Sales, Social and Tech

The Media Development Authority (MDA) Singapore for the past decade required local ISPs to insert Internet filters to prevent Singaporeans from surfing undesirable sites, mainly porn sites. A group of guys from  EDMW(‘Eat-Drink-Men-Women) forum at Hardwarezone.com created a simple Google Chrome extension that allows Singapore Internet Users to bypass these filters easily. Ironically, this extension is only activated when one hits upon the ISPs' web site which state that the site is being filtered as a value add service. Wrote e27.co . The guys at EDMW, which stands for ‘Eat-Drink-Men-Women’, a popular forum on Singapore’s Hardwarezone.com, spent their Chinese New Year holidays collecting red packets and creating a Chrome extension called  ‘Go Away MDA’ to bypass the filters set up to ban websites. All users have to do is install the extension linked on the website, log in and enable Incognito mode for the extension. The hobby project allows users to sur...

Say good bye to email services from Pacific Internet aka PacNet. Those who are still subscribing  @pacific.net.sg, you have to wonder why though, will not be able to receive or sent email from their PacNet account from 01 Dec 2012. This is as PacNet has announced that they will discontinue the email services to subscribers recently.

I came across this via Twitter about morning show host asking to explain the Internet. Email was also known as Internet address. Today, the Internet is so prevalent that we have it even in out mobile phone. My son, today, expects the Internet to be there whenever he touches the iPad. This is so he can watch his favourite Transformer video on Youtube. We have come so far, Internet...