Sales, Social and Tech

I had the dengue virus last week and I didn't know it was dengue until the rashes appeared. Adding to the complexity, I didn't even know where I was bitten as I was the only one in the family affected by this virus (Touch wood). This comes in the news today that dengue infections has a hit a five-year high . It all started with a paralysing fever two Sundays ago. I thought I was done with a very bad flu virus given that I was caught in the rain the night before. Paralysing because I didn't want to do anything but to lie down and sleep. But sleeping was rather difficult too as I had chills and for some part of the nights, shivering under the blankets. It didn't help that the weather was chilly and had rained continuously for the past few days. The fever disappeared by Tuesday morning but my body was aching. The aches were acute pains that, though painkillers did the job, I felt extremely lethargic. Even my thought process was much slower than usual. The whole w...

Bloggers using blogspot today found their blogs deleted and one of the affected is one of Singapore most popular blogger, Xiaxue. Wrote Xiaxue on her Facebook page , My blog is currently down as Blogger seemed to have deleted it this afternoon at around 230pm. They didn't give me any reason but from the forums it seems that some other bloggers have experienced the same issue...  The response from Blogger to my forum query is that my blog was mistakenly classified to be a spam blog. So the blog is under review now and should be restored once the mistake has been cleared up. I believe it could be a technical glitch. 

Communications and Information Minister Yaacob Ibrahim contributed the hacks to the "lapse of maintenance". A blog used the PA sites hacks as a case study and highlighted that they were using very old versions of popular content management software of Joomla 1.5 and Wordpress 3.1.3. Wrote  Knowledge Republic , "Before i begin, pardon my lousy English, i am not here to teach you English. This page is not to teach you how do you hack other website, but to feed curiosity of those who wonder why or how did those Brazil HackTeam manage to hack Singapore Statutory Body site, when the impression that Singapore give was so high tech Country, the security should be pretty high due to the amount of years that IDA spend on cultivating Security Talent by subsidizing Course fee. These Are the Sites that are being Hacked by HighTech Brazil HackTeam www.pa.gov.sg southwestcdc.org.sg yep.nyc.sg servicelearning.nyc.sg water-venture.org.sg cdc.org.sg app.yep.nyc.sg ycm.nyc....

This morning I saw a post on Facebook of a Singapore citizen emailing the Attorney General to investigate The Straits Times on contravening Parliamentary Elections Act (Chapter 218) with an article headlined "ST Poll: More rooting for PAP". I thought I post about it later in the evening, only to have heard that the police are currently looking into the complaint. A concerned citizen by the name of Brendan Chong emailed the Attorney General Chambers about his concern over the article. Brendan compared the incident with that when the Act was enforced on Joseph Ong Chor Teck for conducting a general election exit poll on the TRE website. Source: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4317387301523&set=a.1099500416362.2017043.1492224593&type=1&theater It was soon announced in the evening that the police are looking into the matter. Wrote Yahoo News , "The Elections Department (ELD) has confirmed police are probing an election poll result published b...

In an earlier post, I shared that there was a rumour spreading on the blogosphere that Cecilla Sue, the IT Sales Manager, involved in the Ng Boon Gay corruption case, has send out letter of demand to bloggers. Wanbao has outed the blogger to be Alvin Lim of Alvinology.com . Here's a screenshot from Omy.sg. Ironically, Alvin is also the online marketing manager at Omy.sg. Omy.sg is part of Singapore Press Holdings. Screenshot from  http://singaporenewsalternative.blogspot.sg/ Alvin has since deleted the offending post but has not posted an apology in his blog as of this posting.  It seems Cecilla Sue took offence to the parody images by 9GAGSG but reposted on Alvin's blog.  If reposting images is considered defamation, it would be interesting to see if Cecilla Sue will also send letter of defamation to the forums like Hardwarezone.com which also saw its members reposting 9GAGSG images like this .

Singtel chose to piss off the wrong public relations executive and it resulted in IT journalists and public relations community rallying behind her against Singtel. Bridget Kow, Account Executive at The Hoffman Agency, wrote on Singtel Facebook Wall about being wrongly charged on mobile data downloaded when she was overseas. Bridget thought that her loyalty to Singtel would mean something and Singtel would consider defraying this cost. However, her loyalty meant nothing to the telco. Wrote Bridget . "My bill for this month was SGD$340 dollars from the usual SGD$65 I regularly pay. After over ten years of loyalty, regular bill payments and good service, I was stunned to discover today that your organisation had taken the liberty of charging me an additional SGD$200 for 10MB of data while I was out of country. How is it considered “goodwill” when I still have to pay 1 day Dataroam package at $15/day instead of $200 dollars for 10 mb.... ..Instead of punishing a loyal custo...

Rumours are spreading around the blog-o-sphere that Cecilia Sue, the IT Sales Manager, involved in the Ng Boon Gay corruption case , is sending out letter of demands to bloggers who have re-posted spoof images of her with regards to the mentioned case. It seems that Cecilia has taken offence to the images created by 9Gag Singapore  during the period of the corruption case and have send letters of demand for these images to be taken down. The owners of 9Gag Singapore Facebook Page is still unknown and their website 9Gagsg.com has hidden the administrators' details. Sources highlighted that the spoof images are still hosted at Hardwarezone.com forums and if Hardwarezone will also be requested to remove them is still unknown. One blogger has already removed the offending post so as to not escalate the situation any further. Though we are in the early days of 2013, this would make it the second case where letter of demands were served to bloggers to remove their post. ...