Articles on Media, Singapore

SPH buys HWZ for S$7.1 million - Sep 29, 2006

Blogs Singapore's media giant SPH has acquired Hardware Zone, lock, stock and barrel, for an unbelievable S$7.1 million. SPH is the main newsprint company in Singapore and owns just about very major ... Read story »

Sony Ericsson launches its first UMTS i-mode phone in Singapore - Oct 13, 2006

Crave The Japanese-Swedish handset maker today announced its partnership with mobile operator StarHub to offer its world's first UMTS i-mode handset, the K610im, in the Republic. Expected to be available in stores ... Read story »

Singapore is going HD. Are you ready? - May 31, 2006

Features HD broadcast will be delivered as early as end 2006. Check out what we gathered during the press launch of the HDTV trials. Read story »

Gajah's GD4s: Them future-looking MP3s - Mar 20, 2007

Crave Based on the Gajah G105 which bears a rather close resemblance to the iriver U10, the GD4-3, GD4-5 and GD4-7 are video-playing (AVI, WMV) media players with an SD card to ... Read story »

CommunicAsia 2007 launches - Jun 19, 2007

Crave With over 2,400 exhibitors from 65 countries, this year's CommunicAsia is all about digital convergence and interactive digital media (IDM). At his opening speech for CommunicAsia, Lee Boon Yang, Singapore Minister ... Read story »

Singapore to host inaugural Youth Olympics 2010--size is not everything - Feb 21, 2008

Blogs Does this herald the beginning of a new age for Singapore? I, for one, have been anticipating and waiting for this for the longest time, being a strong supporter of Singapore ... Read story »

Pro-gaming, pro-basketball, and pro-blogging? - Oct 18, 2007

Blogs Have you heard? 10 Singaporeans will now earn more than most of us just to play games full time! By Oo Gin Lee SINGAPORE'S first professional cybergamers have landed contracts that ... Read story »

My solution to the Odex problem, and the problem of BitTorrent in general - Aug 23, 2007

Blogs BitTorrent and P2P networking are immense aids to the problem of huge file distribution. They cut down the cost of online media distribution. Unfortunately, it's not a simple technology to understand ... Read story »

BlackBerry Curve to be available in Singapore - Jul 17, 2007

Crave Research In Motion (RIM) today announced the BlackBerry Curve device will be available in Singapore. Launched about two months back in the US, the Curve is the company's lightest full QWERTY ... Read story »

X Media Lab's Pro Conference - Oct 3, 2007

Blogs Here's the promised and long-awaited review of the Pro Conference put together by the great folks from X Media Labs! (So is it pronounced X or Cross?) The notes I took were ... Read story »

Asia Netcom readies for HDTV - Jun 20, 2006

Features The emerging requirements of high-definition TV plays a big part in the infrastructure operator's plans to double its cable systems bandwidth capacity. Read story »

Xbox 360 gets price revision - Aug 7, 2007

Crave Microsoft is back to exert pressure on its Japanese rivals with yet another major announcement. Just weeks after releasing Asia launch details for its stepped-up Xbox 360 Elite, the Redmond company ... Read story »

Creative to introduce limited-edition Red Cliff Zen X-Fi - Jul 10, 2008

Crave In conjunction with the premiere of the epic movie Red Cliff in Singapore, Creative, together with Scorpio East Pictures, MediaCorp Raintree Pictures and Golden Village Pictures, today launched a limited-edition Red ... Read story »

Sony Blu-ray internal drive unveiled - Dec 8, 2006

Crave With High Definition gaining popularity in broadcast, gaming and home video recording, the traditional DVD media is fast becoming a bottleneck with its limited storage capacity. To meet the growing demand ... Read story »

DVB-H gets Asia-Pacific boost - Jun 21, 2006

Features Several companies, including Nokia and Intel, have banded together to promote the mobile TV technology standard in the region. Read story »

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