Sales of web-ready digital cameras up in Asia—survey
Sales of digital cameras that enable users to immediately post pictures on the web have risen sharply in Asia despite stiff competition from smartphones, an industry survey showed Thursday.
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Internet ‘floggers’ cash in on food-mad Asia
As a Hindu who does not eat beef but craves other meat, Tashny Sukumaran discovered her new passion for pork burgers through her native Malaysia’s vibrant food-blogging, or “flogging,” scene.
Internet use in emerging markets seen ‘exploding’
At least 500 million new users of the Internet are expected to come from emerging markets such as the Philippines from 2012 to 2015, according to Internet giant Google.
Apple opens biggest Asian store in Beijing
Apple on Saturday opened its biggest Asian store yet in Beijing, with hordes of shoppers descending on the three-floor complex that highlights the growing importance of China to the US tech giant.
Online universities blossom in Asia
Thousands of kilometers from Kuala Lumpur in Cameroon, doctoral student Michael Nkwenti Ndongfack attends his Open University Malaysia classes online and hopes to defend his final thesis by Skype.
Mobiles surge in Asia, to overtake PCs—Google
Asia-Pacific is leading a surge in the use of mobile devices as they play a more central role in people’s lives and are on track to replace conventional computers, a top Google executive said Wednesday.
Panasonic’s first Android-based ‘Toughpad’ unveiled in Asia
Panasonic’s first Android-based computer tablet designed for tough environments such as battlefields was unveiled Tuesday at a major regional telecom fair in Singapore.
Asia helps drive Facebook’s 1-billion goal
As Facebook nears saturation levels in some Western countries, Asian users are helping drive the social-networking leader’s march on the one-billion-user milestone and beyond.
Asia software piracy cost $21B in lost sales
Illegal copying of computer programs in Asia cost businesses $21 billion in lost sales last year and China was on course to set a dubious new record—overtaking the US in losses caused by software piracy.
Nokia town faces dim future as jobs shift to Asia
Tomi Marjuaho repaired mobile phones for 10 years in the town of Salo in southern Finland, where Nokia, the world’s top cell phone-maker, set up its wireless operations in the 1980s.
‘Next Facebook, Google or Apple could come from Asia’
Move aside Silicon Valley. You are no longer the center of the galaxy.
iPhone 4S coming to more countries on Nov. 11
Apple said Tuesday that the iPhone 4S, the latest version of its hot-selling smartphone, would go on sale in more countries in Asia, Europe and Central America this month.
Half of PC users use bootleg software, study says
Almost half of the world’s personal computer users acquire software through illegal means most or all of the time, according to a survey by the Business Software Alliance on PC users’ behaviors and attitudes toward software piracy and intellectual property rights.
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