http://asiaflux.com/blog1 Keeping Up With and Surviving Technoloy Trends in Our Daily Lives Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:47:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Lifehacker recently did a faceoff between the 2 top Online Backup services Mozy and Carbonite. Take a look here. Lifehacker Faceoff Online Backup Final Round, Mozy vs. Carbonite carbonitevsmozy.png Our recent poll on online backup shows that most Lifehacker readers prefer Mozy to back up their data in the cloud. However, there were ... http://asiaflux.com/blog1/2007/10/16/lifehacker-faceoff-mozy-vs-carbonite/ It's been a while since I last posted. My apologies for that. And what spurred me to post again? Read on. I read an article a week ago in Fast Company and it really jolted me. Never in my life did I ever imagine that something as innoculous as the bottled ... http://asiaflux.com/blog1/2007/10/16/the-bottled-water-indulgence-3/ hField Technologies, a Pennsylvania based company has developed the Wi-Fire, a compact high-performance USB WiFi Adapter for both Windows XP and Macintosh. It's just another boring WLAN adapter, you might think. BUT this baby is different! It has a range of 300+ metres compared with most external wireless USB adapter ... http://asiaflux.com/blog1/2007/09/20/new-high-performance-wireless-adapter-from-hfield/ AlwaysOn earlier this month voted Carbonite as one of the top private companies for 2007 from a list of more than 1000 nominations. You can read more at This is the fifth in the annual elite AO100 list since 2003 and nominations are submitted by investor bankers, venture capitalists and ... http://asiaflux.com/blog1/2007/08/15/carbonite-named-top-private-company-award-winner-by-alwayson/ In the July edition of Hardware Magazine, Carbonite has been reviewed tops in a shootout with other prominent Backup providers like SOS, Bullguard and Mozy. You can see more at http://www.asiaflux.com/files/carbonite_folder/Carbonite_Reviews.html Both Carbonite and Mozy were ranked highly amongst the four contenders in terms of ease of use and performance ... http://asiaflux.com/blog1/2007/07/21/hardware-magazine-ranks-carbonite-tops-in-online-backup-shootout/ I have used the Communicator 9500 and am still using the 9300i. I have to say that after waiting for so long, the latest model in the Communicator series is worth the wait. The E90 is slightly larger in form than the 9300i but still petite against the gargantuan ... http://asiaflux.com/blog1/2007/07/10/cool-feature-packed-nokia-communicator/ The leading Online Backup Service, Carbonite has officially appointed AsiaFlux Networks as its Singapore Distributor with immediate effect. Over here at AsiaFlux, we are excited to be associated with Carbonite. We have signed up Challenger IT Stores and they are now stocking Carbonite boxed sets in all their 8 stores. ... http://asiaflux.com/blog1/2007/07/09/carbonite-appoints-asiaflux-as-singapore-distributor/ I just spent 4 whole days at the show and I must say that things certainly seem to be looking up for the Communications industry of Asia. The whole event was flooded with Indians, Vietnamese, Filipinos, Indonesians and every Asian nationality you could think of (one conspicuous absence were the ... http://asiaflux.com/blog1/2007/06/25/communicasia-2007-was-a-blast/ AsiaFlux Networks has just secured a distributorship for Carbonite Online Backup in Singapore. Star War fans will remember Carbonite as the stuff that Hans Solo was deep frozen in. Carbonite similarly deep freezes your data in its storage servers until you restore or retrieve it. What are the advantages of Carbonite? Carbonite™ ... http://asiaflux.com/blog1/2007/06/25/carbonite-online-backup/ The IPv6 Forum Singapore Chapter is inviting any individuals, corporations, large or small to be members of the Forum. This is a non-profit organisation with the mission of creating awareness of IPv6 in Singapore, setting out Best Practices Guidelines and possibly also Certification of IPv6 Readiness. Anyone with interest can contact the ... http://asiaflux.com/blog1/2007/06/14/ipv6-forum-invitation/ Joost has been rocking the internet world with its free beta service of high quality, TV programs over the internet. No need for TV cards or any special receivers. Just an invitation, broadband and your PC. The ex-founders of Skype (who cashed in for US$2.6 billion to eBay) have seemingly ... http://asiaflux.com/blog1/2007/06/12/joost-free-tv-over-the-internet/ IPv6 Forum is a non-profit organisation comprising internet vendors, subject matter experts, research and education networks, with the mission of advocating IPv6 by improving technology, market, and industry awareness of IPv6. I have news that the IPv6 Forum - Singapore Chapter is in the works of being setup. Details like website, ... http://asiaflux.com/blog1/2007/06/11/ipv6-forum-singapore-chapter/ San Jose, CA - Lok Technology announced today that QMax Communications Pte Ltd is deploying its wireless fidelity (WiFi) network management and control appliances to service the west sector of Singapore as part of the government sponsored Wireless@SG initiative. Wireless@SG is part of the Infocomm Development Authority's (IDA) masterplan, Intelligent ... http://asiaflux.com/blog1/2007/06/11/lok-appliances-selected-by-qmax/ I found this while I was trawling the net for new gadgets and I was blown by the utter coolness of this. Imagine you were in Starbucks, you pull out your SmartPhone or PDA, set up the Zippo-sized keyboard projecter next to it and you proceed to type out on ... http://asiaflux.com/blog1/2007/06/10/virtual-laser-keyboard/ For the past 2 days, I read the news on the Nets debacle with a growing sense of disbelief. Nets has always been like a national institution in Singapore, used by almost all and sundry for its convenient cashless system. To raise its rates by 300%, and with such short ... http://asiaflux.com/blog1/2007/06/05/nets-has-us-all-in-their-net/