Google Now has been launched on iPhone and iPad. The new feature is available as part of the updated free Google Search app for iOS devices. It is currently already available for free on Android devices with Jelly Bean 4.1 or higher.
Google Now is now available on iPhone and iPad as part of the free Google Search app.
Google Now aims to provide the user with “the right information at just the right time”.
Where to get Google Now
For iPhones and iPads, get Google Search app from the App Store and sign into your Google account.
For Android devices, start using Google Now by swiping up from the home screen or by tapping the Google Search bar.
Helpful cards with information you need are displayed throughout the day, even before you ask for it.
For instance, you could get traffic conditions and alternative routes before leaving for work.
Or get live sports scores for your favourite teams.
WeChat launches its first TV commercial in Singapore starring 杨丞琳 (Yang Cheng Lin) and 羅志祥 (Luo Zhi Xiang).
Rainie Yang (杨丞琳) & Show Lo (羅志祥). Click for larger version to print your own poster of the Taiwan super duo.
WeChat is a social messaging application created by China’s Tencent.
You can catch this TVC on the following channels: Channel 8, Channel U, W drama, E-City and some other Chinese channels from this week onwards.
It plans to expand its users in Singapore’s growing market for smartphone applications with its first TV commercial in Singapore beginning today.
As of January 2013, WeChat has hit the 300 million user accounts milestone globally.
Screenshots from WeChat
In this 30-second TVC, Rainie and Show displayed romantic chemistry and playfulness through the use of WeChat’s simplest functions – text messaging, voice messaging and emoticon services.
WeChat’s star-studded TVC for Malaysia and Singapore features “Asia’s Dance King”, Show Lo and multi-talented artiste, Rainie Yang from Taiwan.
The free fxTrade mobile app brings robust desktop functionality to mobile devices, including customizable charts, price alerts, overlays and indicators.
OANDA’s free fxTrade mobile app is available for the iPhone, iPad and Android mobile devices.
OANDA, a global provider of innovative foreign exchange trading services, today announced a significant update to its OANDA fxTrade mobile applications for iPhone, iPad, and Android devices.
“There are no longer any compromises when it comes to mobile,” said OANDA CEO K Duker.
OANDA’s fxTrade mobile app allows users to quickly monitor forex market activity as well as manage positions, control risk, and monitor account status and profitability while on the go.
The free app’s intuitive design makes the most of native iPhone, iPad, and Android capabilities to provide features that traders need to stay on top of the fast-moving forex market.
OANDA’s fxTrade mobile app comes with rich features and customisability.
Today’s release is the result of more than 18 months of work from the OANDA mobile development team, and incorporates user feedback from OANDA customers globally.
“With this new version of our trading app, we’re providing our customers with what they want: a robust platform at their fingertips and a great trading experience, no matter where they are,” Duker added.
Mobile devices already account for 30 percent of logins and 15 percent of trades for OANDA clients, a number that has risen rapidly since the company introduced its first mobile trading app in 2010.
The OANDA mobile apps for iPhone and iPad users are available for download in the App Store, or on the Google Play apps store for Android-based smartphones and tablets.
These apps complement the OANDA MetaTrader 4 mobile applications that are available for iPhone and Android smartphones and tablets.
Key features of this new version of OANDA’s fxTrade mobile app include:
Borneo Motors has launched a locally-developed iPad application – iTrust – in partnership with SingTel. The app helps staff provide Toyota customers a more personalised vehicle servicing experience with enhanced interactivity.
Customers will be able to view videos of comparative testing, such as the video of a Toyota Genuine Brake Pads alongside that of a counterfeit part.
The new app embodies 40 years of expertise and experience from Borneo Motors.
The effective knowledge transfer redefines customer experience, empowering them to make more informed decisions.
As most customers are not inclined to understand the technicalities of their Toyota’s servicing requirements, iTrust will enable the salesforce to explain the intricate details with clarity of visual and audio aids.
MyEyeDrops App helps Glaucoma patients and caregivers to “put the right drops in the right eye, at the right time”. The FREE app works with Android phones and Apple iPhones.
MyEyeDrops App is available FREE for Android phones on Google Play and Apple iPhones on the App Store.
Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC) has launched what is believed to be Singapore’s and the world’s first free Glaucoma Eye Care App – MyEyeDrops.
Medications with pictures included.
Available from Google Play and the Apple App Store, the app takes away the hassle of remembering to apply eye drops at regular intervals throughout each day for patients for Glaucoma patients.
Elevated eye pressure is one of the main risk factor of glaucoma.
Regular compliance with the use of eye drops in controlling the eye pressure is critical to prevent deterioration of the disease condition which can lead to permanent loss of vision.
With this app, forgetting to apply eye drops will be a thing of the past.
In a cross-sectional population survey conducted in Singapore, the prevalence of glaucoma was found to be 3.2% in those 40 years and older.
Research In Motion (RIM) President & CEO – Thorsten Heins – launched the new QNX-based BlackBerry 10 operating system and unveils the full-touchscreen Z10 and physical keyboard-equipped Q10 smartphones.
RIM is also renaming itself as BlackBerry from today.
Shareholders’ response to the launch inside. All images in this article were screen-grabbed from webcast of the event.
The first manifestation of the new BlackBerry 10 – the full-touchscreen Z10 (left) and physical keyboard-equipped Q10 (right).
The basic premise of the new “BlackBerry experience” is about extending connectivity to everything around users – connecting the phone to the car, sound system, healthcare system etc.
Availability of Z10
Jan 31: UK
Feb 5: Canada (C$149)
Feb 10: UAE
Feb 21?: Singapore
March: USA (pre-orders without pricing from today)
* Q10 may be 1 month behind.
Three overarching innovations to enable this are the BlackBerry Hub, Peek and Flow.
Hub is akin to the People Hub of Microsoft Windows Phone operating system and consolidates all people related and social network information and updates in one place.
Microsoft has released prices for Windows 8 after 31 January 2013 – when the current promotional prices expire.
The new prices are much higher, so if you’re planning on upgrading to Windows 8 – get it before the end of this month.
An auspicious 88 days for Windows 8. Click to enlarge.
88 days have passed since the global launch of Windows 8, with 60 million licenses sold, (as of 8 January).
Top eight Windows 8 apps developed locally. All of them are free apps.
Advanced English Dictionary
DBS
MerlionWords
Parts of a Computer
SG Deal
SingAdventure
The Straits Times
WeGo Travel
Since the opening of the Windows Store the number of apps has quadrupled and globally Microsoft recently passed the 100 million app download mark – just two months after general availability.
In Asia-Pacific, the number of locally-developed apps is currently being added to at a rate of 50 per day and the developer community itself has swelled by 82% since the October launch.
In Singapore, more than 4,000 developers have been trained to develop apps for Windows 8 since launch.
Below are the prices for the various upgrade editions for Windows 8 from 1 February 2013.
20-year-old Liu Ting Ting was the first customer to purchase an iPhone 5 from SingTel this morning.
Besides selling the iPhone 5, SingTel also launched a new version of deF!ND – its free mobile personal assistant app that integrates local information and enables bookings of services on the move.
Early-bird customers at SingTel’s iPhone 5 launch.
SingTel has organised a three-day launch event for the iPhone 5 starting this morning at 8am at Marina Bay Sands, Exhibition Hall D, Basement 2.
Liu Ting Ting jumping with joy.
A record 68,000 customers registered their interest over six days to purchase iPhone 5 from SingTel.
The 10,000 appointment slots to purchase iPhone 5 at our launch event were snapped-up within one and a half hours.
The first customer to purchase iPhone 5 is Ms Liu Ting Ting (age 20, student).
She had arrived last night (Thurs 20 Sep) at 8:30pm even though she had a confirmed appointment to purchase iPhone 5 this morning.
Liu Ting Ting with Allan Lew (R) and Yuen Kuan Moon (L) from SingTel.
She chose to camp overnight in order to be the first to get the phone.
SingTel also unveiled a new version of deF!ND, which features Singapore’s own voice-activated personal assistant, often dubbed the “Singapore Siri”.
First launched in November last year, the new version now features a significantly expanded database of more than 100,000 reviews on more than 15,000 eateries from HungryGoWhere, Singapore’s popular food website.
Users can quickly and easily browse through recommendations of highly-rated restaurants and hawkers nearest to their current location.
SingTel deF!ND can be downloaded free from the Apple App Store and Google Play store.
deF!ND is now able to make intelligent movie recommendations based on users’ personal preferences and display screening times at GV, Shaw and Cathay cinemas nearest to their current location.
A virtual barometer predicts the user’s level of interest in all movies that are currently airing.
The app allows users to select seats and charge ticket purchases to their credit cards.
With deF!ND, users can also book taxis, locate ATMs, medical clinics and other essential amenities, find the best shopping deals and get updates on local events.
deF!ND is available for free download from the Apple App Store and Google Play store. It was developed in collaboration with app developer, Jinni Media.
The app draws from SingTel’s popular inSing.com database of more than 170,000 business listings.
The free app works on iOS, Android and web platforms and helps users discover new blogs, follow bloggers’ updates and conduct two-way conversations with them while on the go.
NuffnangX is a free app for iOS, Android and Web platforms for perusing blogs on the road.
Netccentric Pte Ltd, the parent company of Asia Pacific’s blog advertising community Nuffnang.com, has globally launched NuffnangX.
“It continues to be more and more challenging for bloggers to engage their readers and for readers to keep up with their favourite blogs,” said Cheo Ming Shen, co-founder of NuffnangX and Netccentric.
With thousands of blogs out there, NuffnangX hand-picks blogs to suit your reading preferences and interests.
The app serves as your personal blog shopper which selects the best blogs from around the world for you.
NuffnangX’s Patent Pending Technology summarises hundreds and thousands of words of each blog entry on your feed to a single line that is known as the “elevator pitch” so you can decide quickly whether a blog is interesting enough for you to read.
NuffnangX also simplifies the commenting process, making it seamless and easy to use.
Both partners had met whilst studying in London, and fresh from graduation, started Netccentric Pte Ltd as the holding company for their web ventures.
Coupled with a mixed bag of working experience in the Finance and Government sectors, their first project was Nuffnang.com, Asia Pacific’s First Blog Advertising Community.
This free app for iOS and Android smartphones and tablets helps users to discover fun things to do and organise outings with friends.
Screenshots from SingTel’s free Loop & Meet app for iOS and Android mobile devices.
SingTel has launched Loop & Meet, a mobile app that enables mobile users to send event invitations quickly and easily, and tracks responses without having to sort through dozens of email and text messages.
Discover things to do. Send and track invitations. Meet up and have fun!
With Loop & Meet, users can browse through hundreds of events that are refreshed daily from inSing.com.
“We know that it is sometimes difficult to plan new activities or think of new places to visit,” said Cheong Hai Thoo, SingTel’s Head of Multimedia.
These events have been categorised for easy browsing into: movies, music, leisure, night out, arts, festivals and family.
The service allows users to invite their friends via SMS or email.
The app was developed in collaboration with app developer, Goba.
“Loop & Meet makes this process a breeze so that users will never be short of leisure and entertainment options,” Cheong enthused.
Recipients can use the SMS and web platforms to confirm attendance and chat with registered users, even if they have not installed the app.
Loop & Meet will help to track the responses and send invitees reminders if they do not respond.
This makes it easier for all users to keep track of the full event itinerary, time, place and attendees.
Loop & Meet is an important addition to SingTel’s growing suite of multimedia offerings, which includes the skoob e-Books service, AMPed music service and deF!ND digital concierge.
