Monday, May 19th, 2008
What can I say. Hooking up an ‘Unlocked Cell Phones‘ for service is a relatively easy process, even if you don’t have a contract yet.
The first task at hand is to sign up for the service any of the available outlets island wide. (Well, those in Singapore are island wide… Can’t say the same for the rest though.) Of course, they will ask you if you need a phone, but if you already have one by all means don’t buy another. Tell the sales representative that you already own a handset.
(They may ask which model you own for market survey purposes or something, but they shouldn’t require that information to provide service.)
Once you’ve signed your contract and have your SIM card, just pop it into the phone and start making calls. (But of course, the service has to be activated first.) It is as simple as that.
Okay. There are a couple points to keep in mind though… (more…)
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
Every once in a while, dear TMS would pop by and drops me a message asking me to read a particular article, which usually involves the whole “new media” thingy that everyone is going crazy over.
The topic for the day:
“Should SMBs join Web 2.0 fray?” by Lynn Tan, ZDNet Asia. Published on Wednesday, April 30, 2008.
As explained by Lynn Tan, a freelance IT writer based in Singapore, the past year has been a banner year for social networks as the popularity of sites such as Facebook, Second Life and YouTube, soared and large companies around the world including IBM and Cisco, scurried to join the fray.
Now, with the phenomenon showing no signs of abating, the questions goes down to - should small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) in Asia jump on the bandwagon to tap the potential of these Web 2.0 tools? (Or at least that’s what they think.)
Apparently, the answer is yes according to Steve Hodgkinson, research director at analyst company Ovum.
He said this, she said that, and so on so forth… (more…)
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