Posts under ‘Technology’

Ever wonder what should you do if you lost your mobile phone? Or how safe is online banking? Or how do you prevent spyware and malware? Well, you can email me and I can give you the answer. BUT there is another better way to get answers to your digital security questions. Just ask Gemalto. [...]

I found myself talking non-stop about this interesting monitor by Samsung since reading about it on Cnet.

Does this reminds you of the Samsung Lapfit Display?
At first, it doesn’t seems anything amazing. It’s just a monitor that runs on USB. But imagine how your desk is going to look like with this. Close your eyes and [...]

Starhub and M1 have both began selling MicroSIM card last Saturday. SingTel will begin selling the MicroSIM card from 1 June. Starhub and M1’s MicroSIM will support up to 7.2 mbps while SingTel will support up to 21 mbps.

I’m not sure about other countries, but Singapore is perhaps one of the interesting market where the [...]

I’ve been saying this for many times already. Adobe needs to show the world that Flash can run well on mobile device to proof Apple wrong. Well, I guess this prototype is sending a pretty clear signal. And it’s looking pretty good. This might be able to save Flash and keep it alive. Looks like [...]

SingTel and Ericsson unveiled their Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology trial recently. SingTel is the first in the region to successfully power on air the 42Mbps mobile broadband network. Even though 42Mbps network will be available in the second half of the year, SingTel and Ericsson is already featuring even higher speed with LTE.
LTE is [...]

Attention all Windows XP users! Do not press the F1 button when you encounter a website telling you to press the F1 button. In fact, don’t ever press the F1 button. At least not until Microsoft fix this vulnerability.
Apparently, there is a vulnerability in the way that VBScript interacts with Windows Help files when using [...]

FINALLY! After waiting until my neck long long, Nokia Singapore finally release the V2 firmware for Nokia N97. Or to be exact, version 21.0.045. Seems like we skipped 20.0.019.

The biggest change for the new firmware is the kinetic scrolling. You can now scroll smoothly by flicking anywhere on the screen. No more dragging the tiny [...]

Saw this interesting chart on facebook about why people pirate DVD.

I must say that it brought up an interesting and valid point. It’s like DRM music. Why punish the paying customers?
But actually, do you know that you can skip all these “unskipable” warning message and trailers? I heard it on the Cnet podcast recently. When [...]

I’ve blogged about 10 reason why you shouldn’t make your website entirely on flash previously. If you are a website designer, please read them.
In case you are still not convinced, here is another:
11. Adobe have yet to fix a bug that crashes the browser which was reported in September 2008. (Warning: The site [...]

If you think PDF files are safe, think again. Recent reports shows that rogue PDFs account for 80% of all exploits in Q4 2009. That’s a huge jump from Q1 of 2009 where malicious PDF files account for 56% of all exploits tracked by ScanSafe.
Interesting results. I’ve heard about PDF exploits for quite some time [...]