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Paul Mah

Paul Mah is a writer and blogger who lives in Singapore, where he has worked for a number of years in various capacities within the IT industry. Paul enjoys tinkering with tech gadgets, smartphones, and networking devices.

Hardware
New Apple multi-touch mouse on the horizon?

Gizmodo has a piece which alleges that a new multi-touch device (aka a multi-touch mouse) that extends the iPhone concept into desktop computers might be on the horizon. Extrapolating from a recently filed patent at the U.S. patent office, it seems to have a transparent shell with a light source that will illuminate it from the ...

Paul Mah
Published: July 5, 2007, 4:58 PM PDT Modified: July 5, 2007, 4:58 PM PDT Read More See more Hardware articles
Innovation
SAP admits to Oracle’s charge of inappropriate downloads

Hot from Bloomberg, SAP AG, the world’s largest maker of business-management software, has came clean and admitted it made “inappropriate” downloads of Oracle’s documents, in response to a lawsuit that claims it stole files belonging to Oracle. Subscribe to the Innovation Insider Newsletter Catch up on the latest tech innovations that are changing the world, ...

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Published: July 4, 2007, 4:59 PM PDT Modified: July 4, 2007, 4:59 PM PDT Read More See more Innovation articles
Security
New MPAA site peddles illegal movie downloads and possible spyware

ZeroPaid has a new report on an alleged attempt by MediaDefender Inc, self-touted as the “leading provider of anti-piracy solutions in the emerging Internet-Piracy-Prevention industry,” of launching a new Web site that attempts to what amounts to an entrapment operation. After being Slashdotted, the site in question, “MiiVi,” has apparently been taken down. A simple ...

Paul Mah
Published: July 4, 2007, 4:14 PM PDT Modified: July 4, 2007, 4:14 PM PDT Read More See more Security articles
Innovation
Sony develops liquid airbag for hard disks

According to a report by Techworld, it appears that Sony has filed for a U.S. patent on a liquid airbag technology for electronics, in particular, hard disks. While the use of liquids to absorb shock has been suggested before, Sony’s engineers are confident that their version is more effective and will be able to absorb ...

Paul Mah
Published: July 3, 2007, 4:59 PM PDT Modified: July 3, 2007, 4:59 PM PDT Read More See more Innovation articles
Open source
Windows platform loses ground with developers

Even though Microsoft’s Windows platform is still the dominant platform for application developers, it is losing traction as far as North America is concerned, according to the results of an Evans Data survey released on Tuesday. In a survey involving more than 400 developers and IT managers in the United States, it was found that ...

Paul Mah
Published: July 3, 2007, 4:42 PM PDT Modified: July 3, 2007, 4:42 PM PDT Read More See more Open source articles
Data Centers
Intel is working on anti-cheat technology

It looks like Intel is working on an anti-cheat technology, although this is only a research project at the moment and hardly ready for prime time. The concept is simple: A chipset records all input from the keyboard and mouse at the hardware level — the game also does the same. If the two doesn’t ...

Paul Mah
Published: July 1, 2007, 4:29 PM PDT Modified: July 1, 2007, 4:29 PM PDT Read More See more Data Centers articles
Cloud
Microsoft testing free data storage for end users

Microsoft is current beta testing free data storage for end users as part of its new Windows Live hosted services. Assuming all goes well with the 5,000 beta testers currently trying it out, Windows users could well be receiving the invitation to sign up for this free service by this fall. Subscribe to the Cloud ...

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Published: July 1, 2007, 3:36 PM PDT Modified: July 1, 2007, 3:36 PM PDT Read More See more Cloud articles
Social enterprise
Take a tour of CommunicAsia

TechRepublic blogger Paul Mah takes you on a tour of CommunicAsia.

Paul Mah
Published: June 19, 2007, 9:11 PM PDT Modified: June 19, 2007, 9:43 PM PDT Read More See more Social enterprise articles
Innovation
Apple shifting to Solaris file system

Sun Microsystems president and CEO Jonathan Schwartz, speaking at a company event, said that Sun’s ZFS file system will be “the” file system for Apple’s upcoming Leopard version of Mac OS X. This has stirred up some debate over whether he misspoke about whether ZFS will be made into the default file system as opposed ...

Paul Mah
Published: June 8, 2007, 1:35 PM PDT Modified: June 8, 2007, 1:35 PM PDT Read More See more Innovation articles
Microsoft
Oracle takes aim at mobile devices

Oracle has just released its newest installment of the Oracle Lite 10g product line in the form of Release 3. The key features added in this iteration are automatic synchronization, as well as a broader range of platform support. In terms of platforms, support has been added for client database on Windows Mobile 5, Windows ...

Paul Mah
Published: June 7, 2007, 1:59 PM PDT Modified: June 7, 2007, 1:59 PM PDT Read More See more Microsoft articles

Paul Mah

New Apple multi-touch mouse on the horizon?

SAP admits to Oracle’s charge of inappropriate downloads

New MPAA site peddles illegal movie downloads and possible spyware

Sony develops liquid airbag for hard disks

Windows platform loses ground with developers

Intel is working on anti-cheat technology

Microsoft testing free data storage for end users

Take a tour of CommunicAsia

Apple shifting to Solaris file system

Oracle takes aim at mobile devices

New Employee Checklist and Default Access Policy

Hiring Kit: Video Game Animator

Payroll Processing Checklist

Quality Assurance Checklist For Outsourced Projects

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