to purchase food and beverages at Geek Terminal. Adopting state-of-the-art technology, The Geek Pass is an RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) chip embedded into a small, non-slip adhesive sticker which serves a dual purpose – a non-slip surface for the object it is stuck onto and a membership card which collects information on individual members’ F&B preferences. Read more

Press Release – Winners of WCG ‘08 Singapore appeal for funds to compete in global championships

Singapore, August 26, 2008 – An online fund-raising campaign has been started to enable Singapore’s top cyber-athletes compete in the upcoming Grand Finals of the World Cyber Games (WCG) ‘08 in Cologne, Germany. This fund-raising campaign is crucial after gamers were stranded without sponsorship even though they qualified at the National Finals to represent Singapore. Three of these Singaporean champions are even medal hopefuls in Cologne. Read more

65Bits Episode 85 : iPhone Mania – Singapore Edition!

Our friends at Tech65 start their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape last week: [1] iPhone 3G launch in Singapore, [2] Intel Dev Forum: Inside Nehalem, [3] Kevin Rose’s Apple products rumors, [4] Apple Macbook MagSafe power adapter strain relief issues, [5] Exploding iPod Nanos, [6] Dell latitude E series launch in Singapore and the Bytes of the Week : Caffeine & Renamer. Do click and check out their podcast.

Press Release: WIDGEOUS launches developer network

Singapore, 22nd August 2008 – Local web startup Widgeous (http://widgeo.us) launches their Developer Network – also known as the Widgeous DevNet – today with the aim of increasing engagement efforts with the international developer community. Read more

TenCube’s WaveSecure in Nokia’s N96 (India)

While India celebrated the launch of the new Nokia N96, Singapore startup TenCube had their own piece of good news to shout about. Their flagship product WaveSecure is the only 3rd party application that is bundled together with the sleek N96! Links to several news sites after the jump. Read more

Press Release: New website for expatriate information services: ExpatFinder.com

ExpatFinder.com addresses the increased demand for information and services for global on the move professionals and their families. Singapore August 21, 2008- Interexpat Pte. Ltd., a Singapore headquartered Internet services company (www.interexpat.com) today launched new information services combining social community capabilities with a powerful global search engine: ExpatFinder.com. The new service aptly called ExpatFinder is the first vertical search engine for people intending to relocate or already living abroad. Read more

65Bits Episode 84 : Anti-Social at the Social Media Breakfast

Our friends at Tech65 start their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape last week: [1] Tech65 will conduct a Podcasting workshop at Science Center as a part of “A Month of Science”, [2] Creative Zen X-Fi Review, [3] ISPs, Internet Speed, and Net Neutrality in Singapore, [4] RAZORTV, [5] Will freedom ring on LiMo’s Linux-based mobile platform?, [6] Intel’s “mainstream” 80GB and 160GB SSDs ready to launch with mainstream price?, [7] Palm’s Treo 850 is really the Treo Pro? and Byte of the Week: DownThemAll. Do click and check out their podcast.

Event: Yahoo! Networking Session for Global Hackday (Developers Only)

Are you a developer, or do you know someone who is an avid developer?
If so, come and apply for this once in a lifetime opportunity! E27 is offering an all-expenses paid trip to Yahoo! HQ in Sunnyvale California to represent Singapore at the company’s Open Hack Day with exciting prizes to be won! Coding glory! Here are details for the coming Yahoo! Networking Session for the coming Wednesday. So, check out the event if you are an avid developer. Please note that the correct date (from E27) is 21 August 2008, Thursday. Read more

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