Gadgets

What’s cooler, the iPad 2 or the ancient Sumerian clay tablet?

March 13, 2011
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The ancient Mesopotamians (that’s Iraqis to you and me) practically invented writing. Poking sticks into wet clay, they created meaning from form. The baked clay pages they created were actually called tablets – the precursors to modern books. So, the fact that you and I are literate today can be attributed to some ancient stick-poker. [...]

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Gadgets

What will you do with the iPad 2?

March 13, 2011

Apple fans all over the world are scrambling to get their hands on the latest tablet computer from Cupertino. The iPad 2 is here, and it is leaner, meaner, and even greener. The first thing that strikes you about the new iPad is that it is impossibly thin – like a plate of industrial aluminium [...]

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Social Media

The 5 most amazing videos from the Japan Earthquake

March 12, 2011

The Japan earthquake, unlike the Indonesian Tsunami and the Pakistan 2005 earthquake was widely recorded by amateur and professional videographers alike. In an age of ubiquitous smartphones with high quality cameras, a myriad of images and videos of the Pacific tragedy have emerged. Shared on Youtube, Twitter and Facebook, these videos are as dramatic as [...]

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Social Media

Social media – Japan’s plan B

March 11, 2011
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Update: Check Tsunami warnings here. So the big one finally came. Seismologists and researchers had been warning for years that a massive earthquake was overdue in the northern region of the Ring of Fire. With the memory of the Christchurch earthquake fresh in New Zealanders’ minds, another Pacific Rim country bore the brunt of mother [...]

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Startups

Churn Labs – a new kind of incubator

March 10, 2011

Here is an interesting startup idea – a startup to with the ability to churn out many other startups. That’s the idea behind Churn Labs, a venture between Omar Hammoui, Mike Rohwehl, George Chen and Haider Sabri. Similar to a garage operation, the rather well funded Churn Labs aims to attract the best talent that’s [...]

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Gadgets

Kinect breaks all gadget sales records

March 9, 2011

Microsoft’s groundbreaking motion sensor device, the Xbox Kinect, has broken all sales records in the world. Selling over 8 million units in the first two months of going on sale, the paradigm shifting game controller has tech enthusiasts salivating over its future prospects. This was confirmed by the Guinness World Records. Long assailed by rivals Apple and [...]

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Industry

The battle for Net Neutrality heats up

March 8, 2011

Network neutrality is an often misunderstood concept, perceived at once to be complex, often deliberately vague, and cryptic. At its simplest, net neutrality means means that the Internet should be equal  for everyone around the world. That is, everyone should be able to access everything on the Internet. This ability to access websites or information [...]

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Social Media

Twitter’s new QuickBar

March 7, 2011

Twitter has recently updated its mobile apps for iPhone and Android. Among a raft of new functions, the iPhone app’s version 3.3 specifically contains an curious new feature called a QuickBar. The QuickBar is Twitter’s latest attempt to monetize the iPhone app. It displays an overlaid link to interesting topics at the top of the [...]

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Mobile

After Android, what’s the next big mobile platform?

March 6, 2011

Google’s Android mobile operating system has all but conquered the global mobile industry. From smart mobile phones to dazzling tablet computers, Android has virtually revolutionized mobile computing – and then some. Spawning competition among hardware and software makers alike, the open source OS has done to the mobile industry what many Linux distributions couldn’t to [...]

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Gadgets

Watch out Kinect! Here comes the Asus motion controller

March 5, 2011
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Last year, Microsoft went to great lengths to publicize its new motion detection input controller. The Xbox Kinect was set to revolutionize the way we play games, compute and communicate with our electronic devices. Well, it now turns out that excitement may have been short lived. World-leading Taiwanese PC manufacturer Asus has jumped headlong into the motion [...]

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