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Southeast Asian retailers are like ‘deer in headlights’ with e-commerce, but things are changing

Jun09
by on June 9, 2014 at 5:56 am
Posted In: acommerce, Around the Web, Asia, Southeast Asia, Thailand

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E-commerce is taking over Southeast Asia. Already, consumers can buy items in messaging apps, but future storefronts might be found in places as diverse as photo-taking apps. That’s according to Paul Srivorakul, founder of Southeast Asia-based e-commerce enabling company aCommerce. The helps businesses establish a footprint online and on mobile, and is particularly key in helping e-commerce firms with little or no experience make use of the web. The emergence of the internet as a retail platform has armed e-commerce firms in the US, Europe, China and East Asia with vast amounts of data and analytics to dig through. But the ability to track all manner of figures related to customers, suppliers…

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Google reportedly plans to alert European users of links removed by ‘right to be forgotten’ law

Jun09
by on June 9, 2014 at 5:15 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Google

Google is reportedly taking steps to ensure its users in Europe know that certain search results have been removed due to a ruling made last month by the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ). The ruling declared that individuals should have the right to remove outdated information about themselves from search engine results, which led to Google introducing an online form for users to request the removal of outdated and damaging links. According to The Guardian, Google is planning to include an indication on search result pages to let users know that links have been removed, similar to the way it handles search…

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You can now stream music directly from Spotify’s app to multiple Samsung speakers

Jun09
by on June 9, 2014 at 3:15 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, music streaming, Product Updates

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Samsung is keen to take its music streaming partnerships a step further, even after launching its own service Milk Music. After partnering with Deezer earlier this year to attract music fans in Europe, Samsung announced today a partnership with Spotify that will let premium users control their Samsung wireless audio multiroom speakers directly from the Spotify app. This is also the first time that Spotify Connect can stream music to more than two speakers at once. Spotify announced its Chromecast-style Spotify Connect feature in September last year, which lets premium subscribers stream music from the Spotify app to their home speaker systems…

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Watch Dogs review: This long-awaited game is addictive, but mostly a mess

Jun08
by on June 8, 2014 at 9:43 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Reviews

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The hype since E3 2012 for Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs has been continued since it was unveiled at E3 2012. Many who watched that early game footage, like I did, reacted with a collective “whoa.” Watch Dogs represented next-gen gaming at its best.  However, at E3 last year it became clear that the game had obviously not quite worked out the way the company had promised it would, with many of the graphics and dynamics of hacking pared back over the preceding year. Then, Ubisoft announced it was delaying Watch Dogs because it didn’t have enough “polish,” a fact that gave me hope the company…

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