August 18, 2011 by Terence LEE
While JooJoo may be dead and buried, Singapore-based Fusion Garage isn’t. They’ve even showed signs of life by recently raising a new round of funding and launching their second tablet — the Grid 10 — in the US. Read more
September 3, 2010 by Chew Lin KAY
On August 24, a Californian court issued preliminary rulings on the lawsuit between TechCrunch and Fusion Garage over their collaboration on a tablet device. Of the five motions that were filed against Fusion Garage, all except that of the breach of fiduciary duty have been struck down. Most immediately relevant for Fusion Garage is the squashing of TechCrunch’s demand to sequester proceeds from sales of their JooJoo tablet.
What’s been going on?
In 2008, TechCrunch announced their project to build a low-priced tablet device; two prototypes and six months later, Fusion Garage was brought in to work on the software side of the project. Originally planned for launch end-November 2009, Mike Arrington announced the death of the CrunchPad, claiming that TechCrunch had been booted off their own project. Read more
July 22, 2010 by Chew Lin KAY
While the JooJoo, Fusion Garage’s flagship product, was never marketed as an iPad clone, the iPad’s official launch in Singapore tomorrow 23rd July should have triggered a flurry of activity from Fusion Garage’s PR machine. However, a quick Google search will show that there’s been no coverage on the JooJoo or Fusion Garage itself in recent months. What’s going on? Read more
June 12, 2010 by SGEntrepreneurs
Coming live from Echelon 2010 on 2 June with the largest panel ever assembled and a major announcement, the TWIA crew is in full force for the 1st time with interesting threads of discussion ever pursued. With the major announcement for TWIA that DailySocial.net (Indonesia) and Mobinode.com (China) will syndicate our show in the future, we hope to extend our show to reach further shores that provide Asia with the analysis on news which rocked the web, mobile and tech space. In our distinguished panel, we have Dave McClure (@davemcclure), Serkan Toto (@serkantoto) from TechCrunch, Mohan Belani from E27 (@mohanbelani), Gen Kanai from Mozilla Corporation (@genkanai), Rama Mamuaya from DailySocial.net (@rampok) and the full team with Chew Lin Kay (@chewlink) and Michael Smith (@dreampipe). We start with a review of Echelon 2010 with discussion on social gaming, the shift from web to mobile browser in Asia, the start-ups launch with Foound leading the way and Dave’s thoughts on how they can improve for the future. Following on, we crisscrossed through a variety of issues crossing from country to country (China, Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia and etc.), the travel stories from Geeks on a Plane (GOAP) and take interesting questions from our audience. Finally, we wrapped up with what all our panelists wish for Echelon 2011. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more
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April 12, 2010 by SGEntrepreneurs
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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April 9, 2010 by SGEntrepreneurs
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March 31, 2010 by Gwendolyn Regina T
90 sounds like the score you get on a primary school quiz. Well, it apparently also is the number of pre-orders Fusion Garage had for their flagship tablet, the Joo Joo.
What seems to be a development of the legal wrangle between Fusion Garage and TechCrunch has just exposed the extremely low numbers of pre-orders for the device. When we first talked about pre-sales with Chandra of Fusion Garage, I imagined numbers in the 5 or 6 digit range. Now I know better. Read more
March 15, 2010 by Larissa THIA
The latest news is that Fusion Garage’s Joo Joo has revamped its interface, and that though pre-ordered Joo Joos were supposed to be shipped by end Feb, a manufacturing delay means the device will only be shipped in two weeks time on 25th March. Read more
February 6, 2010 by SGEntrepreneurs
With Pamela Fox (@pamelafox) from Google Australia as our special guest this week, the TWIA crew tried to make sense out of the JooJoo’s new partnership with CSL Malaysia. We also reviewed the future of Naver, the top search engine in South Korea, the Malaysia government’s declaration of 95% adoption in OSS and most exciting of all, the impact of the court ruling on iiNet’s victory over the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT). Not to mention, we weaved Google Wave, FilmCamp SG, the #dIE6 movement and adoption of open source in governments into an exciting week of This Week in Asia. Read more
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February 4, 2010 by Gwendolyn Regina T
We mentioned earlier this week that some exciting news regarding Fusion Garage and their product the JooJoo will be headed your way. The company just announced who the mysterious OEM partner is. One of the largest manufacturers of cell phones, mobile devices, netbook and notebook computers in Southeast Asia and distribution giant, CSL Group of Malaysia, will be the company taking care of the manufacturing cost of the JooJoo and at the same time, has also made a strategic investment in Fusion Garage. Read more
