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An Indian woman holds a child in her arm as she talks on a mobile phone in Allahabad, India, Friday, April 9, 2010. Pic: Ap.

Report: 512 million mobile internet users in Asia by 2015

By Jon Russell Wed, Aug 24, 2011 12:00PM UTC View Comments

Regular readers will recall how I’ve often lamented how the failure of certain web analytics firms to include mobile internet usage in their statistics renders their research and data fairly useless in Asia. To help prove my point, eMarketer has an neat data set looking at the use of mobile internet in the content. Quick...

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Is 2011 the year Asia’s iPhone Nano rumours finally come true?

By Jon Russell Sun, Jul 31, 2011 11:00AM UTC View Comments

Map apps and GPS can come in handy on the road. Pic: AP.

It’s that time of the year when rumours of the latest, upcoming iPhone device and its spec begin popping up across the web. Thanks to the fact that the devices are built in the region, Asia is generally the place where information, rumours, tidbits and unofficial pics of the devices crop up. For example, last...

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BlackBerry continues to dominate in Indonesia – but for how long?

By Jon Russell Mon, Jul 25, 2011 11:30AM UTC View Comments

Android is often heralded as the mobile device operating system best placed to find mass popularity in developing regions like Asia thanks to the sheer level of support across the mobile phone industry, which gives the platform a wide range of devices to suit all budgets. While Android has established itself as the most popular...

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Google’s Schmidt hails the ‘real mobile revolution’ in Asia

By Jon Russell Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:00PM UTC View Comments

Today I’m publishing “The Real Mobile Revolution”, an opinion article from Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google, which looks at the potential of mobile in Asia. Though not an exclusive, the piece – provided by Google Thailand – is an interesting look at the role and opportunities that mobile is playing and providing to developing...

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Assessing Truehits’ data on Thailand’s digital scene

By Jon Russell Thu, May 26, 2011 12:30PM UTC View Comments

Truehits announced a number of interesting statistics about the Thai technology/digital scene during its annual award event last Friday. The Bangkok Post has picked up most of the data which concerns Thai websites and services (using stats from 2010) which explains why there is no mention of social media or more mainstream sites as they...

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