If you think that alcohol and your computer do not mix, think again. Normally a few glasses of beer will not boost your memory, but in this issue you will learn that more beer equals more memory. But alcohol can also destroy things if you are not careful. On the other hand there are [...]

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A general awareness of green buildings in Indonesia, especially Jakarta is still not well organized due to people’s assumptions of green being expensive and not good looking, but green buildings are improving rapidly amongst a few building designs. The integrated approach towards construction and design of modern green structures is improving and this has encouraged [...]

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Do you remember the song Love is in the Air, which was a big hit by John Paul Young in 1978? I guess the normal people under us will, and don’t get me wrong, I don’t mean old people. When I say normal I mean the people that do not need the Internet to find [...]

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We call the magical device we have in our pockets a “phone”, but it really should be called a “communicator”. Amazing advances in technology in the last few years have turned the simple phone (which was amazing enough in its day) into a multi-platform multimedia communications device that gives us the ability to communicate in [...]

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Nielsen’s Southeast Asian Digital Consumer claims that Indonesia’s Internet penetration rate is at 21%, growing at 20% annually. Rama compared this to Singapore’s 67% which makes Indonesia’s adoption rate look very low, but consider the population numbers between the two countries, not to mention geographical differences. Indonesia had 237.6 million people in 2010 with an [...]

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1. “The internet has stopped working.” This shouldn’t even surprise me anymore. I arrive at the office in the morning, switch my computer on and can’t get online. To my horror the modem is doing the flashing lights of doom dance. As usual, after a loud fit of hysteria, I call my service provider and [...]

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I’ve been an active user of smartphones since I got my first Treo 180 in 2002. All the devices I have owned had the basic functions like email and calendar and contacts, but 10 years later I find myself using my phone and tablet for things I would never have imagined just a few years [...]

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Living in a country that is not really ready to go green yet makes it a bit difficult to say or write something smart about IT and going green. Waiting at a traffic light I suddenly notice that the car in front of me has opened the back passenger door window and bang, two hand [...]

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For about the last 15 years I haven’t listened to the radio. More specifically, I haven’t even owned a radio to listen to (except the one in my car that I would never use as it only has local stations). But all this changed a few months ago when I got TuneIn radio for my [...]

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A friend of mine once asked me, “What are the 5 largest cities in Indonesia?” Confidently I replied, “Jakarta, Surabaya, Bandung, Yogya and maybe Medan.” “Nope, you’re wrong,” he said. “It’s North Jakarta, South Jakarta, West Jakarta, East Jakarta and Central Jakarta.” While I don’t think he was technically correct, his point was clear. This [...]

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