Tag: starhub
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Good Things Must Share: StarHub Rewards New Site
Redemption is a difficult thing. You know when you’ve done something wrong and you’re thinking of what you can do to make things right and it never seems to be adequate? Well, no, I’m not talking about that kind of redemption. In our uniquely Singapore parlance, “redemption” usually means you get rewarded for your loyalty…
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StarHub Loves Every Football Loving Bro (And Chick)
I have often been frowned on by people when I refer to the sport as “soccer”. I never knew how much people here love football. And with these lovers of football, I have something special to share. But first, let me tell you why Americans and Australians sometimes call it soccer. When the game as…
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Sparky’s back
Starhub’s popular TVC character returns in a new series of interactive ads to be screened from 26 August. How do you interact with the ad? You need to download the Hub It! app and fire it up. I had a chance to try it out at a preview (and crashed the app), and it’s pretty…
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This site is not SafeSurf safe
Someone tweeted yesterday afternoon that Starhub’s SafeSurf apparently blocks this site from curious young eyes. The SafeSurf FAQ goes on to describe the service as “a “filtering” service that blocks out undesirable websites on the Internet.” OK, I can understand why some people dislike this blog, but to block a generation of minors (whose parents…
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Our World Cup runneth away
Seriously, we’re really not going to get the World Cup on television? MSN did a survey recently, and out of over 5,000 people who participated, 69% said they weren’t willing to pay a single cent to to watch a game. I guess that’s the national stance that got us into this mess in the first…