Perx, the stamp card mobile app, has a new feature/campaign called the 'Chop Mob.' I first heard about it when it was still a paper plan when I met Andrew Roth, the co-founder of Perx, over coffee. It sounds pretty interesting and works like the group-buying concept. The first campaign trial was rolled out and completed with The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf recently. Within a week, Perx was able to generate over 1,000 ‘chops’ across five Coffee Bean outlets in Singapore. Once the target of 1,000 chops is met, every ...
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Feb 7 2012
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Beepmo: A New LBS Social Network for Professionals in Asia
Beepmo describes itself as “a location-based social network for business professionals focused on Asia.” All users have to do is to key in their LinkedIn login to start using the mobile app. Beepmo helps professionals to track other professionals who are nearby. If you find someone whom you wish to meet, simply connect with him/her, and then send a message to arrange a meeting/coffee. The app also has an “ice breaker” feature that helps you to find out who are your common friends on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. It could be ...
Feb 6 2012
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Mystery of the Missing Logo Solved: InMobi Rebrands
Both Vanessa and I were at Inmobi’s Singapore office recently to meet up with a couple of friends for chat. Interestingly, the new office didn’t have any logo displayed. It didn’t feel like an InMobi office, and I thought it was pretty unusual at the time. I asked some of the staff why but they explained that they are more focused on getting real work done. What I didn’t know was that the mobile ad network company was planning a rebranding. The new logo, as you see on the right, is ...
Feb 3 2012
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SpellDial Wants to Make Phone Numbers History
This post is a part of our coverage of Startups in Asia (Singapore), Penn Olson’s first tech conference. Our full coverage of the event can be found here, for our RSS feed, click here. SpellDial is a startup from the Phillipines that aims to make finding friends and businesses on your phone easier by using names rather than numbers. Founder Nicole Macarasig pitched this new method of calling to the audience and the judges of the Startup Arena competition this afternoon. The SpellDial team began by addressing a problem: phone numbers are hard to remember. ...
Jan 30 2012
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Chinese Government: Mobile Carriers Must Warn Users of Overages
So picture this: you're a Chinese smartphone user with, like almost every smartphone user in China, a limited data plan. You get 500 MB of data per month -- for example -- as part of your package and you're charged a per-MB rate for every bit of data you use beyond that. It's straightforward enough, but if your phone doesn't contain its own internet data usage tracker, it's pretty easy to go over your usage limit without even knowing it. That can be an expensive pain. And soon it should ...
Jan 26 2012
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Nokia Launches Asha 300, Collaborates With Fellow Finns Rovio
At the Kempinski Ballroom in Jakarta yesterday, Nokia (HEL:NOK1V; NYSE:NOK) launched its new addition to the Asha line with the new Asha 300, together with Angry Birds creator Rovio. Asha means 'hope' in Hindi, and this handset follows its predecessors the Asha 303, 200, and 201. With this new phone, Nokia has blurred the lines between feature phone and smartphone, with smartphone features that can be used on the cheaper mobile phones like the Asha series. The Asha 300, which is priced at just IDR 999,000 (US$ 110), boasts fast internet connections ...
Jan 20 2012
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Sony’s SmartWatch Supplements Your Smartphone
Earlier this week I had a chance to check out Sony’s (NYSE:SNE) new SmartWatch, the successor of the Live View accessory from Sony Ericsson back in 2010. And while I’ve never seen the latter, this new one looked very cool. It’s a sort of bluetooth command center for your smartphone, connecting to display many types of notifications on its full-color, touchscreen display. You can view information about email, text messages, social media updates, what music is playing, or just see who is calling. It also features an accelerometer, and can be ...
Jan 19 2012
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Aliyun OS Updated to v2.0, Gets a Revamped, Renamed App Store
Alibaba has updated its Aliyun mobile OS to version 2.0, bringing a bunch of new features and refinements to take it into the new year. The update will eventually be given to users of its first phone, the K-Touch W700 which debuted with the OS last summer, and will come out-of-the-box on the newest W800 model. Aliyun 2.0 looks similar to its first iteration but brings new goodies such as an updated app store, now dubbed the Aliyun Mart (pictured above, on the right); folders for apps; more options for third-party ...
Jan 19 2012
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Rumor Suggests Sina Weibo Phone Being Prepped for 2012 Launch
Sina (NASDAQ:SINA) is prepping a ‘Weibo phone’ that runs a customized version of Android, according to rumors in the Chinese media. Due later this year, the phone reportedly exists only as a fully-formed design so far, and is awaiting approval to be pushed into reality. Plus, Sina has set up a dedicated team of 10 staffers which could increase to hundreds if this mobile venture takes off. It’s not clear which company might be the OEM for the device. The same source suggests that the Sina Weibo phone would be ...
Jan 19 2012
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Concept Lifebook Laptop Unifies All Your Gadgets
When Asus announced its Padphone last year, it turned more than a few heads with its phone-inside-a-tablet design. Say what you will about the appearance, but the idea of shared hardware is a clever notion. India-based industrial designer Prashant Chandra appears to have one-upped Asus designers with his concept Lifebook laptop, which has three sub-devices – a camera, a phone, and a tablet – all built in. What’s clever here is the placement of those gadgets. The tablet, which would have a virtual keyboard, would take the position of where ...
Jan 18 2012
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Mig33 Adds Miniblog to its Arsenal in Push for Emerging Markets
With over 55 million users to date, Singapore-based mobile social network mig33 is looking to further expand its horizons, today announcing that it’s getting into the microblogging space. The company is rolling out its new ‘miniblog’ service (accessible at b.mig33.com) from the beta stage, and intends to launch it as “the centerpiece of mig33.” The miniblog had a limited release thirty days back, and has accumulated over 300,000 daily active users already. It differs from other microblogging platforms in that it is integrated with the company’s third party games, chat, and ...
Jan 16 2012
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3 Bangkok Locations Make Instagram’s Top 15
Photo-sharing iPhone app Instagram recently revealed the top 15 most popular places where Instagram photos were taken in 2011 and, surprisingly enough, there were three locations in Bangkok, Thailand on the list. Coming in at the number two most popular spot in the world for Instagram photos was Bangkok’s Suvarnbhumi International Airport, bested only by the world famous Disneyland in California. Number 11 and 13 were the Siam Paragon and Terminal 21 air-conditioned mega-malls, respectively. Anyone who’s been to the Thai capital may find this as no surprise perhaps. If there are ...
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