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China: Australia’s Huawei ban ‘unjust’

By AP News Sat, Apr 07, 2012 5:55PM UTC View Comments

BEIJING (AP) — China’s Commerce Ministry said Australia’s ban on Chinese technology giant Huawei from bidding to help build a nationwide high-speed Internet network was “unjust.” Australian media have reported that the decision was prompted by Australian intelligence officials who cited hacking attacks traced to China, but the government has not made public its reasons....

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The ‘resolutionary’ new iPad: To buy or not to buy?

By Asian Correspondent Thu, Mar 08, 2012 2:08PM UTC View Comments

Right on the mark, Apple announced its latest iPad tablet computer earlier today (Wednesday, Cupertino, CA time), with much fanfare. It seems our sources got the March launch/announcement date right. With rumors that Apple has already been shipping iPad units to its distributor channels in major western markets, folks from the U.S., UK and other...

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Yahoo! Post launches in Indonesia

By Daily Social Wed, Sep 21, 2011 8:31PM UTC View Comments

Tweet Yahoo! Post Indonesia has officially launched. Post Indonesia is the third Yahoo! Post after in Hong Kong and Korea. In both countries, Yahoo! Post is known as KPost and has been established since 2010. Yahoo! Post tries to make collaboration of two popular areas on the internet those – social and search. Yahoo! Post...

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Sixreps.com prepares service for US market

By Daily Social Mon, Sep 19, 2011 12:46PM UTC View Comments

Tweet Several days ago, I received press release from Sanny Gaddafi – Sixreps.com explained that they have just soft launched their service in the US at the Olympia Weekend 2011 event in Las Vegas, Nevada. This soft launching might be the sign of their strategy, as written on DailySocial, to work on foreign markets. Because...

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Pakistani tech wiz harnesses Internet for the poor

By AP News Tue, Sep 06, 2011 1:02PM UTC View Comments

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — While many young tech wizards strive to invent the next iPad, Umar Saif is working to bring Internet-style networking to millions of Pakistanis who don’t have access to the Web. He could shake up the country’s politics in the process. Saif’s efforts recently earned him recognition by the Massachusetts Institute of...

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