The TWIA crew in our virtual studio, sets off this week on two major events: CommunicAsia 2010 & Nokia Connection. With a flurry of talking points on the future direction of Nokia and how the mobile landscape is shaping up in Philippines similar to the Indonesian one, the crew also looked at how InMobi, the Indian mobile ad network is moving into the US and the usual Chinese sightings: TenCent to acquire Comsenz? and FourSquare is now banned in China. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more
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Filed under MediaTags: AdMob, Apple, China, CommunicAsia 2010, Comsenz, FourSquare, Google, indonesia, InMobi, Nokia, Nokia Connection, Nokia N8, Nokia X6, Nokia X8, Open Web Asia 2010, OWASEA, Philippines, TenCent, This Week in Asia, TWIA
On our April 1st episode, our two co-hosts Mike Foong jets off to San Francisco for the iPad, and Bernard Leong isn’t on for the first time with an important discussion to attend – leaving John Lim, Daniel CerVentus, and Michael “Smitty” Smith from Yahoo! to return in our small three-man panel that isn’t short on the news. Our stories focus on Google’s exit from China, mobile platforms and development in Asia, Malaysia broadband and India’s step up recruitment. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more
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Filed under MediaTags: Apple, Asia Tech News, Blackberry, Google Android, Google China, High Speed Broadband, iPad, Nokia, Nokia N900, This Week in Asia, TWIA, Yahoo
Our friends at Tech65 starts off this week with their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape: [1] Facebook Granted Patent on the News Feed, [2] 5,000 ‘overtly sexual’ iPhone apps purged, [3] iPhone OS 3.2 has support for video calling, file downloads, and SMS, [4] Showcase Nokia 2010, [5] Aperture 3 and [6] Sony BRAVIA Full HD 3D TV coming to Singapore this summer. 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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Our friends at Tech65 starts off this week with their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape: [1] Google takes on Facebook and Twitter with network site, [2] Google Buzz: Privacy nightmare, [3] Windows Phone 7 Series, [4] Samsung Wave / Bada Exclusive First Look, [5] Intel and Nokia’s MeeGo Join a Brewing OS War, [6] HTC Legend, Desire and HD Mini, [7] Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 mini and Xperia X10 mini pro and [8] Auto login for Wireless@SG – at last. 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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Filed under Innovation & Technology, Media, TechnologyTags: 65bits, Facebook, Google Buzz, HTC Desire, HTC HD Mini, HTC Legend, IDA, Intel, MeeGo, Nokia, podcast, Privacy, Samsung Bada, Samsung Wave, Sony Ericsson, Tech65, Twitter, Windows Phone 7, Wireless SG, Xperia X10 mini, Xperia X10 mini pro
Our friends at Tech65 starts off this week with their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape: [1] Free turn by turn navigation from Nokia, [2] Motorola DEXT, [3] YouTube HTML5 Supported Videos, [4] Join us as we watch Apple’s announcement live!, [5] DisplayPort 1.2 receives final VESA blessing. 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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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
Filed under Featured, Special Commentary, TechnologyTags: 2C2P, Adobe Nokia Open Screen Fund, Brandtology, BreakDesign, BuUuk, CrunchPad, FAME, Fusion Garage, Garena, Google Android, Hackerspace SG, HomeCamera, JamIQ, Joi Ito, JooJoo, Mig33, Mike Arrington, Mobile, Mozat, Neoteny Labs, Nokia, Social Media Monitoring, Technology Entrepreneurship, TenCube, ThoughtBuzz, Time Voyager, tyler projects, wavesecure, Web
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
Filed under Mobile, News StopTags: Darius Cheung, Google Android Challenge, Mobile, NAVTEQ, Nokia, Ovi, security, SingTel, TenCube, wavesecure
With two major news that rocked the Southeast Asia markets this week from the acquisition of Friendster by MOL to the emergence of the JooJoo netbook, the crew is left reeling the implications of the events. We also have David Lian, who joined us as our special guest as we run through our stories in TWIA. You can check out the podcast directly from here. Read more
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Filed under Innovation & Technology, Media, WebTags: 2C2P, AiNET, CrunchPad, Eteract, Friendster, HomeCamera, iMatch, JooJoo, Mike Arrington, MOL, Nokia, Nokia N900, Online Gaming, PayPal, TechCrunch, TenCube, This Week in Asia, TWIA
Forum Nokia is Nokia’s global developer community and support program for mobile developers. Unlike the other smartphone developer platforms, the developer communities for Nokia has to grapple with many types handsets from Nokia that come in all shapes and sizes and cater to different markets from developing countries like the BIIC (Brazil, India, Indonesia and China) to developed economies (UK, US, Singapore). Through a private meeting arranged by Text100, I sat down with Purnima Kochikar, the VP Forum Nokia and Developer Communities, who is currently based in Silicon Valley. We discussed various issues from the trends and observations from emerging markets, mobile apps with interesting stories to tell, and the issues with rising apps stores from different providers in the market. Read more
Filed under Featured, Interviews, MobileTags: Developer Communities Singapore, Emerging Markets, Forum Nokia, Kochikar, Maemo, Nokia, Nokia 2323 Classic, Nokia 2330 Classic, Nokia 2700 Classic, Ovi Store, Purnima, Symbian OS
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
Filed under Entrepreneurs, Featured, InterviewsTags: 2C2P, Credit Card Payment, Developer, Developers Communities Singapore, Forum Nokia, Mastercard, Mobile, Nokia, Nokia Calling All Innovators, SingTel, Visa
