65Bits Episode 152: Car computer crash along PIE

Our friends at Tech65 starts off this week with their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape: [1] Nexus One, [2] 3D TV at CES, [3] Microsoft and HP show off ’slate’ PC, [4] Ford brings smartphone Web apps to cars, [5] Palm unveils new Pre and Pixi handsets, [6] Alienware M11x, [7] Lenovo’s Tablet Docks to Form a Notebook, [8] Lenovo RapidDrive Technology, [9] Skiff, [10] Sanyo Xacti VPC-CS1: a full 1080p camcorder in your pocket. 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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The Blue Sky in Zhong Guan Cun, Beijing

If there is a potential candidate which can pose as an alternative to the Silicon Valley in California, Zhong Guan Cun in Beijing is possibly the only candidate in the present. The best benchmarks are perhaps the amount of talent, the vast market size, the successful tech companies (Baidu, Lenovo and the Founder Group) that rose from China and the amount of venture capital that has turned up in Beijing from US, for e.g. Sequoia China. While traveling to Beijing, I took a nice walk around the technology cluster under a clear blue sky during the 60th National Day Celebrations in China. Read more

After 17th CEO Unplugged

It was an honest stripped down Howie Lau and Stanley Tan we saw. Mr Lau is the General Manager and Executive Director, Lenovo ASEAN/Korea; while Mr Tan is the Chairman of the National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre. Both speakers were engaging, sincere and spoke freely when questions were asked. It was like a two-hour long mass mentoring session (quite a good number in the audience). Read more

65Bits Episode 101: Silence… I Curse you!!!

After an exciting 100th episode event, our friends at Tech65 start their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape last week: [1] ‘Curse of Silence’ exploit squelches inbound SMS/MMS to Nokia S60 devices, [2] IDA proposes shorter telco deals, [3] Meet the Ophone from Lenovo, [4]Macworld 2009 Preview, [5] CES 2009 Preview, [6] Palm to come up with a new OS, Palm Nova, [7] Sony to launch a new Netbook, the Viao P series, [8] Creative Zii and the Byte of The Week: Google Sites. Do click and check out their podcast. Also check out their new show: Gear65 Episode 2.