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Isn't IT ironic?

I was listening to Alanis Morissette sing with much angst in my car the other night when it struck me that the IT world is fraught with irony.

Take the recent DBS Bank fiasco, for example, banks and most financial services providers typically load their IT infrastructure with layers after layers of redundancies. And yet, it reportedly took only a.....

7 hours ago in B.T.W by Eileen Yu Comment

Is iPhone 4 suitable for business users?

The Apple iPhone 4 launches this Friday (Jul. 30) in Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and 14 other countries. Is the phone suitable for business users? Here's my take on the latest iPhone after using it for work over the past 4 weeks:

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1 days ago in Mister Tech by Lee Lup Yuen Comment

Taobao initiates Chinese open source revolution

In my previous post where I talked about "Linux and FOSS no longer being the underdog", changes continued to take place in a way that we, promoters of free and open source software, have been waiting for, and for years.

Three years ago I remember discussing with a great ally, COPU, about launching a Chinese marketing campaign,.....

7 days ago in Open Source by Fred Muller Comment (3)

Does artificial intelligence make us less so?

Ever visited retail sites which seem to be able to recommend items that are amazingly true to your likes and preferences?

Shopping at sites like Amazon.com used to creep me out when the data analysis and business intelligence tools they have churning in the backend would quite accurately predict other products I might like based on my browsing and buying.....

7 days ago in B.T.W by Eileen Yu Comment (2)

Making good deals, relationships in social networks

Everyone loves a good bargain, right? One Singapore startup is betting on the fact that most of us do when it came up with a proposition that will allow consumers to mutually benefit by banding together.

Beeconomic began operations this year with a fundamental idea: create a platform on which consumers looking to purchase the same product can.....

9 days ago in Tech Podium by Eileen Yu Comment

iPhone 4 shows prudence in procrastination

Déjà vu. That's French for a feeling of having already experienced a present situation and that's how I feel as I pen this blog.

Some nine months ago, I posed a question on this blog: Do you really need an iPhone? In a nutshell, I questioned if people should blindly rush into.....

9 days ago in Malaysia Explorer by Edwin Yapp Comment (5)

Lessons biz IT can learn from the Beautiful Game

The World Cup 2010 fever has come to an end--and what a World Cup it has been!

For the record, I caught most of the games from the second round, with all games from the quarters onward.

There were a lot of good matches being played and although the finals this morning was not quite what everyone expected and a.....

17 days ago in Malaysia Explorer by Edwin Yapp Comment

Technology has taken the thump out of music

Last month, I disposed of 15 kilogram worth of audio cassette tapes. Yes, I was holding on to them even though I had not played a single tape in the last seven years. The reason: their emotional value was much too high.

These tapes had been collected over the last 25 years. They had my favorite music, my idols, my heroes--from.....

18 days ago in Inside India by Swati Prasad Comment (3)

Clash of the titans part 3?

My office sits across the headquarters of Singapore's largest bank, which was the scene of what some called the most widespread Internet banking outage in Singapore this week.

According to media reports, senior DBS management physically went down to bank branches, apologized publicly and promised investigations into the seven-hour.....

21 days ago in Tech Legal by Bryan Tan Comment

Is connected world driving the young to suicide?

Some say choosing to end one's life is a cowardly way out of having to deal with the tough roads in life. Death is the easy answer to end all our problems.

But cowards wouldn't have had the courage to extinguish their life by leaping off a building or cutting off their own air supply by asphyxiation, especially when most.....

21 days ago in B.T.W by Eileen Yu Comment (1)

ZDNet Asia Live

Non-green IT products 'marketing suicide' http://bit.ly/aCqko4

Standards important for S'pore e-healthcare. http://bit.ly/dtC6Bn

RT @Droid_News: Motorola earnings beat expectations http://bit.ly/btsNAg | #Droid #Android

US court rejects class action status for Intel antitrust suit http://bit.ly/9AbnMF

Non-green IT products 'marketing suicide': This 50-hectare eco-business park is described as a "living laboratory"... http://bit.ly/aCqko4

great! US court rejects class action status for Intel antitrust suit http://bit.ly/9acwER Good day!

Shocked! RT: @danielgoh: Oh really? RT @scoopsg: (zdnetasia) S'pore marketeers not chirping to Twitter's tune http://scoo.ps/dpkySs

Non-green IT products 'marketing suicide': By Munir Kotadia, ZDNet Australia on July 30, 2010 (8 minutes ago) Vend... http://bit.ly/aCqko4

Asian firms aware of IT snoops. http://bit.ly/9eGRxG

sg marketeers not chirping to twitter's tune http://bit.ly/aRAa1Y - baby steps baby steps

Non-green IT products 'marketing suicide': This 50-hectare eco-business park is described as a "living laboratory"... http://bit.ly/cEkDUD

Non-green IT products 'marketing suicide': At the same time, it seems vendors see green technology as a very high ... http://bit.ly/aCqko4

1 hour 59 minutes ago by greentreats on topsy

Oh really? RT @scoopsg: (zdnetasia) S'pore marketeers not chirping to Twitter's tune http://scoo.ps/dpkySs

@mrcolinlim but of course for more tech updates you can always visit zdnetasia.com

RT @zdnetasia: Searchable Facebook user data posted to Pirate Bay http://bit.ly/ciJQxY

2 hours 56 minutes ago by phyllis777loves on topsy

RT @zdnetasia: 10 questions to ask when http://www.zdnetasia.c...

RT @zdnetasia: S'pore marketeers not chirping to Twitter's tune http://bit.ly/bF2aoa

Facebook led police to Philippine serial killer -- http://ow.ly/2iGnh

3 hours 12 minutes ago by hazelhassan on topsy

http://bit.ly/8v7Ov3 S'pore marketeers not chirping to Twitter's tune - ZDNet Asia http://is.gd/dSngs

5 hours 5 minutes ago by easytweeting on topsy

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5 hours 35 minutes ago by findpdf on Researchers find workaround for Adobe PDF fix

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5 hours 43 minutes ago by winsource on Making the case for Filipino IT entrepreneurship

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Thanks Kenneth, for your insights. Good to know people out there can see the issue for what it is, and to do so impassively, that is. ...

2 days 41 minutes ago by yedwin on iPhone 4 shows prudence in procrastination

While I agree that the issues with the device have raised many an eyebrow, I think it's unwise to forget that many phone reviews have...

2 days 53 minutes ago by kennethkoh on iPhone 4 shows prudence in procrastination

The online apple store http://store.apple.com/ is not available now. Maybe it's updating the pricing ;)

2 days 51 minutes ago by mingnow on iPhone 4 to ring in Singapore on Friday

After an awful silence, finally the prices are out..

3 days 47 minutes ago by melvinchia on iPhone 4 to ring in Singapore on Friday

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3 days 53 minutes ago by gnome_refugee on Smitten with Xfce 4

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3 days 51 minutes ago by ggolemg on Smitten with Xfce 4

@mingnow: why do you think so? How do you think the FOSS community could tackle this issue? I'm involved in a lot of efforts to get t...

3 days 57 minutes ago by fredericmuller on Taobao initiates Chinese open source revolution

Geez. I would think giving free books and getting kids to school would be a better place to start.

3 days 5 minutes ago by mingnow on India's US$35 tablet--how low can it go?

I think it's great the that country with the biggest internet population is finally contributing back to the open-source world. I thi...

4 days 52 minutes ago by mingnow on Taobao initiates Chinese open source revolution

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4 days 22 minutes ago by wendy on iPhone 4 shows prudence in procrastination

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