Latest tweetsA phone with pretty solid hardware including a 12-megapixel camera and HDMI output (though nobody’s really excited about the Symbian OS) is now available for pre-order in Singapore.
Rumours has it that this is the last N-series phone running the Symbian OS and Nokia will be shipping MeeGo from N9 onwards. Check out the press release for details after the break.
This geek has never worked with Greenplum or EMC technologies but it seems that in this information age over spilling with data, the manageability of information is more important than ever. For those of you who work with these technologies or have a need to manage large amounts of data, this press release might be interesting for you:
Singapore, October 14, 2010 – EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) today introduced the new EMC® Greenplum® Data Computing Appliance, an integrated data warehouse system using the breakthrough Greenplum massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture. It enables organizations to more efficiently make sense of the massive amounts of data they generate from various sources such as always-on networks, the Web, consumers, surveillance systems and sensors. With twice the data loading speed of its nearest competitor and the industry’s best performance, the EMC Greenplum Data Computing Appliance enables more data to be analyzed faster and at lower costs.
The new system was developed and is shipping just 75 days following EMC’s acquisition of Greenplum and comes at a time when IDC predicts that the amount of data over the next decade will grow 44-fold. The disruptive data warehousing technology from Greenplum is a key enabler of “big data” clouds and self-service analytics, allowing organizations to store, manage and closely analyze terabytes of detailed data for faster business insight, conclusions and revelations. Greenplum is the foundation of EMC’s new Data Computing Products Division, which is developing the analytic tools to address the “big data” phenomenon.
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This geek’s not quite sure why zombies are so popular. Why not rabbits? Or aliens? Why zombies? Anyways, that’s just me. Here’s some exciting zombifying news for you zombie lovers (now you can name Zombies after your friends):
Plow, grow and harvest your way to creating the most prosperous zombie-filled farm in the land!
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San Mateo, CA — October 4, 2010 – The Playforge has just unveiled the latest update and an all new website for Zombie Farm, their wildly popular and quirky farming game for iPhone and iPod touch.
In addition to Game Center integration, the latest update now includes quests to complete, achievements to unlock and new special combat abilities for each and every brain-starved companion.
Sounds like something straight out of a spy movie? In this day and age, you never know especially after Google claimed that the Chinese government orchestrated an attack on their services just early this year. Read the full release from Symantec for yourself and be your own judge:
SINGAPORE, October 7, 2010 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) has released the findings of its 2010 Critical Information Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Survey, which highlights that 53 percent of critical infrastructure providers report that their networks have experienced what they perceived as politically motivated cyber attacks. Participants claimed to have experienced such an attack on an average of 10 times in the past five years, incurring an average cost of $850,000 to their businesses. Survey participants from the energy industry reported that they were best prepared for such an attack, while participants from the communications industry reported that they were the least prepared. Critical infrastructure providers represent industries that are of such importance either to a nation’s economy or society that if their cyber networks were successfully attacked and damaged, the result would threaten national security.
When Google announced Google Instant late last month, they said they were working to bring it to Singapore in the coming weeks.
Yesterday, Google started rolling out Google Instant in Singapore, and it should be available to all signed-in users in the coming days according to Google.
Since the global launch, Google has also already added a couple of new features to improve the user experience. With the aim of making search faster and easier, these latest enhancements to take that a step further:
In addition to Singapore, Google Instant is now available across other parts of Asia as well including Australia, New Zealand, India and Korea.
So watch out for Google Instant coming your way soon!
Although this geek is not a droid user, droid users should rejoice at the news 
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Singapore, October 5, 2010 - Skype today announced the release of Skype for Android™, a client for mobile handsets, built for smartphones running Android OS version 2.1 or above. With this latest release, the majority of smart phone users globally will now be able to experience the benefits of Skype on the move using either a WiFi or mobile data connection (GPRS, EDGE, 3G) [2]. Skype for Android is downloadable for free from the Android Market or consumers can visitwww.skype.com/m to find out more details about how to get the application.
Skype for Android enables users to:
This geek has been trying out QQ, the communication tool from Tencent that is even more ubiquitous than email in China, to keep in touch with some of my friends there. QQ was even installed as the standard operating desktop in the all-in-one PC that replaced my hotel room’s TV in Shen Zhen. Check out the recent splash screen:
