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Interesting radios at Global Security Asia 2009 - Mar 27, 2009

Blogs This geek had a chance to check out Global Security Asia here in Singapore last week and a bunch of Motorola radios caught my eye (among a host of other security ... Read story »

I turned off the lights, but Al Gore kept them switched on - Mar 31, 2009

Blogs I am sure you were aware of this year's Earth Hour. Landmark locations in almost every major city turned off the lights. Malaysia's KLCC did so as well. You can watch ... Read story »

Obama-related malware out in the wild - Nov 6, 2008

Blogs I really have to give it to the cybercriminals. Imagine hours after the announcement that Barack Obama had won the US Presidential election, malware containing the name of Obama is delivered to users ... Read story »

Nikon launches new informative site - Apr 27, 2009

Crave Nikon recently launched Nikon Next, a Web site about the Japanese company's heritage and its cameras. It also features works by photographers who are Nikon users. If you are interested ... Read story »

Beware of swine flu-related spam and malware - Apr 29, 2009

Blogs While the world is scrambling for a solution in determining how to control or totally stop the proliferation of the so-called "swine flu", spammers are taking advantage of the situation by ... Read story »

Thanko's earring-style earphones - Sep 22, 2008

Crave If it ain't in the market yet, you can trust Thanko to dream one up. The online store has been responsible for a number of funky--if sometimes questionable—gadgets out of Japan, ... Read story »

Toilet that delivers data dump in more ways than one - Apr 3, 2009

Crave As a race, we Chinese can sometimes be a mite bowled over by our bowel movements. At times, this arises as a hot topic over dinner, a point I was made ... Read story »

Black spots afflict Canon's new dSLR - Dec 9, 2008

Crave Some users have reported that photos taken with Canon's new US$2,700 EOS 5D Mark II camera can be blemished with dark spots near areas with very bright highlights. Canon's EOS 5D ... Read story »

Where to watch Obama's inauguration online - Jan 20, 2009

Blogs There's quite a bit of buzz about Ustream's last-minute announcement of its iPhone application. And that's a great solution for anyone lucky enough to have an iPhone. If you follow this ... Read story »

Mobile phone dermatitis - Oct 24, 2008

Blogs The British Association of Dermatologists recently released a report regarding a new phenomenon called "mobile phone dermatitis". This can happen when people who spend long periods of time on their mobile ... Read story »

Blog Action Day 2008--Poverty--October 15, 2008 - Oct 13, 2008

Blogs Blog Action Day 2008 Poverty from Blog Action Day on Vimeo. Blog Action Day 2008 is two days away, and this year the guys at Blog Action Day are focusing on ... Read story »

VivaNews, Indonesia's new online media - Oct 15, 2008

Blogs Indonesia's online media has a new news portal called VivaNews that already launched its beta version yesterday. Owned by Bakrie Group (which was reported as another factor behind the Jakarta market's ... Read story »

Google Voice Search comes to BlackBerrys - Mar 26, 2009

Crave Delivering on its promise, Google released a new mobile application on Wednesday that brings its Voice Search feature to BlackBerrys, much like it did for the iPhone and Android-based T-Mobile ... Read story »

Science mag warns: "Could the Net become self-aware?" - May 5, 2009

Crave "Excuse me, is Sarah Conner home?" It sounds like an Astroturf campaign for the upcoming computers-gone-bad movie Terminator: Salvation, but in fact New Scientist magazine is being completely serious when ... Read story »

"Curse of silence" smart phone flaw disclosed - Jan 5, 2009

Crave A denial-of-service attack that limits the number of SMS messages that can be received by Nokia smart phones has been disclosed and demonstrated. Dubbed the "curse of silence" by German security ... Read story »

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