I gave a lecture at University of Macau last Friday, and one of the things we discussed, was the freedom to take pictures in public. Look around you, shopping centres and public areas are forbidding photography with professional-looking cameras, in time, you won’t be allowed to point the camera at any man in uniform. Digital [...]

When Apple posted the availability of iOS4.2 on its website, I plugged my iPad into iTunes and clicked the update button. That was about 2AM in the morning and iTunes kept telling me that I had the latest version of the software. But I persevered until about 4AM in the morning and began downloading the [...]

I have noticed a rise in the number of spams on our Blook.My social site. Over the years, I have observed that there is a relational pattern between spammers and hackers: when spam activity is on the rise, so will hacking activities.

This is an awkward time: here I am, waiting to download iOS 4.2 for my iPhone and iPad as I read my friend Peter’s email about his take on the state of affairs of technology. He thinks the tablet is an interim machine, people still want keyboards for their computing devices, and yes, preferably a [...]

Instagram has been getting a lot of attention as the Scobeleizer blogged that it has 1 million users todate and more and more people used the iPhone App to take pictures and share them on Facebook. Conceptually, this is nothing new as Facebook and/or Flickr Internet upload-enabled photo apps have shown up on iTunes Apps [...]

According to this WWDmedia report by John Koblin, Rupert Murdoch had a vision to publish a daily news report that would be exclusively made for the iPad and other tablet devices. There would be no print product.

If you happen to be traveling to the Land of the Rising Sun for any reason, buying an iPad there can be a good idea; An iPad Wifi costs ￥48,800, ￥58,800 and ￥68,800 for the 16GB, 32GB and 64GB respectively, and you will get the same iPad you’d buy from any Apple retailer in Malaysia [...]

BUBBLE or NOT, It does look like now is a great time for people with ideas — any ideas at all — to start their own business. New York based social shopping site Fashism has just raised USD 1 million in Series A round of venture funding. In the last week alone, blog services provider [...]

As part of the verification process of joining the Apple Developer Program, the applicant has to send documents via fax to Cupertino. This is ironic considering Apple has taken the Modem out of all its products and also removed the default print via fax function from the current Mac OS devices. You cannot imagine the [...]

I have been thinking hard about the development of applications for the Android platform, yes, people keep telling me that there are more Android devices out there than there are iOS devices, but I am not totally convinced that “more is better” as I have seen the pitfall of the theory about outbreeding your opponent [...]