Category Archives: Technology
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” –
Will Google Wave create a Tsunami in APAC?
Google Wave is due to be released at the end of this month… well to 100,000 invitees first. I’m sure a lot of you have seen the now infamous Google Wave demo at the Google I/O conference. If not, you can see it here, it’s long… but worth watching. Essentially, Google Wave resulted out of
The H1B bottleneck – an opportunity in reverse
Read here and here for articles in Techcrunch on the contribution of immigrants into the US and how they are powerful innovation and employment generators, especially in the tech sector. There is a powerful case, xenophobia aside, that such immigrants are extremely important building blocks of the innovation engine that drives silicon valley. From businessweek:
Indian railways & the Indian internet space
The Indian internet industry is growing faster than the regional average, albeit helped by a lower base to start with. There are a lot of success stories in the ecommerce space, but the leader of pack is an unlikely contender. It is the Indian railways - set up in 1853 and with all the trappings
Online TV puts Freeview to shame
The Australian public have been told the Freeview service represents a major leap forward in free to air digital television in Australia, but do the specifications of Freeview compliance limit the functionality of co-branded products, essentially making them unusable? If the PVR support forums are anything to go by, the answer is an emphatic yes.
Baidu.com – Giant of a Search Engine in China
It is interesting when Hichame in his post talks about Baidu vs Google in mobile search and the Chinese Search engine viewing mobile search a ‘strategic focus’ for the future. Google has been fighting hard to wrestle market share from Baidu in the Chinese market for the past 2 years without much success and Baidu
