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Nintendo offers free Web browsing on its Wii console - Sep 2, 2009

Crave Nintendo Wii owners who wanted to browse the Web from their consoles have previously been forced to purchase the Wii Internet Channel application from the Wii Shop Channel for 500 ... Read story »

How one Chinese word became an Internet meme - Sep 22, 2009

Blogs All languages evolve over time. Yet the way in which one Chinese word/character evolved from a standard (if obscure) word into an Internet meme--and sort of an emoticon--is particularly curious. The ... Read story »

Pay-per-view-style high-speed access - Oct 30, 2009

Blogs Local ISP incumbent TelBru is introducing pay-per-view access to high(er) Internet speeds. The service, called Speed on Demand, is pretty much self-explanatory: Users pay an hourly rate for a temporary boost ... Read story »

iTwin USB enables remote file access via the Internet - Sep 22, 2009

Crave Here's a nifty two-piece USB hardware showcased by a Singapore startup at the recent TechCrunch50 event in San Francisco. What it does is it lets you access files on two ... Read story »

.中国 is coming, and China is pleased - Nov 1, 2009

Blogs The Internet, for its 40th birthday this week, got quite a shakeup: For the first time ever, Internet domain extensions can comprise non-Latin characters. After the domination of .com, .net, .co.jp, ... Read story »

Of frightful little secrets and unlimited downloads - Sep 18, 2009

Blogs I've got a little secret. One that most people do not really know, or rather, not one I would like letting on about. It's a fear that has been gnawing at ... Read story »

Of normadic lifestyles and changes - Sep 27, 2009

Blogs Recently, amidst the tedious transition between ordering a first-hand factory-second double-size mattress and organizing my new faster-than-lightning unlimited 8pm-8am broadband connection, I came to a realization. What would life be without ... Read story »

Comscore: Google rules, Asia Pacific behind Europeans in searches - Sep 1, 2009

Crave Internet search continues to skyrocket around the world with Google's dominance unchecked. ComScore came out with worldwide search market share numbers Monday, which revealed that Internet searches increased by 41 percent ... Read story »

Noynoy Aquino for President Twibbon launched for Twitter users - Sep 10, 2009

Blogs On September 9, which marked the 40th day of the death of former Philippine President and democracy icon Corazon "Cory" Aquino, her son Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III announced that he would ... Read story »

Video: Of Maemo 5 and the N900 - Sep 3, 2009

Crave STUTTGART, GERMANY--Don't mistake the N900 for just another smartphone. It may share similar features with the N97 such as the 3.5-inch touchscreen, 32GB onboard memory, 5-megapixel camera and 3G functionality, but ... Read story »

Why China's "Great Firewall" is so anti-social (networking)... - Sep 11, 2009

Blogs 2009 in China has turned out to be the year of heightened Web censorship, implemented by the nationwide filtering system known--not very affectionately--as "The Great Firewall".Many hoped that the Beijing Olympics ... Read story »

Boomerang Awards 2009 winners and not-so-winners - Aug 26, 2009

Blogs It seems Proximity brought home the bacon in the recently concluded Boomerang Awards for 2009, held during the Internet and Mobile Marketing Association of the Philippines (IMMAP) Conference. Proximity took home ... Read story »

Microsoft Windows 7 launched in Korea with 777 power bloggers - Oct 25, 2009

Blogs Microsoft Korea prepared its Windows 7 rollout event with the usual media and bloggers at October 22 in Korea. This may have been a global event, but Korea was the only ... Read story »

Pros and cons of Google SideWiki - Sep 25, 2009

Blogs Just recently, Google announced a new service called SideWiki, where it allows users to contribute helpful information next to any Web page. Google Sidewiki appears as a browser sidebar, where users ... Read story »

Get a FreeB with a Dot.Asia domain - Sep 8, 2009

Blogs A month ago, when the Dot.Asia domain started, like any other kiasu Singaporean and Internet junkie, I registered for my own Dot.Asia domain. Little did I know that by doing that, ... Read story »

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