08 Mar 2010, Posted by mikefoong in the category, 0 Comments

theITChannel Podcast Episode 35: Mobile Phone Updates for the rest of us

Recording with the 3 of us (Sheldon, Toh and Myself) in KL and Sherwin in Singapore. Missing Andrew this week. We rambled on a few things today about the Nokia N900 which recently had a local bloggers launch. Will it fly? Will it not? [Correction: I mention it is capacitive, it is actually resistive and not capacitive]

The competition is heating up between the 3 consumer giants in the likes of Microsoft, Google and Apple. With Apple having an arsenal of gadgets that wows us, Microsoft and Google is trailing not too far away in terms of the mobile gadgets race to gain market share but apple’s ancillary army of developers and apps is definitely something no other company can rival at the moment. How long will the dominance last?

With the underdog JooJoo delaying their launch date, one wonders if the company can survive the tsunami that is inevitable and this time from top 3 IT fault lines.

We lightly touch on politician’s gripe on Open Source being the Enemy of the State. Wonder who paid them to do this…

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21 Feb 2010, Posted by mikefoong in the category, 0 Comments

theITChannel Podcast Episode 33: What would Toh Translate: Pichipichipichi is dirty

We had an explosive episode exploring the Mobile World Congress with Sherwin Loh (http://www.twitter.com/angelsherwin), a run down on Google Buzz and the Google Personal Babelfish or the Google Star Trek Universal Translator, And Jen-ii (or what was formerly known as the Mak-cik PC. Translation: Aunty PC)

You will hear a slew of new product announcements from Nokia, HTC, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Intel, Microsoft Windows Phone 7 and new partnerships. Some of the biggest news like Nokia Maemo and Intel Moblin to merge to a new product called MeeGo, HTC Desire – the Nexus one with Sense UI,  Mobile Windows Phone 7′s impressive new concept and other product announcement that Sherwin will share with us.

Related to the mobile world, Adobe Air announced that they will develop Air for mobile devices. I think this gave us the biggest “Sigh” in the podcast.

We dissected Google Buzz and what is really mean to us after 2 weeks of usage. Is this going to be a useful tool for gmail users or a lead in to something bigger from Google?

Somehow with all the Mobile World Congress and Google Buzz hype, the Google Speech-To-Speech translator slipped in unnoticed by most of us. So hear what we thing about another game changer that Google is developing.

We then diverted to talk about translation as a whole while expanding on the google’s speech-to-speech translator and ended up having lots of time wasting fun with Translation Party (http://translationparty.com). So if you want to know what the title of the podcast means go here – http://www.translationparty.com/#6616031 and find out what we were laughing about.

We ended with the most crucial technology contribution that Mimos (Malaysia) will bring to the community. The Aunty PC (Jen-ii, formerly known as the Mak-cik PC) A hilarious tickling of the funny bone ensues…

Enjoy!

This Week’s theITChannel Podcast is brought to you by:

Michael Foong
Court Jester and Host of theITChannel
http://twitter.com/mikefoong

Sheldon Goh
Techie Cartoonist Telco Specialist Extraordinaire Masked Super Hero
http://twitter.com/sheldongoh

Andrew Kok
Super Gamer Geek God Techmeister
http://twitter.com/andrewkjs

Sherwin Loh
Correspondent for the Digital Life, Straits Times, Singapore Rabbit Eater
http://twitter.com/angelsherwin

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12 Feb 2010, Posted by mikefoong in the category, 0 Comments

theITChannel Podcast Episode 32: Tablets, Tablets Everywhere and HTML5

Well, we are back with more tablet stories and how it affects our lives. We also talked about HTML5 and could it be a saviour for all you Flash Video haters out there?

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18 Oct 2009, Posted by mikefoong in the category, 0 Comments

theITChannel Podcast Episode 23: Outages are a Social Concern

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Stories this week:

1. A week of outages. Looks like lots of outages this week. Facebook,
Sidekick, Twitter.
a. Are we relying too much on technology?
b. What is the backup when these happens?
- http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10373349-36.html
- http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/twitter-warns-users-not-change-log-in-data-until-further-notice-815
- http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/oct09/10-15sidekick.mspx
- http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=4245
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10375186-56.html
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/12/ibm_new_zealand/ (more…)

11 Oct 2009, Posted by mikefoong in the category, 0 Comments

theITChannel Podcast Episode 22: Ride the wave to the launch party

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Here are the topics we rambled about this week:
1. Google Wave Revisit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_UyVmITiYQ&feature=autoshare
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/09/google-wave-is-easier-to-understand-than/ (more…)

08 Oct 2009, Posted by mikefoong in the category, 0 Comments

theITChannel Podcast Episode 21: Ready, Set, Wave

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Here are the topics we rambled about this week:

1. Google wave preview launches
http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/missed-the-google-wave-beta-weve-got-hands-on/
http://lifehacker.com/5370738/google-wave-first-look

2. Chrome OS Launching next month?
http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/01/chrome-os-coming-to-netbooks-as-early-as-next-month/
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27 Sep 2009, Posted by mikefoong in the category, 1 Comments

theITChannel Podcast Episode 20: Be Wary Pirates, RIM is out to ban your Internet

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Here is what we talked about. Have a listen to what we have to say about these topics:

1. Google Sidewiki
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/help-and-learn-from-other-as-you.html

2. Microsoft Courier
http://gizmodo.com/5365299/courier-first-details-of-microsofts-secret-tablet
http://mashable.com/2009/09/22/microsoft-courier/

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25 Sep 2009, Posted by mikefoong in the category, 0 Comments

theITChannel Podcast Episode 19: Aye Ye Podcast with no Rum

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Topics we talked about today

1. Happy Internernational Talk Like a Pirate day
- Pirate Pickup Lines:
http://www.talklikeapirate.com/howto.html#pickup

2. Microsoft Visual Seach – Bing
http://mashable.com/2009/09/14/bing-visual-search/ (more…)

14 Sep 2009, Posted by mikefoong in the category, 0 Comments

theITChannel Episode 18: The crew is back and refreshed

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We came back with a bang with Toh of http://www.mytechnews.info/ Sheldon Goh – http://sheldongoh.deviantart.com and Andrew Kok – http://www.twitter.com/andrewkjs/

We took a look at the “Its only Rock and Roll” Apple event and didn’t think it was that eye opening, jaw dropping as its usually is. We ended up talking more about Norah Jones than the event itself. How weird is that?

http://gizmodo.com/5356723/apple-roundup-ipod-nano-video-cam-itunes-9-jobs-gets-healthier
http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/steve-jobs-says-ipod-touch-didnt-get-a-camera-because-its-a-g/

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26 Aug 2009, Posted by mikefoong in the category, 0 Comments

Matechulous is the top 2 post for Nokia Connection 09

While doing an uplift and consolidation of matechculous.com. I found out that if you search for Nokia Connection 09, matechulous.com is in the top 2 post. Unfortunately because I am refreshing the site, the link points to an obsolete posts.

The good news is that because we did the live blogging from scribblelive.com our post remains the top 3. So we would like to say a big thank you for your support.

If you have any ideas on how we can change that link, let us know. I am also happy to hear your feedback on the site

Thanx

Eponymous@matechulous