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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TWIA Episode 7: Mozilla Drumbeat @ Neoteny with Mark Surman

As promised, we have a special episode in This Week in Asia. From the Neoteny Conference hosted by Joi Ito and his team in Neoteny Labs, we interviewed Mark Surman (@msurman), Executive Director of Mozilla Foundation. Mark is in Singapore to host the Mozilla Drumbeat event @ Neoteny Conference where we have ten contestants to pitch about their ideas in the open web initiative. We asked Mark about the Mozilla Drumbeat initiative, his thoughts about the start-up scene in Singapore thru the Neoteny Conference and some interesting initiatives from Mozilla Foundation, for example, Mobile Firefox in Maemo and HTML 5. Bernard and Daniel are hosts in this special episode of TWIA. You can download the latest podcast here. Read more

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Mozilla Drumbeat Challenge @ Neoteny Camp Singapore

The Neoteny Singapore Camp (NSC) is an event in Singapore, taking place on 12-13 Dec 2009 for two full days in SMU, Institute of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Singapore. One of the highlights of the events will be the Mozilla Drumbeat Challenge initiated by Mark Surman, Executive Director of Mozilla Foundation, a session during the camp on 12 Dec 2009 from 5-6 pm. The Mozilla Drumbeat Challenge now seeks entrepreneurs to deliver a presentation in 5 minutes of pure passion where you can (1) outline a concrete project idea that will make the web better or simply (2) explain the open web and why it matters. More details are included here: Read more

65 Bits Episode 78 : Cheap iPhones?

Our friends at Tech65 start their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape last week: (1) Technology library to loan test gadgets for disabled. – The Infocomm Accessibility Center of the Society for the Physically Disabled, (2) The Creative ZEN X-Fi rumored!, (3) Hutchison Telecom (Hong Kong) has revealed its pricing and service plans for the iPhone 3G, (4) iCall App Enables GSM to WiFi / VoIP Switching On The iPhone, (5) Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today revealed Diablo® III, (6) Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. introduces Blizzard Authenticator, an optional extra layer of security for World of Warcraft® and finally, Byte of the week : Mozilla Labs – Introducing Weave. Do click and check out their podcast.