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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Xsago Appoints Ex-CTO of mixi as Technical Advisor

Local mobile technology provider, Xsago has recently appointed Batara Eto, co-founder and ex-CTO of the largest Japanese social network mixi, as Technical Advisor. Xsago has also raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Batara. Read more

65Bits Episode 118: Live from The Sail

Our friends at Tech65 start their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape last week: [1] Exclusive Samsung i7500 Android hands-on (their video got honourable mentions on Engadget and Gizmodo last week), [2] Sony Ericsson’s new Theme Creator, [3] Amazon launches the Kindle DX, [4] DJ Hero, Band Hero and Guitar Hero 5 announced, [5] Windows 7 RC1 given extension well into 2010, but will shut down every two hours after March 2010, [6] iPhone 3.0 to have parental control for apps, [7] CodeXtremeApps 2009 and [8] Nokia’s Developer summit 2009 – (i) Prologue (ii) Day 1 (iii) Nokia N97, N-gage and Symbian and [9] Microsoft Dreamspark – Free Microsoft Developer tools for students and the Byte Of The Week: TokBox.com. Our editor, BL is the guest for this week’s Tech65. Do click and check out their podcast.

Interview with the team at MotionElements.com

Helmed by three founders, Joanne, Mark and Sean, MotionElements.com is a unique marketplace that allows digital artists to browse, buy and sell Asian-themed keyed live footages, 2D / 3D animation, 3D models and other stock motion elements. We speak to them to find out more about their story. Read more