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2011/03/11

Special Report: Earthquake in Japan

Due to the earthquake and subsequent tsunami occured in Japan last Friday 11th of March, Casa Asia has prepared this special report to follow the current news of this Asian country. Consult the latest information, articles, experts' opinions, videos, images and tweets of the most important facts of the earthquake and its consequences in Japan. We have also created a Twitter list to follow the media, institutions and people who are constantly updating the information of the situation of Japan.

Technology > Technology

Technology

Press Review

After three days of disruptions, BlackBerry services finally restored

The Times of India

YouTube makes its official debut in Singapore

The Straits Times

Hyundai unveils revamped, fuel-efficient hatchback

The Straits Times

In depth

Technology

The "low cost" of the tablets

2011/12/12 16:30

With the growing interest in tablets and new technologies, more and more products that attempt to overshadow the king to dominate this market: the iPad. One of the most recent tablet has been rated as the cheapest in the world, created by the Indian Suneet Singh Tuli-Canadian.

Ubiquitous cities in Asia: a new concept of urban living

2011/05/27 13:30

In the last five years, Asia has become a melting pot of new ideas in urban living. One of the most successful concepts is the Ubiquitous City. This idea was born in South Korea, and wants to be a new model of sustainable economy based on a more efficient concept of communication, transport and natural resources. This kind of city manages ubiquitous information technology. All information systems working in the city are linked, and virtually everything is connected to an information system through technologies such as wireless networking.

Casa Asia broadens its presence in Social Media with Spotify and Foursquare

2011/05/11 12:20

Spotify, the well known streaming music service, and the social platform of geolocalization Foursquare, are added to the social media Casa Asia belongs to: Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube and LinkedIn.

Isaac Mao: “Sharism is a new philosophy like Capitalism or Communism, a new kind of society”

2011/02/16 11:25

On the 7th and 9th of February Casa Asia organised the Asia Geek lecture: "Digital China", delivered by the Chinese blogger Isaac Mao. Mao is a philosopher of sharism, a social businessman, blogger, software architect and researcher in social teaching and technology. Currently, he is Director of the Social Brain Foundation (successor of the programme CNBlog co-founded by Mao), manager of the Tor Project, adviser of the Global Voices Online and executive adviser of many Internet, Web 2.0 and new media companies. He is also director of the Shanghai Youth Development Foundation.

The exponential growth of social media in Asia: Challenges and Opportunities

2011/02/02 11:35

The arrival of the social media in Internet, led by Facebook and Twitter, has caused an important change in the substance and content of global networking. It also offers a new path of closer and faster communication than other systems, such as blogs. Thanks also to mobile technology, communication between individuals and communities have never been so fluent and effective.