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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TWIA Episode 19: The Thai-Malaysia-Singapore Nexus

Benjamin Scherrey, the Chief Architect from Proteus Technologies from Thailand joined us with the TWIA crew without our host John Lim. With Daniel Cerventus taking over the helm of the moderator, our discussion started with recent tech events such as the Google Android Developer Conference and the preview of Nokia N900 event. We continued with the growing numbers of Facebook users in Asia and chatted about Baidu’s new Hulu clone – Qiyi and also Plug and Play center’s entrance into Malaysia. Of course, we have Ben Scherrey sharing the story behind the Nexus Project, his thoughts on the Thai tech scene and how the entire Southeast Asia (Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore) are now going to swept by a new wave of foreign investments and mentors from all over the world. You can listen to the podcast in SGEntrepreneurs here by going to the post directly. Read more

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In Conversation with Saumil Nanavati, Co-Founder of Chlkboard

My fellow founder of SGE, Bernard, has just launched a new startup together with entrepreneur Saumil Nanavati who had previously successfully led a startup to acquisition. The amazing thing is, the whole thing (beta vesion) was built from scratch in 21 days! But do not underestimate the product. This new venture of theirs, Chlkboard, allows users to find nearby promotions via mobile phones and allows retail shops to reach potential customers in the vicinity by pushing out promotions to them. We speak to Saumil on this new startup. Read more

TWIA Episode 15: The iPad Tsunami

Michael Smith Jr, Director YDN SE Asia from Yahoo! joins the TWIA crew as our guest for the week. The discussion centered on the aftermath of the Apple iPad after months of speculation. With the Founders’ Institute coming to Singapore following after many incubators setting up shop here, the TWIA discussion group discussed the impact on tech entrepreneurship in Singapore and overall to the other countries Indonesia and Malaysia in Southeast Asia. With Maxis opening apps store in Malaysia and China’s declaration that they have nothing to do with the attacks on Google, the crew steered ahead with an exciting week in Asia. You can listen to the podcast in TWIA on SGE or go to their website. Read more

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Market Opportunities in Vietnam & Middle East Telecom Sector

If you would like find out more about business opportunities in the Middle East and Vietnam in the telecom sector (mobile VAS, infrastructure etc.), and relevant market entry strategies, attend this workshop brought to you by the Mobile Alliance and IE Singapore. Read more

Samsung Developer Night Jan 2010

For those developers and entrepreneurs who are into mobile development particularly in the area of developing apps for various platforms, Samsung Asia Pte Ltd is hosting an exclusive networking event on 8 January 2010 to showcase one of Samsung Mobile’s most exciting developments to-date. The event is held in conjunction with CES 2010, and it is an opportunity for the developers to find out more about Samsung’s mobile phone strategy, its position on operating systems including its proprietary Bada platform, as well as Samsung’s new Apps Store and local launch details. The executives from Samsung will be on-site to host you and discuss possible opportunities for collaboration. Note that the event is only open to developers. Here are the details for the event:
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5 Tech Entrepreneurship events that rocked SG in 2009

It’s that time of the year when we actually review what has gone past a turbulent year 2009 and probably a year after the financial crisis that rocked the world after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in Sep 2008. Of course, one of the key after effects is that fundraising for start-ups in the technology space become increasingly difficult this year. While we are beginning to see more and more acquisitions in the US tech space, the SG tech start-ups are still working towards a tough environment. In the technology entrepreneurship scene, significant incidents have shaped and brought forward new perspectives in Singapore. While we are about to start the new road ahead in 2010. Here are the top 5 tech entrepreneurship events that rocked SG in 2009 (in no order of preference): Read more

A Roundup for TenCube in 2009 – WaveSecure & Android for Life

Recently, TenCube, one of our local mobile security companies have made a lot of headway in the international scene. First they won the recent Google Android Challenge 2 competition with their flagship product, WaveSecure. We have received news from Darius Cheung, the CEO of TenCube, since it is near Christmas, as a giveback to Android users support that made their ADC win possible, they are offering an unlimited free lifetime account for Android users. To do that, the users can head over to Android Market and download WaveSecure before 31st Jan 2010, the new user will be able to enjoy a free WaveSecure account for as long as you use that Android device. Read more

Interview with Aung, Founder of 2C2P

2C2P is a Singapore-based company which provides a platform for e-commerce payment processing service with a set of industry standards, real-time fraud monitoring, and business intelligence reports and utilizes latest web 2.0 technologies extensively to process payment faster and enhance user experiences. The company has also won the grand prize for the Nokia Calling All lnnovators competition in the emerging countries and mobile necessities category and have been featured in the recent Nokia One-Connected World. We sat down with Aung, the founder of 2C2P and go through a range of issues from how the idea of 2C2P is conceived to the product and finally his thoughts on entrepreneurs in general. Read more

Nokia One Connected World Event

The Nokia One Connected World event happened in Hilton Hotel, Kuala Lumpur on 15 Sep 2009. Other than reporting on the progress of Ovi Store and launching new mobile devices (Nokia N97 Mini, X3 and X6), one other focus of the event is on 3rd party developers. We offer a short report on what transpired with the event and how three Singaporean companies have been successful with the developer competitions and funding offered by Nokia and her partners:
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