by vinova | Jan 10, 2012 | iPhone, Projects, Technologies
The SSDC iPhone app will give you an insight into the services provided by Singapore Safety Driving Centre (SSDC). One of the biggest and oldest driving centres in Singapore. SSDC, a private organization was established since 20 July 1983 as a pioneer driving centre in Singapore. SSDC started training for motorcycle riders on 1 April 1985 and motorcar drivers on 1 September 1985. Their mission is to promote road safety and support the long term road safety strategy of the Government. Our vision is to foster both drivers and riders with excellent skills, knowledge and manners for safe driving and riding. In year 2005, SSDC was awarded the tender to build the first multi-storey driving circuit in Woodlands. With a total land area of 25,000 square metres, it housed a 3 storey driving circuit and a 5 storey administration block that allows training and testing for all classes of licences including Class 4 and Class 5 under one roof. It also houses all complementary facilities like theory lecture rooms, a vehicle repair workshop and petrol pumps. SSDC has spared no effort in providing students with the best facilities and instructions for training on road safety. It also conducts defensive driving and riding courses, refresher driving course for qualified license holders. Our rapid development has not gone unnoticed as we were regularly invited to conduct courses in Malaysia, Indonesia, People’s Republic of China, Ghana, India, Nepal etc. ...
by vinova | Dec 20, 2011 | business, iPhone, Projects
“Bé Học Số” (Direct translation should be : Kids Learn Number) is an iphone app from Vinova team that helps kids from 1-to-3 years old to learn numbers. The little kids will learn the number visually via attractive colorful numbers and at the same time vocally via native English and Vietnamese voice. The app attracts helps kids in development of coordination between ears, fingers and brain through playing. It is now free on Apple App Store. Why not check it out? Besides, if you have little kids, nieces or nephews, let them play 😉 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id489783351 App Screenshots: ...
by vinova | Dec 20, 2011 | iPhone, Projects, Team, Technologies
We just released “Sổ Tay Đàm Thoại Anh-Việt” – an English-Vietnamese phrasebook – that helps Vietnamese people to learn English faster and easier. This app also helps Vietnamese to travel the world even though their English are limited. With simple and easy to use UI in the first released, the app “Sổ Tay Đàm Thoại Anh-Việt” is wholeheartedly welcomed by the Vietnamese community by downloading and sharing. The app achieved the top #2 Free App on Apple Store (Vietnam) on 20th Dec 2011 after 3 days of publishing. You can download the app here: “Sổ Tay Đàm Thoại Anh-Việt” Top #2 Apple Store Vietnam: Here are screenshots of the app: ...
by vinova | Dec 15, 2011 | ecommerce, Projects
Once a while we have requests from our clients about developing their Facebook fanpages / or Facebook applications. Below is a recent Facebook Fanpage we just did for XMI Pte Ltd Singapore, the company is selling X-mini Capsule Speakers. In their words: Xmi Pte Ltd Founded in Singapore, the technology hub of Asia, Xmi Pte Ltd is an innovation-driven company focused on bringing the very latest wave of multimedia products to the global market. As we enter a fast-paced digital age, the ability to foresee market trends and react dynamically to market changes becomes quintessential to the success of our business. Xmi Pte Ltd’s main objective is in creating multimedia devices that will precede major trends in lifestyle technology. With unique products of superior functionality, mass-market appeal and uncompromising quality, Xmi Pte Ltd aims to push the boundaries of technology to become a global brand synonymous with future innovations. Xmi Pte Ltd currently has distribution networks in about 80 countries in North America, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific and Australia. Please checkout their facebook fanpage here 2-2gfreq.txt 2-2lemma.txt 2of12.txt 2of12inf.txt 2of4brif.txt 3dtechnology.txt 3esl.txt 5desk.txt 6of12.txt Antworth.txt CRL.txt IM.txt Roget.txt Unabr.dict.txt Unabr.txt Unix.dict.txt abs.txt affiliatemarketing.txt agid.txt anime.txt article writing.txt auto.txt baby-bargain.txt backlinks seo.txt backlinks.txt backpain.txt bad-credit.txt bartending.txt blogging.txt bodybuilding.txt bollywood.txt boston-taxi.txt cat-behavior.txt cateringlingerie.txt celebrity.txt cellphones.txt ceramics.txt cheapcigarettes.txt childrenclothea.txt cinema.txt cleaning.txt concretestaining.txt cooking.txt corncob_lowercase.txt creditcards.txt dancehall.txt dating.txt datinghelp.txt debtconsilidation.txt diy-solar-panels keywords.txt dj-gear.txt dog-training.txt domain-names.txt domains.txt englex-.txt euro-travel.txt facebook.txt fashion.txt football.txt forex.txt furniture.txt furniture2.txt gadgets.txt gambling.txt games.txt getyourexback.txt hairloss.txt health.txt hindu-culture.txt hindu-weddings.txt hinduism.txt hiphop.txt indian-fashion.txt instrumental.txt insurance.txt islam.txt jewelry.txt keywords.txt keywordsaid.txt keywordsdisaster.txt keywordsgov.txt knuth_britsh.txt knuth_words.txt lcd tv.txt led tv.txt...
by vinova | Oct 17, 2011 | ecommerce, Projects, Technologies
We’ve just launched a new Facebook fanpage for POSH Dog London. You guys can see it here: POSH FANPAGE. And remember to support the DOGS by clicking LIKE...
by vinova | Oct 15, 2011 | Projects, Ruby on Rails, Technologies
MooGun Studio is a leading publisher and developer of social mobile games. Moogun thinks of games as an entertainment medium, not just a software product. MooGun designs and develops artistically crafted, broadly accessible video games that push the boundaries of interactive entertainment. Moogun respects the players and want to contribute meaningful, enriching experiences that touch and inspire them. Moogun seeks talent that values integrity and personal growth within an environment of intense collaboration and...
by vinova | Oct 11, 2011 | business, ecommerce, iPhone, Projects, Technologies, Trends
Bored waiting for your train? No worries, you can go grocery shopping while you wait. Grab your phone, point at the grocery items you want to buy and voila your groceries will be delivered to your doorstep later in the day. Hopefully by the time you get home. Say what? Several special ‘grocery aisle’ billboards that display images of grocery items are adorning several Korean train stations. Next to these images are QR codes where customers can simply snap up a code using their smartphone. The codes go straight into a virtual shopping cart and when you’re ready to pay you proceed to your virtual check out, and the products get delivered to your house. Simple, effective and efficient! And not to mention bloody brilliant! Like online shopping, customers can shop without the hassle of time, heavy shopping bags, and long check out lines. But instead of just statically clicking through a website customers can actually immerse themselves in the experience of ‘grocery shopping’ by physically ‘walking up and down the aisle’ to pick out their items. This is probably the best use of QR technology I’ve seen to date. Australian society hasn’t exactly embraced the technology much at all. Half my mates still don’t know what those squiggly black patterns are and what to do with them. And added to that our marketing campaigns that use QR codes are primitive to say the least. Funnily enough I found out how out-dated Australia is with some technology while watching a popular Korean drama. I saw a character in this drama pay for his groceries simply by tapping his smartphone...
by vinova | Oct 11, 2011 | business, ecommerce, iPhone, RFID-NFC, Technologies, Trends
Near field communication, or NFC, allows for simplified transactions, data exchange, and wireless connections between two devices in close proximity to each other, usually by no more than a few centimeters. It is expected to become a widely used system for making payments by smartphone in the United States. Many smartphones currently on the market already contain embedded NFC chips that can send encrypted data a short distance (“near field”) to a reader located, for instance, next to a retail cash register. Shoppers who have their credit card information stored in their NFC smartphones can pay for purchases by waving their smartphones near or tapping them on the reader, rather than bothering with the actual credit card. Co-invented by NXP Semiconductors and Sony in 2002, NFC technology is being added to a growing number of mobile handsets to enable mobile payments, as well as many other applications. The Near Field Communication Forum (NFC Forum) formed in 2004 promotes sharing, pairing, and transactions between NFC devices and develops and certifies device compliance with NFC standards. A smartphone or tablet with an NFC chip could make a credit card payment or serve as keycard or ID card. NFC devices can read NFC tags on a museum or retail display to get more information or an audio or video presentation. NFC can share a contact, photo, song, application, or video or pair Bluetooth devices. The 140 NFC Forum members include LG, Nokia, Huawei, HTC, Motorola, NEC, RIM, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Toshiba, AT&T,Sprint, Rogers, SK, Google, Microsoft, PayPal, Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Intel, TI, Qualcomm, and NXP. Uses Emerging NFC standards allow customers to quickly purchase products and transfer secure information by touching devices. NFC allows companies to reduce staffing, printing, and point of sale costs. Globally, 100 million people use mobile payment outside the U.S., but only...
by vinova | Oct 11, 2011 | ecommerce, iPhone, RFID-NFC, Technologies, Trends
RFID vs NFC RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is a tagging technology that is gaining widespread attention due to the great number of advantages that it offers compared to the current tagging technologies being used today; like barcodes. Near Field Communication, or more commonly known as NFC, is a subset of RFID that limits the range of communication to within 10 centimeters or 4 inches. RFID uses radio frequency waves that are either passive, active, or a combination of both. Active RFID tags have a power source that helps extend their range even further while passive devices rely on the energy that it receives from the interrogating device to send its own information. Among the advantages of RFID is the very small size of the tag that made it possible to be used with small products or to be hidden away neatly. Another excellent advantage is that it doesn’t need a direct line of sight for the information to be read. This is very desirable in baggage tracking application where speed is very essential. RF waves are used to transmit information across very long distances, and RFID is no different. The RF waves can reach very long distances especially when powered. This kind of range is very desirable in certain applications like animal tracking where the animal being tracked might move a couple of kilometers. But this type of range is not desirable in applications like cash cards or passports. Malicious people can receive your information and clone it into another tag and use it for themselves. This is where NFC comes in. Objects that are tagged with NFC are usually passive...
by vinova | Oct 11, 2011 | business, Management, RFID-NFC, Technologies, Trends
RFID User Conference & Technology Exhibition 2011 29 September 2011,9.30am-5.00pm (Registration starts from 8.30am) SIMTech Auditorium Tower Block, Level 3 Organised by National RFID Centre with support from Exploit Technologies (ETPL) & SIMTech Register Now Introduction Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is widely considered as the key enabling technology for business innovations and capability development in many industries including retail, hospitality, automotive, manufacturing, healthcare, pharmaceutical, aerospace, transportation and logistics. This 6th annual user conference and technology exhibition is a sharing session for end users and solution providers to share their experiences, best practices and latest development. National RFID Centre will be sharing the interim outcome RFID Innovation Platform and ways in which end user enterprises can tap on this scheme to develop first of its kind enterprise innovations with the use of RFID. Leading RFID technology providers will be present to unveil their latest RFID solutions. Live demonstrations will be available to showcase the latest innovations from the technology partners. Vendors interested in exhibiting could contact the National RFID Centre to secure an exhibition space. Programme 8.30am Registration 9.30am Welcome Address Guest-of-Honour, Mr Philip Lim, CEO, Exploit Technologies, A*STAR 9.40am Update on RFID Innovation Platform Projects and Call for Proposals Dr Gan Oon Peen, Technical Lead, National RFID Centre 9.50am 7th RFID Innovation Grant Awards Ceremony – Central Laundry Pte Ltd – Zero Spot Laundry Services Ltd – TTJ Designs & Engineering Pte Ltd – Siltronic Singapore Pte Ltd – Tiong Woon Crane & Transport Pte Ltd 10.00am Kanban RFID Information System (KRIS) Mr Goh Sia Hwa, Planning & Logistics Manager, International Engine Component Overhaul (IECO) 10.20am RFID Tagging of Steel Intermediate Bulk Containers...
by vinova | Sep 22, 2011 | business, Technologies, Trends
10gen, a company which offers enterprises a big data database built off of MongoDB, has raised $20 million in financing, led by Sequoia Capital and with participation from 10gen’s other existing investors Flybridge Capital and Union Square Ventures. This brings the company’s total funding to over $30 million. Similar to the way Cloudera commercializes Apache Hadoop, 10gen offers a commercialized version of, and training and support for the open source database hosting NoSQL platform MongoDB. MongoDB is an open source, document-oriented database designed with both scalability and developer agility in mind. Instead of storing your data in tables and rows as you would with a relational database, in MongoDB you store JSON-like documents with dynamic schemas. The goal of MongoDB is to bridge the gap between key-value stores (which are fast and scalable) and relational databases (which have rich functionality). 10gen allows companies to scale databases that store and process massive amounts of data. As Merriman puts it, 10Gen allows companies to be ‘nimble and get things done quickly.” For background, 10gen was founded by DoubleClick Founder and CTO Dwight Merriman and former DoubleClick engineer and ShopWiki Founder and CTO Eliot Horowitz As Merriman tells me, many companies that are dealing with large amounts of data use legacy systems like Oracle. But the problem comes when you need to scale, and buying more servers can be expensive and a challenging task. And as big data and the cloud continue to infiltrate the enterprise, 10gen and MongoDB have experienced major growth. The company now powers major projects more than 400 customers including Disney, Foursquare, Ericsson, Viacom, Telefonica and SAP. In...
by vinova | Sep 17, 2011 | Technologies
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by vinova | Sep 15, 2011 | Technologies
BLK71 is an incubation programme set up by the Media Development Authority, SingTel Innov8 and NUS Enterprise, Blk71 is based in the west of Singapore at the new media hub, Mediapolis Phase 0. They provide free space for individuals and companies who are following the best of their dreams in the start-up world. “Blk71” gets its name literally from the address of its base at Mediapolis Phase 0, located at Block 71 Ayer Rajah Industrial Estate, where SingTel Innov8 and NUS Enterprise are already anchor tenants there. In their words: Plug-in@Blk71 Plug into the Blk 71 network – where people meet, match and connect; where ideas turn into businesses. @ Blk 71, we allow you to define your own space because we are excited to see how freedom breeds creativity, how connections push past boundaries. Use this space as a platform to hack, ideate, or collaborate as you meet with business heros who have been there done that. Connect yourself with like-minded souls and get the excitement brewing It is simple. It is free. Just come lahh !! – Blk 71...
by vinova | Sep 13, 2011 | Technologies
It’s fantastic to know how smart people saying nice things about Ruby on Rails. I love to share them with you guys: “Rails is the most well thought-out web development framework I’ve ever used. And that’s in a decade of doing web applications for a living. I’ve built my own frameworks, helped develop the Servlet API, and have created more than a few web servers from scratch. Nobody has done it like this before.” -James Duncan Davidson, Creator of Tomcat and Ant “Ruby on Rails is a breakthrough in lowering the barriers of entry to programming. Powerful web applications that formerly might have taken weeks or months to develop can be produced in a matter of days.” -Tim O’Reilly, Founder of O’Reilly Media “It is impossible not to notice Ruby on Rails. It has had a huge effect both in and outside the Ruby community… Rails has become a standard to which even well-established tools are comparing themselves to.” -Martin Fowler, Author of Refactoring, PoEAA, XP Explained “What sets this framework apart from all of the others is the preference for convention over configuration making applications easier to develop and understand.” -Sam Ruby, ASF board of directors “Before Ruby on Rails, web programming required a lot of verbiage, steps and time. Now, web designers and software engineers can develop a website much faster and more simply, enabling them to be more productive and effective in their work.” -Bruce Perens, Open Source Luminary “After researching the market, Ruby on Rails stood out as the best choice. We have been very happy with that decision. We will continue building on Rails...
by vinova | Sep 2, 2011 | Ruby on Rails, Technologies
Guys, Ruby on Rails 3.1 has just been released! Feel really good after a long long wait (3 Months since RailsConf). Highlights in Rails 3.1: Streaming Reversible Migrations Assets Pipeline jQuery as the default JavaScript library CHANGES For a much more attractive and easy to read list of changes, please check out the awesome Rails 3.1.0 Release Notes on the Rails Guides site. For a less attractive list of changes, please continue to read! Here are some highlights of the major changes in Rails 3.1.0: ActionPack ActionPack has been updated to include the new asset pipeline. Please see the rails guides on the asset pipeline. Streaming response support has been added. This feature allows you to stream templates to the user before processing has actually finished. See the Rails Guides, or documentation in ActionController::Metal::Streaming for more information. Middleware have been refactored to support this feature. RJS has been extracted to a gem. ActiveModel attr_accessible and friends now accepts :as as option to specify a role Added ActiveModel::SecurePassword to encapsulate dead-simple password usage with BCrypt encryption and salting. ActiveRecord Prepared statement caches have been integrated.ActiveRecord::Base#create and simple finders will use a prepared statement and cache for more performant inserts and selects. Associations have been refactored for greater simplicity and maintainability. default_scope can take any object that responds to call. PostgreSQL adapter only supports PostgreSQL version 8.2 and higher. Migrations use instance methods rather than class methods. Rather than defining a self.up method, you should define an instance method up. Migrations are reversible. When a new migration is generated, the migration will contain one method calledchange. Database changes made in this method will automatically know how to reverse...
by vinova | Aug 26, 2011 | Technologies
Artsine.com – Personalized Original Artwork – Make Easy We’re constantly amazed – there are more artists than musicians and yet the online tools for artists are so much more limited. We’d like to change that a little for the benefit of both artists and their customers. Welcome to Artsine – original art made easy. At its simplest, Artsine is a matching service. If you’ve got an empty space, or are redecorating, or fancy a change, or want to remember a special event or need a great gift – then we’d like to help by finding you some easy, original, and affordable artwork – that is customised exactly to your needs. It’s an easy way to find artists, both local and abroad, that want to do artwork for you – customized to your own specification. Big, small, painting, drawing, sculpture, modern, traditional, abstract, red, yellow, green, blue, dark or light, landscape, portrait, family, logo, photography, digital, contemporary……whatever suits, you will find an artist that can help. Perhaps you want to remember a new or past family member, house, event, celebration. Original artwork is a great way to do that, and because it can now be personalised you will treasure it for a lifetime....
by vinova | Jun 10, 2011 | Technologies
CREATE COLUMNFAMILY users ( ... key varchar PRIMARY KEY, ... full_name varchar, ... birth_date int, ... state varchar ... ); CREATE INDEX ON users (birth_date); CREATE INDEX ON users (state); INSERT INTO users (key, full_name, birth_date, state) VALUES ('bsanderson', 'Brandon Sanderson', 1975, 'UT'); INSERT INTO users (key, full_name, birth_date, state) VALUES ('prothfuss', 'Patrick Rothfuss', 1973, 'WI'); INSERT INTO users (key, full_name, birth_date, state) VALUES ('htayler', 'Howard Tayler', 1968, 'UT'); SELECT key, state FROM users; key | state | bsanderson | UT | prothfuss | WI | htayler | UT | SELECT * FROM users WHERE state='UT' AND birth_date > 1970; KEY | birth_date | full_name | state | bsanderson | 1975 | Brandon Sanderson | UT | via datastax.com HBase has PigLatin, now Cassandra has CQL. It’s a natural evolve step for distributed databases that depend of Map-Reduce to query and processing...
by vinova | Jun 7, 2011 | business, Team, Testimonials
Testimonial for Mr Mike Nguyen, Founder of Vinova I had the great fortune of knowing Mike Nguyen some three years back in the course of my work. He was then working for the vendor that my Company, Pan Country Driving Centre Pte Ltd, engaged for the maintenance of our in-house application system. Actually, Mike Nguyen was supporting another client of the same vendor that happened to use a very similar system and only covered his duties when the staff in charge of my Company was not around. Nonetheless, we still found Mike Nguyen very willing and most helpful. Mike Nguyen, was accommodating as a person. Both diligent and efficient as a worker. Our Company was often delighted with his quick response and fast service in time of needs! His friendly disposition also helped in easy communication. With his strong Information Technology Master Degree background, no problem was too big for him and at times that he did not have a ready answer, he did his own research and humbly asked for more time. Thank you, Mike Nguyen, for all the kind assistance! And Congratulations too! I know a person of your character and calibre is destined for greater things and you have proven me right by being a partner of the new start-up, Vinova, so soon! Well done, Mike Nguyen ! Susan Ang Admin Officer Pan Country Driving Centre Pte Ltd Tel : 62612246 Email :...
