Ideas & Insight

Apple paving the way for iPad adoption in classroom?

Apple extends another welcoming gesture to all US education institutes by announcing the App Store Volume Purchase Program.  With the program in place, education institutes would be able to buy iPhone / iPad Apps in bulk for their students & faculty at a half price discount.

On the other hand, Apple has informed iPhone & iPad Apps developers that they can choose to participate in this program which would offer a 50% discount off the apps’ list price to education institutes when they purchase 20 or more copies of their apps.

The first step:  iPad Apps as textbook supplement

I think it …

What Every Asian Publisher Ought to Know about eBook

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the annual Hong Kong Book Fair .   Thanks to iPad and iPhone, eBook and digital publishing become one of the highlights in this year’s exhibition.

New eBook Digitalization Partners

Hong Kong businesses again demonstrated their acute business sense and efficient execution ability:  In less than a year, we now have a good variety of eBook digitalization and Apps publishing service providers – such as Iatopia, ICO, Kineticspace, Innopage and Handheld Culture.  They’re offering the use of iPhone Apps as the mean to deliver eBooks.

The eBook …

AirGini reinvents itself as a Mobile & Social Web Innovation Partner

In early July, we’ve completely revamped our company website.
Welcome to the new AirGini.com!

Friends who have been following AirGini developments know that AirGini is one of the few tech startups founded in Hong Kong that is good at both technological R&D and User Experience Design process. With this unique blend of expertise, AirGini has been designing and creating next-generation products for the mobile & social web businesses.

The good news is that, in 2010, AirGini has decided to make our portfolio of patent-pending technologies and product platforms available to business partners for licensing and collaboration.

We’re living in a world of ever-accelerating change and global competition, effective innovation is the key …

What iPad means for Mobile Operators

Few companies in the world receive widespread free publicity whenever they have a new product launch, Apple does.   Thanks to both traditional (it was even on the Evening News) & new media , everyone knows iPad was launched last night.
An unexpected introduction:  Micro SIM
I’m not surprised that many people are starting to fall in love with this latest gadget from Apple.  What caught my attention was the decision to use a different SIM format in iPad.   The SIM format is  Micro SIM, or 3FF (third form factor).   With a dimension of 12 x 15mm, about 52% smaller than …

Track & Alert is the New Search

Among the 10 Cruical Consumer Trends for 2010, published by Trendwatching.com,  there is “Tracking & Alerting”:
If INFOLUST (consumers lusting after relevant information) is the enduring mega trend, then TRACKING and ALERTING are its du jour sub-trends.

First of all, TRACKING & ALERTING is the new searching, as it saves consumers time, makes it impossible to forget or miss out, and thus ultimately gives them yet another level of control. Count on everything being tracked and alerted on (there’s more than FedEx packages!): from friends (MASS MINGLING!) to enemies to fuel prices to …

Who is the biggest winner in AdMob acquisition?

Today Omar Hamoui, Founder & CEO of Admob, announced the news that Google has agreed to acquire AdMob for USD$750 million.

The biggest winner and the real hero, in my point of view, is Michael Dearing,  the Angel investor who invested USD$4 million at the time when AdMob was merely a  mobile vision.
Constraints, Vision & Persistence
I’ve watching AdMob since its early start – at a time when the data charges were absurdly high;  People got ‘bill shock’, as they didn’t realize the  data charges were calculated by ‘bytes’ and would easily cost a fortune just …

Get ready for OPhone

Have you heard of the OPhone?   It’s a next generation smartphone supporting China Mobile TD-SCDMA 3G standard.   The most interesting part about this platform, however, is not its TD-SCDMA radio, it’s China Mobile’s insight in creating its own mobile content ‘market place’ through a new smartphone platform.

Lawrence Chow from Borqs,  the company behind the OPhone OS – OMS,  shared with in excitement the imminent launch of Ophone: “Finally, the OPhone will be release on Aug 31, 2009, 3:00Pm in Beijing…”.

Lawrence also recommended this article – “王建宙：中国移动的道路”  (in Simplified Chinese), which offers a glimpse of OPhone’s strategic importance in China Mobile’s business strategy.

Perfect Baby v1.3 update

Both Dad’s and Mom’s got new themes! This new release of Perfect Baby comes with 3 brand new themes, and we think they are really adorable:

Enjoy, and don’t forget to share them with your family and friends!