8 Most Popular Posts (Last Seven Days)
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In a Post-Apocalyptic Zombie World, Asian American Man Gets White Girl
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Asian American Frozen Foods: MìLà’s “Soup Dumplings” found at Costco
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‘Fresh off the Boat’ Episode Review: “Clean Slate”
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Asian Americans Malls Thriving Despite General Shopping Mall Decline
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Asian Guys and that One Long Pinky Fingernail
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Do Asians Have Body Hair?
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WeChat Pay, Alipay, and the Future of Digital Payments in China
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Review of Netflix Japan’s “Our Secret Diary”
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Category Archives: Technology
Asian American Commercial Watch: Samsung Experience Shop — Countdown to Upgrade
http://youtu.be/81d009GtJWs If you haven’t been to a Best Buy recently, it’s hard not to notice the Samsung store-within-a-store set-ups that Samsung has. As you may know, the Samsung Galaxy S5 launched a few months ago, and now Samsung is promoting … Continue reading
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Made In the USA: American Surrogates for Chinese
When I was in college, I stumbled across the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, by Bill Watterson. In particular I was quite taken with the strip where Calvin and his toy tiger Hobbes discuss where babies come from. By the … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Family, Health, Health and Beauty, LGBT, Technology
Tagged American surrogates, China, Chinese nationals, made in usa, one-child policy, surrogates
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Is Japanese American Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto the Founder of Bitcoin? Reporters Chase Him Across Los Angeles
One of the biggest stories of the day today is that Newsweek’s Leah McGrath Goodman revealed the alleged true identity of the supposed founder of Bitcoin, which had been credited to “Satoshi Nakamoto.” In the detailed investigative report, the article … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Southern California, Technology
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Singing Couple Achieves Fame in Six Seconds
Asian Americans have made themselves known through YouTube videos, but can fame be achieved when those videos are only six seconds? Michael and Carissa Alvarado, a husband and wife team making up the group Us, have gained notoriety by using … Continue reading
Asian American Commercial Watch: Best Buy’s ‘Tablet or Laptop’
http://youtu.be/tlsA7qZgNT4 Actor Jason Schwartzman plays the main role of Christmas holiday storyteller in this television commercial, but actor Parvesh Cheena (who I know mostly for when he was on the NBC television comedy, Outsourced), plays the part of father and … Continue reading
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Lucy Liu Signs Up for Twitter with the Help of Jimmy Fallon
These days, one would think that every actor, actress and generally, celebrities would all be on Twitter trying to build up their fan base and build up a following. Apparently not. The other night, I caught actress Lucy Liu on … Continue reading
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Product Review: Samsung Galaxy S4
EDITORS NOTE: This review was written in June 2013 but got (temporarily) eaten by the blog monsters. Let’s just put it this way: I’m fully entrenched in the world of Apple. I use an iPhone, an iPad, and a MacBook … Continue reading
Posted in Shopping, Technology
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Giveaway: Blackberry Q10 from AT&T and the #ItCanWait Campaign Against Texting and Driving
UPDATE 9/1/2013: Congrats to the grand prize winner: Becca K of New York and the runner up: Alexis of Georgia! Thanks to all the entrants and don’t forget to take the pledge! I’m old enough to remember a time when … Continue reading
Posted in Lifestyles, Promotions, Technology
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Viral Like SARS: Disconnect to Connect
Thai commercials sometimes go viral when they are clever or really tug at one’s heartstrings. It’s seems odd that dtac, a Thai mobile phone and telecommunications service provider, would create and broadcast this ad, but it seems to resonate with … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Entertainment, Technology, TV, Viral Like SARS
Tagged disconnect to connect, dtac, smartphones, Thai commercial
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Product Review: Blackberry Q10 with Verizon Wireless + V3con 2013 Wrap Up
If 8Asian’s offer of free tickets to V3con didn’t alert you to the fact that this wonderful Asian American Digital Media Conference happened over the June 14th, 2013 weekend in Los Angeles, well then let me tell you a little … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Events, Local, Reviews, Southern California, Tech, Technology
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Product Review: HTC 8X
As part of my day job, I worked for a telecommunications equipment & cell phone OEM manufacturer. So it was my pleasure to have the opportunity to try out and review, courtesy of Verzion Wireless, a Windows Phone 8 device, … Continue reading
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