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If you have read much about the E27 Unconference two weeks back, we now present you in the latest installment of the Geek Goddess Show, where Estee and Peter appeared at the E27 Unconference 2008 two weekends back. Of course, in their list: (i) Justin Lee, co-founder of E27, (ii) Mohan Belani, the project director for the Unconference and finally, the keynote speaker for the event: (iii) Daniel Ingitaraj, Director, Developer and Platform Evangelism, Microsoft Singapore. So check out the latest video in the Geek Goddess Show or see it here: [ Read More ]

Our friends at Tech65 start their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape last week: [1]iPhone 3G Preview from Blog2u, [2]Creative Introduces the Sound Blaster Play! [3]Creative announces Zen Mosaic, [4]mioTV gets more channels that people actually care about, [5]Sony Ericsson unveils 3 new phones, [6]Sony Reader goes open, will be able to work with other booksellers, [7]Voodoo products get a place in HP catalogs and the Byte of the Week : AVG Free Anti-virus. Do click and check out their podcast.

From SGE team, we congratulate (1) the Tech65 team for winning the best podcast/videocast award from the 2nd anniversary Ping.SG awards. Our friends at Tech65 start their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape last week: (2) Shoutout to Singapore GarageBand Meetup, (3) E3 Round up - (a) (i) New Dashboard for xBox360, (ii) Portal : Still Alive on XBLA, (iii) Play Without your Disk, (iv) Access Live Marketplace remotely from your Browser (v) Finally Final Fantasy XIII comes to xBox360 and (vi) Microsoft Lips, (b) Wii - (i) Wii Speak, (ii) WiiMote Motion Plus, (iii) GTA for Nintendo DS, (iv) Guitar Hero : On Tour Sequel for Nintendo DS (v) Wii music, (c) PS2 Bundle - The 256-player MAG, (4) Starwars : The Force Unleashed for the iPhone, (5) The Intel Centrino 2.0 launched in Singapore, (6) Apple says turn-by-turn GPS coming to iPhone, copy / paste not a high priority, (7) Apple files suit against Psystar for copyright infringement, mellow-harshing, (8) MIT opens new ‘window’ on solar energy, (9) Hands-On With the Voodoo Envy’s Instant-On OS, and finally, Byte of the Week : Google Gears.

In the latest episode, we move back to the web 2.0 universe back in China and Singapore. First of all, Estee and Peter talk about the demise of one of the video sharing sites, 65.com in China. Following on, Peter interviews Ming Shen, co-founder of Nuffnang where he shares his recent experience in the Ad-Tech event, a conference focusing on digimarketing and online advertising. Finally, one of our producers did the uncanny job of interviewing Kevin Lau, Project Manager of eBay SEA about the eBay developer program and eBay developer challenge and also his thoughts about eBay.Dev.Shack event organized by E27 in the Arts House. Of course, do check out the other shows in Podfire.sg. [ Read More ]

Our friends at Tech65 start their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape last week: (1) Creative launches the ZEN X-Fi with Wireless LAN, (2a) The Singapore iTunes Store is live! Sort of… - Side story: (2b) SquareEnix’s Song Summoner RPG for the iPod Classic and iPod Nano, (3) The International iPhone Launch. What will ours be like?, (4) Seagate comes up with new 1.5 terabyte hard drives, (5) Xbox 360’s Mid-range console receives further price drops. What is Maxsoft doing with the Wii?!?, (6) Konami lodges patent suite against Harmonix, MTV over Rock band, (7) Google launches their own Second Life called Lively and finally, the Byte Of The Week: Evernote: Remember Everything. Do click and check out their podcast.

During the E27 Unconference 2008, Michael Cheng, founder of Podfire.sg, has launched a new show: E-Conversations where he profiles a new generation of start-up entrepreneurs and finds out what drives them, what motivates them and how they work as a team. With his tools in the social media space, he has started off with the ZopIM team which we have interviewed. So, now you can see actually how the ZopIM works and their trials and tribulations. [ Read More ]

Our friends at Tech65 start their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape last week: (1) Technology library to loan test gadgets for disabled. - The Infocomm Accessibility Center of the Society for the Physically Disabled, (2) The Creative ZEN X-Fi rumored!, (3) Hutchison Telecom (Hong Kong) has revealed its pricing and service plans for the iPhone 3G, (4) iCall App Enables GSM to WiFi / VoIP Switching On The iPhone, (5) Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today revealed Diablo® III, (6) Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. introduces Blizzard Authenticator, an optional extra layer of security for World of Warcraft® and finally, Byte of the week : Mozilla Labs - Introducing Weave. Do click and check out their podcast.

Now we have the part 2 from the HP TouchSmart Blogger’s event held in Brotzeit restaurant, Vivocity, with the well known tech & lifestyle bloggers to tell us their thoughts and opinions about the HP TouchSmart PC. Through Estee and Peter, we have interviewed many friends from the Tech65 team (Jerrick, Daniel and NTT), Howie and Su Yuen (The Digital Movement), Nadnut, Linda, Mohd Hisham, Sheylara, Brian, Mark, Nicholas and Hillary (from CNET Asia). We thank also the HP Asia Pacific together with Melvin Yuan and his team (Daryl and Jael) from Waggener Edstrom. So, enjoy the videocast here: [ Read More ]

This week, we have two hours of the Geek Goddess show for the recent HP TouchSmart Blogger event, held in Brotzeit restaurant, Vivocity. In the first part, we have Estee interviewing Ms Chua Hwee Koon, the director for Consumer PC & Handheld Business Units, HP Asia Pacific about the design philosophy, the cost and the date of the actual launch for the HP TouchSmart PC, while Peter Du focus on the interesting technology features of this new touchscreen PC with Mr Daniel Cheng, the product manager from HP. So, check out the latest videocast here… [ Read More ]

Our friends at Tech65 start their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape last week: (1) Good Bye Billy Boy Gates, (2) HP Touchsmart showcase in Singapore - Shout out to Podfire and Suyuen, (3) Creative Commons in Singapore finally - Support Creative Commons in Singapore, (4) Microsoft promises to support XP until 2014, (5) Nokia buys Symbian, turns software over to Symbian Foundation and finally, Byte of the Week: Street directory Alternatives. Do click and check out their podcast.