Finally the greatly anticipated Samsung Galaxy S3 is officially launched this week. Lets take a quick look on the key specifications released by the various official media. iPhone has never been a hardware leader when it comes to the smartphone arena. With the release of S3, it pales further based on the specifications between the two. In terms of…
New Cisco Linksys EA4500 Gigabit Router Wireless N | for Fibre Optics Broadband SG | IT Gadget Review
Few months back, Cisco Linksys has released the new series of routers – Cisco Linksys EA4500, EA3500, and EA2700. I have used Linksys routers and Cisco Small Business routers before and they have never failed in terms of performance & reliability. Though they look like models in the earlier E Series but they have more-powerful hardware and support Cisco Connect Cloud,…
Investment in Social Media stocks – Quick overview and comparisons | Trading Analysis | US Stocks
The staggering popularity and explosive growth of social media sites like Facebook and Twitter has been a nothing short of phenomenal. For social media space, investors need to ask themselves three key questions: • Is each company building a sustainable platform?• What kind of five-year growth are they capable of achieving?• And what will profits look like when they reach…
Stock prices chasing the good Apple earnings? – accumulation on dips | US Stocks
During the Apple (AAPL) Q2 2012 earnings call yesterday, Apple announced that it sold 35.1 million iPhones, 11.8 million iPads, 7.7 million iPods and 4 million Macs. During the same period, its earnings also saw similar massive growth of 92% in Q1 2011 and that of Q1 2012 growth of 94%. The iPad is growing at a faster rate than the…
DBS (D05.SI) shares plummets after intended acquisition of Bank Danamon – accumulate or sell off? | SG Stocks Review
On 2nd April 2012, DBS Group Holdings (D05.SI) made an announcement that it is acquiring a 67.4% stake in Bank Danamon for S$6.2b. DBS is largely held by Singapore’s state-run Temasek Holdings and mentioned that it will pay its parent company 45.2 trillion rupiah($4.9 billion) in new shares for its 67% stake and buy the remaining stock from other shareholders for 21.2…
Capacitive stylus for your touch devices – iPad, iPhone, Galaxy and Blackberry tablets | Adonit Mini JotIt | IT Gadget Review
Capacitive stylus has been in the market ever since when touch screen smart devices are around. The recent resurgences of many cool drawing applications have re-kindled my interest to explore better stylus. Over the weekend, I have decided to get my hands on another new stylus and my hunt is indeed a good surprise – Adonit’s Mini Jot It. There are…
McDonald’s (MCD) has a change in top management – business profitability should be intact | Accumulation on weakness | US Stock Market
On 23rd March 2012, Jim Skinner was set to retire from McDonald’s (MCD) after 41 years with the fast food giant, the last seven and a half as CEO. Skinner will be handing off to Don Thompson, the chief operating officer and former head of McDonald’s USA, on June 30. Thompson moved from engineering to operations after just a few years at…
new Kindle Touch (2011) vs Kindle Fire & new iPad | quick comparison for a typical eBook reader | IT Gadget Review
My new Kindle touch arrived in the very distinctive Amazon packaging. Amazon offers a much more diverse variety of eBooks which one can purchase and access them via the various models of Kindle or Kindle reader app published in Apple Appstore. At USD99, Amazon has kept the packaging contents to the minimum. As expected, the Kindle Touch comes with the…
Apple new iPad – the differences worth for the change? | IT Gadget Review
Apple has finally launched the new iPad on 16th Mar 2012, well within the anticipated refresh window period of 1 year from the previous release of iPad 2. Few days before the official launch, I had the opportunity to observe the full stock up of the new iPads at one of the local Singapore distributor. Knowing how crazy the queue…
Hands on experience with 3 smartphones – iPhone 4S, Samsung S2 and Nokia Lumia 800 | IT Gadgets Review & Comparison
Within a span of 6 months, I have had my hands on the 3 latest smartphones which are built around the 3 major smartphone OS, namely Apple iOS 5, Google Android Gingerbread and Microsoft Windows 7.5 Mango. As the technical specifications are readily available in the internet, I will not attempt to repeat such technical comparisons but rather to summarize…