t e c h i e - t a l k s ::: technology at its best

Prior to this application, there were several attempts at making WM 6.1 to work with Facebook. Sadly, most applications break and were highly unstable causing lots of frustrations. Therefore, users had to rely on opera to access mobile Facebook webpages which have very limited functionality.
Just recently, Microsoft released a Facebook application which is available in […]

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A new paradigm for using web applications has emerged. The landing page looks similar to Google, with a simple layout and that familiar search box. But what lies beneath this new search engine is something powerful and breath-taking. Meet Wolfram Alpha - Brings search engines to a whole new level. The algorithm sounds extremely smart […]

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I took some time out of my busy schedule to attend a talk by Mario Behling. The talk was organized by the people from LinuxNus. A short intro of Mario taken from the LinuxNus website:
Mario Behling is a FOSS advocate known in the international (Free and Open Source Software) FOSS community through his work for […]

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It seems like mainstream multicore CPUs are going their own way this time. An increasing number of cores in today’s CPUs leads to a decreasing performance in supercomputers. The major obstacle is not a brick wall, rather it is what engineers call - memory wall.
1. Memory speeds aren’t keeping up with CPU speeds.
2. With multicore […]

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According to Erricson’s chief technology officer, John Cunliffe, mobile broadband could hit an unimaginably high speed of 42 Mbps by early next year. The current highest bandwidth in Singapore is 7.2 Mbps on a HSDPA network (Starhub, Singtel & M1).
The increase in speed is achieved by having better better antenna design and coding. Quoted from […]

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Intel rounds off its developers forum with a wild new upcoming tech
Wireless is one of those hot tech catch-alls of the new millennium.  There’s wireless broadcasters and receivers, utilizing such technology as WiMax, 802.11n, and Bluetooth.  There’s wireless gaming controllers.  There’s just about wireless everything — except power transmission.
Wireless power transmission is something that inventor […]

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FRANKFURT–One in three information technology professionals abuses administrative passwords to access confidential data such as colleagues’ salary details, personal emails or board-meeting minutes, according to a survey.
U.S. information security company Cyber-Ark surveyed 300 senior IT professionals, and found that one-third admitted to secretly snooping, while 47 percent said they had accessed information that was not […]

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Google is apparently interested in buying Digg for around $200 million. Rumours of Digg’s imminent acquisition are nothing new, with everyone from Microsoft to Yahoo rumoured to have been interested in the company at some point. However, in a recent interview with The Guardian, Digg founder Kevin Rose admitted that he wasn’t necessarily […]

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After one whole day of messing around with the HTC Touch Diamond, it’s probably time to give my opinion on the performance of the HTC Touch Diamond retail set. Since this is the first time I’m using a smartphone with a Windows Mobile 6.1 OS, I’ll try to give an opinion to the best of […]

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I was thinking of re-contracting my plan with Starhub since it was expiring. Furthermore, Starhub gave me a voucher for any handset purchase if I sign-up with them again. I was intending to get a smartphone, for many reasons, but just couldn’t find a relatively inexpensive and a stable one. However, I had my eyes […]

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