The company would utilize carbon nanotubes, which are 20 times stronger than steel, to produce cables for the space elevator. -Yomiuri Shimbun/ANN
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POME consists of water soluble components of palm fruits as well as suspended materials like palm fibre and oil residues. -The Star/ANN
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Google continued to staunchly defend itself meanwhile against accusations that it had put profit ahead of privacy. -AFP
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The device comprises a single phosphorus atom, etched into a silicon bed, with 'gates' to control electrical flow and metallic contacts. -AFP
- 2 days ago, 20 Feb 12, 4:00pm -

Fruit seeds stored away by squirrels more than 30,000 years ago have been regenerated into full flowering plants by scientists in Russia. -AFP
- 2 days ago, 20 Feb 12, 4:00pm -

In China, rival service Renren Guangjie is considered to be more e-commerce friendly for brands, offering a marketplace with Chanel, Clinique, and others.
- 2 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 10:05pm -

Measurement standards for online advertising don't always apply in social media. Consider this approach.
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A Google-centric campaign doesn't necessarily translate well on Baidu. Consider these factors instead.
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Advertisers need to understand the role social media plays in their marketing mix rather than go by pure hype of the Facebook phenomenon.
- 1 day ago, 21 Feb 12, 10:00pm -

When looking at sentiment results, it's imperative you do not use the metrics at face value. Here's why.
- 2 days ago, 20 Feb 12, 10:00pm -

Love live music gigs? So do I. I bumped into Clarence, founder of Bandwagon.sg, through a common friend during our event, Startups In Asia. Bandwagon, founded in October 2011, is a live music gig search engine which helps users look for places that p…
- 10 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 2:00pm -

According to Huawei chariman ‘Richard’ Yu Cheng-dong, posting to his Weibo account, the company is ready to impress with its upcoming MediaPad 10 tablet. He claims that it is the “most powerful tablet that ever existed.” It will be powered by…
- 12 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 12:20pm -

Fresh off its recent rebranding, mobile advertising company InMobi is off to a strong start in 2012, today announcing that it has landed an exclusive two-year advertising deal with Indonesia’s largest online news portal, Detikcom. Readers may recal…
- 14 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 10:00am -

File this one under ‘people are vain’ and ‘not great publicity for Android.’ Some users of Tencent’s (HKG:0700) social network and IM service, QQ, are paying one of several dubious hackers up to 8 RMB (US$1.25) per month to have their statu…
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YOOSE, a hyper-local mobile ad network, has been selected by adsmobi, a mobile media buying platform, to develop a location-based mobile coupon service called Prime Location, which will complement admobi’s existing product offerings. Advertisers c…
- 15 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 9:30am -

Of course, it didn't hurt that Helan Tan can design creative pieces from a variety of materials.
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LinkedIn, the world’s largest social network for working professionals, has grown even larger. It surpassed the one million member mark in Indonesia recently, the company announced today. The growth in Indonesia follows the launch of its Bahasa Ind…
- 1 day ago, 22 Feb 12, 12:00am -

LiveJournal has been a popular platform for Singaporean blogshop owners to sell their stuff, due to its strong community features. But it does not come with a full-fledged e-commerce solution. That is now a thing of the past. It has launched LJ Check…
- 2 days ago, 21 Feb 12, 8:45am -

We’ll be having drinks tomorrow (Wednesday) evening with Vinnie Lauria, Jeff Paine and Paul Bragiel from newly launched Singapore-based, Silicon Valley-juiced fund, Golden Gate Ventures. Join us at 830pm, Wednesday 22nd Feb, at Home Club (20 Upper…
- 2 days ago, 21 Feb 12, 8:16am -

Up to now, Augmented Reality (AR) has made limited headway in China, but Qoncept Japan aims to change that. CEO Kazumasa Morikawa introduced the company’s AR software with a series of short videos that showcased some of the current implementations…
- 3 days ago, 20 Feb 12, 10:05am -

Ever get tired of discerning distorted alphabets from CAPTCHA that prevents websites from being cracked by bots but sometimes driving people to madness? Qingdao city-based startup Yinxiangma smartly solves the dilemma by transforming CAPTCHA into adv…
- 3 days ago, 20 Feb 12, 9:24am -

If you are familiar with LendingClub in America, you will get what Pandai.cn is trying to do. Online consumer finance or Peer to Peer (P2P) in China is a very new concept in China, where cash still dominates most transactions. However this isn’t th…
- 3 days ago, 20 Feb 12, 9:20am -

According to Shan Ting, founder of Smart Album, a nice, elegant and powerful is still missing from Android platform. And his project is aiming to fill the gap with its two core features: face recognition and photo-based social phone book. By way of f…
- 3 days ago, 20 Feb 12, 9:16am -

A report estimates China’s mobile video user number will reach 282 million by 2013. At the same time, online video, mobile internet and online payment were deemed as the three Internet trends with most potential in Chinese Internet sector.  VKU (o…
- 3 days ago, 20 Feb 12, 9:08am -

The BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 is finally out and anticipated features such as a native email client is in, at last. But is the OS 2.0 enough?Research in Motion (RIM) today announced that the new…
- 22 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 2:41am -

You might have caught my first post here, http://e27.sg/2012/02/01/tales-from-the-trenches-it-all-began-with/, or maybe you didn’t but my plan for this column is to continue to tell the story of startup life in Singapore as I experience it so it mi…
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For coffee with cofounders this week, we are happy to feature a relatively new startup based in Singapore – The Golden Concepts. The Golden Concepts was founded by Vanessa Keng and Lee Changxi and focuses on unique…
- 23 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 1:00am -

LinkedIn Indonesia hits their one millionth professional member, months after launching their Bahasa Indonesia language offering in December 2011.LinkedIn announced today that they have surpassed the one million professional member milestone in…
- 2 days ago, 21 Feb 12, 6:26am -

Paul Bragiel of i/o Ventures and recently set up Singapore-based Golden Gate Ventures will be meeting 8 startups in Singapore for 15 minutes on 23 February. You have probably read the recent news about the…
- 2 days ago, 21 Feb 12, 1:00am -

Business service management can help IT heads better deal with increasing complexity from consumerization, says BMC exec, who notes that full impact yet to hit enterprise environment.Compare your salaryUse the IT salary benchmark wizard and know the…
- 13 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 11:21am -

Following successful launch last year of its Mi-One mobile phone, Xiaomi now plans to hire over 1,000 new staff including openings in test and development, with active forum members exempted from interviews.
- 13 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 11:10am -

Makible and Awesome Ship among local startups tapping geographic, cultural and financial resources to push new products and services, including mainstream 3D printer and push-notification product delivery app.
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Company's software division will need to integrate existing technologies, and acquire other companies to fill portfolio gaps, to provide enterprise customers with appealing converged infrastructure offerings, analysts say.
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Small Business Tracker Deluxe software includes activity and expense tracker, invoice tracker, inventory tracker, invoic...
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SINGAPORE – Mobile advertising ad network InMobi has signed a two-year partnership agreement with Indonesian news portal Detikcom that gives the ad network exclusive access to Detikcom’s mobile app inventory.
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KUALA LUMPUR - DraftFCB Malaysia has appointed Maharis Azman as its digital creative group head, with immediate effect.
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SINGAPORE - TBWA Singapore has developed a microsite, siajourneys.com, for national carrier Singapore Airlines. The portal helps the airline to share its history since establishing in 1972.
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Gobbler, an associate of outdoor specialist Moove Media, celebrated Valentine’s Day with an interactive Facebook Contest that sparked romance among their Facebook fans.
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KUALA LUMPUR - Industry players say KFC's failure to react to the recent alleged assault of a customer in Malaysia was not the best strategy, given the incident's spread on social media.
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MELBOURNE - Thanks to the increasing popularity of data-based messaging or social messaging, mobile operators lost an estimated US$14 billion in SMS revenues last year, according to technology analyst firm Ovum.
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GLOBAL - Unilever has appointed R/GA as its global digital agency of record for Unilever's Rexona deodorant brand.
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ASIA-PACIFIC - Levi Strauss is sending six young explorers, chosen via a social-media casting call, on a worldwide trek to exotic locales on behalf of its Denizen apparel line in a YouTube reality-show format conceived along with JWT Hong Kong and Sh…
- 1 day ago, 21 Feb 12, 2:58pm -

ASIA-PACIFIC - Tokyo-based DeNA and Daum Communications of Korea have announced the launch of Daum Mobage, a local version of DeNA's social-gaming platform.
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KUALA LUMPUR - Carlsberg Breweries has handed Euro RSCG a major digital and experiential project, following a competitive pitch against two other agencies.
- 2 days ago, 20 Feb 12, 2:25pm -

Netimperative is currently in the process of upgrading its publishing platform. Growth in audiences mean we’ve reached capacity on some of our servers so if you can’t find the story you’re looking for on these pages then try our mirror site, he…
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The most downloaded mobile apps by sector in the UK, among those who reported downloading an app during August 2010.
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Netimperative is currently in the process of upgrading its publishing platform. Growth in audiences mean we’ve reached capacity on some of our servers so if you can’t find the story you’re looking for on these pages then try our mirror site, he…
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Twitter is now a 'destination website' and that means it is gunning for Facebook, but cleverly avoiding a direct dogfight. It’s more an information network than a social network and so is offering much, much more. Tanya Goodin, CEO of search and so…
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Sainsbury’s is launching a month long digital campaign on Facebook, billed as “Junior Masterchef meets Ready Steady Cook”, with the twist that the contestants’ summer themed recipes will be judged by three nine year olds.
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Oregon Scientific has launched a new tablet designed specifically for kids at the recent Toy Industry Association's 109th American International Toy Fair in New York. The MEEP! tablet runs on Android 4.0, features a 7-inch Neonode zForce touchscreen…
- 41 mins ago, 22 Feb 12, 11:39pm -

Some day, your jacket may be able to power your iPod ... and no, I’m not talking about piezoelectric fabrics (which generate electricity from movement-caused pressure), nor am I talking about photovoltaic materials, although both of those could pro…
- 42 mins ago, 22 Feb 12, 11:38pm -

Next month's Geneva Motor Show will be stocked with new concept cars from various parties - automakers, design houses and educational institutions. One of the latest concept cars announced is the Cisitalia 202 E, a modern reinterpretation of the orig…
- 2 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 10:13pm -

It’s possible that your next laptop computer could contain parts of your present-day notebook ... not your notebook computer, mind you, but your actual notebook. At least, it will if China's PEGA Design and Engineering has anything to say about it.…
- 2 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 10:07pm -

A number of anonymous Google employees are reporting that the company is currently developing Android-powered glasses that can provide a heads-up display to the wearer and connect over wireless data services. The glasses will purportedly work like a…
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On Wednesday, OnLive unveiled a new version of OnLive Desktop -- a iPad application that lets you access a virtual Windows desktop and Windows applications housed on servers in the proverbial cloud -- and this new version includes a browser equipped…
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The California Department of Justice issued a press release Wednesday detailing an agreement among leaders in the mobile space to strengthen user privacy and transparency policies for mobile apps. Apple, Google, HP, Amazon, Microsoft and RIM signed t…
- 55 mins ago, 22 Feb 12, 11:25pm -

The sensational result that neutrinos can travel faster than the speed of light may be undone by nothing more than a simple mechanical error.
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The "signature wounds" of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan -- post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury -- are both rooted in traumatic events. Until recently, though, military docs mostly treated them as two different health problems…
- 3 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 9:19pm -

The Obama administration is urging the Supreme Court to halt a legal challenge weighing the constitutionality of a once-secret warrantless surveillance program targeting Americans? communications that Congress eventually legalized in 2008.
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Free at 3pm PT on Sunday? Tune into This Week at Tech, where I’ll be guesting with Leo Laporte, live from the TWiT Brickhouse. (If you’re not available then, you can catch up afterwards.)
- 4 days ago, 18 Feb 12, 11:04pm -

There you have it, Microsoft’s new logo for Windows 8. It’s a dramatic departure from the logos of the past, where color and flashiness took an increasing role, and it looked less like a window and more like a flag. But why so minimalist? It accu…
- 4 days ago, 18 Feb 12, 10:55pm -

Amazon’s Kindle Fire is making its mark on the tablet sector, grabbing a 14 percent share of the market and skyrocketing into second place in the market after you-know-what, IHS iSuppli has found. Amazon’s success came at the expense of Apple, wh…
- 6 days ago, 16 Feb 12, 11:38pm -

My apologies for the lull in activity here since I announced my new gig as an editor at large for TIME. Before too long, Technologizer will reemerge as a blog hosted by TIME.com. In the meantime, I’m doing most of my blogging on TIME’s Techland.…
- 6 days ago, 16 Feb 12, 11:29pm -

For a forty-year-old company that remains synonymous with video games, Atari has experimented with an awful lot of other businesses. In its early years, it made pinball machines, jukeboxes, video phones, digital photo booths, music-visualization boxe…
- 10 days ago, 13 Feb 12, 8:18am -

eldavojohn writes "As the presidential race heats up, the smear ads on TV are also increasing. But Microsoft isn't going to site idly by and let the politicians engage in all that song and dance — and Microsoft really does employ both song and dan…
- 30 mins ago, 22 Feb 12, 11:50pm -

First time accepted submitter El Fantasmo writes "I work in public education, K-12, for a small, economically shaky, low performing school district. What are some good or effective tactics for getting budget controllers to stop bypassing the IT boss…
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smolloy writes "It would appear that the hotly debated faster-than-light neutrino observation at CERN is the result of a fault in the connection between a GPS unit and a computer. This connection was used to correct for time delays in the neutrino f…
- 2 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 10:18pm -

First time accepted submitter benrothke writes "It is said that the song Wipe Out launched a generation of drummers. In the world of information security, the classic Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C by Bruce Schneie…
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tsu doh nimh writes "Millions of computers infected with the stealthy and tenacious DNSChanger Trojan may be spared a planned disconnection from the Internet early next month if a New York court approves a new request by the U.S. government. Meanwhi…
- 4 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 8:50pm -

Though Apple, Google, Microsoft, RIM, Amazon, and HP don't always see eye-to-eye, the six of them have entered into an agreement brokered by California Attorney General Kamala Harris to take a tougher stance on the issue of mobile privacy.Going for…
- 59 mins ago, 22 Feb 12, 11:21pm -

Last Friday I visited the Aol* building on Page Mill Road in Palo Alto. But instead of the stench of death and decay you would normally find at a dying company, I found joy and the hustle and bustle of youth. More importantly, I found startups, tens…
- 1 hour ago, 22 Feb 12, 10:53pm -

Every time a dating site succeeds in making a match, it loses two users. To offset churn, Zoosk tells me that tomorrow it's announcing a new business model that complements subscriptions with date discounts, expert relationship advice, gift ideas, h…
- 2 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 10:40pm -

As you probably know, bistable or passive displays like the E-Ink ones in e-readers focus on battery life and readability rather than color and interactivity. The latest devices have been optimized for fast page refreshes and touch operation, but gen…
- 2 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 10:30pm -

HP just reported mixed first quarter earnings. The company posted non-GAAP diluted earnings per share of $0.92, down 32 percent from the prior-year period (GAAP diluted earnings per share were $0.73, down 38 percent from the prior-year period). First…
- 3 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 9:22pm -

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac : Vice President of iPhone and iPod Engineering David Tupman left Apple at the end of last year — Last year Apple saw the loss of many executives ranging from its OS X chief, iAd chief, and Global Security chief, and 2012 has…
- 16 days ago, 7 Feb 12, 3:50am -

Dan Levine / Reuters : Oracle seeks new trial against SAP over downloads — (Reuters) - Oracle Corp will head to a retrial against SAP AG over copyright infringement allegations after a U.S. judge slashed a previous monetary award against SAP by ove…
- 16 days ago, 7 Feb 12, 2:50am -

In the aftermath of the defeat of the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act , a long list of organizations have sent a letter to Congress asking members to “take a breath” before they trying to push through new piracy legislation.
- 16 days ago, 7 Feb 12, 2:03am -

Joshua Brustein / Bits : At Fashion Week, a Peek at a New Tactic for Marketers — Watching the runways at New York Fashion Week can be an overwhelming experience for the editors and buyers who will descend on the city in the next few days. — Sever…
- 16 days ago, 7 Feb 12, 2:00am -

Nate Anderson / Ars Technica : Whatever happened to that “six strikes” P2P notice system? It's coming soon — Whatever happened to the “six strikes” system that was to help civilize the American Internet? — Three years ago, the Recording I…
- 16 days ago, 7 Feb 12, 1:40am -

Irony, thy name is patent law. Microsoft filed a complaint with the European Commission against Motorola for aggressively asserting its patent…
- 1 hour ago, 22 Feb 12, 11:17pm -

ABC’s Nightline offered viewers a rare glimpse inside the Foxconn plants that produce Apple products Tuesday night.Apple has faced incre…
- 1 hour ago, 22 Feb 12, 10:51pm -

Are you addicted to the Internet?If so, you’re not alone. Some 61% of people feel addicted to the Internet and are unable to quit browsing, acc…
- 2 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 10:37pm -

Your favorite mobile apps should soon be making it a lot more clear when they intend to use your data. The Attorney General of California, Kama…
- 2 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 10:21pm -

ABC’s behind-the-scenes look at Apple’s supply plant in Shenzhen and Chengdu confirmed a lot of what we already knew: Conditions are grueling,…
- 3 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 9:50pm -

I've been debating whether or not it's worth doing this post for a few weeks now, but with so much sudden interest in Pinterest and how it fits in the copyright scheme of things, people keep asking "when," not "if," we were going to write about it, s…
- 13 mins ago, 23 Feb 12, 12:07am -

A few weeks ago, we noted that Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk had agreed to suspend attempts to ratify ACTA while he explored the details -- completely flip-flopping on his earlier adamant support for the agreement. However, late last week he w…
- 1 hour ago, 22 Feb 12, 11:01pm -

One of the things I've never liked about copyright is its potential to be the functional equivalent of censorship. Sometimes this censorship comes about because an author didn't get permission to create his work in the first place (see: Richard Princ…
- 2 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 9:56pm -

Late last week, the Washington Post reported that The Smithsonian had acquired "tapes, documentation, copyrights, and over 50,000 lines of code from V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai, who both the Smithsonian and the Washington Post insisted was the "inventor of…
- 3 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 8:54pm -

It appears that ACTA's main political backers, the EU Commission, have finally realized that they were increasingly in trouble in terms of actually getting ACTA ratified. The EU's main negotiator on ACTA, Karel De Gucht has now said that the Commiss…
- 4 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 7:54pm -