China Digest: eBay targets China, Govt embraces Weibo, and more

Here are some interesting startup news from China, not only in its capital, Beijing, but also other startup hubs such as Shanghai, Hong Kong, Hangzhou, and many more. Read more

TWIA #64: Blackberry, Wine & Dine @ Smithy’s Place

The TWIA crew are brought together in Smithy’s place where all of us can have a great view of the Singapore city landscape. With wine and pizza, the crew discussed the news that dominate the Asian landscape – first with everything on Blackberry and their run-ins with the governments of Saudi Arabia and India, some thoughts on recent events from Mark Hurd’s resignation from HP to Google-Verizon’s Net Neutrality proposal and our friends in Hackerspace Hong Kong.
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65Bits #180: We Love To Queue

Our friends at Tech65 starts off this week with their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape with their thoughts [1] Official: HTC rolling out Android 2.2, 720p video, iTunes sync to unlocked Euro Desires this weekend, [2] HP Won’t Make Any Windows Phone 7 Devices, [3] Apple starts patenting mobile app ideas, [4] StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty – 12 Years of Wait – StarCraft II : Wings of Liberty, [5] iPhone 4 and 3 Mid-night Launches, [6] RSVP to Tech65 Party 2010. Note that the Tech65 are catching up with editing and publishing new episodes for listeners and do bear with them. Do click and check out their latest podcast here (and they jump forward 3 episodes this time). 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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65Bits #176: For the 1.33 Billion listeners

Our friends at Tech65 starts off this week with their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape with their thoughts [1] HP Print Apps and ePrint, [2] Google Me and [3] Chinese alphabet and .xxx domains accepted by ICANN. Note that the Tech65 are catching up with editing and publishing new episodes for listeners and do bear with them. 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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65Bits #172: WebOS on a Calculator

Our friends at Tech65 starts off this week with their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape: [1] HP CEO: “We didn’t buy Palm to be in the smartphone business”, [2] Samsung Galaxy Tab revealed, [3] AT&T makes sweeping changes to data plans. 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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65Bits #167: HP got a Palm

Our friends at Tech65 starts off this week with their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape: [1] HP buys Palm for $1.2b, [2] Microsoft confirms, kills Courier in one fell swoop, [3] Microsoft says Android infringes on its patents and [4] Sony delivers floppy disk’s last rites. 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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TWIA Episode 13: The Google Showdown with China

Gen Kanai, Director of Asia Business Development from Mozilla Corporation joins the TWIA crew as the guest to discuss the Google Showdown with the China government on unfiltered search & censorship and examine the implications of foreign companies entering into the Chinese market. The TWIA crew and Gen Kanai continue to discuss the recent Yahoo! Friendster partnership in Southeast Asia and an exciting discussion about the security of mobile banking in Korea and how that ties up with browsers, search engines and security protocols in East Asia. Read more

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The Future Of Technology Is…

Filled with hovercrafts? Flying trains? Androids overrun? Increasing individualization or loss of it? What do you think the future of technology is? HP and Microsoft organised a series of events in the region titled “Future is…” meant to spark imaginations and spur people to think of the future of technology, our future. Read more

65Bits Episode 136: The Noisy Episode

Our friends at Tech65 start their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape last week: [1] Microsoft Launches Office Web Trial, [2] No TCP/IP patches Windows XP, [3] Stay connected while in-camp, [4] Twitter’s New Avatar Takes Over Unsuspecting Accounts, [5] Log In to Facebook With Your Username, [6] No More Windows Mobile Phones From Palm, [7] iNQ Mobile, [8] HP Launch new Notebook/Netbook, [9] Sony Ericsson promises to change things forever on September 21 and now the Question of the week: Which is better, Omnia II or i8910HD?. Do click and check out their latest podcast here.

65Bits Episode 132: Shake it like a polaroid picture

Our friends at Tech65 start their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape last week: [1] Samsung opens up TouchWiz development, [2] Snow Leopard Seeds uses 32bit Kernel and drivers by default, [3] Twitter Documentary, [4] PS3 Slim, [5] Study Touts Internet Explorer 8 As Worlds Most Secure Browser, [6] HP Mini 1000 hacked into touchscreen tablet and the Byte of the week: Posterous. Do click and check out their podcast.