Neowin News Feed for: Asia

Google opens new hardware engineering hub next door to China

Paul Hill — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 05:22:01 +0000

Google has opened a new hardware engineering hub in Taiwan, just next door to China. It is the largest hub outside of the United States. Read more...

Exynos 2600 to power Samsung Galaxy S26 series but not everywhere

Sagar Naresh Bhavsar — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 09:24:02 +0000

Samsung is expected to launch Exynos-powered Galaxy S26 models in select regions, while keeping the Galaxy S26 Ultra exclusively on Snapdragon. Read more...

Google unveils $15 million fund to help underserved communities fill AI skill gaps

Paul Hill — Mon, 27 May 2024 14:02:01 +0000

Google has announced the AI Opportunity Fund: Asia-Pacific to help people in the region fill their skill gaps regarding artificial intelligence. The fund has $15 million to help people learn about AI. Read more...

Nepal's government becomes the latest to ban TikTok

Steve Bennett — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 14:00:01 +0000

Governments across the world have imposed bans of varying degrees on TikTok, however, Nepal has gone further to ban the app across the entire country in a decision made in a cabinet meeting today. Read more...

Microsoft says state-sponsored China actor targeting critical infrastructure in the US

Paul Hill — Wed, 24 May 2023 22:58:02 +0000

Microsoft has put out a warning about Chinese state-sponsored actors, Volt Typhoon. It is apparently targeting US infrastructure with the objective of disrupting communications with Asia. Read more...

Singapore wants a byte of the semiconductor pie amid US-China tensions

Karthik Mudaliar — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 07:12:01 +0000

Singapore aims to win its "fair share" of semiconductor investments amidst growing trade tensions between China and the United States, focusing on semiconductor assembly and design. Read more...

Intel close to deal with Italy to build chip factory to reduce reliance on Asia

Paul Hill — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 13:30:02 +0000

Intel and Italy are close to a deal that will see a chip manufacturing facility be built in the country. The deal is worth $5 billion and will help Europe reduce its dependence on Asia for chips. Read more...

Valve opens Steam Deck reservations in more countries

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 09:06:01 +0000

Following its massive success in western markets, and with supply chain issues finally being resolved, the Steam Deck portable gaming PC by Valve is soon officially coming to parts of Asia. Read more...

LG announces 2020 K series smartphone line-up with premium cameras

Paul Hill — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 12:46:01 +0000

LG has announced the LG K61, LG K51S, and LG K41S. Each mid-range device will launch in the Americas, Europe, and Asia but the South Korean firm has not provided any information on pricing. Read more...

Philippines: Globe Telecom to launch SE Asia's first 5G broadband service with Huawei tech

Paul Hill — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 19:28:01 +0000

Globe Telecom is launching 5G broadband in the Philippines next month. It's the first company to launch this service in South East Asia. The network operates using some Huawei hardware components. Read more...

Tinder set to launch lite version in data-constrained countries

Paul Hill — Sun, 12 May 2019 05:48:01 +0000

Match Group has said that it will soon launch Tinder Lite. The app aims to get users in developing countries onto the platform. The firm is just the latest to launch a Lite app to reach more users. Read more...

Netflix unveils mobile-only plan for $4 in Malaysia; more Asian countries may follow

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 18:14:01 +0000

Netflix has unveiled a new plan in Malaysia that is restricted to mobile devices, and comes in at a much cheaper RM17 ($4) per month. Netflix is also running similar trials in other places. Read more...

Google invests $550 million in Chinese online retailer JD.com

João Carrasqueira — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 00:48:02 +0000

Google is reportedly investing $550 million in Chinese e-commerce platform JD.com in an attempt to expand its efforts in the Asian market, though it's still unclear how this will be done. Read more...

Microsoft, Sunseap sign 20-year solar power agreement in Singapore

Florin Bodnarescu — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 14:44:02 +0000

Microsoft has signed an agreement with energy provider Sunseap to purchase 100% of the output of the latter's solar power installation. This will be the largest project of its kind in Singapore. Read more...

Vivaldi first browser with vertical reader mode

Paul Hill — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 12:40:01 +0000

Vivaldi 1.14 has now been released. It includes vertical reader mode for reading pages in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean which are formatted vertically; and Markdown support has been added to Notes. Read more...

Netflix to spend a massive $7 billion on content in 2018

Paul Hill — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 11:42:01 +0000

Netflix's Chief Content Officer, Ted Sarados, has announced that the company will increase content spending by a further $1 billion next year - raising the total to a huge $7 billion. Read more...

Apple's Taipei 101 store to open on Saturday

Paul Hill — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 13:08:01 +0000

Apple will open a new store in Taipei on Saturday. It's the second store to open in Asia in as many months. This store introduces "Today at Apple" hands-on sessions which cover several topics. Read more...

UberEATS to begin service in India this quarter

Vishal Laul — Mon, 17 Apr 2017 14:34:01 +0000

Uber will be expanding its UberEATS food delivery service to six major cities in India by the end of this year. Mumbai is likely to be the first city where the service will begin its operations. Read more...

Apple launching 'new' 32GB iPhone 6 in Asian markets

Muhammad Zaid Tariq — Sun, 05 Mar 2017 10:54:01 +0000

Apple has quietly launched a 32GB model of the three-year-old iPhone 6 via select carriers in Asian markets. The device is already on sale in some areas and is available for pre-order in others. Read more...

Uber begins mapping Asia, starting with Singapore

Daniel Hull — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 13:06:01 +0000

Uber has started mapping Asia's roads to collect data on customer's travel routes, traffic patterns and pickup & drop off locations. Singapore is the first country to begin the mapping process today. Read more...

E-waste in East and Southeast Asia increases by 63 percent in five years

Gabriel Nunes — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 17:48:01 +0000

A study released by the United Nations University has found e-waste in East and Southeast Asia has increased fast from 2010 to 2015. The finding follows a worldwide trend of increased consumption. Read more...

Akamai: Asia and Europe lead the way in terms of fastest average internet speeds

Paul Hill — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 17:18:01 +0000

Akamai has released its latest State of the Internet report, for the second quarter of 2016. The report shows Asian and European countries leading the way in terms of average connection speeds. Read more...

September could be a tide-turner for the Xbox One

Chris Schroeder — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 07:28:23 +0000

Ever since we made the move into 2014, Microsoft has been playing from behind when comparing the sales of the Xbox One versus the PlayStation 4. Could September mark a momentum shift? Read more...

Samsung announces 'Project Glue' video service for Asia

Brockman Davis — Thu, 22 May 2014 03:59:41 +0000

Samsung has announced a new video streaming serviced that is named "Project Glue." This will bring TV shows from the U.S. and Britain to Asia, starting with the Philippines as well as Singapore. Read more...

MS Cuts Xbox Prices in Asia

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:22:10 +0000

Microsoft announced today that it is cutting prices on the Xbox 360 in four Asian regions by as much as 20 percent in an effort to expand the audience for the video game console. The... Read more...

Fiber Optic Cable Between U.S. and Asia Under Construction

Tue, 01 May 2007 03:59:38 +0000

A new pact formed last week between 17 major telecommunications companies hopes to avoid a repeat of what occurred last December. An undersea earthquake off the coast of Taiwan disrupted Internet cables, causing communications to... Read more...

Bill Gates: The next great success will come from Asia

Sun, 22 Apr 2007 18:00:37 +0000

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates cited a survey done in the United States on "where will the next big success and where the next Bill Gates come from" when visiting the town of Boao in south... Read more...

Intel Sees WiMax Trials in Asia end-2005

Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:25:11 +0000

Intel Corp., the world's largest microchip maker, said on Thursday it expected to implement trials of the emerging wireless broadband technology called "WiMax" in Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines by year-end. Intel, which... Read more...

Microsoft's cut-price XP flops in Asia

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:45:06 +0000

THEY SAY NO GOOD DEED goes unpunished. Microsoft's mission to bring cheap Windows to the Asian masses has got off to a very slow start. Windows XP Starter Edition, a cut down version of the... Read more...

HP Launches Low Cost PC In Asia

Sat, 11 Dec 2004 14:58:52 +0000

HP has announced plans to launch a low cost PC in China. At $483, HP hopes the PC will be cheap enough to keep it active in a high competition, high growth market. The PC... Read more...

Microsoft Expands Xbox Live in Asia

Thu, 05 Feb 2004 15:37:15 +0000

Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it would kick off its Xbox Live online gaming service in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore in April, making inroads into Asian markets dominated by Sony's PlayStation 2 console. The... Read more...

Micron says half of revenues to come from Asia

Mon, 26 Jan 2004 15:10:51 +0000

Micron Technology Inc. said it anticipates more than 50 percent of its revenue would be generated in southeast Asia within a few years with China, Hong Kong and Japan accounting for a significant portion of... Read more...

China takes half of Intel's Asia sales ex Japan

Sun, 18 Jan 2004 12:04:23 +0000

China has consolidated its position as Intel Corp's number two market since surpassing Japan last year, and now accounts for more than half of regional consumption ex-Japan, its Asia Pacific chief said on Thursday. ... Read more...

IBM moving 4,700 tech jobs to Asia

Michael Stanclift — Thu, 18 Dec 2003 07:24:26 +0000

IBM Corp. plans to move up to several thousand skilled software jobs from the United States to India, China and other countries, which could amount to one of the biggest such actions yet in the... Read more...

Microsoft Longhorn pirated and sold in Asia

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 08:39:55 +0000

SOFTWARE PIRATES have made an early beta copy of Microsoft Longhorn available on CD, but it's years before the OS will be released. The Longhorn alpha is a pirated version of the edition distributed to... Read more...

Microsoft: Asia not playing fair over OS

Fri, 05 Sep 2003 22:00:53 +0000

A plan by Japan, China and South Korea to develop an operating system alternative to Microsoft's Windows software could raise concerns over fair competition, Microsoft said Friday. Japan, the world's second-largest economy,... Read more...

Xbox prices axed in Asia (except Japan)

Wed, 02 Jul 2003 11:39:34 +0000

All of the Asia-Pacific territories where Microsoft sells the Xbox, with the sole exception of Japan, have seen the price of the console and its software slashed this week in an attempt to compete more... Read more...

Asia running out of IP-address room

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 28 May 2003 20:13:02 +0000

China, Korea and Japan are running out of time. Governments and academics from the three countries are teaming up, putting aside troubled histories to avert a common disaster. The issue: Asia's well... Read more...

Net virus 'fizzes' across Asia, U.S.

Mon, 12 May 2003 22:17:18 +0000

LONDON, England (Reuters) -- A new computer virus, the "Fizzer" worm, spread rapidly across the Internet on Monday, infecting computer users in Asia, Europe and the United States, anti-virus officials said. Businesses in... Read more...

PC makers hike prices - in Asia

Sat, 30 Mar 2002 05:13:52 +0000

Last week it was Apple: this week it is the turn of Japanese PC makers NEC and Sony and Korean maker Trigem to follow suit. They are increasing prices in Asia, citing... Read more...