The slate of consumer technology startups at DEMO Asia 2012 is almost “jungle” like, hailing from different industries.
The industries covered include sexy trends such as video and social, to hardware that have less online hype. There were also medical, education, and even environmental startups.
This is in contrast to the convergence towards two main trends (gamification and loyalty apps) among social media startups.
The quality of the startups occupy extreme ends of the spectrum too. Below, we go through each category to give you a run-down of how innovative they are. Read more
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Blackberry developers who want to build apps that integrate features of the Blackberry Messenger can now do so with the release of the BlackBerry Messenger Social Platform SDK 1.0 for BlackBerry Java final version and the BlackBerry Messenger Social Platform SDK 1.0 for BlackBerry WebWorks first public beta. Read more

The Maps and Mobile Unconference will be happening on 21 May 2008 in NUS Extension, Park Mall (Opposite Dhoby Ghaut MRT station) from 6.30 to 10 pm. The event is organized by Barcamp, Singapore PHP User Group, Entrepreneur27 (Garag3), and it is the first developer community event sponsored by Google Singapore. In this event, our focus will be on how start-ups and big companies focus on how to create value with the use of Maps API (from Google) and also looking at applications which are delivering interesting mobile services to the customers. If you are interested to turn up, either go to the Barcamp wiki or facebook event to RSVP your name and designation. Here are more details for the event. Read more
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