Geekonomics

• 02Jun

  City Square Mall launches Facebook game to promote Great Singapore Sale

  Apps, Developers, Enterprise, Fashion, Gaming, Press Release, Singapore Tech, Social Games, Social Media, news No Comments

  Local malls getting tech savvy with Facebook games for the June holidays to promote the Great Singapore Sale?

  Singapore, 2 June 2011 - City Square Mall, owned and managed by City Developments Limited (CDL), has launched “Elmo’s Garden”, a Sesame Street game on its Facebook page www.facebook.com/citysquaremall to tie in with the mall’s activities for the Great Singapore Sale promotions and June school holidays.  From now till 26 June, fans of City Square Mall can grow a virtual garden on Facebook, where the top 30 most “Liked” gardens with at least five flowers (inclusive of a sunflower) will win Sesame Street Kids T-shirts and eco-premiums.

  The theme for the game is based on the new Sesame Street Live Asia Show “Elmo’s Green Thumb” and seeks to promote greater awareness about Earth and the environment among City Square Mall’s Facebook fans.

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• 18Mar

  Personal Connected Healthcare for Seniors

  Android, Apps, Developers, Enterprise Tech, GPS, Pervasive Tech, cnet, gadgets, news No Comments

  The Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA), an international not-for-profit industry association dedicated to the advancement of intelligent home and intelligent building technologies, has just announced a liaision agreement with Continua Health Alliance, an international non-profit, open industry alliance of more than 240 leading healthcare and technology organizations dedicated to developing a global ecosystem of personal connected health solutions.

  The liaison agreement will allow both organizations to benefit from CABA’s collaborative research study entitled “Aging in the Connected Home”.  The study will examine and determine potential connected home product, service and business opportunities based on needs and expectations of the senior consumer market to support aging-in-place.

  This announcement should be considered a significant step forward for the proliferation of pervasive computing for seniors. This geek is thinking about prototypes I’ve seen on products that track elderly folks, sense gait, and know if there is a fall or if there is no motion for a long period of time.

  

  A prototype showcased at the Intel Developer Forum 2010.

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• 11Nov

  BBH brings world’s leading Digital University - Hyper Island - to Asia

  Asia Tech, Developers, Press Release, Singapore Tech, Usability, World, animation, design, geeked, news 1 Comment

  This sounds way awesome, I wanna attend!

  Singapore, November 10^th, 2010 – BBH Asia Pacific is bringing the world’s leading digital university, Hyper Island, to Singapore - making it a first for Asia.

  Founded in Sweden in 1995, Hyper Island has been dubbed the ‘the world’s digital Harvard’ and has now established offices in Stockholm, New York and London, trained over 1500 graduates, and developed tailor-made master classes for creative professionals across Europe and the US.

  Hyper Island will conduct its radical Master Class for the entire Agency and along with BBH, will co-host a ‘Meet Market’ workshop - to be attended by a cross-section of BBH Clients and collaborators - representing Singapore’s creative community.

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• 14Oct

  EMC introduces breakthrough “Big data” computing system

  Developers, Enterprise Tech, Internet, Press Release, SaaS, m&a, news No Comments

  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.

  Highlights:

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• 08Oct

  Farm-Fresh From the Grave: Zombie Farm Updated With Game Center and New Zombie Abilities

  Developers, Gaming, Press Release, Social Games, Youth Culture, mobile, news No Comments

  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!

  

  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.

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• 29Sep

  Sony Ericsson LiveView™ micro display with remote control functionality mirrors the activities of your mobile phone

  Android, Developers, Press Release, gadgets, geeked, mobile, news, toys 1 Comment

  This looks like a nifty gadget that might make a lot of sense for certain lifestyles. Earlier on, this geek was playing with the Sony Ericsson X10 Mini Pro and it packed a lot of features in a little device providing a pretty nice experience on Andriod. Looks like Sony Ericsson is going for smaller devices with more modular extensions like the LiveView. I haven’t played with one myself but you can find out more from the press release below.

  Singapore, September 28th 2010 – Today sees the announcement of the Sony
  Ericsson LiveView™. This innovative accessory is another step in Sony Ericsson’s commitment to help consumers get the very best mobile phone experience through the open Android platform. The Sony Ericsson LiveView™ is part of the Sony Ericsson Extras portfolio – a division which offers a total product experience and enhanced mobile possibilities.

  The Sony Ericsson LiveView™ uses Bluetooth™ connectivity to wirelessly pair up to a compatible handset and allows consumers to control the phone without taking it out of their pocket or handbag. Read text messages, see incoming calls and keep up to date with the latest news
  on Facebook™ and Twitter™.

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• 23Sep

  Friendster to launch music and games portals in Asia

  Asia Tech, Developers, Digital music, Gaming, Internet, Press Release, Youth Culture, m&a, news 3 Comments

  More announcements from Friendster today. Is anybody still interested in Friendster? Maybe in S.E. Asia since MOL is more familiar with these markets. The numbers will show over time I guess. If this geek was running Friendster, I’d probably try to take on more niche but fast growing markets like mobile social networking, or privacy-enhanced social networking, basically hitting areas where Facebook will find hard to move into quickly for their sheer size and corporate direction.

  This announcement seems to coincide with Group CEO for MOL Global and Friendster Ganesh Kumar Bangah’s opening keynote presentation this morning at Singapore’s largest social media event: the Social Media World Forum Asia (This geek moderated the social gaming panel with RockYou, Zynga, CyWorld, and Plus8Star yesterday), in exactly an hour from now. Not at the conference? You can follow the tweets for more on his presentation which starts in about an hour from now.

  

  SINGAPORE, 23 September, 2010 – Friendster, a leading social networking site for young Asians, today announced that it is launching social media portals for music and social gaming fans in Asia.

  The portals are the latest ventures from Friendster which was acquired in December last year by MOL Global (www.molglobal.net), one of Asia’s leading online payment companies.

  “As a social networking site, Friendster has tremendous experience to make the Friendster Music and Friendster Games as socially connected portals for developers, artists and their fans. Friendster has a strong physical presence in Asia and now that it is part of MOL Global, we see huge opportunities to partner with developers and independent musicians to aid them in new ways of delivering and monetising their content to their fans,” said Ganesh Kumar Bangah, Friendster’s CEO and Group CEO for MOL Global.

  Friendster Music

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• 15Sep

  DEMO Conference Kicks Off 20th Anniversary with DEMO Fall 2010 in Silicon Valley

  Android, Developers, Enterprise Tech, Press Release, SaaS, World, mobile, news 3 Comments

  It’s rare you hear about a developer conference that is celebrating it’s 20th Anniversary which is DEMO. This geek is checking out parts of the conference online. Check it out.

  Enterprise, Mobile and Cloud Technologies Take the Stage; DEMO Hosts Fireside and Panel Conversations with Thought Leaders

  SANTA CLARA, CALIF., September 14, 2010 – Today, the world-renowned DEMO Conference officially kicked off 48 hours of exciting product launches featuring some of the most important new innovations in the areas of enterprise, mobile and cloud computing technologies.  Day Two will host disruptive technologies in the consumer, and social media technology space.  DEMO Fall 2010 officially marks the 20^th anniversary of the semi-annual event that brings together worldwide press, decision making investors and market-defining visionaries – all of whom attend DEMO to discover the next big killer app.

  In addition to the famous six minute demonstrations of cutting edge new technology products, DEMO executive producer and editor in chief of VentureBeat, Matt Marshall, sat down with industry luminaries like SAP Co-CEO Bill McDermott for a one-on-one conversation to discuss how companies are consuming enterprise technologies.  Other featured speakers included top executives from The Clorox Company, Genworth Financial Wealth Management, Inc. and eHealth, Inc. who discussed strategies for how they seek out and discover best-of-breed emerging technologies for their organizations.

  DEMO also featured creator, co-founder and chairman of Twitter Inc., Jack Dorsey, for a discussion around mobile payments, while Microsoft’s general manager of developer and platform evangelism, Matt Thompson, discussed the future of cloud computing.

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• 15Sep

  Platform Wars Rage On at APPNATION Conference Day Two

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  Here’s a summary of the proceedings from day two of Appnation. Day one can be found here.

  Samsung also unveiled its new Android-based tablet “Samsung Galaxy Tab” onstage for first time in North America

  San Francisco - September 14, 2010 – On the second and final day of APPNATION, the first major conference focusing on the App Economy and ecosystem, the issue of open or closed, and fragmented or uniform smartphone OSes was the most hotly contested topic. Also, Samsung publicly displayed their unreleased Galaxy Tab for the first time in North America—both on the APPNATION stage, and in the hands-on DEVNATION area.

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• 14Sep

  SocialSmack introduces mobile platform for andriod and iPhone at DEMO Fall 2010

  Developers, Press Release, Social Media, mobile, news No Comments

  This geek is in San Francisco and trying to catch some of the DEMO sessions online. Check out this announcement from SocialSmark.

  Users can now quickly and easily provide real-time feedback and reviews on products and services they interact with daily

  DEMO Fall 2010, Santa Clara, CA – September 14, 2010 – SocialSmack, Inc., a web and mobile reviews platform that brings together consumers and brands, today is debuting its SocialSmack Mobile for Android and iPhone users on the DEMO Fall stage.  Powered by a real-time social stream, SocialSmack enables the passionate consumer to easily share their brand interaction experience in an easy “props” or “drops” format, including genuine, specific feedback on why they voted as such, negating the discrepancies that inevitably occur with the outdated, traditional star ranking system.  SocialSmack is a platform that can be utilized in two ways – as a free service for consumers to share their brand reviews/experiences and as a subscription-based service for brands interested in gaining insight into consumer sentiment and trends data.

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