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65Bits Episode 127: What is tall, pale and completely crazy?

65bits@tech65.org (Tech65.org) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:19:12 +0000

Appologies. This episode was recorded at the ITSC Code::XtremeApp09 competition and produced much later in great hurry. In this week full of not so interesting news, we talk about Firefox 3.5, Google’s Chrome OS, Palm Pre and ofcourse the iPhone 3GS.Enjoy!

-Dan, Jerrick, DK, Nicole and Hisham.

Stories this week:
[2:15]Firefox 3.5 Launches
[3:35]Google’s new Chrome OS
[8:45]Plam Pre to launch in Europe
[11:20]iPhone 3GS get’s launched in Singapore

65Bits Episode 126: Month of Smartphones 5 - The Summary

65bits@tech65.org (Tech65.org) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:50:34 +0000

With Jerrick finally back from the UK, we can finally conclude the month of Smartphones! We’re gonna compare all the 4 platforms and hopefully help you decide which is the best platform for you! Not before we talk about Steve Job’s return, the trademarking of the Tweet, and how the Amazon Kindle and the Palm Pre might just be that much closer to Singapore! And remember, the Samsung Jet is NOT a smartphone…

Daniel, Jerrick, DK, Nicole, Hisham

Stories this week:

Refresh
[02:20] Steve Jobs is back at work, and so is Jerrick!
[03:00] Twitter to trademark the word “Tweet”
[04:15] Standardized mobile phone charger coming to EU (Correction: The proposed standard only applies to “data-enabled” mobile phones)
[06:40] Windows 7 Beta automatic shutdown has begun
[07:45] iPhone 3GS on sale in Singapore this week
[10:00] Apple patching nasty SMS vulnerability
[11:20] Amazon Kindle and Palm Pre getting only so slightly closer to Singapore

Month of Smartphone [13:35]
[15:00] S60
[19:30] Windows Mobile
[21:50] Android
[25:00] iPhone
[29:35] Why not the iPhone and how the S60 v3 is not going to die anytime soon
[32:10] Our favourite smartphones

Byte of the Week: [39:00] gdgt.com

65Bits Episode 125: Month of Smartphones 4 - Google Android

65bits@tech65.org (Tech65.org) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:00:34 +0000

Hey there. Farinelli here. So um, the hamsters did in fact revolt again, nearly destroyed the episode but my l33t skills saved it somehow, and I’m basically left to apologize for the volume issues in this episode. You do not want to know what happened while I was working on this episode. And even if you do want to know, I don’t want to tell you. What I will tell you though, is that this week’s episode focuses on the last, newest, and debatably the most promising of the big 4 smartphone OSs - Google Android. Zi Yong from CodeAndroid joins us in sharing with you the pros (what, what cons?) of the Android system - what it has brought to the table, what companies have done, and what will be done with it in the near future. Be sure to catch the next episode as we do a grand wrap-up of what we have discussed in the past four weeks. Guess who’s back.

WANT TO FIGHT? WANT TO FIGHT?!

Daniel, DK, Fari, w/ Zi Yong

Refresh:
[2:20] Windows 7 Upgrade Options
[5:12] Tiny SG made MP3 Player Easy on the Wal let
[7:23] Amazing UK Plug Design
[10:56] Adsense Comes to Mobile
[12:43] MJ’s Death Brings Down Several Websites

[14:40] Android Discussion + HTC Hero

[33:25] BOTW: H1N1 Mask App

65Bits Episode 124 : Month of SmartPhones 3 - Windows Mobile

65bits@tech65.org (Tech65.org) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:39:07 +0000

This week’s podcast is edited by Hisham and he’s truly sorry for the 2 day delays for this to come out. We talked about Windows Mobile in this week’s iteration of the month of SmartPhones; but don’t skip to that topic just yet; there are lots of goodies and nuggets in the Refresh segment.

-DK, Daniel, Hisham & Nicole

Refresh!
[01:07] Wireless@SG Extends to March 2013
[02:30] Starhub launched an application development campaign for Android
[04:14] Twitpocalypse hits the Twitterverse
[05:45] iPhone 3.0 OS Upgrade is Out with some Pros & Cons
[09:12] Singtel Launches Singtel AMped - Singtel Unlimited Music Downloads -
[11:30] The flood of phones that was released in Singapore
[11:50] Nokia Release
[15:55] Samsung Release - Samsung Jet
[21:24] Sony Release - Satio, Aino & Yari

MonthOfSmartPhones Discussion
[25:45] Week 3 - Choosing the right Windows Mobile Phone

[42:15] Byte of the Week Yahoo Mobile

65Bits Episode 123 : Month of SmartPhones 2 - iPhone

65bits@tech65.org (Tech65.org) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:11:41 +0000

Shit happens.. and it happened to us this week. The hamster which power our rendering farm went on strike over the weekend. Thus, had to render the episode manually this week… Hence, the precious discussions on the Month of SmartPhones, your nearly illegal byte of the week, a quick round of refresh with local and social networking news and ofcourse everything from that Apple keynote was delayed for a few days.. Really sorry for that..

-DK, Fari, Daniel, Hisham, Bernard and hamsters….

Refresh!
[2:00]Video Games Live Concert in Singapore
[4:25]Soundbuzz music store to shut down on July 15
[6:00]Singtel to launch a Music service called AMP
[7:10]Popular Bookshop website got hacked.
[8:42]Facebook allows personalized username
[10:15]Twitter launches verified accounts.

Stories
[12:41]MacBook family refreshed.
[18:25]Snow Leopard announced.
[21:45]Safari 4 annouced.

MonthOfSmartPhones Discussion
[22:10]iPhone 3G S
[24:50]Singtel to launch iPhone 3GS in July.
[27:30]Singtel to offer Tethering on iPhone3.0 OS
[28:35]iPhone OS 3.0

[32:25]Byte of the Week: doubleTwist for iPhone

65Bits Episode 122 : Month of SmartPhones 1 - Series60, N97, Pre

65bits@tech65.org (Tech65.org) — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 06:22:10 +0000

We’re starting a special month of coverage and discussion on 65Bits. It’s the month of SmartPhones. Around this month there will be many announcement and release of SmartPhones, from the iPhone to the Palm Pre. We’ll be concentrating on SmartPhones for the next few episodes, with discussions and stories about the various devices and platforms. So do join us for the next four episodes of 65Bits for a journey through the world of SmartPhones.

Oh.. and for the others who’re not really interested in SmartPhones.. we’ll still be having our regular Refresh and Byte of the Week segment to keep you entertained. So don’t drop off just yet..

-NTT, Dan, Nicole and DK (KL Correspondent).

Refresh!
[4:00] E3 Coverage
[4:30] E3 - Microsoft’s Project Natal
[7:00] E3 - Sony’s Playstation Motion Tracking Controller
[8:35] E3 - DJ Hero
[9:05] E3 - Tony Hawk: Ride
[9:50] E3 - Nintendo’s Wii Fit Plus
[9:55] E3 - Super Mario Galaxy 2, Super Mario World, etc.
[10:05] E3 - Sony Playstation Go
[11:45]Acer to sell Android phones, Netbooks
[16:30]Sony Ericsson’s PlayNow™ arena
[20:05]Google Wave
[24:50]Microsoft Bing

MonthOfSmartPhones Discussion
[30:15]Nokia’s N97.

[46:20]Byte of The Week: Youtube XL

65bits Episode 121: Widchi-widchi

65bits@tech65.org (Tech65.org) — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 02:00:12 +0000

This episode we return to the venue where we recorded our very first Channel65 episode almost two years ago with Kevin Lim to bring you the latest developments in the techie worldie, including Palm’s iPod-syncing stunt, Nokia’s freshly opened Ovi Store, Microsoft’s My Phone and their slightly ridiculous forward-backward maximum specs for netbooks running Windows 7. Daniel then takes us through the delishes of HP’s regional press conference in Beijing. A nice round up to a short(er) episode by supporting HP’s green movement in our Byte of the Week.

Mugs and Quiches

Daniel, DK, Nicole & Farinelli

Refresh-fresh-fresh-fresh-fresh-fresh
[04:00] Palm Pre syncs with iTunes!
[04:50] Palm Pre emulating an iPod to accomplish iTunes sync?
[07:25] Nokia Ovi Store opens for business
[10:10] Microsoft launches My Phone beta
[11:00] Microsoft publishes maximum Windows 7 specs for netbooks
[13:32] Intel delays Core i5 platform debut to early September

Discussion
[15:48] Hewlett-Packard Touch the Future. Now. event

Byte of the Week
[36:00] HP Power to Change

65Bits Episode 120 : Building a Touch Table 101

65bits@tech65.org (Tech65.org) — Mon, 25 May 2009 05:48:43 +0000

This week, the crew is down to just DK and NTT as the rest get busy with their happening lives. But instead of losing hope, the duo call upon their special powers (of asking ppl to come on as guest hosts over twitter), and invite SuYuen to host this week’s episode of 65Bits. The usual digression prone discussion brings them to Palm Pre(mature), Wolfram Alpha(Centauri), Facebook(Stalkers), and Creative’s state of Zen.. erm.. And finally wrap it up with a discussion on how one can build a simple Touch Table… If Yan can cook… So can YOU!!

-NTT, DK, SuYuen

Annoucement : Daniel will be in Bejing covering the HP Future Now event. Watch out for updates on our twitter feed.

Refresh!
[2:00]Palm Pre - June 6th; US$200 with plans; US$549 w/o plans.
[4:25]Nokia N97 will be launched in KL on 5 June.
[7:40]Wolfram|Alpha Computational Knowledge Engine
[11:15]Facebook Opens Up to OpenID
[13:20]Creative Commons Releases Facebook App
[16:25]Intel’s Virtual Annual Shareholder Meeting
[19:55]Gothere Maps releases API
[22:30] More tips for the code::ExtremeApps
[27:15]Creative debuts the low cost Zen MX, Zen Mozaic EZ300.

Discussions
[30:05] Building a Touch Table ala Microsoft Surface 101

[42:25]Byte of the Week: Twitter Business Cards.

65Bits Episode 119: Freshly Squeezed and MmMMM Good

65bits@tech65.org (Tech65.org) — Mon, 18 May 2009 02:00:11 +0000

We’re shaking it up with a spot of Magic and Android goodness. Tastes so good in the morning don’t you think? We also talk about HP’s spot of battery trouble and worry frantically about Google *GASP* going down! Say it isn’t so! Microsoft tries to squeese Apple for every last drop of juicy goodness they’ve got but we all know Apple’s got a few tricks up their sleeves. We worry about Nextbus and hope that it won’t be dropped. This week, our major stories include the recycling of Electronics in Singapore - Futurisitic babble or something we must do today and now. And we discuss ideas for the upcoming Code Extreme Apps. Let’s get coding people!

With Love and Affection

Daniel, NTT, Nicole, DK

[00:40] We’re on Engadget!

Refresh!
[02:10] HTC Magic
[03:45] Exchange-enabled HTC Magic explained: it’s not a “with Google” phone
[04:35] HP recalls 70,000 notebook batteries because of fire hazard
[07:05] Acer Aspire Timeline
[08:45] Ubuntu1 is in beta now
[11:05] Google goes down
[14:15] Microsoft vs Apple Ad wars
[17:25] End of NextBus?
[20:50] Singapore TweetUp

Stories :
[23:30] Recycling Electronics in SG
[30:00] Ideas for Code Extreme apps?

[38:40] Byte of the Week : VLC

65Bits Episode 118: Live from The Sail

65bits@tech65.org (Tech65.org) — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:55:58 +0000

We take a trip this week to 24Seven’s offices at The Sail (special thanks to Claudia for letting us use the office) where we have an extra-long Refresh talking about the Samsung i7500 that we were fortunate enough to get our hands on, the Kindle DX which we are unfortunate to not be able to own, a kid friendly version of Guitar Hero, Windows 7’s extension and kill switch, and a possible lax in Apple’s iPhone App store with the introduction of the 3.0 software? This week we also have a special guest, Bernard Leong, who shares with us his trip to Nokia’s developer summit.

Daniel, DK, Nicole, Hisham, Bernard

This week’s stories:

Refresh
[02:00] Exclusive Samsung i7500 Android hands-on
[05:10] Sony Ericsson’s new Theme Creator
[07:10] Amazon launches the Kindle DX
[11:20] DJ Hero, Band Hero and Guitar Hero 5 announced
[13:50] Windows 7 RC1 given extension well into 2010, but will shut down every two hours after March 2010
[15:55] iPhone 3.0 to have parental control for apps
[17:00] CodeXtremeApps 2009

[22:45] Nokia’s Developer summit
- Prologue
- Day 1
- Nokia N97, N-gage and Symbian

[38:15] Microsoft Dreamspark - Free Microsoft Developer tools for students

[43:00] Byte Of The Week - TokBox.com