I cannot help but not notice that there was no mention of Amazon or Kindle in the keynote address delivered by Phil Schiller at the January 19 Apple Education Event in New York. And also curiously absent at the keynote, was desktop publishing software giant Adobe, as Adobe’s InDesign will be affected by what Apple [...]

Though industry pundits are still arguing about Android’s dominance of the smartphone market, I seriously think the dust has settled: there are the diehards and there are the wannabes. The diehards will never leave their platform of choice, and the wannabes will be buying the latest gadget that hits the shelf. With China’s Xunlei and [...]

If YouTube adds its own original content to the video file sharing/broadcasting platform, does that turn the company into a television network? Video host YouTube today announced that it has acquired Web video production company Next New Networks. YouTube says the newly bought production team will be on the forefront of testing new YouTube technologies, [...]

Depending on what you do, the following equation should meet your mobile computing needs in almost any situation: iPhone4 with iOS4.3 upwards + 13in MacBook Pro upwards + iPad2wifi/3G 64GB + Lacie 2TB Thunderbolt Drive. And they are all from Apple, a closed, and comfortable computing ecosystem. If you are just a mobile user and [...]

My 2cents: 1. There is nothing wrong with paid content; there are people who like a free ride, and there are people who do not mind paying for content. FlipBoard is great, I believe I was among the first people in Shantou to use that app, but it is an RSS reader with a fancy [...]

Four times in a row, as new content is being delivered. If I paid for the content, I’d be pissed.

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 [...]

Go “e”, Save some Trees. If you are an avid reader who reads a lot like me, who would spend over a thousand ringgit buying books and magazines every month; you’d probably been carrying some form of reading materials with you in your bag all the time and that will take a toll on your [...]

I GREW UP listening to warm bass, natural highs and smooth mid tones of a properly set up sound system. Back in those days, Hi-Fi literally meant “high fidelity”, where colourizing of sound in anyway was seen as an unforgivable sin. Those were the days when I spent hours on days listening to Stax Headphones, [...]