The day tech saved me

A few months ago, I accepted an invitation from my car manufacturer to attend a driver orientation program. During that course, we were shown some fancy features of the bar. Other than ABS and air bags, which are pretty standard, the car had some kind of crash-warning technology. This feature triggers with a sudden lifting off the accelerator and causes the car to prepare for a crash by locking the doors, closing the windows and activating the brakes, amongst others. It did not seem like very important information at that time.

On Friday, I was at a traffic junction and followed..... Read more »

Tags: Manufacturer, H1N1 Flu, Car, accident, asset based security, Window, SARS, automobile company, blog, lawyer

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What landlords can learn from techies

Now and then, I get this urge to make the world a better place. Then there are these quirky ideas that come along.

There is legend that says Bill Gates once commented on what the car industry could learn from the software industry. Well, seeing how the car industry has turned out, perhaps those words could have been heeded. But in any case, I think another industry can learn from the software industry.

The turmoil that the world is in has hit home in some ways--there are a number of new small businesses established in mid-2008 that have suffered. Conceived at..... Read more »

Tags: Inflation, Car, tenant, Bill Gates, Software, software company, small business, revenue

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Software makers to be held more accountable?

Software companies throughout the world are taking note of moves in Europe to subject software to the same consumer protection standards as other goods, such as cars and home appliances. My firm has just written a written alert on it.

Some of the proposals include making manufacturers legally liable for software code and enforcing the provision of a two-year working guarantee. The proposal does sound attractive--after all, since my toaster is increasingly going to have software in it, shouldn't software be judged on performance like a toaster? My toaster looks the same as when my mom bought hers..... Read more »

Tags: Car, consumer protection, business software, freeware, shareware, Open-source Software, Business Software Association, Software, software company, game

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• What in the world is Internet self-regulation?
• Software makers to be held more accountable?
• Singapore blazes into e-discovery of evidence
• How confidential is confidential?
• What landlords can learn from techies

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• NUS Enterprise: An 'incubator without walls'

Bryan Tan

Called to the Singapore and English Bars, Bryan Tan has practised in two of Singapore’s largest law firms and an international law firm. Bryan led many industry firsts including the first mass e-mail defamation case in the world, Singapore’s first publicised telecoms competition dispute, a pan-Asian co-branded travel portal, the first privately-funded cable landing project in Singapore and the world's first registrar-level domain name dispute. His areas of practice include information technology, telecommunications, biotechnology and bioinformatics, Chinese intellectual property, entertainment law and corporate work. He is also an author of Halsbury's Laws of Malaysia: E-Commerce. He also co-wrote the Singapore chapter of 'Digital Evidence' with Prof. Daniel Seng and is writing Halsbury's Laws of Singapore: E-Commerce.