TWIA #50: Live from Echelon 2010

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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TWIA #39: Gen Kanai from Mozilla

An old friend of the show, Gen Kanai (@Gen), Director of Asia Business Development at Mozilla, will be coming down to Echelon 2010. He will be presenting different case studies on how start-ups utilize browser add-ons to grow and retain users. In our special interview series, we chat with Gen directly from TEDxTokyo where he tells us about the growth of Firefox in Indonesia, the interesting features which will pop up in Firefox 4.0, the issue on security of internet banking in South Korea, and what he expects from the coming Echelon 2010 conference on 1st and 2nd June 2010. 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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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.