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 #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 #171: HR65

Our friends at Tech65 starts off this week with their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape: [1] Facebook event outlines ’simpler’ privacy controls, [2] Quit Facebook Day is May 31, [3] Microsoft’s Robbie Bach and J Allard leaving as part of broader shakeup, [4] Apple overtakes Microsoft as being the largest technology company (For a day), [5] Palm’s Matias Duarte joins Google as User Experience Director for Android, [6] iPad 3G early adopters here soon able to use microSIM cards from local telcos. 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 #27: What’s the deal with Softbank?

The TWIA crew returns without our moderator, John Lim. In his place, our co-producer Mike Foong has taken the helm and drive the discussion on the important news that rocked Asia this week. With our guest, Chew Lin Kay (@BlinkBl_nk) from BlinkBl-nk.com and Hackerspace SG, we surveyed the happenings from Barcamp KL, BlinkBl_nk to the launch of Amazon AWS in Asia, and moved to the important news of the week: (i) Ushi.cn, a Chinese Linkedin clone after BL’s rant in the live show that there is no linkedin clone in China from the live show? (ii) Yahoo! Japan and DeNA to run social game site, Yahoo! Mobage, (iii) Japan to adopt Chinese standards for 4G, (iv) Microsoft plans to invest in Kaixin001 and finally (v) Baidu filling up the vacuum for Google China now. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more

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TWIA #26: Live from Barcamp KL Part 1

Finally, our first live show for This Week in Asia has happened in Segi College, Kuala Lumpur. With John Lim as our moderator together with our co-hosts Bernard Leong and Daniel Cerventus and Michael Smith Jr, our highest recurring guest in the show, we talked about the journey of TWIA till today and future plans and the proceed to hit the three top news of the day: (1) Apple iPhone has taken 4.9% of the mobile market and 72% of the smart-phone market in Japan, (2) Lenovo as the sole candidate left after HTC dropped the bid for Palm and (3) the acquisition of iHipo to Potentialpark in Singapore. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more

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65Bits #165: Kinky spot

Our friends at Tech65 starts off this week with their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape: [1] Microsoft Kin One and Kin Two announce, [2] Here Come the Twitter Ads, [3] Twitter Gets Official iPhone, Blackberry Apps and [4] Palm Said to Tap Goldman, Quattrone to Find Buyers. 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 24: From TenCent to HTC

The TWIA crew is back without Cerventus who was on his way back to KL from Singapore during the recording. We discussed how the iPad performed with respect to the hosts of the show, while moving to the stories of the three new phones C3, C6 and E5 launched by Nokia and China has boosted the downloads in the Ovi Store. Marching on, we examine the reasons why TenCent (who owns QQ) have invested in Russia’s DST and whether HTC will acquire Palm. Finally, we end with more outsourcing horror stories, and with a bonus story from Mike on his review of the Opera Mini app on the iPhone. Do look forward to the special reviews for the upcoming Echelon and also the live show in Barcamp KL next week. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more

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65Bits Episode 152: Car computer crash along PIE

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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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.