Let me introduce you to a very nifty idea that advances social networking – Poken. Essentially, it’s a keychain that you carry around with you, and when you meet someone else who has a Poken, you hold them close together and your information is exchanged. Information being your LinkedIn or Facebook profile information, which you [...]
Posted on December 6th, 2008 by Jon Lim
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Below is the extended version of the Gears of War 2 television commercial – The Last Day. I believe it’s the same team who did Mad World from Gears of War 1. This is rather old, but it has to given its fair dues. Beautiful. Enough said.
Posted on November 10th, 2008 by Jon Lim
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Recently, I’ve discovered that Vimeo has transitioned into a subscription-based revenue model, or as they call it – Vimeo Plus. I had briefly considered supporting the site that had been so good to me for so long, until I found out they only allow accounts from the US to upgrade. Fantastic, time to migrate to [...]
Posted on October 28th, 2008 by Jon Lim
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Reading articles like this is rather disheartening. Telecom companies (In North America) are focusing their efforts on rapidly expanding services and capabilities of mobile devices. Can you really blame them? No, but I can say this: stop ignoring the development of the existing infrastructure. Broadband access and speeds in particular have been rather stagnant for [...]
Posted on October 26th, 2008 by Jon Lim
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I’m a customer of Rogers Wireless and I have always been deprived of a mobile data plan, and there’s a good reason for it! I found this article while Googling for data plans in Canada. Sure, it was written in April 9th, 2007, so things have had to change since then right? Well, here’s what [...]
Posted on October 24th, 2008 by Jon Lim
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Last year, as a final project for my marketing class, we were supposed to come up with a product and create a full marketing plan for it. One of the ideas that I had come up with was a roll-up LCD screen, to be attached or linked with a mobile device (Blackberry, Windows Mobile, iPhone) [...]
Posted on October 23rd, 2008 by Jon Lim
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Earlier today, it was announced that Google Android would be going completely open source. A move that will hopefully shake the very foundation of mobile phones world wide… maybe? Taking a look at Google’s track record, they’ve created top notch products which make life on the web much easier. Unfortunately, none of these fantastic products [...]
Posted on October 21st, 2008 by Jon Lim
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Introducing the iKIT – a new product by IMOVIO that is being called a ‘sub-subnotebook’ which makes subnotebooks look enormous in comparison. This little device is 95mm x 65mm x 15.5mm, which is tiny even compared to my Samsung Jack’s 110m x 57mm x 15mm frame, especially considering it has a clamshell design. Which brings [...]
Posted on October 20th, 2008 by Jon Lim
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