Tech Stream
Posts Tagged ‘ Asia’
Tech Stream 018
19 June 2009
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PNG school children in Gaire, outside Port Moresby, trying out their new OLPC laptops in June last year. Photo from Flickr.
In the Tech Stream this week: Twitter connects the world to the post-election protests in Iran; the latest mobiles on display at CommunicAsia in Singapore; online vigilantes shutdown racism on Facebook; ICANN’s Dr Paul Twomey on the future of internet domain names; the One-Laptop-Per-Child scheme expands in the Pacific; and Bajo from Good Game joins us to chat about Infamous, the latest ‘open-world’ video game. Listen with the MP3 link above, full details after the jump…
Broadband growth driven by Asia
18 June 2009
The ICT expo CommunicAsia is taking place in Singapore this week and their daily newsbrief (pdf link) has some interesting stats on the growth of broadband take up in the region. Their figures indicate that broadband lines topped 429.2 million globally as of the end of the first quarter of 2009 with most of that growth being driven by Asia.
Innovation during a recession
8 May 2009
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What happens to innovation during tough economic times? Are people too scared to invest in new technology and ideas for their business, or if it the perfect time to be thinking outside the square and modernising? Is now the right time to implement green IT or social computing platforms?
Twitter for breakfast
9 April 2009
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I’ve found myself becoming a reluctant evangelist for Twitter in the past couple of weeks, and I’m not the only one. Many people in the media, marketing and technology industry seem to be in the same boat. This will change, and in fact it already is as more people start using the service. But being able to clearly define what makes it such an interesting and effective communication and networking tool is still a little hard to do.
Aerospace Technology on show
13 March 2009
Australia’s F1-11 aircraft are on show before their retirement.
It isn’t just jetpacks on display this weekend at The Australian International Airshow and Aerospace Defence Exposition in Avalon, near Melbourne. The expo is a hub of high-tech aircraft, from the US F-16 Falcon through to gigantic C-5 Galaxy transports and the Russian-made Mig-26 which can just about stand on its tail in mid-air. But the airshow is also very much about Australia’s role in providing military technology to Asia’s burgeoning demand for arms. My colleague Bruce Hill from Pacific Beat went out to Avalon and produced a special feature for Radio Australia News Online.
