Coming soon: Google’s Android

By Serene Luo, ST
Internet giant Google is running the final tests on its much-anticipated cellphone operating system, which it will roll out in a few months.
The company showed off the software, called Android, yesterday, as part of the pre-opening activities at CommunicAsia, the annual telecom trade show.
Google’s senior director of mobile platforms Andy Rubin said [...]

Rantings, reviews… REVENUE!

Bloggers, and the syndicates which encourage them, are quietly changing the way people turn their online opinions into pots of gold.
By signing up with online ad-placement services like Google Adsense as well as local ones like Advertlets, Blog2U and NuffNang, top bloggers here are ringing in thousands of dollars per month.
According to media services firm [...]

Save with online shopping sprees, but beware of risks

By Chua Hian Hou, ST
Get together with other like- minded shoppers online to buy products via ’sprees’, or Internet mass orders, to enjoy cost savings. You could even pick up exotic items not otherwise available in Singapore.
In recent years, such sprees have spread like wildfire.
On the SingaporeMotherhood.com site, for instance, you can go on dozens [...]

Why shop alone if you can spree?

By Tan Weizhen, ST
Drawn by the prospect of big savings, a growing number of Singapore Internet users are banding together for online buying binges.
Industry players have seen an increase in so-called shopping spree websites that let netizens pool their orders and get big discounts on a raft of online buys.
A Straits Times check found at [...]

Swop & Safe

By Alex Liam, ST
We may be living in a ‘throwaway’ world but the Internet has helped revive an old-fashioned practice, even among the young: barter.
YouSwop, a Singapore-based website set up in August last year to allow people to swop things they did not want for something else, is proving to be a hit.
The website has [...]