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 [...]
Last night, I caught a glimpse of a few Tweets that mentioned Microsoft ripping off Plurk… and decided I’d do some digging this morning.
It turns out, I didn’t have to dig too far, Plurk’s blog post kind of say’s it all. TechCrunch, NYT, WSJ and many others have also covered this news.
To put [...]
It’s often forgotten that a big part of Asia speaks Arabic… the Middle East, is after all is ‘West Asia’ or ‘Near East’. Arabic language came as the 8th top language used in the web with over 50 million internet users in the Middle East. The growing rate in Internet usage in the Middle East [...]
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 presented [...]
Friendster has launched virtual gifts and the Friendster Gift Shop in Malaysia, which represents the first in a series of upcoming products the social network will roll out to better monetise its global user base. The virtual gifts and the Friendster Gift Shop products will use the new Friendster Wallet allowing for its users to [...]
I’ve seen this chart on several blogs the last few days, and thought it was quite useful. It aims to present a geographic view of average internet speeds around the world in relation to the monthly cost per every 1 Mbps.
It’s great to see Japan and Korea leading the pack so prominently… and more than [...]
As reported here and here, Google is looking to participate in the upcoming auctions for providing WiMAX services in India. WiMAX or Wireless microwave access is also known as Broadband Wireless Access or BWA. Google could either go on its own or be a technology partner to an existing Telecom service provider.
India’s WiMAX subscribers are [...]
A couple of weeks ago, we wrote about Australia’s ambitious Gov 2.0 plan, and it’s MashUp Australia competition, which allows and encourages programmers to develop applications that access streams of open Government Data. In light of the above we thought it was also worth blogging about the recent report released by the Japanese government: ‘ICT [...]
Yahoo’s famed Open Hack developer event is coming to SE Asia for the first time. While it will be hosted in Jakarta, the event is open to 200 Developers from across the whole region… so better Sign Up quick.
In addition, there are some developer competitions being run in Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam… and [...]
It’s Australian Web Week this week… with a whole host of interesting events for anyone involved in the web. From pure geeks, to entrepreneurs to startup incubators… all are invited to join a number of social and professional gatherings.
Unfortunately, due to my full time job, I only have time to attend 1 evening event per [...]