I was about to spend $1.99 on a new iPhone game called Counter Strike. The game developer, Top Best Adult Entertainment, described it the “ORIGINAL Counter Strike is FINALLY Available on the iPhone.” Playing CS on my iPhone sounds like an awesome weekend plan!

Before clicking on the buy button, I checked the reviews. The app has 8 reviews (so far) with only one star rating in App Store (US).

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To make social gaming fun to millions of people worldwide requires over-the-top technological mights and ingenuity. Zynga is the Web’s modern marvel. It is the world largest social games developer and one of the largest users of cloud computing. It can deploy up to 1,000 servers within 24 hours. Its total database hold 1.4 PETABYTES of data, which is ten times the amount of movies in Netflix in HD. One of its most successful games, FarmVille, went from zero to 10 MILLION daily active users in 6 weeks! Zynga just launched its social gaming platform, a new playground for social games, and this will stratospherically expand its infrastructure.

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From The Diary Of DEMO Asia 2012
The online world is awash in a deluge of information. We are seeing emergence of more creative, innovative ways to mix and mash the information to create value propositions for users.

A Hong Kong startup, AfterShip, just launched a new web service that aggregates and repurposes packages delivery status data to create compelling value for both e-commerce merchants and buyers. The service is capable of automatically detecting shipment numbers of over 40 couriers worldwide and provides online merchants a consolidated view of delivery status of all their packages – in-transit, delivered or delayed. It also provides shipping insights for online merchants to analyze their shipping historical records. Online merchants can also send out customized delivery status notification messages to customers through SMS, e-mail or Twitter. With this, merchants can reduce customers’ questions about delivery status. For customers, they no longer need to deal with tracking numbers and track packages on their own, as they are automatically notified on the latest delivery status of their packages.

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Robot, Android’s native browser has become the most popular mobile web browser, overtaking Opera’s mobile browser, as revealed by StatCounter’s data.

StatCounter’s mobile browser stats for the period Feb 2011 to Feb 2012 shows that both Robot and Safari, the iPhone’s native browser, are growing in terms of popularity. However, the Android browser saw an impressive growth, overtaking both Nokia’s browser and Safari in May 2011, and most recently overtaking Opera as well.

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Last month at 2012 International CES, Huawei unveiled its world’s slimmest Android smartphone. Now, at the 2012 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Huawei is stake its claim as the creator of the world’s fastest smartphone – the Huawei Ascend D quad, powered by the Huawei’s K3V2 quad-core 1.2GHz/1.5GHz processor. It also boast the most compact design among 4.5-inch smartphones (ultra-thin frame measuring 64mm narrow and 8.9mm slim) and comes with Huawei’s proprietary power management system which provides up to 30% in energy savings.

Other notable features include:

• 4.5-inch 720P high definition touchscreen
• Industry’s most powerful 32-bit true color graphic processor
• 330 PPI (pixels per inch) screen providing crystal clear display even under direct sunlight
• Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound and Audience earSmart™ voice technology
• Camera: 8-megapixel BSI rear-facing, 1.3 megapixel front-facing and 1080p full HD video-capture and playback capabilities

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DEMO Asia 2012 has just announced speakers and sages for its upcoming conference in Singapore.

Speakers

• Jeff Clavier @jeffclavier : Founder and Managing Partner of SoftTech VC, one of the most active seed stage investors in Web 2.0 startups.
• Robert Kim – Director (Consumer Infocomm) of Singapore’s Infocomm Development Authority, where he plays industry development role in the areas of start-ups/entrepreneurship, online gaming and digital media.
• Philip Lim Feng – Chief Executive Officer, Exploit Technologies Pte Ltd
• Adeo Ressi @adeoressi – Founding Member, TheFunded.com, an online community of 12,000 CEOs to research, rate, and review funding sources worldwide. He’s is also the CEO of Founder Institute.
• Michael Yap – Deputy CEO & Executive Director of Interactive Digital Media Programme Office, Media Development Authority, Singapore

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McDonald’s Malaysia Facebook Page has just surpassed the 1 million fans mark. Now, there are four Pages with more than a million fans in the Most Popular Facebook Pages in Malaysia list. It took McDonald’s Malaysia almost three years to rake in a million fans on Facebook; the Page was created in April 2009.

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KFC Malaysia is still reeling from the blows from its punching-customer crisis. But don’t expect any sympathy from its competitor, Nando Malaysia. The restaurant chain, specializing in flame-grilled Peri-Peri chicken dishes, tries to play on the current sentiment among social media users. The company just posted a poster on its Facebook Page, which says:

We’re Good at Punchlines, not Punches.

Ouch.. that hit the spot, if you’re in Team KFC.

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14 days to the DEMO Asia. The inaugural Asian edition of the hugely popular DEMO will happen on February 14 2012 at Matrix @Biopolis in Singapore. DEMO is one of the most popular technology showcasing events in the world. Over 70 Asian startups have been chosen to demonstrate their innovative inventions to the world. No PowerPoint, no flashy stage show, just entrepreneurs demoing their technology products. Additionally, there will be 120 companies showcasing their products at the DEMO Asia Pavilion.

In the past five years, DEMO companies have raised over $4.5 billion after their debut at DEMO. More than 50 companies have been acquired by tech giants like Google, Microsoft, Adobe, and Cisco, just to name a few.

The conference agenda is here. Reserve your seats today for DEMO Asia 2012. Use this Promotional Code to get 5% off your ticket: GRE67M

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This is a bare knuckle brawl you don’t expect to see at one of the world’s leading fast food chain restaurants. A 28 seconds video (see below) showing employees at one of Kentucky Fried Chicken’s outlets in Malaysia kicking and shoving a customer went viral in the social web since it was uploaded on Monday. The video has (so far) garnered over 400,000 views and over 9,000 comments on YouTube.

KFC Malaysia said on its Facebook Page that they’re investigating the matter. The 28-seconds video only showed an explosive ending of a saga. And many are wondering what actually triggered the employees’ fury. (UPDATE: The victim recounted what transpired there.)

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Just days after the US Justice Department closed down Megaupload, other popular file-sharing services have abruptly cut off the sharing of movies, games and other software through their servers.

File-sharing services, also referred to as digital lockers, enable users to easily upload, store and share large files on a server in the internet cloud. This includes movies, music, gaming applications, software tools, multimedia presentations and the like.

But digital locker companies  have not come up with a good way to consistently stop copyright infringement and as the result, they are often used as the platform to download copyright infringing materials, from the latest software to the latest Hollywood blockbusters.

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