The BlackBerry PlayBook will be available in Indonesia in August but the product is already available at several black market electronics vendors in Indonesia
There's a fascinating piece in The Guardian this morning reporting that many Chinese inmates (at least in Jixi labor camp) are forced to play online games to build up credit for prison guards.
Japanese mobile social network and social game company DeNA announced today that it would undergo corporate restructuring as Tomoko Namba, the company's Representative Director, President, and CEO is to retire from those positions on June 25th.
According to a new report from McKinsey, the current internet revolution is driving economic change not seen since the 19th century. The research firm found that Sweden leads the world in internet contribution to GDP at 6.3%, but we were curious to see how Asian nations fared.
The Global Times, citing an article in New Express Daily, is reporting that Chinese group-buy service Lashou has been falsifying the original prices listed on its website in order to exaggerate discounts.
Sony has released its revised results forecast for the fiscal year ended March 2011, now projecting a loss of 260 billion yen (or about $3.18 billion).
On Taobao.com, China's biggest consumer-to-consumer ecommerce site, Chinese netizens could now buy themselves something a bit more special than the usual clothes or gadgets - a Lamborghini supercar.
There was no shortage of creativity among the many teams at Startup Weekend Tokyo 2011. But when the dust settled on Sunday evening, Q Live was proclaimed the winner.