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Don’t reinvent the wheel – that’s what Casio believes while others such as Apple, Samsung, LG, Xiaomi and others are struggling the opposite. While these players thought they should reinvent watches to be smart, veteran watch maker Casio is taking it cool and didn’t bother to join the crazy crowd. Leveraging on its popular G-SHOCK […]
... written on Aug 03 2014Three years ago in 2011, researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany made headlines when they successfully created world record by transmitting data at mind-boggling 26Tbps (terabits per second) over a single optical fiber. At a rate of 26Tbps, that’s equivalent to 3.25TBps (1 byte equals to 8 bits) or 3,250 gigabytes of […]
... written on Aug 02 2014Since 2009, Samsung Electronics Co has been the most successful smartphone manufacturer in the world. But not anymore. Samsung’s latest financial results for the second quarter 2014 shows the first drop in net profit in three years for the Korean electronics giant. It made a net profit of 6.25 trillion won (US$6.1 billion), down from 7.77 […]
... written on Jul 31 2014RIMPAC (Rim of the Pacific Exercise) is the world’s largest international maritime warfare exercise. Held biennially during June-July from Honolulu, Hawaii, which was started in 1971, is hosted and administered by the United States Navy’s Pacific Fleet, headquartered at Pearl Harbour. The main reason why such exercise is held in this region is quite obvious – this is perhaps […]
... written on Jul 31 2014This is not a global puzzle that requires a resurrection of Albert Einstein to solve it. Can someone explain why every time after a major iOS upgrade, my iPhone slows down tremendously, so much so that the smartphone seemed to be unresponsive? Apple fanatic fans would laugh at such question and conveniently point to Microsoft […]
... written on Jul 30 2014Where do you go for help when you want to watch movies or TV series, listen to songs or read some e-books, but don’t want to pay for it? The Pirate Bay, of course, and it’s not that hard to understand why. Sure, downloading copyrighted materials from the site is illegal but not everybody did […]
... written on Jul 27 2014Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak became an instant celebrity after he successfully secured an agreement with pro-Russian separatists, who were accused of downing Malaysian Flight MH17, killing 298 innocent lives. Four days after the aircraft fell from the sky, the black box is in Malaysian authorities’ custody, which will in turn pass to an international […]
... written on Jul 23 2014Capsule hotels was perhaps the greatest invention since sliced bread, at least to the people on budget. But that doesn’t mean millionaires shouldn’t try this cool concept – a spaceship escape pod, though some say it looks more like a coffin nevertheless. Tell that to someone who’s too tired or intoxicated to make it home […]
... written on Jul 22 2014How much would it cost Malaysian Airlines if it had diverted the flight MH17, just like how South Korea’s Korean Air and Asiana, as well as Australia’s Qantas have been doing since March this year? Apparently, based on a former flight planner’s calculation, it would cost additional US$66 (£48.70, RM209.60) per paying passenger for the […]
... written on Jul 21 2014There’re only two countries who know exactly what happened to Malaysian Flight MH17, which was shot down, killing all 298 people including 3 infants and 15 crew onboard. They’re United States and Russia obviously. But whether they want to tell the world the real story or otherwise is another matter. In spite of a commercial […]
... written on Jul 19 2014
