Story: Toshiba Concedes Defeat in the DVD Battle Quote:In a pitched two-year battle, Sony and Toshiba tried to woo Hollywood studios to release movies in their formats and to persuade computer and game console makers to use their disc drives. The struggle was reminiscent of the 1980s battle between the VHS format of Matsushita and… Read More »
Bruce Einhorn, Asia regional editor in BusinessWeek’s Hong Kong bureau, wrote a heavily politicised article on China’s snowstorm in which he suggested that “with millions stranded by snowstorms and infrastructure problems, antigovernment protests are likely”. Having recently relocated to Shenzhen and as someone who hails from a country where leaders are arguably elected, all I… Read More »
Second life? No thanks, I believe many people have enough troubles with their first. Related post:Why Second Life will fail
First, it was the computer. Now it’s the Internet that’s going to be personalised. At the recently concluded CES, Intel CEO Paul Otellini tells the crowd during his keynote speech that the Internet needs to become more personal and proactive. According to him, the days of the “go-to” Internet, where users connect to the Web… Read More »
This one-year-old article of Robert Ho by Martyn See at AsiaTimes Online tells the odd story of a Singaporean cyber-dissident who has been routinely painted (or should it be tainted?) by the PAP government as mentally unsound. If you read the whole interview, you will wonder: Is this really the mind of a mad man?
In a recent blog post, God of War creator David Jaffe put forth his arguments for a one-console future, saying that “we’ve gotten used to this [one platform] in so many other hardware products and – in doing so – reaped the many more benefits of a single system.” Furthermore, “we have it with DVD,… Read More »