65Bits Episode 159: What will Apple ban next week?

Our friends at Tech65 starts off this week with their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape: [1] Apple Sues HTC For Infringing On 20 iPhone Patents, [2] Apple yanks Wi-Fi detectors from iTunes, [3] Microsoft: “No Windows Phone 7 upgrade for Windows Mobile 6.x devices”, [4] Nokia N900 and [5] Norton 360 V4.0. 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 Episode 156: 3 Strikes & you are out

Our friends at Tech65 starts off this week with their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape: [1] Apple shows in-browser info page when clicking on app store links, [2] Twitter reveals torrent scam details, [3] Nexus One gets a software update, enables multitouch, [4] ACTA Talks in Mexico to Address Transparency Concerns and [5] Project Nimbus. 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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Do You Think Differently?

An old 1997 Apple ad from the Think Different campaign. Read more

65Bits Episode 140: Justin and Fari’s opinion does not represent Tech65

Our friends at Tech65 start their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape last week: [1] Singapore’s M1 to Start Selling the iPhone, [2] Kindle in S’pore soon?, [3] Problem with Kindle international, [4] First Photos of Barnes & Noble’s Double Screen E-Reader, [5] Google challenges e-readers by taking e-books directly to browser, [6] Major bug in Snow Leopard deletes all user data, [7] Warning: Do not change your Twitter username, email address or reset password, [8] What problems does Google Wave solve?, [9] PSA: Beware of Google Wave scam sites, [10] Apple relents: in-app purchase for free apps allows demo-to-paid and the Byte of the week: Dim Dim. Do click and check out their latest podcast here.

65Bits Episode 139: Kevin is back, while stocks last

Our friends at Tech65 start their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape last week with special guest, Kevin Lim: [1] Hotmail passwords leaked online (Gmail, Yahoo Mail affected too), [2] Flash 10.1 Full Flash for Everyone Except iPhone, [3] AT&T Allows VoIP Over 3G for iPhone, [4] Kindle 2 goes to $259, International GSM version coming October 19 (List of countries getting Kindle 2 international), [5] DoubleTwist Unveils An Alternative To The iTunes Music Store, Powered By Amazon MP3, [6] New Ways to Try and Buy Microsoft Office 2010, [7] Norton 2010 Launch, [8] Sony Notebook Launch, [9] Canon Camera Launch, [10] Windows 7 Social Party, and the bonus: Google Wave Is Easier To Understand Than… Do click and check out their latest podcast here.

The Chronicles of a Mobile Web Economy

You have probably read the recent article “A Guide for Mobile-Web Developers to Smartphone Apps Stores” which was partly inspired from a talk I presented at 16th Infocomm & Media Horizons, Genexis Theatre, Fusionopolis on 7 Oct. Ever since the launch of the iPhone, the iTunes platform has brought together the mobile and web developers into the same space of development. How does the developer navigate in such a space filled with apps stores: Apple iTunes Store, Nokia Ovi Store, Google Android Market, BlackBerry (RIM) Apps World and Microsoft Windows Marketplace? This talk addresses the trends and observations in the current market (mobile & web penetration, user usage on both mobile and web), and seeks to provide a perspective as to where the roadmap for the mobile-web economy will head towards. It also talks about the three main lessons which developers should learn about the ecosystem.
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65Bits Episode 138: Lots of Google and Microsoft

Our friends at Tech65 start their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape last week: [1] Google Trike in Singapore, [2] Google Toolbar adds comments with Sidewiki, [3] Google Wave invite-only preview begins, [4] Microsoft confirms free security software ships Tuesday, [5] Vista/IE market share slide, Win 7/Firefox/Chrome surge, [6] Microsoft says automated ‘Fix it’ is working, [7] Wacom Bamboo – Correction: Wacom Bamboo Fun Pen & Touch 6×9 cost S$329 while the rest cost below S$200, and the Byte of the week: Dropbox iPhone App. Do click and check out their latest podcast here.

A Guide for Mobile-Web Developers to Smartphone Apps Stores

With the emergence of the iPhone, new opportunities emerge with the long tail economy for the mobile-web entrepreneurs and developers with respect to the mobile smartphone apps store. While there is a choice for a lot of mobile-web development platforms from Google Android to iPhone OS 3.0, most developers are not sure about the market reach, coverage and how many devices that their apps can reach to. Here is a guide on the 5 most well-known mobile-webs store: Apple iTunes Store, Nokia Ovi Store, Google Android Market, BlackBerry (RIM) Apps World and Microsoft Windows Marketplace. Read more

King Kong and App Distribution

Fresh from receiving updates on Nokia’s Ovi app store in Kuala Lumpur last week, this geek is now hearing about the launch of the Intel Atom Developer Program (IADP) in the Intel Developer Forum 2009 in San Francisco. An Intel netbook app store will be launched soon in conjuction with IADP.

From the initial groan of hearing about more app stores, this geek concludes that app stores should be the way forward as we move towards the attention economy. To quote something I heard at Nokia One Connected World conference in Kuala Lumpur last week, “if content is King, then distribution is King Kong!”

Well, our dear friend “King Kong” has to evolve as distribution models have changed drastically in this day and age. As compared to developers trying to market and distribute their apps all by themselves with limited resources, they can now Read more

65Bits Episode 135: Time machine

Our friends at Tech65 start their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape last week: [1] Apple updates iTunes and iPods, [2] iTunes 9, [3] iPod Classic, [4] iPod Nano, [5] iPhone 3.1, [6] iPod Touch, [7] Palm Pixi, [8] Motorola Cliq, [9] Nokia twist, [10] M1 launches Mifi and the Byte of the week: Facebook Lite. Do click and check out their latest podcast here.

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