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China Unicom Adds 3 Million New 3G Subscribers in August
4G? We don’t need no stinkin’ 4G! Despite the impressive development of China Mobile’s superfast 4G TD-LTE network, 3G remains the fastest commercially available mobile connection in China. Moreover,...
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Lazada Indonesia: JP Morgan Investment Won’t Change Our Management System
Just recently, we got confirmation that JP Morgan has made an investment in Rocket Internet’s Asia-oriented e-commerce site Lazada. It’s natural for readers to be curious what changes are in store for...
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Docomo Gives a Sneak Peek at Futuristic Video-Phone Glasses
Docomo's Hands-free Video Phone Glasses Concept We’ve already told you about two innovative mobile interfaces (see ibeam and Grip UI) unveiled by NTT Docomo (NYSE:DCM) at its CEATEC preview yesterday....
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China’s Broadband Speeds Show Shanghai Zooming Ahead [INFOGRAPHIC]
Regular readers will know that China is aiming for 100 Mbps broadband in some regions by 2015. But for now, most Chinese web users spend a lot of time looking at spinning or expanding loading graphics...
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Say Cheeeeese: SingTel Acquires Photo App Pixable for $26.5 Million
Singapore-based carrier SingTel (ASX:SGT) sure loves social apps, today snapping up the US photo-sharing service Pixable for US$26.5 million. Pixable (app pictured right), which says it has over 4...
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Join Tech in Asia on WeChat!
Folks who know me know that I’m a fan of Tencent’s WeChat. It’s a far superior product compared to the other chat apps that I have used in the past. So when the offer came for us to put Tech in Asia...
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Jakarta Pilkada for Android: How Internet Activism Added Fun to Jakarta...
The final chapter of the Jakarta Governor’s election started this morning as second-round voting began. To celebrate democracy in the capital city of Indonesia, AR&Co. have launched an app called...
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DeNA Partners With Gloops To Tackle U.S Market
We received news this afternoon that DeNA has partnered with Gloops to bring games into the U.S. and also other parts of the world, including China and South Korea. Gloops is one of the largest game...
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Calling All Symbian Devs: Merah Putih Incubator and Nokia to Hold HackNation...
Indonesia’s Merah Putih Incubator (MPI) together with Nokia will hold a 24-hour hackathon called HackNation. Developers will create mobile apps out of the available APIs to be used on the...
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Qihoo 360 Search’s “Million-Dollar” Domain Name
Earlier on today, Qihoo 360 announced the new domain name for its very controversial search engine that was launched in August. And there it is: www.so.com. According to Qihoo CEO Zhou Hongyi, this...
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Love Metal Slug? You Will Love Apocalypse Max
If you like Metal Slug then you probably like this game — Apocalypse Max: Better Dead Than Undead. It was designed and developed by Sourcebits, a Sequoia backed startup based in Bangalore, India. The...
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Apple Botches China and Japan Maps in iOS 6
Photo: japanmobiletech.com Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has abandoned Google Maps in favor of its own solution in the newly released iOS. But it seems that from a consumer point of view, that this move has some...
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China’s Alibaba Spins Off Aliyun Mobile OS Business, Supports it With $200M...
In a surprise move, Chinese e-commerce behemoth Alibaba is spinning off its Aliyun mobile OS division and giving it $200 million worth of investment. It comes just a week after Aliyun suffered a major...
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Australian Entrepreneurs Aim to Reinvent the Light Bulb With LIFX
Last Thursday, I was catching up over the phone with a friend, Ben Hamey, a mobile app developer from Melbourne. He told me about a new project he was working on, a smart light bulb that could be...
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One Year In, Xiaomi Still Selling Like Hotcakes
It was a little over a year ago that Xiaomi opened the first round of preorders for its first handset, the M1. The 300,000 available units sold out in 34 hours. But a year later, has Xiaomi still got...
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360Search’s New So.com Down in China, DNS Issues to Blame?
Just hours after it was announced, 360 Search’s new domain so.com is down for many users in China. The outage was confirmed in a Weibo post by 360 Search’s official account, which asks that users wait...
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WTF: Hours After Release, Qihoo’s New So.com Blacklisted on Web of Trust
Oh, Web of Trust (WOT)… You have the power to blacklist sites based on whatever reasons you’d like. Qihoo 360’s just today launched the So.com URL for its search engine. But the party was spoiled by...
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To China’s Train Tickets Site: For the Love of God, Call Alibaba or Something
Anyone who has been following the yearlong series of blunders that has been the Chinese Railway Ministry’s online ticket sales platform 12306.cn has probably thought to themselves at one point or...
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More People in China Use Safari Than Either Firefox or Chrome? [CHARTS]
The newest web browser stats from CNZZ show a surprising development: Apple’s Safari web browser – which is preinstalled on all its Macs and is also available for Windows – has a greater desktop...
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Dear Whatsapp, Aren’t You Threatened By WeChat?
Whatsapp no doubt was the app that started the wave of mobile messaging, timed pefectly to coincide with the rise of smartphones. It was clearly the leader. But as the race goes on, I’m starting to...
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