As a prominent Asian brand, HTC has been producing mobile handsets with three different platforms: Windows Mobile, Android & Qualcomm’s Brew OS. What is the roadmap and what may be the new phones coming out in the next quarter? With Melvin Chua, the country manager from HTC Singapore, we discussed all these issues together with the adoption of the various mobile platforms and whether the new explosion of Android handsets have an impact in the smart-phone market. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more
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Our friends at Tech65 starts off this week with their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape: [1] The first in-depth technical analysis of VP8, [2] Google’s “Royalty-Free” WebM Video May Not Be Royalty-Free for Long, [3] An open marketplace for web apps, [4] Android 2.2 coming to Nexus One, other HTC phones, [5] Google TV and [6] Google WiFi data collection. Do click and check out their latest podcast here. You can now also listen to the Tech65 podcast here as well by coming to the blog post directly. Read more
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Just 3 hours before the launch of the iPhone OS 4 from Apple, the TWIA crew are back without Mike Foong and John Lim. Instead, we have two special guests tonight: Michael Smith from Yahoo Southeast Asia and Ben Scherrey from Proteus Technologies (Thailand) who come on and share with us their thoughts on the Apple iPad and the bandit iPad clone from China, the recent news about attempted suicides of workers coming from FoxConn, the company which manufacture all these devices, the Phone OS wars in Asia and the survival of JooJoo within the near future. While on these topics, we also talk about our coming live show in Barcamp KL, the Geeks on the Train, and most importantly, the Echelon 2010 happening on 1st and 2nd June. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more
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Benjamin Scherrey, the Chief Architect from Proteus Technologies from Thailand joined us with the TWIA crew without our host John Lim. With Daniel Cerventus taking over the helm of the moderator, our discussion started with recent tech events such as the Google Android Developer Conference and the preview of Nokia N900 event. We continued with the growing numbers of Facebook users in Asia and chatted about Baidu’s new Hulu clone – Qiyi and also Plug and Play center’s entrance into Malaysia. Of course, we have Ben Scherrey sharing the story behind the Nexus Project, his thoughts on the Thai tech scene and how the entire Southeast Asia (Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore) are now going to swept by a new wave of foreign investments and mentors from all over the world. You can listen to the podcast in SGEntrepreneurs here by going to the post directly. Read more
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The TWIA crew gathers before the Chinese New Year on Valentine’s day with our typical ramblings with Google Nexus One and Google Buzz. Following on, we continue an interesting joint venture between Baidu (China’s top search engine) and Rakuten (Japan’s top e-commerce company), and examine their implications. Then we switched gears to examine why Yahoo! is doing well in East Asia and then do a quick discussion on Wireless SG, the continuing saga between Google China and the Chinese government and Paypal’s run-in with India regulators. You can listen to the podcast in SGEntrepreneurs here by going to the post directly. Read more
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Filed under Media, Mobile, Technology, WebTags: AliBaba, Asia Tech News, Baidu, E-Commerce, Google Buzz, Google China, Google Nexus One, PayPal, podcast, Rakuten, search engine, SoftBank, Tech Podcast, Web/Tech, Wireless SG, Yahoo This Week In Asia
Our friends at Tech65 starts off this week with their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape: [1] Nexus One, [2] 3D TV at CES, [3] Microsoft and HP show off ’slate’ PC, [4] Ford brings smartphone Web apps to cars, [5] Palm unveils new Pre and Pixi handsets, [6] Alienware M11x, [7] Lenovo’s Tablet Docks to Form a Notebook, [8] Lenovo RapidDrive Technology, [9] Skiff, [10] Sanyo Xacti VPC-CS1: a full 1080p camcorder in your pocket. Do click and check out their latest podcast here. You can now also listen to the Tech65 podcast here as well by coming to the blog post directly. Read more
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The TWIA crew starts off the new year with the story of the Great Firewall of China breaking down for a few hours and talk about the new legalized video service from Baidu starting up soon there. While Google’s new phone “Nexus One” has taken the whole world by storm, the crew examines how the Asian market views this new phone and the adoption of Android operating system. Finally, the crew ends with a discussion on the seven technology incubators selected by National Research Foundation Singapore and how it will change the landscape in Southeast Asia as a whole. You can check out the podcast here. Read more
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