The Logitech Mouse M105 is expected to be available in end May (S$16), in black, red or white.
Logitech M105, available in May (S$16).
The plug-and-play USB optical mouse is targeted towards young users, aged 16 – 25, who are fun-loving and budget conscious.
It has a precision of 1000 dpi tracking and comes with 3 years warranty.
Dell’s Alienware M14x (from S$2,699) and M17x (from S$3,599) are now available from its online store.
The M14x claims to be “the most powerful 14-inch laptop in the Universe” while the M17x is 3D-capable – offering an immersive, high-definition, surround-sound experience.
Dell Alienware M14x (left, from S$2,699) and M17x (right, from S$3,599)
The M14x features optional dual drive configurations, up to 16GB of memory for extreme multitasking, a Blu-ray combo optical drive, and an NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M graphics engine with GDDR5 graphics memory.
AlienFX Implementation in EA’s Battlefield 3
Dell is also announcing its ongoing collaboration with EA to implement an AlienFX software and lighting control system as well as an exclusive Alienware Arena dog tag in Battlefield 3.
Customers can experience these AlienFX implementations while playing Battlefield 3 today, which will provide gamers with a more personal experience by adjusting lighting colors and effects settings.
Gamers will see unique loading and menu and player health lighting effects that will change throughout their Battlefield 3 gameplay experience.
This is the most advanced GPU in a 14-inch form factor and the first time Alienware is offering GDDR5 graphics on a laptop of this size.
The M17x delivers the latest NVIDIA and AMD graphics card options, up to 32GB of memory, optional 17.3-inch 120Hz WideFHD WLED 3D display, and THX 3D surround sound.
It is one of the first laptops to offer the AMD Radeon HD 7970M graphics card and the latest GDDR5 NVIDIA GeForce GT 660M and 675M graphics solutionsii.
Both laptops feature Intel’s 3rd Generation processors and Intel Turbo Boost 2.0 technologies, HDMI 1.4, USB 3.0 for fast data transfer, Bluetooth 4.0, optional 3D HD gaming capability, optional Blu-ray disc drive and exceptional surround-sound quality from Klipsch speakers.
The speaker line-up for the upcoming Digital and Music Matters 2012 (from 22 to 26 May 2012) has been announced.
Troy Carter and other speakers will be at All That Matters from 22-26 May 2012 at The Ritz Carlton, Millenia Singapore.
Industry experts such as Troy Carter (Lady Gaga’s manager), Bob Ezrin (Music Producer), Adam Smith (YouTube), Tod Machover (MIT Media Lab), Erik Johnson (Facebook), Brian Taptich (Zynga), Craig Hepburn (Nokia), Catherine Leung (Baidu), are set to convene at The Ritz Carlton, Millenia Singapore.
The full list of speakers can be viewed here.
Digital and Music Matters 2012 is supported by the Singapore Tourism Board, Media Development Authority of Singapore, and Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore.
Other key sponsors are; Facebook, YouTube, Nokia, SingTel, Singapore Grand Prix, MTV, rara.com KOCCA, Getty Images, The Orchard, Gracenote, Omnifone, MPAJ, Akamai, Movideo, Haldanes, AsiaWorld-Expo, Turntable, Lushington, Mobile Roadie, Invest HK, Sounds Australia and CIMA.
Participants can look forward to hearing first-hand from the industry’s elites who will be able to share their knowledge and experience discussing all that matters in the music and digital entertainment industry.
Other notable music and industry luminaries who will be attending Music Matters include Bob Lefsetz (the author of The Lefsetz Letter); Andrew Hipsley (McDonald’s Corporation); Souleymane Hamed (Coca Cola Indochina); Michael Chugg (super-promoter); Anthony Zameczkowski (Head of Music, YouTube Asia-Pacific); John McLellan (Haldanes); Michael Paull (Sony Music Entertainment); Stephen Bryan (Warner Music Group); Mike Bebel (Nokia); Haji Taniguchi, (President, Avex Music Publishing and Chairman, MPAJ); and Chee Meng Tan (Director, Music, SingTel).
Microsoft Corp, Tata Communications, ACT Conferencing, and Kathea have joined the Open Visual Communications Consortium (OVCC).
The OVCC is a group of leading service and solution providers creating the blueprint to deliver high-quality video collaboration that connects any vendor, any network and any device, anywhere.
23 Members of the OVCC
AARnet Pty., Ltd.
ACT Conferencing#
AT&T*
Acme Packet
BCS Global*
Bharti Airtel*
BT Conferencing*
Dialogic, Inc.*
Glowpoint
Kathea#
Masergy*
Microsoft#
Orange Business Services*
PCCW Global Ltd.
Polycom, Inc.*
Sabre Travel Network
SingTel Group
Tata Commumications#
Teliris*
Telstra*
Verizon*
XConnect
YorkTel Corporation
* the 11 founding members
# the 4 new members
Six months after the launch of the OVCC in October 2011, there are now 23 members in the independent group.
OVCC members contribute to and implement the OVCC technical and commercial blueprint, using established standards and best practices to accelerate and commercialize business-to-business video communications.
OVCC members are committed to providing video around the world to enable enterprise users to place and receive video calls beyond corporate firewalls and across standards-based and proprietary video platforms.
The first OVCC services are scheduled to launch later this year.
Service providers will develop and implement OVCC technical and commercial specifications based on industry standards, best practices and business approaches to answer the need for interconnection, addressing, signaling, interoperability and service coordination.
Interoperable, high-quality connectivity across networks and devices should allow network providers to profitably and predictably monetize their inter-enterprise video exchanges.
By making interoperability requirements invisible to the enterprise, the OVCC specification enables enterprise users to leverage video conferencing investments and enable more efficient value chains – spanning customers, distributors and suppliers – to improve the speed and efficiency of doing business.
Video collaboration stakeholders interested in closing video connectivity gaps can meet OVCC members in person at TIA in Dallas, Texas, June 5-7, or at CommunicAsia in Singapore, June 19-22.
China is now the top source of observed attack traffic. South Korea boasts both highest average connection speed and highest average peak connection speed.
Fourth Quarter, 2011 State of the Internet report released by Akamai Technologies.
China, at 13 percent, generated the most attack traffic observed by Akamai. The United States (10%) and Indonesia (7.6%) rounded out the top three.
The findings were in the Fourth Quarter, 2011 State of the Internet report released by Akamai Technologies.
In the fourth quarter of 2011, the average measured connection speed for known MOBILE providers worldwide ranged from a high of slightly more than 5 Mbps to a low of 163 kbps.
Approximately 75 percent of the surveyed providers had average connection speeds above 1 Mbps.
Using data collected by Ericsson, the report showed that volume of mobile data traffic in the fourth quarter of 2011 doubled year-over-year and grew 28% quarter-over-quarter.
Going into its fifth year, the report incorporates four-year’s worth of trending data, illustrating how Internet connectivity has improved over time.
Based on data gathered from the Akamai Intelligent Platform, the report provides insight into key global statistics such as Internet penetration, mobile traffic and data consumption, origins of attack traffic, IPv6 adoption and global and regional connection speeds.
In the fourth quarter of 2011, more than 628 million unique IP addresses from 236 countries and regions connected to the Akamai Intelligent Platform. This represents 2.1 percent more IP addresses than connected in the third quarter of 2011, and an increase of 13 percent compared to the same quarter a year ago.
The Fourth Quarter, 2011 State of the Internet report includes a new section that will appear annually going forward and that tracks trends since the report’s inception in 2008.
Speed
Cities in the Asia Pacific region enjoy the fastest connection speeds in the world. Out of the 100 fastest cities worldwide, 69 cities were from the region, with 61 in Japan, six in South Korea, as well as Australia and Hong Kong.
24 cities in North America ranked among the top 100, including two in Canada and 22 in the United States.
Seven cities in Europe – including three in Sweden, two in Switzerland and one each in Romania and Latvia – made up the balance.
Globally, high broadband (>5 Mbps) adoption maintained at 27%.
South Korea took the top spot in high broadband adoption, with 83% of the country’s connections to Akamai > 5 Mbps.
Netherlands was second with 67%. US was twelfth (44%) while Singapore languished at 21st (32%).
Nubox opened its 11th store in Singapore at JCube (#02-12) today.
Nubox opened its 11th store in Singapore at JCube today.
JCube is located at 2 Jurong East Central 1.
Nubox rewards Facebook fans with Pixie Lott albums and passes to a private showcase and meet and greet session on May 18, 2012.
The private showcase for the 21-year-old British chart-topper will be jointly presented by Nubox at 7.30pm, Zirca, Clarke Quay.
A series of quizzes and contests is being held from now until May 7. To try your luck visit the Facebook page of Nubox.
Nubox is an Apple Premium Reseller and Apple Authorised Reseller company in Singapore.
It is an arm of Newstead Technologies and offers the entire range of Apple products from Macs, to iPods, iPhones and iPads to a wide range of accessories to complete the mobile media and computing experience.
Nubox was started by a small group of “Nuboxers” who are passionate about Macs and all things Apple.
The first Nubox opened in Sim Lim Square in 2008.
Today, Nubox has 11 stores in Sim Lim Square, Funan Digital Life Mall, Junction 8 Shopping Centre, Jurong Point Shopping Centre, Causeway Point, Raffles City Shopping Centre, Tampines Mall, nex Mall, MarinaBay Link Mall, 112Katong and JCube.
SingTel has just unveiled a 7.5m tall sculpture – the “SingTel Flame of Support”, in bustling Orchard Road to garner moral support for Team Singapore in the upcoming 2012 London Olympic Games (27 July to 12 August).
Singaporeans can express their support of Team Singapore by pressing the button that lights up a portion of the sculpture.
Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean (Minister for Home Affairs, Coordinating Minister for National Security and President of the Singapore National Olympic Council); Chua Sock Koong, Group Chief Executive Officer, SingTel; athletes Tao Li and Lim Heem Wei; as well as SNOC officials in from of the sculpture.
The 7.5m sculpture is located outside ION Orchard. It weighs 1,500 kg and consists of more than 3,300 LED lights.
SingTel Flame of Support
Designed by Jon Griffin of Brandspeed and the main contractor Light10 Industries, the iconic sculpture comprises of five wave-like structures designed to resemble exuberant flames, each representing one of the five Olympic Rings.
The interactive structure aims to ignite the nation’s passion in a collective declaration of support for Team Singapore.
If there are 200,000 presses of the button, the entire Flame will become fully lit.
The unveiling of the statue by Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean (Minister for Home Affairs, Coordinating Minister for National Security and President of the Singapore National Olympic Council) kicks off the 90-day countdown to the Games.
In a talk entitled “Shooting from the heart”, prolific local photographer and Hasselblad Master Tay Kay Chin shared about his passion for photography.
Hasselblad Master Photographer Tay Kay Chin (Photo from SingTel, cropped by me)
More than 50 photography enthusiasts turned up for the talk and took a peek at the thought processes behind the creation of Tay’s photos, as he walked us through some of his prized shots.
“When I looked at that picture, I wanted to be a father. That to me, is how powerful photography is and it became one of my goal in life — to make people want to do something,” said Kay Chin of a photo he once took of a newborn infant.Kay Chin first felt a desire for photographing Singapore as his home when he was leaving his home country for Missouri.
Planning to emigrate to the US, Kay Chin ventured around Singapore taking photos of people and places he wanted to keep as memories.
The series of photos which he took of Singapore — “Panoramic Singapore” — were of the most ordinary things that he felt we often took for granted.
“Panoramic Singapore’”went on to win him the prestigious “Hasselblad Master” award.
Kay Chin brought the attendees through the “Home” series of photos. These were sensitive shots he had taken of family and friends in their most tender moments — including the bereavement of his own father.
Kay Chin had wanted to capture milestone family events as memories, even as he struggled learning how to be objective behind the lens, whilst wondering if he was being too intrusive into his subjects’ private moments.
Kay Chin’s rationale is that he has a genuine intention to capture stories which he can pass down to the younger generation as a form of documentation.
Now, he takes photos of people and things that are important to him, and is less concerned about the commercial value and technical aspects of the photos.
To him, these photographs tell a story that is worth more than what money can buy.
Kay Chin believes that photography should not be just about winning awards or copying trending styles, but to explore what is close to the heart for the photographer and to capture stories with visual impact to move people.
“Taking photographs of my family, has proven to be the most difficult thing,” shared Kay Chin.A photographer who does not blindly follow in the footsteps of others will therefore have a better chance of developing an original style.
As one of the judges of SingTel’s “Home Without Walls” photo contest, Kay Chin will be looking for a photograph which powerfully conveys a real and honest expression of the family.
The 7mm 2.5-inch mobile hard drives delivers lower power consumption and are available in 500GB (S$139.99) and 320GB (S$109.99) capacities.
The new Scopio Blue 7mm mobile hard drive can be used in both ultrabooks and mainstream notebooks.
The slim, energy-efficient 7mm hard drives for ultrabooks are the latest additions to Western Digital’s Scorpio Blue line of mobile hard drives.
The single-platter small form factor of the new hard drives are compatible with industry-standard 9.5 mm slots for mainstream notebooks as well as slimmer notebook and ultrabook devices that require a thinner 7mm drive height.
Below is the fact sheet for the Scorpio Blue family of mobile hard drives.
Mobile creates engagement at every point in the purchasing funnel for the tech-equipped digitally-savvy consumer of the future. Day 2 of the MMAF beckoned brands to create the “aha!” moment for consumers.
Speakers at the Mobile Marketing Association Forum Singapore 2012
Day two of the annual Mobile Marketing Association Forum Singapore 2012 (MMAF) called for creativity on the part of marketers as mobile takes on a new role in the larger media landscape.
This year’s forum is the fourth time it is being held at the Grand Hyatt in Singapore.
“There is a need to reimagine mobile, creatively and otherwise,” highlighted Barney Loehnis, Head, Digital, Asia Pacific for Ogilvy & Mather.Ashutosh Srivastav, CEO, Mindshare Asia reminded the audience to look at mobile as a central touchpoint, not as a separate platform.
This central position occupied by mobile was reinforced by Michael Bayle, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Mobile, ESPN, who called mobile the bridge that connected fans to all media.
“Integration of other media around mobile helps to create a level of engagement that has always been lacking, letting consumers move effortlessly from online to offline to online,” Loehnis added.The MMAF was sponsored by Amobee, BuzzCity, The Coca-Cola Company, Gemalto, Google Inc., mediba Inc., Microsoft Advertising, Millennial Media, m-Stars, Nokia, Poynt Corp.
It was supported by Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA) and Singapore infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF).
