Responding to the media reports, Google apologises for connectivity issues with the Nexus One and provides Nexus One owners in Singapore with the solution.

For Starhub and M1 customers, they will need to enter in their APN settings to connect to their 3G network. This can be done by any user in less than a minute:

1. Go to Settings > Wireless & Networks > Mobile Networks > Access Point Names.

2. Hit Menu button, create new APN.

3. Enter new APN settings. See below for the details.

4. Hit Menu button, save settings.

5. Select the new APN name, then hit the home button. Your 3G connection will shortly appear in the top bar.

For Starhub customers:

• Name: Starhub Internet
• APN: shwapint
• Username: [leave blank]
• Password: [leave blank]

For M1 customers:

• Name: M1 Internet
• APN: sunsurf
• Username: 65
• Password: user123

For SingTel customers, the Nexus One should auto-connect to their 3G network.

However is this is not so for for SingTel customers, please use these details:

• Name: SingTel Internet
• APN: internet
• Username: 65IDEAS (or blank)
• Password: IDEAS (or blank)

If customers have further enquiries, they can look for support at www.google.com/phone which includes how-to videos, feature overviews, ordering/payment/set-up/warranty info, a user’s guide and help forum.

If users can’t find the answers they need, they can call the HTC Support line in Singapore at 1-800-238-7788 from 8am-8pm, Monday to Saturday.

HTC is providing local support and repair services for Nexus One.

source:AsiaOne, Sun, Jan 10, 2010

Google introduces new commenting tool ‘Sidewiki’
Narrow pop-up browser panel allows notes and comments to be posted alongside Web pages. -AFP
Thu, Sep 24, 2009
AFP
WASHINGTON, US – Google unveiled a new tool on Wednesday which allows notes and comments to be posted alongside Web pages for others to read.
‘Google Sidewiki’ appears as a narrow pop-up browser panel on the left hand side of a website and displays messages from users about the content of the page.
The messages are visible to other users of Sidewiki who visit the site and they can post their own comments, but they cannot edit the comments of others.
A website about museums in New York city, for example, would have a Sidewiki panel featuring relevant notes and comments from other visitors.
Google, in a blog post, said Sidewiki was a way for Web users to contribute ‘insights’ and ‘helpful information’ next to any Web page.
The Internet search and advertising giant said it had developed an algorithm to ensure that the ‘most useful, high-quality entries’ are displayed at the top of a Sidewiki panel.
Sidewiki is a feature of Google Toolbar for Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers and Google said it will be available soon for Google Chrome, its own Web browser.
Google Sidewiki is similar to other services launched in the past and it met with mixed reviews from technology bloggers.
Ars Technica said Sidewiki was ‘intriguing’ but ‘it’s unclear if the service will really deliver a lot of value’ and it could end up being ‘little more than a glorified comment system.’
PaidContent.org said Sidewiki ‘may anger some online publishers who have commenting systems of their own that they’d prefer visitors continue to use.’
A blogger for TechCrunch said he does not have high hopes for Sidewiki.
‘Marking up the Web has limited appeal to the average consumer,’ he wrote.

Google announced on its official blog, setting up its own personal computer operating system. Clearly, Google is completing with giant Microsoft.

“We’re announcing a new project,” said the Mountain View, California-based company, revealing the system would be based on its Chrome browser and would be an open source operating system initially targeted at netbooks.

The move is “our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be,” Google said in a statement posted late Tuesday.

The search engine giant said it would open source the code for “Chrome OS” for user input and that netbooks running the system would be available by the middle of next year.

“Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We’re designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds,” the company said.

Google noted that in deciding to embark on the new track, they took heed of its user messages, namely that “computers need to get better.”

People “want their computers to always run as fast as when they first bought them,” and they want to access the Internet instantly, Google said, adding that “we’re definitely going to need a lot of help from the open source community to accomplish this vision.”

The Chrome browser was originally launched in September but has failed to enjoy the spectacular success of Google’s search engine.

The company floated its first US television advertisements in recent months for Chrome, as the browser has only captured a tiny share of a market dominated by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.

Microsoft’s freshly launched search engine Bing, meanwhile, aimed to hit back at Google’s gains in the search market, although it still lags behind its rival.

Web analytics firm StatCounter said last week that Bing had carved out an 8.23 percent share of the US search market in June, up from 7.21 percent in April and 7.81 percent in May.

By contrast, however, Google continued to dominate the search market with a huge 78.48 percent share last month.

Google already has an operating system — Android — but the company said in its announcement that while there was some overlap, they were separate entities.

Android is only used for mobile phones at the moment, but the software has showcased Google’s keen interest in expanding beyond its search engine base. – AFP/ir