Apple TV hits Korea, but still no store
Apple has launched its new multimedia player Apple TV here. With it, multimedia files downloaded to the computer can be played on TV, and Internet music files can be piped […]
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Readers on the move making switch to e-books
Falling sales of printed books don’t necessarily mean people are reading less. In fact, with better technology in cell phones and portable media players, the market for electronic books and […]
Online spats leading sites to increase blog security
In the digital age, couples that break up are finding ruder and cruder ways of saying goodbye, forcing online social networking services and Net portals to tighten security. In the […]
User created content forecast to become dominant medium
Utilizing user-created content is likely to be a vital marketing tool in the future. At a recent conference on incorporating user-created content and the Internet environments that use such content […]
Games and movies play nicely together
Many games have been made based on movies, mostly by big film studios that created similar versions of the same game for various gaming platforms. For instance, “Lord of the […]
Getting carried away with new portables
Companies are always trying to find new categories in which to lump consumers, so that they can get a sense of who they’re targeting when developing and selling new products. […]
Jinmao Tower
I was recently in Shanghai for a business trip which ended on a Friday so I postponed my plane ticket 24 hours and spent one evening and the next morning […]
Laundry
In China, people are apparently not embarassed about hanging out laundry. In old neighborhoods, hanging laundry isn’t so shocking, but it is when it’s fluttering out of windows of nice, newly-built apartment […]
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