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The Price Factor of NetBooks

InfoChat by Jerry Liao

Intel Philippines recently made formal the availability of Intel Atom processors. Both netbooks and nettops are now commercially available in the Philippines both for local and multinational industry players. Netbooks are currently available from Acer, Asus, Dell, Gigabyte, Lenovo, MSI and ... more »

Google Chrome's seems to be very vulnerable to security flaws

Techolic by Jason S

The much hyped Google's latest Chrome Web browser seems to be have created some web history by quickly conquering 1% of the web browser market share within 24hrs of it launch on Tuesday, but what a difference it finds itself in ... more »

Kaixin001: A souped-up Facebook clone

Little Red Blog by Rick Martin

Here's an interesting new Chinese site called Kaixin Wang (kaixin001.com). Yes, it's another Facebook clone, but this one may have actually done a few things better than the original. They've included a few interesting features: more »

A little bit more on piracy and its repercussions

Sensible Netnonsense by Ignatius Javellana

A good number of folks also threw in their thoughts and we had a bit of a discussion over at my blog regarding my previous post on Anino Games getting caught with unlicensed software.

My buddy Jan had this to say and, ... more »

Busting the Malaysian GPS myths

PopTech for You by Alan Tan

Why is it that the global positioning system is catching on so extremely well in Singapore, and somehow in Malaysia it's still such a premium "toy" with everyone much too wary about even the most basic understanding of GPS. I'm a ... more »

Thai political crisis threatening Internet access

Technology Thailand by Jesada Chandraprasert

As Thailand slowly spirals into anarchy, the so-called People's Alliance for Democracy is gaining more and more support from unionists nationwide. I've got to say that their name, in reality, contradicts their intentions. Their base was formed when they went against ... more »

Google Chrome is a step forward without two steps back

High on a Hill by Hillary Chan

Remember how amazed we were when we first got Google.com? I remember how my eyes almost popped out when I saw the speed that it got search results. I remember eyeballing the "Results 1 - 10 of about 6,360,000 for Toyota Prius. ... more »

In touch, but not quite

Chick Click by Isabella Chen

I attended a lecture on the development of society yesterday. It was about the development of social relationships, and how it has evolved. Two books I've been on lately (yeah, I like good, old-fashion paper in hand!) have been Critical Mass ... more »

Taking a good look at the Nokia N96

Geekonomics by Nicholas Aaron Khoo

This geek was recently invited to take a close look at the Nokia N79 (launching 4th quarter), N96 (launched and shipping soon), and the N85 (launching 4th quarter). Since both the N79 and N85 are not really launched yet, I'll focus ... more »

A pox on the House of TM!

Tete-A-Tech by Bernice Low

I feel disgruntled today.

News is out. Telekom Malaysia has been awarded the High Speed Broadband contract by the Government of Malaysia. According to BK Sidhu's article, "Govt gives TM broadband job", in Starbiz today: more »

Picasaweb update: Automatically find faces, tag faces

reHASHplus by Michael Tan

OK, Google's on a roll. Picasaweb's update of "aliens have landed and joined Google's variety. Now Picasaweb can actually find faces, you label them, and they automatically apply the tags throughout all your pictures. more »

Google Chrome. Mmm, shiny

Derived Regulation by Lim Sheng Ming

The current talk making the rounds is Chrome, Google's entry into the browser wars. Even here in the CNET Asia blogs Jerry has a post and so does Michael who feels particularly fan-boyish today. So in that same spirit, here's a ... more »