Digital Life Development Android Challenge

Samsung presents Digital Life Development Android Challenge, a contest that challenges participants to develop tablet app and games using the Android-based platform. It is an open competition and he/she can enter the competition as an individual or team. Each person or team can submit one entry for each category. There are 4 categories: Best Location Based Service App, Best Augmented Reality App, Best Gaming App, and Most Innovative App. To find out more about rules, prizes, acitvities and details of category you can visit their website. Read more

The AppVenture Challenge – Android Workshop – 29 Jan

As part of Mobile Alliance AppVenture Challenge, they are holding the an Android workshop this Saturday. Read more

TWIA #62: O Smithy, Where art thou?

Yes, everyone is checking out on Smithy’s location these days. Yet, the news of the week from TenCube being acquired by McAfee to Google’s foray into China & Japan dominated the Asian landscape for web and tech. The TWIA crew starts off their chat about the future of Android in China & thoughts on the future of Southeast Asia tech scene with Daniel coining his term “Silicon Straits”. Of course, you won’t want to miss our crew’s famous discussion on “who wants to guess how much this company is acquired for”. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more

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65bits #171: HR65

Our friends at Tech65 starts off this week with their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape: [1] Facebook event outlines ’simpler’ privacy controls, [2] Quit Facebook Day is May 31, [3] Microsoft’s Robbie Bach and J Allard leaving as part of broader shakeup, [4] Apple overtakes Microsoft as being the largest technology company (For a day), [5] Palm’s Matias Duarte joins Google as User Experience Director for Android, [6] iPad 3G early adopters here soon able to use microSIM cards from local telcos. Do click and check out their latest podcast here. You can now also listen to the Tech65 podcast here as well by coming to the blog post directly. Read more

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65Bits #168: Secret location #462

Our friends at Tech65 starts off this week with their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape: [1] Google Editions: Bringing E-Books to Your Browser, [2] Adobe shows off prototype Android tablet running Air and Flash ‘flawlessly’, [3] Apple names iPad UK launch date and [4] Apple sells 1,000,000 iPads in revolution’s first month. Do click and check out their latest podcast here. You can now also listen to the Tech65 podcast here as well by coming to the blog post directly. Read more

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TWIA #26.2: Interviews for Barcamp KL

From the live show in Barcamp KL, our crew continues with our special guest Michael Smith from Yahoo! for the last segment of the event where we interview several interesting people across the technology and media space across Southeast Asia in an array of issues: (1) Colin Charles (@bytebot) from MariaDB on his recent trip on the MYSQL conference in Silicon Valley and the latest developments in IT databases, (2) Kugan (@scamboy) Malaysia Wireless blog – trends on smart phone users in across Southeast Asia and his thoughts on the upcoming 4G and Wimax networks into Asian markets, (3) Preetam Rai (@preetamrai), our Mr Barcamp Asia on all the barcamps happening across the region (Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand and soon, Philippines & Indonesia), (4) Nazrul from Hackerspace KL & Code Android Malaysia and discussions on Flash vs HTML5 and how developers are caught in between. We thank Yahoo! for sponsoring the ice creams and Barcamp KL which made this live show happen. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more

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TWIA Episode 20: Don’t leave your baby behind

The TWIA crew is back without Mike Foong tonight. We talked about a few events that rocked Singapore from the glitzy gala dinner for the SCS IT Leader Awards to the Google Analytics Masterclass happening in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. With investors centering in Singapore, we cover the Asian Business Angels Forum and iMatch Conference 2010 (with SGEntrepreneurs’ new event “In Bed with …” series. After that, we get back to the news of the day, with the Google-o-meter shifting to staying, Baidu’s shares dropped, the new iCity in Malaysia and finally the unfortunate incident of a South Korean couple leaving their real baby starve to death while nurturing a virtual one. You can listen to the podcast in SGEntrepreneurs here by going to the post directly. Read more

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6th Python User Group Meeting

The Singapore Python Group is organizing the 6th Singapore Python User Group Meeting. The meeting will be held on Thursday, Jan 14, 2010, from 7:30pm – 9:30pm in Room 2.2, SMU, SIS (School of Information Systems). Here are the topics which will be discussed in the coming meeting: Read more

WaveSecure Wins Google Android Developer Challenge 2

We are happy to announce that tenCube’s flagship product, WaveSecure is one of the winners in the Google Android Developer Challenge 2! Congrats guys.

Mobile Development Workshop – Android Platform

If you wish to start development on a new mobile platform, or wish to train your staff to learn a particular platform, you can start with the Mobile Development Workshop Series for the iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile coming this Nov-Dec. Organised by the Mobile Alliance and GetSomeOneElse.com, this 3rd workshop will be on the Android platform. Read more