Motorcycle Got 4 Wheel

Yamaha will be introducing the Tesseract at the Tokyo Motor Show, the Tesseract is a hybrid 4 wheeler, powered by both a V-Twin gasoline engine and an electric motor. The suspension is what they call a “dual-scythe” which leans while cornering, just like a motorcycle. It also has a dual arm lock to keep the Tesseract upright when stopped, just like the lock on a Piaggio MP3.

Military Cooperation Between Vietnam And Singapore

Found this today.

People's Daily Online September 25, 2007

Vietnam, Singapore to enhance military cooperation

Vietnam and Singapore have agreed to promote military cooperation, and exchange more military delegations, local newspaper Vietnam News reported Tuesday.

The two sides reached the agreement during the meeting between Vietnamese Defense Minister Phung Quang Thanh and his visiting Singaporean counterpart Teo Chee Hean here Monday.

During the meeting, they also discussed the army construction in each country, anti-terrorism, humanitarian assistance and peace- keeping, and reviewed the bilateral cooperation on socioeconomic development, national defense, security enhancement and language training.

Teo's visit would enhance mutual understading and the friendly cooperation between the armies and peoples of the two countries, Thanh said.

Source: Xinhua

Let Your iPod Fly

There's nothing more than frustrating when your handphone or iPod ran out of power while on a bus or MRT when your are still half to one hour from home, but this problem will become history soon.

And the solution, The Energizer(R) Energi To Go(R).

The charger offers more than 46 hours of music playback on the iPod nano and more than 32 hours of music playback on the iPod with video.

It features a licensed Apple iPod tip and is adjustable so that it's compatible with fourth-and fifth-generation iPods, iPod nano, and iPod mini. The Instant Cell Phone Charger offers phone tip connectors to fit approximately 100 phone models across top manufacturers, and include most Nokia, Motorola, Sprint, LG, and Samsung cellular phones, as well as mini-USB devices such as the Razr, Blackberry, and Palm Treo.

The only question now is when will it land on this little red dot.

IBM, And The FREE Symphony!

At last, after a long wait, IBM has come out with Symphony, a “enterprise-grade”suite that will compete with Microsoft Office, and most importantly, it is free.

The suite consist of three applications namely Documents, Spreadsheet and Presentation, which will function similar to Microsoft’s Words, Excel and PowerPoint. It is capable to run on Windows XP and Vista, some Linux platforms, with “support for Apple Macintosh in the pipe line.” Symphony will support Open Document Format (ODF) and PDF, and Microsoft native file format but be warned that not all Office-created documents will open flawlessly.

IBM is offering Symphony in beta version so the community could suggest improvement for the software, thus allowing the suite to evolve faster. Symphony is presented on the new web site, and it is ready for downloading too.

More details on this news can be found on this sites, Ars Technica, Yahoo and Infoworld

Hey, hey, it's a free world.

The Future Of Singapore MRT

Singapore has been building our national rail network the Mass Rapid Transit System (MRT) from 1983, the digging never stop since then, it really makes me wonder how far it is going. I did a search on Wikipedia and find out the amount of new stations on the way. The whole system is simply amazing, it will cover a total distance of 540 kilometers and is going to end only in 2030. These are certainly good news, especially for contractors and people taking up MRT jobs, at least for the next twenty years.

Gphone, Forget the i.

There are so much rumors about GPhone on the net. Sounds like a big hit, check it out!

The Gphone is coming; how Google could rewrite the rules

If done right, the Gphone and not the iPhone will be the one to change the face of the wireless industry.

Forget iPhone, Think Google Phone

Google Phone, if you think about it is a reasonable speculation. Google has been aggressive in developing location based services, has amp-ed up its local search and mapping services. In addition, it has also been mobilizing its applications such as GTalk and GMail. YouTube, the video arm of Google, is beginning to embrace the mobile ecosystem.

Five Facts About Google Phone

The story talks about a handful of Boston entrepreneurs and venture capitalists who have seen the phone, but are under NDA and can’t talk about it.

Getting Inside Google”s gPhone

A source familiar with the situation tells BusinessWeek.com that Google may be preparing a new mobile platform, a would-be rival to the Nokia-dominated (NOK) Symbian OS, Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows Mobile, mobile Linux, Palm (PALM), and other operating systems.

Google spending hundreds of millons on mobile-WSJ

Anian, a Reuters company that tracks industry trends for institutional investors, reported last month that Google had engaged Taiwan's High Tech Computer Corp (2498.TW: Quote, Profile, Research) to design a Linux software-based phone for launch in the first quarter of 2008.

Google Pushes Tailored Phones To Win Lucrative Ad Market

A Google spokesman yesterday declined to comment on a Google phone project, but noted: "We are partnering with almost all of the carriers and manufacturers to get Google search and other Google applications onto their devices and networks."

The future for Orange could soon be Google in your pocket

The collaboration between two of the most powerful brands in technology is seen as a potential catalyst for making internet use of mobile phones as natural as on desktop computers and laptops.