We’ve received a note from the folks at MTV India today saying that they are now officially on Google+. That's pretty quick. MTV India, to the best of our knowledge, is probably the first brand in India to get on Google+. The channel’s wildly popular reality television show, MTV Roadies, is already on Google+ as well. The MTV India brand is pretty tech savvy with a strong presence on Facebook and Twitter. Similarly, the digital marketers behind the brand also hope to replicate those successes on the search engine's latest social ...
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Google Plus Gets Animated by NMA TV
It’s been less than a day since most of us have had our first glimpse Google’s new social project, Google Plus. But the animators over at NMA TV in Taiwan have already whipped up a short production about it. Check out the explainer below that outlines Google’s other less-than-successful social experiments (Wave, Buzz) with NMA’s typically playful CG interpretation. They also ‘poke’ fun at Zuckerberg and Co. too, as Google's new service aims to remedy many of the privacy issues Facebook users complain about. Check out the video below, and see what ...
Jun 30 2011
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Google+ Not Actually Blocked in China, Just Being Slowly Throttled
Google+ is not actually blocked in China, contrary to reports today from the WSJ, TechCrunch and some other western media. Right now Google+ is accessible, but slow, for me here in mainland China. What's going on then? Well, pinging plus.google.com - try it with this ping tool - displays "packets lost" followed by a percentage figure. If it's 100% of info packets being lost, then it's very likely blocked, but if the number is lower, it's likely just being throttled, or having some other issue. Perhaps this is where the others ...
Jun 28 2011
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Baidu Pushes ‘Box Computing’ for Smarter, Interactive Web Searches [REVIEW]
Baidu is pushing to make its search results box smarter, more relevant, and more alive - that's why numerous popular searches in the Baidu search bar can bring up an interactive frame that could, among other things, play music (pictured above) or games, post to a microblog, let you check currency conversions, or download a popular app with just one click. Google and Bing haven't ventured so far as Baidu into smart or semantic content results from the search box. Sure, Google's updated mobile page is impressive - using your geolocation ...
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Korean Job Seekers’ Favorite Foreign Companies are Apple, Google
Yesterday we looked at a survey of Chinese students and which companies they hope to work for. Among the top foreign organizations on that list were names such as Microsoft, Google, Apple, and GE. In neighboring Korea, job seekers also have their eyes set on technology giants as potential employers, with Google and Apple topping the list. According to the survey of 1428 job seekers conducted by SaraminHR, 16.7 percent chose Google Korea as the most desirable foreign firm to work at. Apparently not even an occasional police raid is enough ...
Jun 28 2011
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Chinese University Students Pick Desired Tech Employers
A Chinese recruitment website has released a survey of over 200,000 university students, asking them to choose the companies where they would like to work. Technology companies are well represented, so we thought we’d take a look at the top employers in each of the following sectors: online entertainment, Internet/e-commerce, computer hardware/software, and telecommunications. Chinese Gaming Giants Beat out SNS In online entertainment we have gaming companies Shanda and Giant topping the list (see table below), with video site Youku taking the third spot. Social networks Renren and Kaixin are in here ...
Jun 27 2011
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Rumor Suggests Baidu Mobile OS Based on Android, Coming This Year
If rumors and expectation could be harnessed as a form of renewable energy, then Baidu's Mobile OS, reportedly based on Android, could power Shanghai's air-cons through a hot and humid summer. This time, we have the codename QiuShi and a timeframe for an end of 2011 release. Chinese site TechWeb is additionally suggesting that Baidu has its Android-powered OS at the stage where its UI is being worked on by one of two experienced design teams who have long worked on mobile UI - either the DianXin team (backed by Li ...
Jun 20 2011
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Asia Pacific’s Mobile Ad Revenue To Hit $6.9 Billion by 2015
A new report from research firm Gartner says that global mobile ad revenue is projected to reach $20.6 billion by 2015. The Asia-Pacific region, the current leader in mobile advertising with $1.6 billion this year is expected to grow to $6.9 billion by 2015. Powered by the staggering growth of mobile in China, as well as increasing smartphone adoption and mobile coupon usage, Asia looks poised to be the center of the mobile world well into this decade and beyond. {"dataSourceUrl":"//spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/tq?key=0Ankqe-fbHOHIdDhDMmc2dFltVHpxOEgwaUdfOXI3Y0E&transpose=0&headers=-1&range=A1%3AE7&gid=0&pub=1","options":{"reverseCategories":false,"fontColor":"#fff","midColor":"#36c","backgroundColor":"#FFFFFF","pointSize":0,"headerColor":"#3d85c6","minValue":0,"headerHeight":40,"is3D":false,"logScale":false,"hAxis":{"maxAlternation":1},"wmode":"opaque","title":"MobileAdvertising Revenue by Region, Worldwide, 2008-2015 (Millions of Dollars)","isStackedBarChart":true,"isStackedColumnChart":true,"isStackedAreaChart":true,"maxValue":21000,"mapType":"hybrid","isStacked":true,"min":0,"showTip":true,"displayAnnotations":true,"nonGeoMapColors":,"maxDepth":2,"legend":"right","allowCollapse":true,"minColor":"#ccc","reverseAxis":false,"width":630,"height":700},"state":{},"chartType":"ColumnChart","chartName":"Chart ...
Jun 13 2011
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Build Android Mobile Apps, Promote Indonesian Tourism
As the number of mobile phone users increases, demand for mobile applications experiences significant growth as well. IDBYTE offers a great opportunity for Indonesian developers to build Android mobile applications to promote tourism. Tourism is currently booming in the nation as it is expected that 7.7 million tourists will visit this year, generating over $8 million in revenue. This competition (supported by Qualcomm and HTC) is open to individuals, teams, or business entities. The mobile application must be designed to promote tourism in Indonesia. It must also be original and not already published in the Android ...
Jun 6 2011
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Baidu and Google Celebrate Duanwu Festival With Doodles
Call it Duanwu, Dragon Boat or Dumpling festival: Both search giants, Baidu and Google are celebrating the festival today with doodles on their front pages. Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China are having public holidays today. Sadly, there is no day off here in Singapore. But as Chinese, we do still celebrate the festival with our families, mostly by just eating dumplings together. The festival occurs on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar on which the Chinese calendar is based. Besides eating dumplings, the festival is also a day for dragon ...
Jun 2 2011
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Google Uncovers Gmail Phishing Scam Originating From China
Google’s security team has revealed in a blog post that it has discovered a phishing scam aimed at collecting Gmail user passwords and email contents. The company has notified victims of the attack as well as the proper government authorities. Google’s Engineering Director Eric Grosse explains: This campaign, which appears to originate from Jinan, China, affected what seem to be the personal Gmail accounts of hundreds of users including, among others, senior U.S. government officials, Chinese political activists, officials in several Asian countries (predominantly South Korea), military personnel and journalists. Email messages ...
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Google To Set Up Chrome OS Research Center in Taiwan
At Computex PC show in Taipei, Google revealed that it would build a research and development center in Taiwan for its Chrome operating system. The reason to set up shop in Taiwan is pretty straightforward, given that the country is known for its hardware manufacturing and engineering industry. “Google will expand its manpower in the R&D center in Taipei by hiring more local engineers to build a new operating ecosystem with Taiwan’s original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and original design manufacturers,” reported The Central News Agency citing Sundar Pichai, senior vice president ...
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