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SingTel hosts Accelerate 2010, gets momentum going for innovation in Asia

August 28, 2010

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We’re slightly less than 4 weeks away from Accelerate 2010, taking place on September 22nd and 23rd later this year. It is SingTel Innovation Exchange‘s (and arguably Singapore and Asia Pacific’s) biggest show this year, with an anticipated turnout of close to 1,000 attendees at the Suntec Convention Expo. The SIX team has assembled a [...]

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18 August 2010

bunnie of Chumby at HackerspaceSG

I‘ve known bunnie for almost a year now, and apart from his l33t skillz with both hardware and software, his cool hairdo never fails to put me to shame. If you can peel yourself away from your missus/computer, you should definitely swing by to Hackerspace Singapore next Friday, on Aug 27, to check him (or [...]

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30 July 2010

Thoughts on McAfee’s acquisition of tenCube

Earlier today, McAfee announced that it would be acquiring Singapore-based mobile security startup tenCube via a press release. SGEntrepreneurs and e27 both broke the news at about the same time. According to the release, the acquisition is expected to help McAfee: Further establish itself as the leader in mobile security with the most complete set [...]

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13 July 2010

Graffiti in Kuala Lumpur

I was pleasantly surprised to spot some pretty cool graffiti at an outdoor garage towards the end of Jalan Sultan Ismail, Kuala Lumpur’s main shopping district. It doesn’t look planned, and looks simply gorgeous. I wish we had more of such stuff across Orchard Road, instead of having it limited to the Youth Skate Park [...]

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26 June 2010

Singapore Flood 2.0

The gods must have been out boozing on Thursday night, because the skies rained really hard with their piss for 2 hours on Friday morning, and caused massive flooding throughout many parts of Singapore. I headed out for a meeting at 9am, and took the perfunctory Bukit Timah Road route to town, only to find [...]

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26 June 2010

Pivotal Labs (Singapore) is hiring!

Just caught this thread over at the Singapore Ruby Brigade by Carl, the Practice Manager for Pivotal Labs’ Singapore office. I thought I’d mirror it to help one of Neoteny Labs’ key partners get started in Singapore in my own little way. Pivotal Labs is looking to hire people who are fun to pair with, [...]

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12 June 2010

Watch World Cup 2010 for Free

If you find yourself without access to the South Africa World Cup 2010 (no thanks to greedy content owners and cable operators), and are looking for a fix for that football fever of yours, I’d recommend that you do the following: iPhone/iPad users: Head on to the App Store and download the TVU Player for [...]

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10 June 2010

Happy Birthday, Uzia!

Today is my fiancée Uzia’s birthday. I made her a card and wrote her a poem, in lieu of a present. I’m glad she didn’t get mad that I chose not to get her a present. It’s the 4th birthday that I’m celebrating with her since we’ve known each other. I’ve been making her cards [...]

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8 June 2010

iPhone 4 to be released in Singapore July ’10

Gizmodo may have stolen some of Steve Jobs’ thunder with their ‘stolen’ iPhone 4G prototype, but no one can deny Apple’s numero uno his incredibly sexy mojo each time he takes the stage to announce Apple’s latest products. The big news was the heavily anticipated iPhone 4G, which Jobs duly delivered earlier at Apple’s WorldWide [...]

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