BLOG: Why Google digital glasses are prescription for disaster
Feb. 23, 2012 | DAMON BROWN
We've seen accident after accident of people texting, gaming, or web surfing while walking. The U.S. government is now considering banning all automobile phone calls, including hands free.
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BLOG: Singapore budget 2012: SMEs, reduce dependence on foreign workers
Feb. 23, 2012 | ZAFAR ANJUM
My reaction to the slashing of the dependency ration ceilings (DRCs) is opposed to what many local SME bosses are feeling. I fully support it and I am rather surprised at the percentage—why is it just five percent?
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BLOG: How will Foxconn's pay impact Apple's prices?
Feb. 22, 2012 | ROY HARRIS
The shakeup in workplace conditions --- and especially pay levels --- at Apple Chinese partner Foxconn Technology is occurring far faster than most observers expected. It was just over a week ago, after all, that Apple said it was asking the Fair Labor Association, a global worker rights group, to audit working conditions at plants operated by its largest suppliers, including Foxconn.
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BLOG: Tribute to the human element
Feb. 22, 2012 | ANUSHKAR MOHINANI
Foo Fighters frontman, in his Grammy Award acceptance speech, honoured the “human element” of music that has lost its place in the digitally advanced industry.
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BLOG: IPv6 riding the LTE juggernaut
Feb. 21, 2012 | YVES POPPE
It can only be an upward slope.
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BLOG: Google privacy fiasco lesson: There is no privacy
Feb. 21, 2012 | TONY BRADLEY
Google is in some hot water for bypassing privacy controls on the Safari Web browser in iOS devices--and allegedly on Internet Explorer as well--to surreptitiously track users' online activities. While Google deals with the backlash and regulatory scrutiny from the FTC, there is an important lesson to be learned: privacy is dead.
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BLOG: “Damn Bloody Stewpig!”
Feb. 20, 2012 | ZAFAR ANJUM
Singapore's DBS Bank does not seem to have learnt from its mistakes.
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