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Special Offer for AT&T Customers

AT&T customers!

30% off PhoneBAK & Phoenix

To take advantage of this offer use promotional code ATTSP709 when placing your order

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[BAK2u] Hiring - Interns (Singapore)

Grant and Proposal Applications

• Responsible for drafting documentation/framework of individual applicable grants in Singapore, detailing the submission, approval and accounting process

• Responsible for preparing submission plans and forms to applicable agencies for funding application.
Accounts

• Responsible for filing of accurate accounts of the company and for grant funding


Billing/legal policies

• Responsible for researching on the available payment gateways and come out with a detailed analysis of what is available in the market (commission, payment period, billing methods (bank transfer, paypal etc))

• Responsible in devising financial methods to optimize cashflow and profits during receivable and billing periods

• Responsible for researching on the legal policies operating internationally, billing developers outside Singapore and customers (tax filing issues and etc)


Product design/shaping

• Responsible for developing concepts/framework/wireframe/flowchart to the user experience of the product on the web as well as on the mobile
Community

• Responsible for maintaining and create channels where developers can feedback, seek support for documentation and implementation of the product into their code

• Responsible in developing the channels as which users can feedback, response to create user confidence and interest
Marketing

• Responsible for implementing SEO tools to optimize search

• Responsible for employing search marketing and other tools to drive user traffic

• Responsible for utilities social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, Myspace etc to reach out to developers

http://www.bak2u.com/contactus.php
salesATBAK2u.com

[BAK2u] iCabSG Speed Dialer (BlackBerry)

- Singapore
Comfort / CityCab / SMRT / Premier / Trans Cab / SMART Cab / Prime Taxi / Yellow Top

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Caffeine - Menubar item prevents your Mac from sleeping

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Caffeine is a tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menubar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers. Click it again to go back. Hold down the Command key while clicking to show the menu. The menu now has a sub-menu for deactivating Caffeine automatically after a number of minutes.

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/24120/caffeine

Spirit of Enterprise Awards 2009

The Spirit of Enterprise Award is an annual award that recognizes the entrepreneurial spirit in Singapore by honoring local self-reliant entrepreneurs operating small and medium businesses.

This year, we are pleased to announce 117 Nominees from various industries, including the health, retail, hotel & entertainment, food & beverage, publishing, industrial, banking & finance, services, manufacturing, software, biotech, education, trading, shipping & transport, property & architecture, insurance and IT industries. You can view their stories at http://www.soe.org.sg/files/nominees2009.php

Mr. Paddy Tan, CEO of BAK2u

From 117 nominees, 35 will be selected this year. The 35 selected represent the cream of the crop of entrepreneurs who have shown resilience and tenacity in building up their respective businesses.

An award dinner will be held in November 2009, to be graced by Guest-of-Honor who will formally recognize the winning entrepreneurs.

They were interviewed by students from the following schools: National University of Singapore (NUS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore Management University (SMU), Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) as well as Nanyang Polytechnic.

Do join in the meaningful buzz by casting your vote on-line at http://www.soe.org.sg/sg/voter/ or by SMS* - type SOE and send to 79000. For example, SOE 118. Your voting for the Awards this year begin 1 August and ends 31 August 2009.

[BAK2u] Fiji Times Online - Software to target theft

VERY month 2500 customers call Vodafone Fiji asking that their numbers be barred.

A significant percentage of these callers the company said would have lost their phones.

Other mobile telephone service operators experience the same. This has prompted local mobile phone repair company, Foneology, to introduce anti-mobile theft products in Fiji.

"BAK2u, the anti-theft software, works quietly in the background of your mobile phone or BlackBerry, and alerts you when an unauthorised user uses your phone," Foneology director James Trusler said.

The software works on Blackberry, Nokia and Sony Ericsson devices.

It works by automatically checking on the subscriber identity module (SIM) card when inserted into the phone.

When an unauthorised SIM card is inserted into the mobile phone, SMS text messages will be sent immediately to the pre-defined (local and overseas) phone numbers for example to spouse, a colleague or to a company's information technology department if it is a company phone.

"It is a common fact that mobile phones get stolen from all over the world, so by having access to mobile phone anti-thief security products in Fiji will give mobile phone users and corporate companies a stronger peace of mind knowing that their mobile phone has a higher chance of being recovered in the unfortunate event it is stolen.

"There are no subscriptions or annual fees so with a single purchase price of only $39.99, this is a small investment for a corporate company who may otherwise have to reinvest in more than $2000 for a replacement Blackberry" said Mr Trusler.

[BAK2u] Beta - PhoneBAK (Symbian)

Hi there,

we have upgraded our most popular selling PhoneBAK (Symbian) from 3rd Edition to 5th Edition.
For BAK2u customers, drop us a mail if you are interested to be in the beta 1 testing, for the following models:

Nokia N97, Nokia 5800, Nokia 5530
Sony Ericsson Satio
Samsung Omnia HD

Software will be released to individual testers in stages.

Google Plans a PC Operating System

In a direct challenge to Microsoft, Google announced late Tuesday that it is developing an operating system for PCs that is tied to its Chrome Web browser.

The software, called the Google Chrome Operating System, is initially intended for use in the tiny, low-cost portable computers known as netbooks, which have been selling quickly even as demand for other PCs has plummeted. Google said it believed the software would also be able to power full-fledged PCs.

The move is likely to sharpen the already intense competition between Google and Microsoft, whose Windows operating system controls the basic functions of the vast majority of personal computers.

“Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS,” said Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management, and Linus Upson, engineering director, in a post on a company blog. “We’re designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the Web in a few seconds.”

Mr. Pichai and Mr. Upson said that the software would be released online later this year under an open-source license, which will allow outside programmers to modify it. Netbooks running the software will go on sale in the second half of 2010.

The company likely saw netbooks as a unique opportunity to challenge Microsoft, said Larry Augustin, a prominent Silicon Valley investor who serves on the board of a number of open-source software companies.

“Market changes happen at points of discontinuity,” Mr. Augustin said. “And that’s what you have with netbooks and a market that has moved to mobile devices.”

But while Google has deep pockets and a vast reach, it is in for a difficult battle when it comes to challenging Microsoft in the operating system market. Many companies have tried this over the years, with little success.

Google’s plans for the new operating system fit its Internet-centric vision of computing. Google believes that software delivered over the Web will play an increasingly central role, replacing software programs that run on the desktop. In that world, applications run directly inside an Internet browser, rather than atop an operating system, the standard software that controls most of the operations of a PC.

That vision challenges not only Microsoft’s lucrative Windows business but also its applications business, which is largely built on selling software than runs on PCs.

Google said Chrome OS will have a minimalist user interface, leaving most space on the screen to applications.

“All Web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite Web technologies,” the company said.

Google has already developed an open-source operating system called Android that is used in mobile phones. The software is also being built into netbooks by several manufacturers.

But Google has not encouraged netbook makers to use Android. The company appears to be positioning Chrome OS as its preferred operating system for netbooks, though it said competition between the two systems would likely drive innovation.

“It makes total sense,” Mr. Augustin said. “Android wasn’t really meant for netbooks.”

Google had planned to unveil the project on Wednesday but moved up the announcement after receiving inquiries from The New York Times, which reported the company’s plans on its Web site late Tuesday. Ars Technica, a technology news site, also reported the outlines of Google’s plan late Tuesday.

Google released Chrome last year, describing it as not only a Web browser but also a tool to let users interact with powerful Web programs like Gmail, Google Docs and online applications created by other companies. Since then, Google has been adding features to Chrome, like the ability to run such applications even when a user is not connected to the Internet.

Google said Tuesday night that it still had work to do to develop a full-fledged operating system. In a recent interview, Marc Andreessen, who created the first commercial Web browser and co-founded Netscape, said Chrome itself was already well along that path.

“Chrome is basically a modern operating system,” Mr. Andreessen said.

The first wave of netbooks relied on various versions of the open-source Linux operating system, and major PC makers like Hewlett-Packard and Dell have backed the Linux software. Intel, the world’s largest chip maker, has worked on developing a Linux-based operating system called Moblin as well. The company has aimed the software at netbooks and smart phones in a bid to spur demand for its Atom mobile device chip.

To combat these efforts, Microsoft began offering its older Windows XP operating system for use on netbooks at a low price. In addition, the company has vowed that is upcoming Windows 7 software, due out this fall, will run well on the tiny laptops, which have stood out as the brightest part of the PC market during the global economic downturn. Microsoft’s current Vista operating system is designed for more powerful machines.

[BAK2u] TotalMobileSecurity.com - Corporate Clients

Hi all,

we are pleased to share with you that after months of trial with local companies on BAK2u TotalMobileSecurity.com Solution, we are extending the trial beyond Singapore to other countries.


Will be offered as a subscription based service to clients to protect their devices with features services like mobile security solution (anti-theft, SOS call), backup utility, insurance, GPS location, regional and 24/7 support and integration of social media component as a total package for corporations and users.

http://totalmobilesecurity.com/

More information will be coming up soon as more participating partners get involved.

Sincerely,
Paddy Tan
CEO