Jumbuck, an Australian VAS firm, is trying to translate the love affair people have with their phones into real life social relationships. “The mobile phone is a device that has a wonderful intimate relationship with the users,” said David Gibbs, the firm’s CEO, noting that as a device the phone had become “absolutely critical.” The [...]

DigiTimes | July 12, 2011 | Traci Su, Jessie Shen Global Unichip has esimated that products requiring 65nm and below processing rose to account for more than 50% of its revenues in the second quarter, up from 45% in the first. Read the full article here via DigiTimes

DigiTimes | July 12, 2011 | Ninelu Tu, Adam Hwang Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry) on July 11 held a groundbreaking ceremony for the Taipei Information Park, an IT shopping mall project based on a BOT (build-operate-transfer) contract with the Taipei City Government. Read the full article here via DigiTimes

Medical News Today | May 30, 2011 HP, SingTel, HealthSTATS and Frontier Healthcare Group today announced an 8-week clinical trial of a mobile health monitoring solution. The solution enables near real time information sharing to help healthcare professionals in the early detection, treatment and prevention of cardiovascular conditions. …. Read full article here via Medical News [...]

The Australian | April 5, 2011 | Tracy Lee IF you rang a Telstra call centre a month ago and was served by a nice, slightly nervous consultant called David, there’s a chance you were talking to the most senior person at the phone company. Prompted by a cheeky invitation from consumer boss Gordon Ballantyne, [...]

Focus Taiwan| March 24, 2011 | Kendra Lin Taipei, March 24 (CNA) Taiwan’s telecom giant Chunghwa Telecom rose to the top of a list of dream employers for Taiwan’s college students, followed in second place by leading Internet search engine Google, a report released on Thursday found. After succumbing to food producer Uni-President Enterprises Corporation [...]

Wall Street Journal | March 22, 2011 | Yoree Koh Masayoshi Son is not a member of the fearless Tokyo Fire Department’s Hyper Rescue Squad that departed Monday for the troubled northern pocket of Japan. But the famously energetic chief executive and founder of Softbank is on a rescue mission of his own of sorts [...]

Business World Online | January 12, 2011 | Aura Marie P Dagcutan THE NATIONAL Telecommunications Commission (NTC) has junked a proposal setting a cap on Internet downloads after opposition from consumers. Jaime M. Fortes, NTC deputy commissioner, said in a speech at an industry forum yesterday the agency has deleted the provision on a draft [...]

Frontier India | January 6, 2011 InMobi, the world’s largest independent mobile ad network, has released its updated network research report closing the year with a snapshot of mobile advertising trends in India between July 2010 and October 2010. “The Indian mobile advertising market continues to show rapid growth due to the improving ad ecosystem. [...]

TechTree| January 5, 2010 | Samir Makwana Censorware to protect minors from accessing objectionable content The relationship between Apple and the Japanese government hasn’t been great last year. After cases of exploding Apple iPod batteries were reported, Japan is once again complaining about Apple. If Google’s squabble with China over content filtering wasn’t enough, here [...]