Archive for the "Hong Kong" Category

Pumpkin Carving Competition for Halloween

With so many great artists in residence at Outblaze, what better way to celebrate Halloween than with a pumpkin carving competition?   We had a lot of fun in our Hong Kong office with this. Here’s the line-up of entries: And here are our judges hard at work trying to choose the best from so […]

Outblaze is hiring project managers, game designers, artists, programmers & more!

Ever wanted to work at a hip, dynamic, innovative, award-winning and internationally recognized technology company? Outblaze, which BusinessWeek called “Hong Kong’s marquee Internet startup”, is now hiring for various positions in game development, project management, and quality assurance. If you would like a chance to work with major established brands such as Hello Kitty, BEN10, […]

IBM officially opens Cloud Computing Lab in Hong Kong thanks to Outblaze

Today I attended IBM’s ceremony announcing the opening of the first IBM Cloud Computing Laboratory in Hong Kong. The event was well attended by industry leaders, media, analysts, IBM’s major partners, and senior government including Mr John Tsang, Financial Secretary of the HKSAR Government. As Mr Tsang put it in his speech, the lab is […]

Young Entrepreneur Award for Outblaze CEO Yat Siu

We are coming up to the end of 2009, and ’tis the season to win awards! Once again, Outblaze has worked diligently not to disappoint its fans. Earlier in the year, we nabbed the Company of the Year Award at the ComputerWorld Hong Kong Awards, as described in my previous blog post. Last night, Outblaze […]

Come meet Marko Ahtisaari, CEO of Dopplr and Web Visionary (plus new iPhone App!)

We’ve thrown together an impromptu event in honour of Marko Ahtisaari, who will be here in Hong Kong Tuesday evening (June 23). Marko is the CEO of the business travel social network Dopplr, which helps users take advantage of collective and current intelligence on travel destinations. Marko is an ex philosophy professor, a blogger, Web […]

Outblaze wins Tech Company of the Year at CWHK Awards

Outblaze has been named Tech Company of the Year at the 2009 ComputerWorld Hong Kong Awards. Click to read the award article. The award scheme, organized by CWHK, is a yearly event to recognize the best Enterprise-class products and services in the territory’s IT market. The categories are hardware, storage, networking & communications, security, software, […]

IBM to acquire Outblaze email assets

Some very exciting news today: IBM will buy Outblaze’s email assets and incorporate them in “Bluehouse”. “Bluehouse”, a project by IBM Lotus, is an online social networking and collaboration service for businesses. The news was released overnight, local time, so postings of the news and requests for information are starting to appear. More details on […]

BarCamp Hong Kong 2008 (September 6)

Come, speak and learn at BarCamp Hong Kong! The user-generated conference is back in the city that really never sleeps. This event will be bigger and better than the first one, held last December, so don’t miss it. As was the case with the first BarCamp Hong Kong, Outblaze is a proud sponsor and supporter. […]

Firefox 3 kick-off party

  It’s been in development for 34 months, contains somewhere in the region of 15,000 changes, and it is 100% organic software: these are just a few of the reasons expectations were high for the release of the new version of Firefox. To celebrate the launch of Mozilla‘s Firefox 3 the Opensource Application Knowledge Association […]

Mobile devices: when data service fees attack

What if Internet access on your mobile phone for one month cost you HK$ 14,000, or about US$ 1,800? The following story occurred in Hong Kong, but this is a problem common over much of the planet. As recently reported by the South China Morning Post (SCMP): Mobile-phone users are facing big bills for internet […]