From Reuters:
“He is near psychopath,” Lee Kuan Yew said of Chee Soon Juan.
“I don’t think even Solomon would be able to mediate between a psychopath and sane rational people,” he said, referring to the biblical King Solomon.
I can’t help but feel that MM Lee is deliberately trying to lose the respect of the younger Singaporeans [...]

VueStar, a Singaporean company, claims to have received a patent to technology that enables “Internet searching via visual images”. Whatever that really means — and it seems no one really knows, since I’ve not seen any reference so far to exactly what the patent covers — it appears that VueStar is claiming that it covers [...]

Our hearts and prayers go out to the Chapman family as they deal with the loss of Maria Sue Chapman.
It’s hard enough for the family to have to deal with the pain of losing someone so young and so soon, but it’s far worse to live with the guilt of having caused that loss. I [...]

I was in NUS today to attend a talk by Dr Vint Cerf, affectionately termed the Father of the Internet by some. The talk was held at my old school, the School of Computing, but returning after two years was an odd experience, since SOC is now located where the Faculty of Law used to [...]

A scientist at the University of Leicester did some basic calculations and found that the cost of sending a megabyte of data via SMS is about £374.49. Going by the usual Singaporean rate of 5 cents per message (much cheaper than the UK cost of 5 pence), that’s about S$374.50 per megabyte. A fraction of [...]