SMU agents in action
EPHRAIM LOY Every year, special effort is made to showcase to incoming SMU students what life is like. This culmination of events is at Convocation – an event to mark the start of university life in SMU.
Tweets we spotted: 24 August 2009 to 31 August 2009
OWEN TAN http://twitter.com/owentan A picture says a thousand words. And sometimes, a Tweet does too. In this amazing age of technology where social networking spreads news faster than the headliners, we bring to you what people have been talking about that you should probably already know. Well, if you don’t, you should know about it....
Kindle, the electronic textbook?
The release of the Kindle DX is considered by some as the saving spell for the newspaper market and a way of reading. Though not widely available everywhere as yet, some newspapers and content publishers are starting to see its positive advantages.
Enter Android
Technology firms have realized that anything they can do, Google can do better. Ask Jeeves invented the search engine market, but disappeared into oblivion after Google’s inception. Microsoft dominated the email industry with Hotmail. However, Google bettered Hotmail with Gmail, which provided users with limitless storage space and lightning speeds. Apple has revolutionized the Smartphone...
The iPhone 3G – Our Verdict
Even if most of your SMU life has been spent mugging, it is inconceivable to think that you have not come across information about the iPhone – Apple’s revolutionary new product. Rarely, if ever, has a single product commanded such attention from such a diverse set of people. We at The Blue and Gold are...
5 Applications Every SMU Student Must Have
The following is a list of tools or software, which has been compiled keeping in mind common needs of various SMU students. All the tools listed below are free to use and potentially very useful. We urge our readers to try out some, if not all of these applications.