July 4th, 2008
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There are about 66% of foreign labors in Malaysia that are from Indonesia. Most of them are living in under-banked area, make themselves difficult to transfer their money-overseas payment-to their homeland. But as research tell, every family in under-banked area has at least 1 cellphone. Can they use the cellphone to transfer their money back [...]
July 3rd, 2008
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He is come ….. the Nokia E71 Series.
Hello Indonesian, Assalamu’alaikum, do you have a plan to switch from your old school Blackberry or Motoming? If yes is your answer than I bet you better read this one. Starting from today, StudioHP, an Indonesian e-commerce website which focusing itself on cellphone and accessories has announced that [...]
June 13th, 2008
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Next Sharp’s sharp target are India and Indonesia
Yoshisuke Hasegawa, group general manager of Sharp’s communication systems group as reported by Reuters said to reporters in China that they want to expand their cellphone business to India and Indonesia as well. Not only in China!
Wow, this is a big news. At least for me an Indonesian. [...]
June 8th, 2008
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This must be another clever way made by Singaporean. ST Telemedia, telecom company owned by Temasek holding, agreed to sell all their shares in Indosat (NYSE: IIT, IDX: ISAT) to Middle East’s Qatar Telecom. The transaction, involving 40.8% shares of second largest Indonesian telecommunication company, valued US$ 1.8 billion in total.
June 2nd, 2008
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Indonesia’s newest GSM and 3G’s operator, AXIS, launches today the new prepaid tariff for data usage: Rp0.1 per Kb for the first 10 Mb every day. The company claims that this is a revolutionary step for the country’s data services, emphasizing that this price is 90% cheaper than the existing tariff offered by other providers.
Prepaid [...]
June 1st, 2008
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A smiling Friendster and an angry one.
This is the week of Friendster Mobile, their users, and of course 3GWeek itself. We got 21 posts through this week so let’s start one by one.
On Friendster Mobile
Began with my post on May 21 entitled “Friendster Finally Goes Mobile“, I absolutely couldn’t believe it by [...]
May 30th, 2008
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The latest news about Hutchison Telecommunications International Ltd. to offer Apple’s iPhone in Hong Kong and Macau, has undirectly delivered another important message to the market: will this provider also bring iPhone to Indonesia, one of the emerging markets in Asia? Will Indonesia follow Singapore and the Philippines as the third countries of ASEAN [...]
May 27th, 2008
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This might be quite local information, but who else will give this information besides us? 3GWeek is based in Indonesia and try to give complete information for global visitors about national telecommunication update. If you want to know more about Indonesia’s telecommunication businesses, you can contact us directly.
May 24th, 2008
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I personally like the handset’s body. Flat. Slim. It’s easy to hold or keep it in our pocket.
Above all, the most-sophisticated feature this phone can do is its ability to create geo-tagging for pictures taken by its camera. When you took a picture, then its GPS capability will add some geo-tagging informations to this photo [...]
May 23rd, 2008
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Finally, the famous international Apple-centric magazine, MacWorld has been launched in Indonesia at May 15, 2008. I haven’t check the print edition yet but at least I’ll know what the cover looks like in my local book store.
The future is Mac … and possibly the internet.
The website has also been launched at this url: http://macworld.web.id/. [...]
