Tag: ASIA

A research group has just released an astonishing figure: at the end of the first quarter, 2010, there were 4.8 billion mobile phone connections across the world. The same report says that by the end of the year there will be no less than 5 billion connected mobile phones. To put this into perspective: there are only 7 billion souls on this planet. That means 71% of the entire world has a ...

Starting today anyone can sign up for a domain name ending in .ASIA on a first come, first served basis. For the past month or so, DotAsia, the organization overseeing the new top level domain was accepting registrations on a limited basis. But that .ASIA domain might not be as valuable as you'd think. Well, sure, first of all, it's going to take a while before anyone even thinks of typing ...

Much of the world may still be dominated by Microsoft, with Apple running a distant but statistically significant second; That hasn't stopped Linux installs from growing at an outstripping pace in China. According to ZDnet Asia, Linux growth has outpaced that of any other operating system in China over the first quarter of 2007. Make no mistake, Windows and commercial flavors of Unix are still ...