May 18, 2011, Hong Kong – PCCW mobile customers in Hong Kong will soon be able to top-up their mobile account directly and securely via a new app from their smartphone following a collaboration with Monitise, the leading enabler of Mobile Money solutions, and its local partner JETCO (Joint Electronic Teller Service Limited). Full press release after the jump below.
The iPad 2 went on sale early Friday morning, and disappeared from the shelves. Not a bad time to buy Apple shares then.
Here’s a video from NeonPunch.com:
Wondering when your HTC, Samsung, LG, Motorola, or Sony Android device might get a fresh OS? If at all?
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We once attended an exhibition organised by the HKTDC. We had to give our personal details to attend. Seems they added us to their mail-out database, and now we receive their news releases.
OFTA regulates unsolicited marketing in Hong Kong, and set up this antispam website to help inform the public. The legislation requires, essentially, that electronic direct marketing be an ‘opt-in’ facility, and that all correspondence contains a facility to unsubscribe. Seems reasonable and civilised enough?
Well, the email from the HKTDC was in Chinese (see here), which we can’t read, so we needed to translate it (we used Google Translate). There was no unsubscribe facility. This is a poor showing from the HKTDC, whose chairman is appointed by the Chief Executive. But… why are we not surprised?
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Apple have not given a release date for the new device in Hong Kong yet. But 2 Days after the US launch of the iPad2 in the US, HKers can pick one up here before its released. But a 16Gb model will apparently set you back HK$7,900! We have to admit we haven’t headed down to Wanchai Computer Centre or 298 yet to check.
Read more about it here:
http://micgadget.com/11681/ipad-2-selling-at-crazy-prices-in-hong-kongs-gray-market/
