This afternoon, I sat down with Dan Neary (Vice President for Emerging Markets) of eBay SouthEast Asia to talk about the recent developments of e-commerce in the country.

In an attempt by the Pakistani Government to block a Youtube video in the country, the Pakistan Telecoms has accidentally re-routed Youtube’s IP somewhere else and this has cascaded to other international providers which eventually caused temporary Youtube outage last Sunday.

In the midst of a potential take-over by Microsoft, Yahoo has announced it is letting go of over 1,100 employees. Among them is the entire Yahoo Design Innovation team which is responsible for next generation design projects. The list of projects they were working on is now redirected to this site.

HD-DVD is dead, long live HD DVD! As a final blow to the adoption of HD-DVD, Walmart recently announced it will be selling Blue Ray and VD players only and will be finally phasing out HD-DVD on or before June of 2008.

Lenovo answered the MacBook Air with a ThinkPad X300. It may be not as thin as the MacBook Air but it is still lightweight (around 3.1 lbs ). It has really good features and a better price tag with the 64GB SSD which is around 2,500 USD to 2,800 USD than that of the MacBook [...]

Banco de Oro sent out a security bulletin to all its customer about a recent internet scam being circulated in emails that is part of a bigger modus operandi.
The scam being circulated through email attempts to lure recipients into giving details of their account and other information so that this may be used as [...]

Google is hosting the 2008 International Model Your Campus Competition. If you are into 3D modelling or have some good graphic background, why not join the Google SketchUp’s 2008 International Model Your Campus Competition.

In an aggressive move by Redmond giant Microsoft, a $44.6 billion offer was made for Yahoo! after the latter reported poor 4th quarter earnings. That and the pending thousands of layoffs from the internet portal. Yahoo’s stocks dropped to about 10% after trading hours.
The offer boils down to about $31 per share in cash and [...]

From February 1 to March 15, 2008 Asus Philippines will be holding a design contest. The objective here is to design the most creative Eee PC notebook skin which will the LCD cover and the palm rest.
Winning designs will be used and applied on a Special Edition Eee PC to be distributed in the [...]

Sprout is a browser-based tool where you could build Flash online. It has pre-built templates, and enables easy asset management. It is easy to use because of it’s drag-and-drop interface. The most interesting part about Sprout is its components. With Sprout, you could add your RSS feeds by simply dragging the RSS Feed control to [...]