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Disney-Pixar: It's a Wrap

2006-01-24T18:03:00.000+08:00

BusinessWeek reports on this tectonic deal. What an awesome win for tech and media consumers! This is tantamount to an Apple Disney merger, without the banking fees and integration headaches!

Free Flu Vaccinations in Hong Kong

2005-11-07T11:47:00.000+08:00

Xinhua reports a program started today by the HK government to give a quarter million free flu vaccinations to certain parts of society including poultry workers, some pediatric outpatients, some of the elderly, and some workers in related industries. Good move.

Bird flu business thoughts: I know it's morbid but...

2005-11-07T11:00:00.000+08:00

With the Hong Kong Flu Watch in full swing, I can't help but imagine what the business environment would look like. One thing is possible if this happens: much greater need for home delivery. As we saw from SARS, people were loath to go out, and retail pretty much ground to a halt. People still need to eat. All entertainment will likely be at home. Country parks or anything outdoorsy still

RedTacton

2005-02-23T08:31:00.000+08:00

RedTacton Human Area Networking (HAR?). Hat's off to our Japanese neighbours for putting this out. The line is definitely blurred between fact and fiction...we'll end up with body spamming soon. Thanks Dwayne!

Turn any iPod into an iPod Shuffle in 3 easy steps! on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

2005-01-13T09:58:00.000+08:00

Turn any iPod into an iPod Shuffle in 3 easy steps! on Flickr - Photo Sharing! Hahaha! Thanks Engadget for pointing this out...

Text messages aid disaster recovery

2005-01-07T13:25:00.000+08:00

BBC NEWS | Technology | Text messages aid disaster recovery SMS is one of the most robust telecommunication media available and the authors in the above article got that part right. The challenges faced by the 'Alert Retrieval Cache' concept, as it was loosely defined, is sketched out below, and the recommended solutions are attached as well. 1: Objective of usage: The technology solves what

The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Blog

2005-01-03T15:15:00.000+08:00

The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Blog This is a valuable use of technology. Shout out to the tech providers who do this free of charge to the end user.

Hong Kong is 2nd most broadband connected economy

2004-09-14T18:16:00.000+08:00

According to the ITU, Hong Kong ranks number two in the world in terms of broadband penetration, at 18%. This, just after Korea at 23.3%. Let's hope the little ex-colony can come up with some hot innovation like what Korea has done over the past several years in broadband gaming, mobile technologies, and generally things technological. Thanks to RED HERRING for the heads up.

"Phone Book", anyone?

2004-09-14T01:22:00.000+08:00

As reported by Smart Mobs, this was an IHT article about the use of the phone as the reading media for super short novellettes, in this case by a Chinese author. It makes a huge amount of sense...for Chinese language even more so than English due to the denser encoding of Chinese words. 70 character Chinese sms's can convey more than the 160 character english sms. What we need now are long subway

A Truly Great Post about Apple

2004-08-16T18:54:00.000+08:00

Hats off to John Gruber on his salient piece "Daring Fireball: Why 2004 Won't Be Like 1984". Quite simply a thoughtful and amazing summary of the state of the art (of business) at Apple. Amid the hullaballoo over Jobs' unwillingness to license the iPod platform, being compared to a deja vu of Apple's previous unwillingness to license the Mac platform, John argues that in fact the iPod situation

RFID in Japanese Restaurants

2004-08-12T18:29:00.000+08:00

Kaiten-sushi Restaurants are upping the technology ante in the land of the rising sun. People think of inventory tracking applications for the mighty RFID tags. Well, think sushi. In case you haven't tried Kaiten-sushi, it's basically sushi served on a conveyor belt around a sushi counter. The chef whips up the sushi on a plate, usually two to a plate, and the plate then travels on the conveyor

One Cool SMS Application

2004-07-29T12:43:00.000+08:00

comp0804smsbike_A Originally uploaded by joncheng. Tipped off by Smart Mobs, this has to be the coolest sms application I've seen. Popular Science reports this hacktivist using his bike to receive sms text messages, print them on the road with a chalk printer and with him navigating the bike to do the rendering, then phlogging the whole thing, along with gps data. Brilliant. Large format

2004-07-27T17:41:00.000+08:00

Wi-Fi Networking News: NY Times Looks at AirPort Wi-Fi Finally! The days of scarce wifi in U.S. airports may numbered.

2004-07-22T14:53:00.000+08:00

Excited to have met with a new friend today doing a super cool new Asian business Thelicatessen. Fantastic idea, fantastic product, great packaging, great looking website.

2004-07-20T20:53:00.000+08:00

Man this is pretty psycho...Poetry Jam

A Big Day!!

2004-07-20T20:13:00.000+08:00

Champagne flowing and red carpet out to welcome my dear cousin Gav! Good to see you here man! brooose Originally uploaded by joncheng.

2004-07-20T14:27:00.000+08:00

While, we're at it, Asia needs a cool little kiddy clothing design company like this one: Jeeto!™

2004-07-20T12:43:00.000+08:00

AMAZING VISUAL DESIGNS Asia needs a studio like this, no question. What? They're from Canada?!

2004-07-20T11:57:00.000+08:00

Whether you're Hot or Not depends not on the idea itself but the part of the cycle you're in. We've seen this before...mass consumerization of high end products/services. Apparently this is choice again. That's ok...it does work. But not across the board. NO-FRILLS CHIC | An emerging consumer trend and related new business ideas: ", owner of the Holiday Inn brand, is launching the Hotel Indigo

2004-07-20T11:50:00.000+08:00

This is too Cool. Engadget had the following to say... Engadget - www.engadget.com: "The Hitachi engineer behind this is obviously not looking to impress Japan’s future fiancés or its burgeoning gangsta rap community, since he’s manufactured the least blinging diamond ring in the world. The micro diamond ring has a diameter of just 0.02 mm is topped with a diamond that’s a mere 5 billionths of a

It's all in the Head

2004-07-19T15:40:00.000+08:00

Recently spoke to a top pastry chef from the U.S. who plans on moving to HK for good. Why, I asked? The answer came back: I just love Hong Kong. This is no advert for the HKTB. But the thing is there is something quite alluring about the Hong Kong attitude...we're always open for business. Things happen. Stuff gets done. Badabing. It's upward looking, always hoping

Street news

2004-07-16T15:12:00.000+08:00

Expect news from the streets of hk!------Sent from K700i

2004-07-16T13:37:00.000+08:00

As previously mentioned, the guerilla retail concept is a growing movement. This article from trendwatching.com is a pretty complete look at this new scene. The grand daddy of the trend must be VACANT, a truly inspired concept. The question that must be asked is the financial viability of these ventures. Sure the PR is great, and you sell some merchandise...but how much money can you make

2004-07-16T12:33:00.000+08:00

Recently I came across this really neat site called Halfbakery which contains halfbaked ideas. It's a pretty good place to see what wacky things occupy people's brains.

In the Beginning...

2004-07-16T12:03:00.000+08:00

You're looking at the birthplace of a thousand ideas. Or disasters. Isn't it amazing how tied we are to this keyboard? Thinking back to grade 8, straining my finger muscles to work the old mechanical typewriters, cranking out 60 words a minute was no mean feat. On this keyboard was drafted many wacky ideas. I must say there's a certain comfortable familiarity with