It’s just about come to be a truism that internet links from the Asia-Pacific area to the rest of the world can be slow-moving and lag-ridden, but that assumption is about to be knocked flat if Facebook and others in a Time Dotcom-led consortium have their means. The alliance is investing an integrated $ 450 million into the Asia Pacific Gateway, a 6,214-mile undersea cable television that will run between Japan, Malaysia and South Korea. The fiber optic pipe will not only help decrease the demand to route big volumes of traffic through Singapore but, in several cases, deliver much of that traffic straight to American coasts– a significant assistance when Facebook and much of the internet business still hosts most of its content on the Eastern side of the ocean. Although faster speeds won’t be in location till the summer time of 2014, by which aim the even more direct connections may be positively required, it still gives hope to those of us who would like to poke buddies and upload photos in record time.

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Several Apple supporters on the contrary side of the Pacific from Cupertino haven’t had much of a choice to go shopping from iTunes, even though they have actually had the Application Shop for some time. There’s now a much better sense of balance: Apple merely flicked the switch on the iTunes Shop for new music and motion pictures in a dozen countries and territories around the Asia-Pacific area. The company singles out our own Richard Lai’s Hong Kong along with Singapore and Taiwan, but we would certainly be remiss if we didn’t discuss that Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam are additionally getting the media catalogs, that include local content along with the worldwide favorites. It’s a full catch-up also, with iTunes in the Cloud re-downloads and iTunes Match subscriptions accessible in every new nation. If you’re a significant Andy Lau fan but desired his albums from the most iPhone-friendly shop possible, the wait is over.

Apple opens iTunes Store in Hong Kong, Taiwan and 10 other Asia-Pacific zones initially appeared on Engadget on Tue, 26 Jun 2012 19:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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src="http://www.slipperybrick.com/index.php?feedimage=wp-content/uploads/2010/09/10x0904nshdropmbezune.jpg" alt="" title="500 Zune HDs headed for United Airlines Asia-Pacific Flights" width="500" height="292" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-52077" />Apparently Zune HD head Dave McLauchlan has been making deals with studios to get tons of movies ready for viewing so that you can do more than stare out your window on flights. 500 Zunes are being provided for long-haul flights to Hong Kong and Australia.

They will preload the devices with exclusive content, including movies that haven’t yet made it to a DVD release. The Zune HDs in question will now been encased in rubber, with their screens protected, and batteries charged.

We might see more Zunes on flights after this.

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