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Group Buying Landscape

November 11, 2010 News

Over the past six years group buying had grown into a multi billion (US) dollar business. Among the many sites focused on group buying around the world, Groupon.com is the largest with global presences in 24 countries or 168 cities, and Woot.com pioneered the concept when it started in 2004. If you are not familiar [...]

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Porn Vote of Confidence

July 5, 2010 News

HTML5 has long been promoted by Apple, Google, Mozilla, Opera, Microsoft, etc. as the future for the web. Apple even went as far as not supporting Flash on its mobile platforms (iOS) to further promotes the use of HTML5 in web site development. Apple’s decision caused a major war of words between Adobe and Apple, [...]

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HTC Hero Available from Smartone-Vodafone

August 26, 2009 HTC

This afternoon the mobile carrier Smartone-Vodafone has announced the price and tariff plans for the HTC Hero. The top of the line plan is identical to the tariff planSmartone-Vodafone is offering iPhone users in Hong Kong, which they called “The Ultimate iPhone Experience“. The main difference being for the iPhone tariff plan, Smartone-Vodafone is not selling [...]

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Barcamp Hong Kong 2009

August 13, 2009 Hong Kong

Barcamp Hong Kong 2009 is now accepting registration. Please add the hashtag #barcamphk for any conversations relating to the event on Twitter or other social networks. The tag “barcamphk” should be added to any photos relating to BarcampHK on Flickr, and they can be added to the Flickr group BarcampHK

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Last of OS X for PowerPC

August 6, 2009 Apple Inc.

Shortly after the release of OS X version 10.5.7 Apple released 10.5.8 to its developers for testing. This version of OS X is rumored to be the last of the OS X versions that continues to support the PowerPC Macintosh. With an educated guess this rumor is definitely believable, as OS 10.6 is expected to [...]

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Apple Privacy Caused Death or Is It a Conspiracy?

July 22, 2009 iPhone

I was reading the article, Chinese Worker & Apple iPhone 4G, from VentureBeat yesterday and it made me think that we are getting too much pressure at work. According to the story from Chinese sources [Chinese], last Thursday (July 16th) an employee of Foxconn, who is responsible for shipping prototypes from the factory in Shenzhen [...]

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iPhone 3GS Inventory in Hong Kong

July 10, 2009 iPhone

This morning 3 HK, the official Apple carrier partner, began selling iPhone 3GS in Hong Kong. At the same time Apple Online Store Hong Kong began selling versions without carrier-contracts at a price of HKD5388.00 and HKD6288 respectively. Now (16;00) Apple has changed their estimate shipping duration from “24 hours” to “5 – 7 business [...]

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Prices of iPhone 3GS in Hong Kong [Updated]

July 9, 2009 iPhone

This afternoon 3 HK, Apple’s official carrier partner in Hong Kong released details of their iPhone 3GS tariff plans. From the prices of these plans, it indicates that the “contract-free” version to be sold at Apple Online Store Hong Kong and other Authorized Apple Resellers will be around the same HKD5400.00 and HKD6200.00 prices respectively; as [...]

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Apple Asia Sent Out iPhone 3GS Marketing Email

July 8, 2009 iPhone

Just received the following email from Apple Asia. This was sent to several of my email addresses I have registered with Apple, including my MobileMe email address. There are no further information as to pricing or whether this pending availability is only through 3 HK, Apple’s official carrier partner in Hong Kong. I am hoping [...]

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New from Apple March 2009

March 4, 2009 News

Apple this morning (US PST) released new Mac Mini, iMac and Mac Pro. The former were not a surprise to me but the latter was. As I had thought Apple will leave the Mac Pro upgrade for WWDC, especially given the current economic climate.

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Quick Summary of Macworld 2009 Keynote

January 7, 2009 Apple Inc.

Before heading to bed, I thought I give everyone a quick summary of the keynote at Macworld 2009. Apple announced three new things: iLife ’09, iWork ’09 and a new MacBook Pro 17″ plus two iTunes Store updates. The latter being the immediate availability of 8 million DRM-free tracks on iTunes Store worldwide and OTA [...]

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