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Plan your commute with Google Maps

Shopablogic by Suzanna Low

Google's Giant Red Pin as marked its spot at Dhoby GhautGoogle recently collaborated with LTA (SIngapore Land and Transport Authority) and came up with an online map that provides informations on public transport in Singapore.  more »

Nintendo DSi LL Disassembled

Tokyo Shift by Rick Martin

The new upsized DSi LL is now out here in Japan, and it didn't take long for someone to rip one open and poke around its insides. The guys over at PC Watch (Japanese) have a great photo set that you should ... more »

Online petition demands justice for Maguindanao massacre victims

Babelmachine by Joey Alarilla

The online petition An Open Letter to Mdm Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of the Philippines is now being circulated by Filipino Netizens on social networks and the Philippine blogosphere. This calls on the President to take firm steps to ensure that the ... more »

My Eee PC is now almost 100 percent used with Chrome OS: Booting from SD card

reHASHplus by Michael Tan

My Eee PC 701 4G is now almost entirely used with Chrome OS as of a few days back.

After all, what good is an Eee PC otherwise? Surfing only, that's what. We don't use it to play 3D games, I've a ... more »

Man marries DS character in the real world

InfoChat by Jerry Liao

A Japanese gamer identified, only by the username Sal9000, is so much in love, so much in love with a Nintendo DS character--Nene Anegasaki, a character in a Nintendo DS game Love Plus. In fact, Sal9000 is so much in love with ... more »

10 things you should know about the Nokia E72

Geekonomics by Nicholas Aaron Khoo

This geek has always found it a source of pride somewhat to have single-handedly converted more than 10 of his friends to the BlackBerry religion. Last night, I was given a chance to take a peek at the Nokia E72 and ... more »

First Android-based MID announced in Korea

DigiHunter by Kevin (Kilmo) Kang

A company called Inbrics has announced that it's developed the first Android-based MID in Korea with its own technolgy, together with the Android platform.

Inbrics' business has been focused on VoIP devices for the last two years, and now, it seems the ... more »

Xbox Live bannings leave Chinese and ex-pat gamers stranded

Sinobytes by Steven Millward

Microsoft's recent piracy clampdown in its Xbox Live online gaming service is leaving a lot of gamers in China stranded. They're now finding that their modded consoles or pirated games are getting their consoles blacklisted by Microsoft, despite paying the US$50 ... more »

What technology do you use to manage a family?

High on a Hill by Hillary Chan

My sister-in-law has given birth to a baby boy. We're thrilled to have him.

After the birth of baby Ethan, I started observing how his parents and other parents use technology to manage having a newborn baby. My sis-in-law has created an ... more »

Hackers of Southeast Asia unite!

Digerati Indonesia by Vishnu Mahmud

(Disclaimer: Yahoo! is a client and did NOT pay or request for this blog post. However, the writer does believe this event to be pretty significant in Indonesian technology circles.)

There once was a time when we in Indonesia could only look with ... more »

Voice TV fuels political fire

Technology Thailand by Jesada Chandraprasert

With the launch of Thailand's newest Internet TV station, a new round of political mud slinging is bound to happen. Headed by Songsak Premsuk (formerly of iTV) with Ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra's son at his side, it's not hard to figure out ... more »

Maxis IP Phone has arrived!

PopTech for You by Alan Tan

Maxis brought the IP Phone for testing. The phone has an Ethernet line plugged directly into my optical modem.

So far, it's great. Works just like a regular phone. Has its own phone number, it can call out directly as long as ... more »