Archive for the ‘Asia Pacific’ Category
Thursday, June 4th, 2009
NYT, GigaOm, and others attribute to the 20th anniversary of Tiananmen the fact that Twitter, Blogsplot, YouTube and many other sites are not accessible from China these days.
Even the brand new Microsoft search engine Bing is now blocked!!
I wonder if the cause of Bing blockage will not have anything to do ...
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009
After a few weeks in Shanghai, I am finally settling and getting used to China, and how crazy they drive in Shanghai.
I have a decent 2Mbps ADSL line at home that works much better than the broadband I was getting from Telekom Malaysia in KL. P2P traffic is not throttled aparently, ...
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
Koreans and Japanese enjoy today broadband connections at 100 Mbps. Not being enough, the Korean Communications Commission wants to boost the country broadband infrastructure to provide 1 Gbps service in 2012!!
That is a tenfold increase from today's speed and in only three years from now. If the objective is achieved, ...
Posted in Asia Pacific, Telecom | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
According to comScore and echoed by The Economist, China is the country with most Internet users in the World, accounting for 179.7 million users out of one billion worldwide. The United States of America, until recently the leader, has 163 million users. With a far lower Internet penetration in China ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Thanks to KDDI Lismo music service, 90% of the digital music sales in Japan comes from mobile, according to Wireless Watch Japan. The Record Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) has reported 2007 figures, with total sales increasing for third year in a row, and with an spectacular 91% increase in ...
Posted in Asia Pacific, Media & New Economy | 1 Comment »
Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Each season Mobile Operators in Japan present their new handsets, often developed in exclusive by Japanese vendors as Hitachi, Sanyo, Panasonic or Kyocera.
See these articles with details on the latest models announced by KDDI and Softbank: KDDI spring'08 phones and Softbank 2008 Spring Collection.
It is interesting how Japanese operators manage the ...
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Happy Chinese New Year. Today is the first day of the Chinese New Year.
Our best wishes for the year of the Rat.
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Saturday, January 12th, 2008
Few people are aware about the huge success that KDDI, #2 mobile operator in Japan, has achieved in selling music to mobile phones. LISMO is the name of the music service available to KDDI au subscribers, that offers song downloads over the air.
In a press release back in February ...
Posted in Asia Pacific, TOP Popular Posts, Telecom | 5 Comments »
Thursday, January 10th, 2008
DVB-SH might have been the last standard to arrive on Mobile Broadcast TV technology, but it is showing strong advantages compared to DVB-H, the most extended standard in current trials well ahead of proprietary MediaFlo.
DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcast-Handheld) is an evolution of the exisiting DVB-T (Terrestrial), the current standard for ...
Posted in Asia Pacific, TOP Popular Posts, Telecom | 2 Comments »
Monday, January 7th, 2008
Apple with iTunes is selling music directly to the iPhone.
Nokia has their own music portal Ovi for music and games.
And we see Motorola acquiring companies to reinforce the music service it was offering in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Interestingly mobile operators are not taking an active role to own the ...
Posted in Asia Pacific, Digital Lifestyle | 1 Comment »
