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  • 26Aug

    Speaker Line-up and Key Topics Confirmed Ahead of Asia’s Largest Public Cloud Services Event

    Singapore – 25th August, 2010 – Parallels, the global leader in Cloud enablement software will bring together some of the biggest names in the Cloud services industry to discuss the future and profitability of the cloud computing in Asia at the Parallels APAC Summit on 24th – 26th September.

    Speakers at the Summit include executives from Microsoft, Go Daddy, VeriSign and Open Xchange who will address critical issues surrounding the adoption of public Cloud services in the region, including security, bandwidth costs, service availability and reliability, vendor viability and maturity.

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  • 17Aug

    Just received this notice from Facebook for an ad I helped SCOGA to book recently. The ad was targeted only for Singaporean audience and I specified in my profile clearly I’m from Singapore. Not sure why I received this. Anybody else did?

    Hello, Nicholas Aaron Khoo,

    Based on the information we have about your residence or principal place of business, your advert purchases will be made from our European Headquarters through Facebook Ireland Limited from September 2010. As a result, your purchases may be subject to Irish Value Added Tax ("VAT"), which will be automatically added to your purchases. To check or change the information that we have about your residence or principal place of business, please go to the settings page. VAT may then be charged based on the requirements applicable to your revised location.

    If you are established or located in Ireland:

    Because you are established or located in Ireland, your purchases will be subject to VAT. The appropriate VAT rate will be automatically added to your purchases.

    If you are established or located in the EU outside of Ireland:

    If you are purchasing adverts for a business purpose and your principal place of business is not in Ireland, Irish VAT will not be added to your purchasing costs provided you have supplied us with your VAT registration number (including country prefix) prior to the purchase, but you may be required to self-account for the applicable VAT in your jurisdiction of residence or establishment. For more information about the meaning of business purpose or self assessment, please see the VAT FAQ. If you are not purchasing adverts for a business purpose, Irish VAT will be automatically added to your purchases at the appropriate Irish VAT rate.

    If you are established or located outside the EU:

    Because you are not established within the European Union, these purchases will not be subject to VAT, but you may be required to self-account for the applicable VAT in your jurisdiction of residence or establishment.

    If you have any questions, please review our VAT FAQ.

    Sincerely,
    The Facebook Adverts team

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  • 22Jul

    This geek has not been following cloud computing news for a while and I’m not familiar with offerings from this company Parallels, who seem to be doing quite well. But I know some of you have keen interest in this space so you can find out more from the press release below:

    Seven new commercially licensed APS applications, from collaboration to small business mobility, help Service Providers increase revenue and customer retention.

    Singapore, 22 July 2010 – Cloud enablement leader, Parallels, has responded to the demands of small businesses by adding seven Cloud services to the Application Packaging Standard (APS) catalog.

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  • 24Jun

    Just received this press release from Adobe. I think it adds a new dimension to the debate that Flash should not be used for mobile because of resource issues. There’s something beautiful about Flash for the fact that you can develop once and deploy on multiple platforms.

    HBO, Sony Pictures, Turner, USA Network, Viacom, Warner Brothers and Others Ready Flash Content for Mobile

    Singapore — June 23, 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) has announced the release of Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 to mobile platform partners. Redesigned from the ground up with new performance and mobile specific features, Flash Player 10.1 is the first release that brings the full Web across desktops and devices. Mobile users will now be able to experience millions of sites with rich applications and content inside the browser including games, animations, rich Internet applications (RIAs), data presentations and visualizations, ecommerce, music, video, audio and more.

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  • 16Jun

     

    I stumbled upon this random page created for my blog, by Facebook apparently. Don’t have to time to investigate why or how it happened. But I take it as a wake up call for me to start a Facebook page for my blog so here it is, my brand new glorious Facebook page:

    http://www.facebook.com/pages/Geekonomics/101925233191279

    Actually I’m away in Bangkok now trying to look inconspicuous with my red shirt so I don’t have time to update the page much yet. However, I just got a pair of free tickets to give away for the Wonder Girls Music Showcase in Singapore this weekend (Thanks to Sony Ericsson and also to Hillary for passing me her extra ticket) so I will be picking a winner to join myself and Hillary at the concert this Friday evening!

    How to join and win?

    1. Like my new Facebook page

    2. Tell us why you must go to this concert on the Facebook wall.

    The answer we like the most wins!

    Terms and Conditions applies:

    1. Final decision is made by myself and Hillary and our decision is final. *evil laugh*

    2. Closing date and time shall be Thursday night 8pm Singapore time. The winner will be notified via Facebook with details on the ticket collection.

    More information on the concert taken from http://entertainment.xin.msn.com:

    Back for more island lovin’, sensational Korean group The Wonder Girls are set to take our city with their addictive pop hits and maniac dance moves

    Wonder Girls(MediaCorp)

    Photo credits to MediaCorp

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  • 09Jun

    This is interesting. First of all, to have boot camps sprout out all over China for “internet addicts”. I’ve seen TV reports of these addicts given jabs daily but nobody knows what is contained in the jabs. And now this mutiny. Makes me wonder if these boot camps will ever open in countries like Singapore and Korea?

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  • 11May

    Search engine results poisoned with links to fake antivirus software have been a constant problem for Internet users. However, it is an effective way for cyber attackers to infect users’ machines. Google recently presented a research paper regarding websites that offer fake antivirus software and part of Google’s research shows that search engine results can lead to such pages. The presentation demonstrates that Google is working hard at preventing these search poisoning attempts.

    According to Symantec’s Report on Rogue Security Software, the culprits of these “toxic” search results are typically scam perpetrators who use

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  • 30Apr

     

    Cloud pioneer now offers its suite of web services from new Singapore datacenters to serve customers desiring an Asia Pacific presence

    SEATTLE—April 29, 2010—(NASDAQ: AMZN)—Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., today announced the launch of its first Asia Pacific Region.  Asia Pacific-based businesses or global businesses with customers based in Asia can now leverage the AWS suite of infrastructure web services to build their businesses and run their applications in the cloud.  Prior to today, the AWS platform has been available from datacenters in the U.S. and Europe.  The first AWS Asia Pacific Region (located in Singapore) is now open and any business or software developer can sign up and get started today at http://aws.amazon.com.

    Before AWS launched in 2006, businesses would take on the massive capital investment of building their own infrastructure or contract with a vendor for a fixed amount of datacenter capacity that they might or might not use.  This choice meant either paying for wasted capacity or having to worry that the amount of capacity they forecasted was insufficient to keep pace with their growth.  Businesses spent time and money managing their own datacenter or a co-location facility, which meant time not spent on growing their actual business or differentiating their offering for customers.  When it launched in 2006, AWS offered

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  • 26Jan

    This geek saw the product demo for myself and was pretty impressed so I agreed to be listed as one of the talents/consultants on the site since it’s non-exclusive anyways. Not sure about the World’s 1st claim but they’ve already filed the patent it seems. Check out the worldwide release of Pepperconn’s “Social Media Groupware for Enterprises”:

    Pepperconn Logo

    - A major breakthrough in Enterprise Social Media Software with patent filed

    - Groupware lowers entry barriers for SME owners and marketers to self-manage their own social media or digital campaigns (programs)

    - Creates a new ecosystem of online talents and opportunities to monetize one’s talents

    Singapore, 25 January 2010pepperconn LLP today launched the pepperconn Groupware, a collaborative software for enterprises to manage content and talents in social media programs where the goal is to engage customers, solicit feedback and generate marketing buzz on the internet.   Such programs leverage on one or more social network (eg. Facebook and Twitter), the company’s blog and corporate website to aggregate user-generated content and grow its base of readers.

    Typically, an agency will be appointed to manage such programs and to source for bloggers and talents – an option that is usually frustrating for both corporate clients and agencies due to a lack of real-time visibility, measurements of success, project management inefficiencies and it is costly for SMEs and marketers with tighter budgets

    “It was from this frustration as a corporate marketer driving social media marketing campaigns at SingTel, Samsung and Nokia, that I Read more…

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  • 06Oct

    Friendster Granted Patent on Sharing Relationship Information Stored in a Social Network Database with Third Party Databases

    MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – October 6, 2009 — Friendster, Inc., a top global web site based on traffic, today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded the social networking pioneer a new U.S. Patent, titled “Method for Sharing Relationship Information Stored in a Social Network Database with Third Party Databases” (U.S. Patent No. 7,478,078). Friendster has been granted five patents since July 2006, validating the company’s early and continual innovation in online social networking.

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