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• The Blogging Revolution is Over, But That’s Not the Point
  I was digging through some of my old columns the other day, trying to see if I had predicted anything right. Here's what I had to say 10 years ago this month, about a new and still obscure habit called blogging: I'd like to think that blogs do what the much vaunted portal of the […]
• Facebook’s daunting Asian challenge
  Here's a piece I pulled together with the help of Reuters reporters Andjarsari Paramaditha, Camilo Mejia and Estelle Griepink in JAKARTA, Harichandan Arakali in BANGALORE, Lee Chyen Yee in HONG KONG, Kazunori Takada in SHANGHAI and Harry Suhartono in SINGAPORE. Facebook aims to connect all two billion Internet users. So far it has captured 845 […]
• The Tablet is the Computer
  One thing discussed often and at great length in nerdy circles these days is this: Is the tablet—by which we really mean the Apple iPad, because it created the market, and presently accounts for nearly two thirds of it—a computer. A PC, if you will? Some say that the iPad is not really a computer. […]
• Podcast: Google Dilemma
  The BBC World Service Business Daily version of my piece on the Google Dilemma (The Business Daily podcast is here.) Loose Wireless 120117 To listen to Business Daily on the radio, tune into BBC World Service at the following times, or click here. Australasia: Mon-Fri 0141*, 0741 East Asia: Mon-Fri 0041, 1441 South Asia: Tue-Fri 0141*, […]
• Podcast: The Real Revolution
  The BBC World Service Business Daily version of my piece on the rise of the smartphone (The Business Daily podcast is here.)  Loose Wireless 120111 To listen to Business Daily on the radio, tune into BBC World Service at the following times, or click here. Australasia: Mon-Fri 0141*, 0741 East Asia: Mon-Fri 0041, 1441 South […]