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Windows 7 activation hacked - Jul 30, 2009

Crave Microsoft only just released final code for Windows 7 to manufacturers and the company is already facing a security risk. The Windows Genuine Advantage antipiracy system in the Windows 7 Ultimate ... Read story »

SingTel announces pricing for iPhone 3G in Singapore - Aug 19, 2008

Crave SingTel will be offering three price plans with the iPhone 3G and these will come with a standard two-year operator contract. iPhone handset pricing: Existing iPlans (with GST) iOne Plus iTwo ... Read story »

I got played royally by Steam! - Oct 27, 2009

Blogs Steam is an online games vendor. Borderlands wasn't out in Singapore retail yet, so I went to buy it from Steam. At 2am Singapore time, I was almost 95 percent done ... Read story »

The best version of Windows yet for Netbooks - Nov 23, 2009

Blogs I was waiting to DESTROY the Linux OS which came with my Eee PC for some time now. It's bloody inflexible, requires you to know "sudo" crap, command lines cannot be ... Read story »

How I would have designed Windows 7 - Nov 16, 2009

Crave Like previous versions of Windows, Windows 7 supports legacy software written for previous Windows releases, including Windows 95. I remember the first time I ran into Windows in 1995. It ... Read story »

Apple stomps bugs with iPhone 2.1 software release - Sep 15, 2008

Crave Apple has released version 2.1 of its iPhone software, promising a wealth of bug fixes for a pioneering device that suffered a number of problems. Chief executive Steve Jobs had promised ... Read story »

Prepaid electricity anyone? - Aug 2, 2009

Blogs Filipinos will soon have an option to go postpaid or prepaid. No, not on our mobile phones (we have that already), but for our electricity. A prepaid metering system for electricity ... Read story »

OS 3.0 devoured 1.3 petabytes in downloads - Jun 23, 2009

Crave Roughly 1.3 petabytes, or 1.3 million gigabytes. That's how much data the six million downloads of Apple's iPhone OS 3.0 has eaten through in less than a week since its ... Read story »

"Find my iPhone" without paying for a MobileMe subscription - Jun 25, 2009

Blogs There has been a lot of talk about the the Find my iPhone feature, and recently, real-world proof that this does actually work, but only for MobileMe subscribers. Those without a ... Read story »

Windows 7 RTM "special product key" leak confirmed - Aug 3, 2009

Crave Alex Kochis, Microsoft's director of Genuine Windows, posted a blog late Thursday addressing the "leak of a special product key" of Windows 7 RTM (release to manufacturers). This confirmed the ... Read story »

103-inch Bang & Olufsen TV lands in Singapore - Jul 9, 2009

Crave Bang & Olufsen BeoVision 4-103 Warning! The Bang & Olufsen (B&O) BeoVision 4-103 is a plasma TV not for the faint-hearted. For one, it has a humongous 103-inch panel, which ... Read story »

Wii Fit Plus to offer more back-breaking workouts - Sep 3, 2009

Crave Nintendo's Wii Fit Plus Tired of working out to the same exercises on the Wii Fit? A new version is designed to offer a fresh batch of challenges. The latest ... Read story »

A little sexy (and sexist) social networking - Nov 13, 2009

Blogs I just conducted another social-networking experiment over the past couple of days. I became both male and female... online! Bear with me a little as I share my experiences, peddling my ... Read story »

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