And So the AsiaD Speakers Begin: Google, Alibaba, Twitter, Asus, Nvidia and...
No rest for the weary D conference producers! Which would be Walt Mossberg and me, since we are now hard at work — after a very successful ninth D: All Things Digital — on our newest event: AsiaD. An...
View ArticleEven More AsiaD Speakers: Yahoo's Yang, HTC's Wang, Samsung's Hong and More!
With AsiaD just a little over a month away, Walt Mossberg and I are adding even more speakers to the list, for what we hope will be an awesome event in Hong Kong. Taking place from Oct. 19 to 21, the...
View ArticleFinal AsiaD Speakers: Apple's Phil Schiller and Former VP Al Gore
And then there was Schiller and Gore. That would be Apple’s SVP of worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller and former Vice President Al Gore, who round out the stellar list of speakers at our...
View ArticleThe Globalization of D: All Things Digital Begins Now
And so our international expansion of D: All Thing Digital starts and we could not be more proud that it begins here in Hong Kong, with AsiaD. So why Asia? It seemed the most obvious choice for us, as...
View ArticleJonney Shih Shows New Asus Tablet, Ultrabook at AsiaD
Little known outside of Asia a few years ago, Asus burst onto the scene with its Eee PC, the product that ushered in the era of the netbook. With netbooks losing popularity in favor of tablets, Asus...
View ArticleNew Asus Transformer Tablet Unveiled at AsiaD
With the boundaries between the tablet and notebook becoming increasingly blurry, where does a netbook pioneer like Asus place its bets? “We believe that we have to bet on both — the tablet and the...
View ArticleJonney Shih: Highlights From AsiaD (Video)
With cloud computing becoming more ubiquitous, the boundaries between the tablet, the smartphone and the notebook are blurring. Today, Asus finds itself at the center of that transition. In an AsiaD...
View ArticleAsus' Jonney Shih on Ultrabook, Android and the Future of PCs: The Full AsiaD...
We are now posting the full videos from the recent AsiaD conference, which took place in Hong Kong in October. Over the next two weeks, we’re going to follow the schedule of the actual event. Up now:...
View ArticleNvidia's Quad-Core Tegra 3 Ready, Asus' Transformer Prime Almost Ready
For those who have been waiting for a mobile device with a quad-core chip, the wait is over. Well, almost over. Nvidia is announcing on Wednesday that it is ready with its Tegra 3 chip, previously...
View ArticleExclusive: Google's Andy Rubin and Asus' Jonney Shih on How They Cooked Up...
Building the Nexus 7 tablet was no easy task, says Asus Chairman Jonney Shih. First off, Google gave the company only four months to build the product. Then there was the task of building a high-end...
View ArticleAsus Tries Another Phone-Tablet Hybrid, This One With Intel Inside
Asus is known for its hybrid devices. Its Transformer line merges tablet and laptop, while the Padfone has been an effort to allow a phone to plug in to a larger screen and become a tablet. Now comes...
View ArticleAsus's Chief Jonney Shih Dishes on How the New Nexus 7 Came to Be
Google and Asus had already set some pretty audacious goals for the redesigned Nexus 7. Starting last October, work began to make a second-generation device that was thinner, packed a faster chip,...
View ArticleTaiwan's Asus Aims to Enter U.S. Smartphone Market Next Year
Asus has made a business out of finding niches where other computer makers had yet to see them. But in trying to crack the U.S. smartphone market, the company could face its hardest test yet. Asus...
View ArticleAsus Pulling Back on Windows RT, Chairman Says
Asus’s Jonney Shih has made some crazy bets over the years — teeny-tiny laptops, phones that turn into tablets, and even a seven-inch tablet that can be held to the ear to make phone calls. But, so...
View ArticleATD Week in Review: Microsoft Partner Woes and Samsung's Steroid Specs
In case you missed anything, here’s a quick roundup of some of the news that powered AllThingsD this week: Starbucks said it would bring wireless cellphone charging to 10 of its coffee shops in Silicon...
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