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  • <img src="http://www.techxav.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/googlechina.jpg"/>Much is unknown about the basis of Google's astounding assertion it could choose to exit China unless it was given more business leeway. A company with the foresight to invent a futuristic service model does not crumble at the first hurdle in what would be the richest market, for information search and other uses yet to be designed. The China market is not yet a goldmine for Google, but every foreign company doing business there dreams of what is to come. It is implausible in the circumstances that Chinese government filtering of Google's search content has suddenly offended the firm's mission beliefs. It set up in China four years ago on explicit terms. Google also implied Chinese involvement in cyber attacks on its systems and other unnamed technology companies. E-mail accounts of citizens under security watch were believed to have been compromised. This could be credible. But theft of proprietary and corporate secrets can be countered through treaty law (World Trade Organization, for example) and licensing of select technologies. Google could also have taken the e-mail hacking issue straight to Beijing, but without the "or else" bluster.

    Google Fretting: What’s going on?

    Posted on January 16, 2010 | No Comments
    Much is unknown about the basis of Google's astounding assertion it could choose to exit China unless it was given more business leeway. A company with the foresight to invent a futuristic service model does not crumble at the first hurdle in what would be the richest market, for information search and other uses yet to be designed. The China market is not yet a goldmine for Google, but every foreign company doing business there dreams of what is to come. It is implausible in the circumstances that Chinese government filtering of Google's search content has suddenly offended the firm's mission beliefs. It set up in China four years ago on explicit terms. Google also implied Chinese involvement in cyber attacks on its systems and other unnamed technology companies. E-mail accounts of citizens under security watch were believed to have been compromised. This could be credible. But theft of proprietary and corporate secrets can be countered through treaty law (World Trade Organization, for example) and licensing of select technologies. Google could also have taken the e-mail hacking issue straight to Beijing, but without the "or else" bluster.

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  • <img style="float:right;" src="http://www.techxav.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/0001_nexus.jpg"/>Google’s first attempt at retail has encountered a speed bump. Scores of buyers of its first “own brand” smartphone, the Nexus One, seem to have experienced 3G connection problems. The much-hyped phone is sold directly to consumers through its website at <a href="http://www.google.com/phone"target="_blank">google.com/phone</a>. Google started selling it just four days ago to consumers in the United States, Britain, Singapore and Hong Kong. Already, pockets of users have been posting their problems on the <a href="http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/label?lid=18bf75ad33b7d554&hl=en"target="_blank">Google Mobile Help Forum</a>. Their complaints centre on the phone constantly switching between 3G and the slower Edge (Enhanced Data Rate for GSM Evolution) networks, resulting in tardy responses when they surf the Internet. Voice and SMS functions are unaffected.

    Google’s Nexus One Hits 3G Speed Bump

    Posted on January 9, 2010 | No Comments
    Google’s first attempt at retail has encountered a speed bump. Scores of buyers of its first “own brand” smartphone, the Nexus One, seem to have experienced 3G connection problems. The much-hyped phone is sold directly to consumers through its website at google.com/phone. Google started selling it just four days ago to consumers in the United States, Britain, Singapore and Hong Kong. Already, pockets of users have been posting their problems on the Google Mobile Help Forum. Their complaints centre on the phone constantly switching between 3G and the slower Edge (Enhanced Data Rate for GSM Evolution) networks, resulting in tardy responses when they surf the Internet. Voice and SMS functions are unaffected.

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  • <img style="float:right;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4068/4239559113_89577887bc_o.jpg" width="590" height="350" alt="fanvenues-book-590x" />A pair of brothers have come up with a software which displays to buyers of show tickets what the view is like from any given seat in the house. This means music or sports fans will be able to see computer-rendered images of the view from any seat before paying for their tickets. Mauritians Oliver and Wesley Oxenham, the first to use 3-D modelling technology this way, have already created a database of more than 100 concert arenas and stadiums around the world, including London's O2 Arena and Boston's Fenley Park. The work of these recent graduates of the National University of Singapore (NUS) has been noticed: They have clinched a deal with Europe's fastest-growing ticketer, Seatwave. Mr Oliver Oxenham, 28, said of the advantage Seatwave would offer its customers with the software: "You don't want to buy a ticket and then find out when you get there that there's a pillar blocking your view."

    New Software Allows Ticket Buyers To See View From Any Given Seat

    Posted on January 6, 2010 | No Comments
    fanvenues-book-590xA pair of brothers have come up with a software which displays to buyers of show tickets what the view is like from any given seat in the house. This means music or sports fans will be able to see computer-rendered images of the view from any seat before paying for their tickets. Mauritians Oliver and Wesley Oxenham, the first to use 3-D modelling technology this way, have already created a database of more than 100 concert arenas and stadiums around the world, including London's O2 Arena and Boston's Fenley Park. The work of these recent graduates of the National University of Singapore (NUS) has been noticed: They have clinched a deal with Europe's fastest-growing ticketer, Seatwave. Mr Oliver Oxenham, 28, said of the advantage Seatwave would offer its customers with the software: "You don't want to buy a ticket and then find out when you get there that there's a pillar blocking your view."

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  • <img style="float:right;" src="http://www.techxav.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/friendster.gif"/>In an exclusive interview with Tham Yuen-C of The Digital Life, The Straits Times, Friendster's Asia head Ian Stewart told him that he sees nothing wrong letting his staff use Facebook and other social networking sites on the job. Instead of banning employees from accessing social networking sites in the office of the media company he worked for, Ian Stewart encouraged his employees to use it. These sites are how the "expat kid", who has lived in Asia for 20 years, keeps in touch with his friends and family around the world and he is on them some eight hours a day. "If a company accepts that people mutli-tasks 24/7 and they have to take conference calls over the weekends, they should get to balance their lives during the day," said the 40-year-old who has been Friendster's head in Asia since April. "If they can check their e-mail, why can't they check their social networking site Inbox?"

    Friendster’s Asia Head: The Facebook-Friendly Boss

    Posted on December 29, 2009 | No Comments
    In an exclusive interview with Tham Yuen-C of The Digital Life, The Straits Times, Friendster's Asia head Ian Stewart told him that he sees nothing wrong letting his staff use Facebook and other social networking sites on the job. Instead of banning employees from accessing social networking sites in the office of the media company he worked for, Ian Stewart encouraged his employees to use it. These sites are how the "expat kid", who has lived in Asia for 20 years, keeps in touch with his friends and family around the world and he is on them some eight hours a day. "If a company accepts that people mutli-tasks 24/7 and they have to take conference calls over the weekends, they should get to balance their lives during the day," said the 40-year-old who has been Friendster's head in Asia since April. "If they can check their e-mail, why can't they check their social networking site Inbox?"

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  • <img style="float:right;" src="http://www.techxav.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/suicide.jpg"/>Police are seeking the person behind a Facebook group that encouraged teenagers to commit mass suicide, a report said yesterday, after a 15-year-old member tried to kill himself. Nearly 190 people have joined the “I Have To Practise Suicide” group, which called on members to take their own lives on Dec 21, South China Morning Post reported. However, the site’s unknown creator had also posted a message on the social networking site saying that the group was just an “inside joke”, the Post said. Members were supposed to talk about ways to die in a “retarded way”, such as “jumping off a chair”, the creator wrote, adding: “I’m not encouraging suicide. It’s supposed to be an inside joke.” The site was removed from Facebook when local media reported the story.

    Hong Kong Police Seek Creator Of Facebook Suicide Group

    Posted on November 27, 2009 | No Comments
    Police are seeking the person behind a Facebook group that encouraged teenagers to commit mass suicide, a report said yesterday, after a 15-year-old member tried to kill himself. Nearly 190 people have joined the “I Have To Practise Suicide” group, which called on members to take their own lives on Dec 21, South China Morning Post reported. However, the site’s unknown creator had also posted a message on the social networking site saying that the group was just an “inside joke”, the Post said. Members were supposed to talk about ways to die in a “retarded way”, such as “jumping off a chair”, the creator wrote, adding: “I’m not encouraging suicide. It’s supposed to be an inside joke.” The site was removed from Facebook when local media reported the story.

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  • <img style="float:right;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2804/4132667165_bebd34d3fe_o.jpg" width="460" height="276" alt="yahooceo" />Yahoo’s new boss has a fairly simple default setting when it comes to competitors and critics — let’s “kick some butt”, as she once put it — so it was no surprise that the message on a recent visit to Singapore was pretty forceful. In an interview with <a href="http://www.straitstimes.com"target="_blank">The Straits Times</a> (a local newspaper publisher in Singapore), chief executive Carol Bartz says that she wants to keep things simple - keep doing what Yahoo is good at, expand globally and interact better with users and advertisers, no matter where the battle lines might be. Mission statements don’t come much starker than that but Bartz knows Yahoo has a mountain to climb after some dire years of failed deals with Microsoft and Google and a plunging stock price.

    ‘I’m Not Taking On Google, We’re In A Totally Different Business’, says Yahoo CEO

    Posted on November 25, 2009 | No Comments
    yahooceoYahoo’s new boss has a fairly simple default setting when it comes to competitors and critics — let’s “kick some butt”, as she once put it — so it was no surprise that the message on a recent visit to Singapore was pretty forceful. In an interview with The Straits Times (a local newspaper publisher in Singapore), chief executive Carol Bartz says that she wants to keep things simple - keep doing what Yahoo is good at, expand globally and interact better with users and advertisers, no matter where the battle lines might be. Mission statements don’t come much starker than that but Bartz knows Yahoo has a mountain to climb after some dire years of failed deals with Microsoft and Google and a plunging stock price.

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  • <img style="float:right;" src="http://www.techxav.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/eye.jpg"/>Most eyewear improves vision or cuts through solar glare, but a new gadget from Japan may soon sharpen linguistic skills and cut down language barriers instead, inventors said on Thursday. High-tech company NEC has come up with a device that it says will allow users to communicate with people of different languages. Shaped like a pair of eye-glasses, but without the lenses, the computer-assisted Tele Scouter would use an imaging device to project almost real-time translations directly onto the user's retina.

    Japan’s NEC Unveils First Ever Eyewear Translator

    Posted on November 5, 2009 | No Comments
    Most eyewear improves vision or cuts through solar glare, but a new gadget from Japan may soon sharpen linguistic skills and cut down language barriers instead, inventors said on Thursday. High-tech company NEC has come up with a device that it says will allow users to communicate with people of different languages. Shaped like a pair of eye-glasses, but without the lenses, the computer-assisted Tele Scouter would use an imaging device to project almost real-time translations directly onto the user's retina.

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  • <img style="float:right;" src="http://www.zygella.com/images/logo.jpg"/><a href="http://www.zygella.com/"target="_blank">Zygella</a> allows business to achieve a professional and effective presence on the web and has grown into a real-time short ads service. This service has been especially created with the intention of giving you the possibility to find latest information in a very simple way. In case you are looking for a totally new experience in searching for new products or services you should stop by this site. This deals engine is not only about latest products or services you can buy but also the latest trends in business. You will be able to get more info about whatever interesting products, service and website are out there at Zygella.

    Zygella – A Real-Time Short Ads Service

    Posted on November 4, 2009 | No Comments
    Zygella allows business to achieve a professional and effective presence on the web and has grown into a real-time short ads service. This service has been especially created with the intention of giving you the possibility to find latest information in a very simple way. In case you are looking for a totally new experience in searching for new products or services you should stop by this site. This deals engine is not only about latest products or services you can buy but also the latest trends in business. You will be able to get more info about whatever interesting products, service and website are out there at Zygella.

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