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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TWIA Episode 13: The Google Showdown with China

Gen Kanai, Director of Asia Business Development from Mozilla Corporation joins the TWIA crew as the guest to discuss the Google Showdown with the China government on unfiltered search & censorship and examine the implications of foreign companies entering into the Chinese market. The TWIA crew and Gen Kanai continue to discuss the recent Yahoo! Friendster partnership in Southeast Asia and an exciting discussion about the security of mobile banking in Korea and how that ties up with browsers, search engines and security protocols in East Asia. Read more

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65Bits Episode 130: We are back, with plugs

Our friends at Tech65 start their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape last week: [1] Singapore first in world to sell titles via direct download at stores, [2] Microsoft in new EU browser offer [a] [b],
[3] How To Hijack ‘Every iPhone In The World’, [4] Windows Mobile becomes Windows Phone, [5] Microsoft and Yahoo in 10-year Web search partnership, [6] Twitter, Facebook attack targeted one user and the Byte of the week: Etherpad. Do click and check out their podcast.

65Bits Episode 110 : Yaaaahooooooooo

Our friends at Tech65 start their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape last week: [1] Yahoo’s Search Monkey – Other APIs from Yahoo, [2] Google’s AdSense has new changes, [3] Text to get smarter in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, [4] Apple to unveil iPhone 3.0 software at March 17th event, [5] New iPod Shuffle from Apple, [6] Reference Map of Wireless@SG in Singapore, [7] Recycling Point – Recycling Electronics in Singapore, [8] Web radio services go offline and the Byte of the Week goes with two new local podcasts (i) The Shareen and Joe Show & (ii) GenY Podcast. Do click and check out their podcast.

Developers’ Communities in Singapore

For those who are involved with IT entrepreneurship in Singapore, depending on what platform you are working on, you might want to check out the different communities of developers in Singapore. From iPhone development to PHP User Group, these communities have organized their own activities every month to attract and gather enthusiasts in Singapore to communicate with each other. We have also included the champions who are involved with these developer groups in this article. If you are keen to develop yourself further in the development platform you are working on, perhaps, these groups might be of help to you. Read more

65bits Episode 92 : In Mother Russia, the OS boots you!

Our friends at Tech65 start their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape last week: [1] S’pore, M’sian regulators to study cutting roaming charges with telcos, [2] Google Hackathon Singapore
- Harish Mallipeddi – The guy who was sponsored to go to Yahoo! hackday 2008, [3] Google Street View – Coming to Singapore, [4] Google Talk gets more Translation Bots!, [5] Google Mail Labs, [6] xkcd – Youtube Audio Preview, [7] G2: HTC Touch HD may be T-Mobile’s next Android phone, [8] BlackBerry Storm 9500 hands-on, [9] Apple “notebook” event is on, October 14th! and Byte of the Week : Gothere.sg (also highly recommended by the editor of SGE). Do click and check out their podcast.

Singapore PHP User Group Meetup – Sep 2008

The theme for this month is “We’re FLEX-ing!”. For this month, the event is happening on Thursday, September 18, 2008, 7:00pm – 9:30pm. The event is located in Yahoo! Southeast Asia & the address is 6, Temasek Boulevard, #08-00, Suntec Tower Four, Singapore. The speakers for this event are: Alex Goh, Flex Developer who will talk about “Adobe Flex/Flash Remoting for PHP” and Chris Ismael, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Singapore will introduce Internet Explorer 8. See you there or RSVP via Facebook.

Event: Yahoo! Networking Session for Global Hackday (Developers Only)

Are you a developer, or do you know someone who is an avid developer?
If so, come and apply for this once in a lifetime opportunity! E27 is offering an all-expenses paid trip to Yahoo! HQ in Sunnyvale California to represent Singapore at the company’s Open Hack Day with exciting prizes to be won! Coding glory! Here are details for the coming Yahoo! Networking Session for the coming Wednesday. So, check out the event if you are an avid developer. Please note that the correct date (from E27) is 21 August 2008, Thursday. Read more

Barcamp Malaysia 2008 – First Glimpses

Reporting from the shores across our causeway, BL (our editor) has travelled to Kuala Lumpur this morning to attend Barcamp Malaysia 2008. He is not the only one, as this event has attracted many Singaporeans to turn up there: the entire team from Widgeous (Ridzuan and U-Zyn), Mohan from E27, Ben Koe, Kelvin Quee, Preetam and Wong Meng Weng (a Singaporean entrepreneur who came back from Silicon Valley). Here are some of the highlights for the event with a short review and pictures from the event. Read more

65Bits Episode 75 : Firefox 2 is dead! Long Live Firefox 3!

Our friends at Tech65 start their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape: (1) More iPhone Talk, (2) Apple Introduces iPhone 3G Videoconferencing Kit, ZOMG!, (3) EFiX: OSx86 with a twist, (4) Dell E and E Slim revealed, taking on Eee and Air in one fell swoop, (5) Yahoo ends all talks with Microsoft, shares plunge, (6) Britain Launches Final Real-Life Skynet Satellite, (7) Opera 9.5 Brings Speed and Syncing to the Browser, (8) Google Browser Sync To Be Discontinued and Byte of the Week : Firefox 3 to Drop on Tuesday. Do click and check out their podcast.

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