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Four years of rejected payments - Dec 3, 2009

Blogs For the past four years I've been trying to pay for a domain transfer. Just minutes ago I discovered that I was, to turn a phrase, barking up the wrong tree. ... Read story »

Singapore gets Google Street View, finally - Dec 2, 2009

Crave Screenshot of Esplanade Drive It's been a long wait, but Google's ground-level imagery feature Street View of Singapore is at last a go. According to Google, Singapore is the first ... Read story »

Twitter co-founder starts a mobile payment company - Dec 3, 2009

Blogs This geek read with much interest Jack Dorsey's foray into the mobile payments space as I've been working in the payment industry and always mused about the importance of this industry ... Read story »

AlterG unveils more affordable antigravity treadmills - Oct 27, 2009

Crave AlterG's new M300 series is smaller than the original and lower in price. We got our first close look at the AlterG antigravity treadmill at a health expo in San ... Read story »

Sony unveils Vaio X series and Xperia X2 smartphone at IFA - Sep 3, 2009

Crave Sony's Fujio Nishida gives the press a brief glimpse of the new Sony Vaio X series laptop. BERLIN, GERMANY--Sony introduced a digital camera and a smartphone, and gave a brief ... Read story »

Asus UX30 (Core 2 Duo ULV SU9400 Processor 1.4GHz, 4GB RAM)

Review The Asus UX series is the Taiwanese maker's first foray into the Intel CULV segment, which seeks to offer sleek thin-and-lights at an affordable price point. Another vendor from the same island, Acer, was one of the first to offer consumer ultra-low-voltage machines via the Timeline series. The...

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System Mechanic 9 keeps Windows 7 spick and span - Nov 9, 2009

Crave "Good" is always what you want to see when it comes to the state of your system, isn't it? You get a new computer and it runs great. However, after ... Read story »

Microsoft adds touch to mouse prototypes - Oct 6, 2009

Crave In spite of its novelty factor, Windows 7's multitouch capability faces some major hurdles to mass adoption. Touchscreen displays aren't exactly ubiquitous, and few serious PC users would consider reaching out ... Read story »

Asia's first green festival in Singapore - Nov 13, 2009

Blogs In what has been touted as Asia's First Green Festival, the IndoChine Green Festival 2009, in association with the APEC CEO Summit Singapore, is running from November 10 till November 30 ... Read story »

TV manufacturers pushing 3D at home, but not all makers onboard - Sep 7, 2009

Crave Are people as interested in 3D at home as manufacturers think? These IFA-goers appear to be, anyway. BERLIN, GERMANY--Without a doubt, 3D has garnered the most buzz here at IFA ... Read story »

Of truthful heritage... and coming of age - Aug 26, 2009

Blogs Play: Of opinions According to Nostradamus, or rather flagged around by doomsday carriers around the world, that the earth will come to an apocalyptic climax in, say, 2012. They even managed ... Read story »

Of journalism and abolishing "citizen journalists" - Dec 7, 2009

Blogs The editorial Let's Abolish 'Citizen Journalists' on The Digital Journalist caught my attention, thanks to a tweet from @gangbadoy retweeting the link from @glossmania. While I don't agree with the article ... Read story »

No easy answers on energy even with innovative tech - Sep 28, 2009

Crave No matter how you look at it, the big picture on energy trends isn't pretty. A number of factors--a swelling world population with more people aspiring to higher standards of living, ... Read story »

OLED TV manufacturers look to expand production - Oct 1, 2009

Crave LG's 15-inch OLED TV, which is set to go on sale in Korea by December. SAN FRANCISCO--Though LG's eye-popping OLED (organic light-emitting diode) display wowed audiences in Berlin last month, ... Read story »

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FS15

Review Depending on how you use your photos, you'll either be thrilled or disappointed with the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FS15. For its affordable price, you get a nice-looking compact with plenty of automatic shooting options and a couple of noteworthy features such as the 29mm-equivalent wide-angle lens with...