Category Archives: Technology

Kim Jong Il Loves Women, Doesn’t “Violence Women Domestically (or internationally)”

Posted on January 19, 2010 by jozjozjoz

If you’ve been on Facebook in the last couple of months, then you might have been inundated with requests to vote in Chase’s Community Giving Facebook Campaign. With financial resources drying up for many organizations, this campaign has been a … Continue reading →

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CPAF PSA: YouTube All-Stars “United Against Violence”

Posted on January 18, 2010 by jozjozjoz

The Center for the Pacific Asian Family is a non profit organization that seeks to prevent and end domestic violence within the API community, which has some of the most common cases, but are the least vocal about it. This … Continue reading →

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Google Quits Bending Over For China

Posted on January 13, 2010 by Ben

I find today’s tech news about about Google’s decision to refuse to censor Chinese results to be rather fascinating. There’s talk about how Google is threatening to pull out of China and open up their searches without the filters after … Continue reading →

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Asians More Likely to Use Online Banking

Posted on January 12, 2010 by Tim

Nielsen recently released a study showing that Asian Americans are much more likely to use online banking than other ethnic groups. 75.3% of Asians bank online versus 67.4% for everyone else. In addition, the younger and more affluent tend to … Continue reading →

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Asian Web Domains Among Safest and Riskiest

Posted on January 6, 2010 by Tim

It’s no surprise to anyone familiar with web security that China’s domain, .cn would be near the top of the list of riskiest domains to surf when on the web. McAfee recently released their 2009 Mapping the Mal Web report, … Continue reading →

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Taiwan’s HTC: Quietly Brilliant

Posted on December 30, 2009 by John

If you own a cell phone, there is a good chance your phone was designed and/or manufactured by the Taiwanese company HTC. Never heard of HTC? That’s alright, most people haven’t. For most of their 12+ year existence, HTC has … Continue reading →

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AT&T Piano Commercial Featuring Pianist Kwan Yi

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Jen

In a dramatic AT&T commercial, Pianist Kwan Yi plays on AT&T touchscreen phones and a rather dramatic and beautifully played excerpt of Beethoven’s Pathetique Sonata. Yi has quite the education in music — he has an undergraduate degree from Philadelphia’s … Continue reading →

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Is “Lee” a White, Black, or Asian Surname? Facebook Finds Out

Posted on December 19, 2009 by Jeff

When you see the surname Lee, you don’t know the ethnicity of the person with that name.  Robert E., Spike, and Bruce – they are all Lees .   There is even a Facebook group called “My surname is Lee but … Continue reading →

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Friendster Bought by Malaysian Company, Reveals Totally Asian Branding

Posted on December 10, 2009 by Ernie

Friendster — seriously, remember them? — is like the Coolio of social networking services; like the rapper, the website was once hip and edgy, but after a series of poor financial decisions is relegated to do desperate things to get … Continue reading →

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The Netbook Phenomenon

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Tim

My mom told me that when I was younger, she worried that I would be the one child who didn’t get to travel, didn’t get to see the world. Both my sisters had already done Europe before they graduated from … Continue reading →

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Would You Like a Japanese Whopper with your Windows 7?

Posted on October 28, 2009 by John

Windows 7 launched worldwide this past Thursday, but in what has to be one of the strangest, most bizarre cross promotions I think I have ever come across, Microsoft teamed up with Burger King in Japan to promote Windows 7 … Continue reading →

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Web Developers Outraged as Lap Dancers Hired to Yahoo! Taiwan Hack Day

Posted on October 20, 2009 by Ernie

For the non-technical: Yahoo! Hack Day is an event where web and software developers spend nights at the Yahoo! campuses around the world to develop anything they want using Yahoo! technologies. They try to make it fun (the US version … Continue reading →

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