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The Star and Malaysiakini--PUNKED! - Jul 1, 2009

Blogs Yesterday, a friend forwarded me an SMS from Malaysiakini's SMS service announcing that Rick Astley (he of Never gonna give you up and Together forever) had died in a Berlin hotel ... Read story »

Who hacked twitter last night? Who benefits? - Dec 18, 2009

Blogs Hours ago I got an SMS message saying "Twitter hacked by Iranian Cyber Army". I checked news and found Twitter defaced. But who is the "Iranian Cyber Army"? I wanted to ... Read story »

Green tech and robots to take over Tokyo at Ceatec 2009 - Oct 6, 2009

Crave In Japan, for one week a year the spotlight of this gadget-obsessed country is shifted from the urban neon oasis of Tokyo's Akihabara neighborhood and trained on an expansive convention ... Read story »

If you can't beat them... - Jun 15, 2009

Blogs ...join em. And that's what the MCA (Malaysian Chinese Association) is going to do, it would seem. According to a news report on the Malaysianinsider.com, the MCA is going into the ... Read story »

Screaming in cyberspace... - Oct 20, 2009

Blogs ...Seems to be a waste of time when it comes to the Government of Malaysia. Because it appears they're rather deaf when it is about what the citizenry has to say, ... Read story »

Voltron-transforming camera really takes pictures - Jun 15, 2009

Crave Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen won't hit the cinemas till June 24 globally, so for now you just have to contend with the Voltron Star Shooter camera if you're into ... Read story »

The Last Word on Malaysian broadband... uncut + final cut - Nov 4, 2009

Blogs My very first blog for CNET Asia was on February 5, 2007. And I wrote about broadband. I wrote about how lousy the broadband was. How expensive it was for the ... Read story »

StarHub to offer iPhone, too - Nov 9, 2009

Crave Singapore operator StarHub this morning announced that it will be offering the Apple iPhone for sale later this year. In its press statement, the network provider said it has reached an ... Read story »

StarHub finally rolls out movie channel in HD - Sep 29, 2009

Crave StarHub was the first pay TV provider in Singapore to offer HD content with the introduction of its National Geographic HD and Discovery HD channels in early 2007. However unlike the ... Read story »

Star Wars flash drive collection - Nov 11, 2009

Crave May the drive be with you. Tyme Machines, maker of licensed USB drives, has released its Series 1 3D sculpted Star Wars USB thumb drives. The set, which includes replicas ... Read story »

MobileOne (M1) to offer iPhone later this year - Oct 13, 2009

Crave By the end of this year, SingTel won't be the only telco operator to sell the iPhone in Singapore, ending its exclusive deal with Apple after the launch of the iPhone ... Read story »

Star Wars mind-controlled toys from Mattel now shipping - Sep 22, 2009

Crave Back at CES in January, there was some hype surrounding some new mind-control products that were due to arrive before the holiday season. Well, two of the more prominent ones, the ... Read story »

A tooth for an eye, a tooth for an eye... wait, wah? - Sep 23, 2009

Blogs It is written in the Torah to "show no pity: Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot". In today's world, the ancients would ... Read story »

Get a grip of this Darth Vader Robotic Arm - Nov 16, 2009

Crave "I am your father." Now that's out of the way, here's something for Vader fans and collectors of all things Star Wars. We all know George Lucas' obsession with limb ... Read story »

The Singapore Triple Play Duopoly causes Singaporeans to play monkey - Oct 6, 2009

Blogs For background, with little bullshit, check out Ian Tan's blogpost here. Ian used to work for the Straits Times in  Singapore. History Channel  The history, in short: (Wiki history here) Singapore used ... Read story »

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