Posts Tagged with ‘asia’

Global market intelligence group IDC has released today results of a study of online gaming trends in Asia and they are interesting enough to take a closer look at. Specifically the study looked into what gamers like and dislike in the industry as it is today. The study was carried out in August in six Asian countries (China, Korea, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam) and involved web-based interrogation of 664 online gamers.
The most important conclusion we can draw from [...]

If you somehow managed to keep up with the goings on of the broad international news space throughout 2007, you know there’s one topic in particular that received copious amounts of attention. No, not that Mexican repellant them paranoid repubs and loose-limbed dems signed off on. Nor the tinderscape that was/is southern California. Darfur? Nope. (Too bad, though. It sure would’ve been good to see the American media juggle that ball a tad bit more.) Pakistan? Nah. The year was [...]

Last month, the world registered a rather noticeable rumbling made at a technology conference in Bangalore. A rumbling having to do with the development of India?s own silicon-based industry. A rumbling in the way of a collective challenge posed by influentials in attendance at the gathering.
The challenge was a simple one, but no doubt momentous, too. It was, in effect, to spur technological growth in cities and towns all over India from a current point of $1bn gross revenue [...]

The world of computer software is still largely dominated by localized offerings. You know, the stuff you put on your hard drive. The Microsoft Offices. The Adobe Creative Suites. All those handy utilities. And it?s understandable why they continue to command a great majority. They tap the processing power of our hardware systems very well; they?re there whether or not we have a connection to the Web; and, of course, there?s the very basic element of habitual familiarity that they [...]

As the months pass, it seems Google leaves Yahoo! further and further behind. And not because it’s technologically inferior to the megaforce of Mountain View. It can hold its own. Kinda.
No, such a perception exists primarily because of the continuous barrage of media coverage lavished on Big G. It just doesn’t stop. Day after day, there’s more and more talk about GOOG news and GOOG plans and GOOG predictions. Yang & Co can’t seem to get a word in. Sure, [...]

Yahoo!, in a seeming bid to make its name more attractive to greater swaths of developers throughout the world, debuted last year the first in its series of Open Hack Day events in September in its hometown of Sunnyvale, California, followed by a London event in June of this year, and most recently at the Taj Residency in Bangalore, India, last weekend.
The Asian edition of Open Hack Day, held on October 5th, brought together roughly “100 Web developers, who toiled [...]

Yahoo!, in an effort to establish a greater presence in the Chinese online market, is planning to purchase a 10-percent block of stock shares in China’s largest online commerce company, Alibaba, in a sale arranged by the Asian giant. The move is being viewed as something of a responsive measure made to counteract Google’s increased involvement in the Chinese market. In the past, Google created headlines worldwide as a result of its involvement with the reigning megalith of the continent, [...]

Ever heard of FON? It?s a WiFi network, built, wonderfully enough, by individual consumers and small businesses in Europe and many other parts of the world.
It works on a tiered system of paid and free access. If people opt in to become a ?Fonero? and set up a FON account and hotspot of their own, they can get free access from any other FON hotspot in the world. If one doesn?t complete all aforementioned introductory steps, one can still [...]

The Western world likes to consider itself the most current of hemispheres. It sees itself as the half of the globe with the most technological prowess, though today that assertion can definitely be debated. (At least in terms of the stuff taking place in clean rooms and such, the West can likely still claim an upper hand, however.)
But when tossing about market growth numbers and so forth, there’s a lot that shows that those in the East are flying [...]