65Bits Episode 141: Buy Windows 7, Get Snow Leopard free

Our friends at Tech65 start their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape last week: [1] Windows 7 has landed in Singapore, [2] Easing XP Netbook owners’ path to Windows 7, [3] Amazon: Windows 7 is ‘the biggest pre-order product of all time, [4] Linus Torvalds Gives Windows 7 a Thumbs Up, [5] Apple Targets Windows 7 With Three New ‘Get a Mac’ Ads, [6] Microsoft partners with Facebook, Twitter on search, [7] Google strikes a Twitter search deal, too, [8] Barnes & Noble Nook dual-screen reader officially announced, [9] Apple redesigns iMac and 13-inch MacBook, revamps Mac Mini, [10] Nokia sues Apple for patent infringement, [11] Dell Adamo XPS Can Only Be Opened By Rubbing It. Do click and check out their latest podcast here.

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 103: You don’t know who’s Dick Tracey!?

Our friends at Tech65 start their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape last week: [1] Get well soon, Steve! Now the rest of you, stop panicking!!, [2] Google closes down lesser known services, [3] Google Chrome gets Mac and Linux deadline and extensions foundation, [4] Apple’s MobileMe free trials could lose your data, [5] We can’t get enough of the Palm Pre! – Under the hood – Great article about the Pre, [6] More CES!
(i) Dell Adamo, (ii) Samsung announces a unified User Interface across their products, (iii) The LG watch phone, (iv) Asus comes up with a whole bunch of stuff (including a cool keyboard, a NAS and a tablet) and the Byte of the Week: Poladroid.net. Do click and check out their podcast.