Category Archives: Mobile Tech
Toshiba launches a trilingual mobile translator system…
Toshiba has designed and is launching a Trilingual voice app for mobile phones that allows a user to translate freely between English, Japanese and Chinese. The cool thing about this app is that it is completely client-side and requires no Server-side interaction… reducing dents to your data plan. The first app is due on Window’s
TokyoCamp.. a huge success..
The latest TechCrunch TokyoCamp was held last Friday and by the looks of it, it was a resounding success with some great Japanese (and 1 Singaporean and 1 South Korean) startups demo-ing their wares. This also includes some demos by previous Asian startup who had presented at TechCrunch50. Here is the list of startups that
Baidu launches Mobile Search applications..
It looks like Baidu are well on their way to implementing the Mobile strategy they set out a couple of months ago. The latest in the Chinese search-market battle between Baidu and Google, is Baidu’s announcement yesterday that they are launching a number of mobile applications with a local carrier. This move is quicker than
Twitter text in India
Airtel – India’s largest mobile network – has launched an ‘exclusive’ deal with twitter. Its subscribers will be able to tweet directly onto their twitter accounts using a text message. Further, such tweets will be delivered as text messages to all Airtel subscribers who are registered as tweet subscribers. It is an interesting concept, but
Augmented Reality – A reality for Buuuk
I have been reading on augmented reality for a while now (guess Hichame has more experience in that). To date, most of the application have been in the US or Europe. I have yet to see any of the augmented reality apps that is specific to APAC…until today and I checked my iPhone App store
Sprice.com goes Mobile
In my previous article “Mobile commerce is reshaping the way consumers plan, book and consume travel” about mobile apps re-shaping the way consumers plan and book travel and how most of the current apps are US-centric. Well, Sprice.com has just join the foray of travel service providers with their iPhone apps – “Sprice Hotels” –
Internet bus rumbles in to Adelaide at hefty cost
Adelaide, South Australia have followed in the footsteps of many other tech savvy cities and developed an internet enabled bus going by the name of, “i-commute bus”. The project has been sponsored by the South Australian government in partnership with Cisco systems, Adam internet, and real-time passenger information system “transSpot” of Israel. The bus will
China Unicom building its own future
Earlier this week I read a very interesting article about China Unicom being given an exclusive deal to develop the mobile communications infrastructure of the Hubei province, China. Something about a project this ambitious seemed a bit strange for a company whose net profit decreased by 45.28% year-on-year in the first six months of 2009.
Just what China needed: Dell Mini 3i
As previously mentioned Dell have released a new phone to the Chinese market, a phone with some very confusing limitations. The Dell Mini 3i lacks wifi and 3G capabilities, which these days makes it nearly an antique in the eyes of western consumers, myself included. To understand why Dell would want to make such a
Baidu vs. Google in Mobile Search..
Media Asia have an interesting article about Baidu, China’s largest Search Engine, making Mobile Search a ‘strategic focus’ for the future. I think that sounds about right, Baido needs to launch some innovative mobile apps quickly to maintain it’s head-on battle with Google on the Chinese Search front. “There are 150 million WAP users in
