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Saw this last night on CNN in my Kuala Lumpur hotel room… read all about it on my CNET Asia blog.

Read all about it here on ZDnet. Post updated 5x! Sounds like it’s a serious rumor (is there such a thing?)

After months of speculation of a CNET takeover, finally they got bought over by CBS Corp. and so is it time to PANIC like a typical staff in all other M&As?

function doNOTpanic() { return array( sedatives, call_editor);

Eh… I must have forgotten all my programming syntax since my first and last job as a web developer in Lucent Technologies back in the 90s!

Well come to think of it, almost every company I’ve got involved financially with gets thrown into a M&A talk within 6 months of my joining. Even Lucent.

Is it the company or is it me? Read more…

Since I can’t blog about everything tech I come across in the week, here’s like a summary of what caught my attention on this week’s news, with a quick take from this geek :

Tech sector overtakes financial sector
I guess this must be because of the ’super’ players like the Googles and Microsofts as well as sub-prime credit crunch that affected many financial institutions.
Trader Journal - Tech overtakes financials as largest sector in S&P 500

ASUS and MSI caught rigging?
Asus and MSI rigged the same pic of an old iBook laptop to do their promotion for their Eee and Wind laptop. Typical Taiwanese tech here?
TechieLobang - ASUS and MSI caught redhanded

Twitter vs Ariel Waldman (works for competitor)
One respected blogger in the social media circle getting support from other popular bloggers in deriding most popular micro-blogging site Twitter. The only problem? She works for the competitor Pownce.
theory.isthereason - Ariel Waldman vs Twitter: A story so dirty, I’m taking a shower..

Street Fighter movie - Chun Li’s first look
Just a light one on THE arcade game I grew up with - Street Fighter!
Capcom’s Street Fight - The Legend of Chun Li movie slated for next year’s release.
Kotaku - Chun Li’s nose hairs now available for your viewing pleasure

White label social networking
Web strategist Jeremiah Owyang shares his findings on what people would want when selecting their white label social networking vendor. Very interesting area of study with the advent of social media and every other brand wanting to create their own little customer communities.
Web Strategy by Jeremiah - Findings: What you said you wanted in a White Label Social Networking Vendor

Ogilvy Digital Summit - Verge
A whole day of discoursing about new media and social media featuring some of the ‘best minds in the business’
Coolinsights - Future of marketing in age of social media

TheDigitalMovement (TDM) - Vint Cerf, the ‘father of the internet’
After a rather long silence, TDM burst back into the scene with a well-organised event with Google and IDA for Vint Cert, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist. Personally I thought the event was great but a little disappointed with Vint’s speech coz his predictions were not new, most of what he predicted for 2035 I’ve already seen/touched in one way or another. Given the rapid rate of technological growth, if these technologies don’t proliferate within the next 10-15 years, they probably never will. So what’s with the 2035?
But all in all, he’s definitely a great communicator and thought leader and IMHO, he definitely hit the nail on the head with many of his predictions. I just don’t understand why 2035? Almost 30 years down the road of technology is a LONG LONG time to make any predictions and I’d dare say his predictions are not bold or big enough. Just my 2 cents, but great event anyways kudos to the new team at TDM!
DISCLAIMER : I am a member of TDM
Ian on the red dot - A very special evening with Vinton Cerf from Google
James Seng - Evening with Vint

Podfire saga
This new local podcasting outfit seemed to have run into problems with one of their show host and producer recently. You judge for yourself.
Ian on the red dot - Sabrina & Podfire: It doesn’t help to escalate issues through a blog
Anyways, Podfire has just launched a new show with one of the gamers I know. The show is called ’small girl big appetite’. Check it out.

HTC Touch Diamond
Having declared the HTC Touch Cruise to be one of the WM6 PDA phones around, you can imagine how disappointed I was not to be able to attend this launch when I was invited coz I was outstation.
CNET Asia ‘High on a Hill’ - My brief fling with the HTC Touch Diamond
Claud continues to talk - ditch iPhone! I want the HTC Touch Diamond!

Barcamp Singapore II
A ‘consortium’ of sorts organised this event with Google’s sponsorship. Too bad I missed it!
Singapore Entrepreneurs - Aftermath of Barcamp II - Maps and Mobile Unconference

Racist Blogger Arrested in Singapore
I have no idea what happened actually but everyone’s talking about it. You can read all about it for yourself.
Aaron Peng - New media watchdogs caused racist blogger to be caught?
SimplyJean - Local blogger arrested

Two local porn sites banned
Bombers, I didn’t get a chance to access the sites before they got banned :p
SimplyJean - Singapore’s hottest porn
SGFrag - MDA bans two video-sharing porn sites

Hot Singapore news - Pedra Branca
When I was at the local radio 938LIVE show on Friday, I was told this is one of the biggest local news of the week - everyone was waiting for the results. So even though it’s not tech, I thought it was worth a mention.
Endoh’s Dungeon - Singapore wins Pedra Branca - Malaysia wins Middle Rocks

I rushed back from Bangkok last night just to be back in Singapore today for

Morning - 938LIVE Mediacorp radio program called ‘Opinion’ where I’ll be discussing with National Library’s CEO and a literary critic on gaming vs books @ 9am (I’ll be late if I don’t leave the house soon!)

Afternoon - The Ogilvy Digital Summit - Verge in the afternoon where I was invited to be part of a cool bloggers’ panel moderated by Andrew Thomas, Managing Director of Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide. The panel will also feature Van Tan, Michael Netzley, and Walter Lim, all of whom I’ve met before in one way or another.

Looking forward to some interesting discussions today! *puts on thinking cap - Intell +100 for 1 day*

For those of you going to the Vint Cerf event tonight, see you then!

Yesterday, I was just hammering a buddy over his buying a nice Jaguar. Why? He doesn’t have a driving license.

Reason for buying a Jaguar? To motivate himself to get a license.

Anyways, he was asking me if driving was really that simple, coz he feels kinda lost when sitting behind the steering. In the same breath, he was also telling me what a good driver he was, on his Sony PSP.

A funny thought came to me, what if we replaced all the driving controls in the car with console gaming controls? Read more…

OK. I’ve done it. Now I’m undone.

I’ve started my own tech blog. Woe is me who’s already busy enough with my other blogs?

Worse still, I’ve done it on my own domain and got myself into this zany world of wordpress installs and plugins.

Life will never be the same again. Well, it was never normal to begin with.

While waiting for me to really get this site up and running, if you are new to my geek world, do check out

My LinkedIN profile

My CNET Asia blog

My thoughts on life - highway of life

Some past tech blog posts - what you might possibly expect from this blog :

Dealing with WIFI tappers

The latest on social networks

Green tech for data centres

SaaS in Singapore

Making US$10mil from CNET Asia

O2 Asia closed doors

Overclocking my PC - the women don’t get it

Singapore government and Second Life

Till the next post! (while this geek figures out his wordpress and plugins)