Hanvon HPad runs Android, debuted at CES

About a week ago we heard that Hanvon was going to launched its first Android tablet. Now this has been confirmed. At CES, The company debuted the device which is called HPad as expected. HPad comes with a very slim design, and looks quite stylish. The thickness is just 10.8mm. It packs a 1Ghz ARM Cortex A8 processor, a 7 inches 1024*600 capacitive touchscreen, 512MB RAM, 2GB Flash storage, a 3.5mm headphone jack, 1.3 megapixels front camera and 5 megapixels main camera located at the back, and a 3300 mAh battery allegedly to support 6 hours video playing. It’s 3G connectivity will be provided as an optional feature. The prototype showed off right now runs Android 2.2. It’s said the product version that will arrived in March would run Android 2.3.

[Source:163.com]

• Hanvon debuted world’s first color E-ink reader
• Havon to sell ebooks on a 40-inch ‘Eletronic Bookshelf’ machine
• Hanvon E800 8-inch ebook reader
• Hanvon rebrands Spring Design Alex dual dispay e-reader and asks for more mony
• Apple paid Hanvon $3.65 million in the ‘i-phone’ trademark deal
• Hanvon N618 ebook reader hits the market
• Hanvon Touchpad Tablet and WISEreader e-readers at CES 2010

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Groupon Starts Recruiting Management Team for China

Just got an email from an insider, it says Groupon is

hiring for Groupon China, all major cities so if you know of any very smart people you think would be of value to us, please do let me know.

So finally Groupon is stepping into China. We used to report that Groupon’s in touch with the leading five group buying sites, but it’s been quite quiet since then. Not sure how Groupon is going to enter this market, but according to this email, they are definitely looking for the management team. So will Groupon set up the team by itself?!

Stay tuned!

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December 2010 Japan IT Links (Part 3)

The Asiajin’s December 2010 was a great month. We had 56 articles in one month, which was the record.

Continued from (Part 2). Last part of December news which we did not write as a dedicated article.

Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated.

• Digital Garage Assists HootSuite To Sell Paid Plan In Japan
• Recording Industry Association Of Japan Runs Copyright Enlightening Promotion, Asks Users’ Twitter Password
• LovePlus Live Event Report
• Mixi Android App
• Docomo’s LTE Service Xi Starting Celemony
• Japanese Traditional Craftsmen Association opens their store on eBay with support from Katsushika Ward Office and eBay Japan.
• Photo Reports: Japanese Virtual Christmas With Anime Characters, 2, 3 – Christmas was imported to Japan as a day for dating couples.
• In Japan, Even A Boat Race Gamble Site Becomes Like This
• College Girl Server Management Manga Blog To Be Published – The online manga we covered in August [En]
• Japanese mobile dating sim for women goes into Vietnam
• ex-Mixi CTO Batara Eto’s East Ventures Invests Indonesian Groupon Clone Disdus [En]
• Naver Introduces Blog Search Which Gives You Celebrity’s Official Blog The First – Celebrity names search tend to return fan’s sites first, Naver says.
• An Organization To Certify Marriage With 2D Characters
• How To Avoid A Facebook’s Bug Sometimes Cutting Your Japanese Comments
• Manga BusinessCard Maker
• All Coupon – Over 100 Japanese Groupon And Its Clone Aggregator

If you want to know any specific news more, but unable to find them in other English blog/media, please let us know.

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They Represent China Web in 2010, Announcing The Winners of ChinaMode Awards

Started from 22nd November 2010, ended at 27th December 2010, ChinaMode Awards has got 11026 nominations during the nomination stage and 44245 votes in the final vote period. It’s an unique online event in China web.

We are very excited to announce the winners in 8 categories. You might be surprised as many of them you may never heard of before, but that’s the aim of ChinaMode: not only to review the China web in year 2010, but also to explore good Chinese startups and help building a healthy ecosystem for local industry.

Group buying, LBS, e-commerce, Microblogging, Mobile applications, App store, vertical social network etc, they were doing great in 2010 and they have our best wishes for 2011! Here are the winners:

1. Best Consumer-based services

Meituan http://www.meituan.com/ – Group Buying service launched in 2010

Lashou http://www.lashou.com/ – Group Buying service launched in 2010

Nuomi http://www.nuomi.com/ – Group Buying service operated by Renren.com

BooksFly http://www.booksfly.net/ －Social books sharing service

Taotaosou http://www.taotaosou.com/ – image-based search engine for e-commerce launched in March 2010, invested by Taobao (our coverage)

2. Best Social Media service

Sina Weibo http://t.sina.com.cn -  Sina’s mircoblogging service

MTime http://www.mtime.com/ – IMDB-like portal for movies

Tencent Weibo http://t.qq.com/ – Tencent’s microblogging service

Xianguo Lianbo http://bo.xianguo.com/ – a RSS subscription and sharing service run by Xianguo the leading blogline-like service

Guokr.com http://www.guokr.com/ -  a social network for science fans


3. Best Entertaining service

RenZheCun http://www.ismole.com/ – a popular Social game developed by isMole

Douban.fm http://douban.fm/ – online music streaming service developed by Douban.

Qiyi http://www.qiyi.com/ -  Hulu-like video site run by Baidu (our coverage)

Sanguosha http://www.sanguosha.com/ – the online version of the popular table game Sanguosha.

Kugou http://www.kugou.com/ – online music service

4. Best Service for Productivity

vdisk.me http://vdisk.me/ – cloud-based file synchronization and storage service

DBank http://www.dbank.com/-  Online File storage service

51Qiangzuo http://www.51qiangzuo.com/ – Online event registration service (our coverage)

Hozom http://www.hozom.com/ -  the social phone contacts management application

3GTB http://www.3gtb.com/ – a Symbian Enhancement Software

5. Best Mobile Applications

Wandoujia http://wandoujia.com/ – Android-based applications for phone content management

VivaMe http://www.vivame.cn/ － an e-reader application available for Android and iOS with hundreds of e-version of copyrighted magazine/books

UC Paradise http://www.uc.cn/product/product_ucparadise.shtml – a mobile social network run by UC (our coverage)

Jiepang http://jiepang.com/ – the leading mobile check-in LBS service (our coverage)

MojiChina http://mojichina.com/ – the most popular weather forecasting application available for iPhone, Android and S60

6. Online forum focus on mobile applications

GOAPK http://bbs.goapk.com/ -  a popular BBS with focus on Android applications

TgBus http://iphone.tgbus.com/ – a popular portal service focus on iPhone applications 

Aimi8 http://www.aimi8.com/ – an Android app store

GFan http://bbs.gfan.com/ – a popular BBS with focus on Android applications

WeiPhone http://www.weiphone.com/ – a very popular BBS with focus on iOS applications and Apple’s products

7. Most popular International services

Twitter  http://twitter.com/

Kik http://kik.com

Foursquare http://foursquare.com

PvZ by Popcap http://www.popcap.com/extras/pvz/

Groupon http://www.groupon.com


8. Best Startups

Xiaomi http://www.xiaomi.com/ – mobile applications development company invested by Lei Jun (our coverage)

Anguanjia http://www.anguanjia.com/ – security software for mobile phone

Shucang http://www.shucang.com/ – an e-reading and e-publishing service which allows users to produce e-books in all sorts of formas and also share them with others

42Qu http://42qu.com/ -  an ‘e-commerce’ platform where you can buy hours of the registered experts (consultants)

Wiyun  http://www.wiyun.com/ – an all-in-one cloud service solution, currently including WiAd (mobile ads service), WiGame (mobile games) service.

Dianxin http://www.dianxinos.com/ – a customized Android system incubated in Innovation Works.

Quickpai：http://www.lingdong.mobi/ -  a 2d code reader founded by ex-CEO and founder of TX.com.cn (now DeNA China)

Qiumi http://www.qiumi.cc/ -  a social network and portal service for football/basketball fans

Qieke http://www.qieke.com – a popular LBS check-in service incubated by Shanda, the first mobile application implement Augmented Reality concept.

Jiankongbao http://www.jiankongbao.com/ – a system widely used in web server for server performance monitoring and reporting

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