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Wednesday, October 9th, 2013
Dell has showcased a range of end user computing products for Asia Pacific for both business and personal use.
Executives from Dell and Intel launch the new range of computing products. From left: Ray Wah, Vice President of Dell’s Personal Computing Group; Ryaz Patel, Director, Asia Pacific Multinational Sales, Intel; Uday Marty, Managing Director, Intel South East Asia; and Peter Marrs, Executive Director & General Manager, End User Computing, Dell APJ. Photo taken with Nokia Lumia 1020.
The new range of products include new Venue tablets, printers, monitors, as well as desktops, notebooks and Ultrabooks from the XPS, Latitude, Inspiron, Precision series.
Tags:computers, DELL, desktops, Inspiron, laptops, Latitude, launch, monitors, notebooks, Precision, printers, Singapore, touch, ultrabooks, Venue, XPS
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Tuesday, October 8th, 2013
Last week, I popped down to Canberra Primary School to take a look at how Dell works with the school and Playware Studios Asia to design an educational platform for immersive learning in the digital edge.
The interior of the 4Di Lab at Canberra Primary School.
During the visit, we checked out the 4Di Lab which is powered by Dell solutions and Playware Studios Asia’s 3DHive technology.
Impressions:
This is an interesting collaboration between the public sector, a hardware supplier and a software solutions provider.
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Tags:Canberra, DELL, education, MOE, Playware, visit
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Tuesday, October 8th, 2013
Slightly more than a year after the launch of the D600 last September, Nikon has unveiled its successor – the D610. Nikon boasts its the smallest and lightest full-frame format DSLR in the world.
Price and availability to be announced.
Update (14 November, 2013):
The Nikon D610 is now available in Singapore. RRP: S$2,999 (body only).
Nikon D610 full-frame DSLR.
Catered for users who are new to the FX-format, the D610 sports a 24.3-megapixel FX-format CMOS sensor and the EXPEED 3 image processing engine, with an ISO range of 100 to 6400 (expandable from 50 to 25,600).
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Tags:announce, cameras, D600, D610, DSLRs, full-frame, Nikon, photography, Singapore
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Monday, October 7th, 2013
The Singapore findings from the 2013 Norton Report shows that while the number of online adults who have experienced cybercrime has decreased (from 48 percent in 2012 to 37 percent in 2013), the average cost per victim has risen by 75 percent (S$1,448 in 2013, up from S$826 in 2012).
Click the image to view/download the detailed summary of the main findings of the 2013 Norton Report.
This year’s report reveals that as consumers become more mobile and connected, these conveniences often come at a cost to them and their security.
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Tags:mobile devices, Norton, reports, security, Singapore, social networks, survey, Symantec
Posted in Announce, Desktops, Events, events, Figures, infographics, Internet, Norton, Notebooks, Phones, Press Release, Security, Study, Tablets | No Comments »
Sunday, October 6th, 2013
Photo of the Day: This kitty had just woken up from its afternoon nap and has rolled over on its back to invite others to play with it.
Kitty says, “Come play with me!” Photo taken with a Samsung NX2000 mirrorless interchangeable lens camera with a 20-50mm lens. Photo credit: John Tan.
This was one of four kittens in a brood that I’d discovered at a void deck under an HDB block.
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Tags:animals, cats, kittens, NX2000, photography, photos, potd, Samsung, Singapore
Posted in Daily life, MIL, Photography, Photos, POTD, POTD, Samsung | 1 Comment »
Saturday, October 5th, 2013
Photo of the Day: I was walking to Fullerton Bay Hotel for the launch of the BlackBerry Z30 on Thursday evening when this majestic cumulonimbus cloud caught my eye.
It was towering menacingly over the Marina Bay Sands and was the only thing I’ve come across that was capable of counterbalancing the imposing hotel buildings.
Giant Calvus Cumulonimbus cloud versus Marina Bay Sands. Which will blink first? Photo taken with a Samsung NX2000 mirrorless interchangeable lens camera with a 20-50mm lens. Photo credit: John Tan.
It was getting dark and I grabbed a quick snapshot with the Samsung NX2000 that I had with me.
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Tags:cloud, Marina Bay Sands, MBS, NX2000, photography, photos, potd, Samsung, Singapore, sunset
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Friday, October 4th, 2013
The all-touch BlackBerry Z30 is the new flagship smartphone from BlackBerry and features a 5-inch display, 2880 mAh battery, and the latest version 10.2 of the BlackBerry 10 operating system.
Available in Singapore from 10 October at S$828 (without contract).
BlackBerry’s new flagship: Z30 with 5-inch SuperAMOLED display, 1280 x 720 resolution at 295ppi.
Key new features of the BlackBerry Z30 include the BlackBerry Priority Hub, which can learn what conversations and people are important to you – making it fast and easy to find the messages and information you need.
Hands-on
I tried out the BlackBerry Z30 and found the bigger screen useful in digesting information and browsing the Web.
The BlackBerry 10 interface made it useful to interact with the phone, offering one-swipe access to the most commonly needed information, such as notifications, messages, settings and app switching – making multi-tasking easy to get round.
Version 10.2 of BlackBerry 10 OS makes things even more efficient by prioritising conversations and notifications in the Priority Hub, and allowing previews of messages as it arrives from within any other apps, and even immediate replying to BBM messages again within other apps.
The BlackBerry 10 OS version 10.2 will be made available for the BlackBerry Z10 as well.
Physically, the BlackBerry Z30 measures 140.7 x 72 x 9.4 mm and weighs 170g.
BlackBerry Natural Sound creates an immersive experience for music, videos, apps and games, and makes BBM Video chats sound more natural and realistic, with nuances and variations in tone clearly audible.
With the largest battery ever on a BlackBerry smartphone, you can get up to 25 hours of mixed use, and BlackBerry’s new antenna technology dynamically tunes reception to give better connectivity in low signal areas, and improves data transfer speeds and reduces dropped calls.
Finally, the device comes with BlackBerry 10 OS version 10.2, which includes hundreds of refinements plus many new features that help the user get more productive.
The BlackBerry Z30 comes with a 5-inch Super AMOLED display, 1280 x 720 resolution at 295ppi.
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Tags:availability, BB10, BlackBerry, Fullerton Bay Hotel, launch, prices, RIM, Singapore, smartphones, Z30
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Thursday, October 3rd, 2013
Photo of the Day: Discovered this brood of four kittens over the weekend, kept by this group of retirees in an HDB void deck. I’ll be sharing snapshots I took over the next few POTD postings.
Not quite as cute as the Puss in Boots in Shrek, but what beady eyes. Just enjoying the sharpness and shallow depth of field of the lens. Photo taken with a Nikon D7100 with AF-S NIKKOR 70-200mm f/4G ED VR lens. Photo credit: John Tan.
Apart from the four kittens, the place was also a haunt for grown-up cats in the neighbourhood.
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Tags:animals, cats, NIKKOR, Nikon, photography, photos, potd, Singapore
Posted in Daily life, DSLR, NIKKOR, Nikon, Photos, POTD, POTD | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013
The Logitech Z200 Multimedia Speakers (S$49), Logitech Z150 Multimedia Speakers (S$29) and Logitech Z50 Multimedia Speaker (S$24) are expected to be available in Singapore from mid-October 2013.
The Logitech Z200, Logitech Z50 and Logitech Z150 Multimedia Speakers come in a modern, sturdy design and promises clear, room-filling stereo sound.
All three new speakers come with 2-year limited hardware warranty, and work with audio devices with 3.5 mm output including: Windows and Mac OS computers, smartphones, tablets, MP3 players.
Key technical specifications for each of the speakers are tabulated below.
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Tags:available, Logitech, prices, Singapore, speakers
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Tuesday, October 1st, 2013
A*STAR’s Business Analytics Translational Centre (BATC) collaborates with Red Hat to Use open source solutions for data analytic applications development.
Witnesses and signing parties of the MOU collaboration between Red Hat and A*STAR’s Business Analytics Translational Centre. From L-R: Ang Wee Tiong, Director, Technology, BATC; Dr. Tan Geok Leng, Executive Director, Science & Engineering Research Council, A*STAR & Chairman, BATC Management Committee; Damien Wong, General Manager, ASEAN, Red Hat; Suresh Sachi, Deputy Managing Director (Corporate & Legal), General Counsel, A*STAR; Jim Whitehurst, President and CEO, Red Hat; Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for the Environment and Water Resources; Jacqueline Poh, Managing Director, IDA; Shankha Sen, Chief Financial Officer, Red Hat Asia Pacific.
Red Hat, Inc., a leading provider of open source solutions, today announced plans for a new collaboration with A*STAR’s Business Analytics Translational Centre (BATC) to help accelerate innovation and drive adoption of business analytics with open source solutions from Red Hat.
“Open source has evolved to become a foundation for innovation. As technology continues to become more of a commodity, the standardization of parts can help spur more rapid innovation,” said Jim Whitehurst, president and CEO of Red Hat.
Jim Whitehurst, president and CEO of Red Hat, was present for the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) today in Singapore with Dr Tan Geok Leng, Chairman of BATC Management Committee and Executive Director for the Science & Engineering Research Council (SERC), A*STAR.
Red Hat will be collaborating with BATC in areas of big data, middleware, Platform-as-a-service (PaaS), cloud and storage, for the innovation and development of current and upcoming analytics projects.
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Tags:A*STAR, analytics, BATC, Big Data, data, Linux, MOU, Open source, Operating System, OS, Red Hat, Singapore
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