Schmidt and Ma: Live Streamed from ‘All Things D’ Starting Today

Watch live video from the All Things D conference!

We don’t need to tell you who Eric Schmidt or Jack Ma is – so we’ll just tell you to set your alarm clocks to these times in Hong Kong if you want to see them live at the All Things D conference happening in the US and to get a sample of what’s heading our way in October!

For the first time, a few of the conversations between elite guests and hosts Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg will be made available for viewers around the world through live streaming:

• Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, on Wednesday, June 1 at 9:15 am Hong Kong time. He’ll also be demonstrating Google’s new mobile payment offering.

• Alibaba Group Founder and CEO Jack Ma, on Thursday, June 2 at 7:30 am Hong Kong time.

A complete list of all speakers at D9 is available here.

Google Says Hong Kong’s “Connected Harbour” Contributes HK$96 Billion To Economy

The Internet is making more money than you think in HK.

Google contracted The Boston Consulting Group to reveal the impact the internet has on Hong Kong’s economy – and what might be a surprise to some, surely not to readers of Neonpunch – its massive!

The report estimates that the Internet contributed HK$96 billion in 2009, representing 5.9 percent of Hong Kong’s GDP. A share that is likely to grow by 7 percent annually; contributing 7.2 percent of GDP in 2015 – faster than the forecasted GDP growth of 4 percent, reaching HK$146 billion by 2015.

We love reading these types of reports and luckily Google and BCG have allowed us to share the full report with you as well.

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The Neonpunch Top 10 Most Anticipated Gadgets of 2011

Here’s our list of the most coveted upcoming gadgets.

There are so many Best of 2010 lists already out at other blogs we’ve decided to forego that and look forward.

Unlike the movie industry the gadget world holds their secrets closer to their vests. But there are some things we know will be coming out in 2011 and we wanted to brace our wallets, and yours, for them.

With the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) just around the corner we thought we’d make a list of predictions for 2011. While we may not know the actual final names of these products, we know they are coming and we want them, starting with the Motorola BuzzDroid:

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The Motorola Defy Is The Toughest Mobile Phone Yet

Can it also “defy” its competition in the Android phone space?

After “flipping out,” Motorola now wants to be defiant with its latest Android 2.1 mobile phone, that they think is the toughest mobile phone ever made!

The Motorola Defy is dust proof, water resistant and maybe even Hulk-proof, and features a large, resilient display that has protection against scratches making this phone one of the toughest out there. Another main feature is the inclusion of CrystalTalk PLUS technology that decreases noise by using two microphones that filter out background noise and amplifies your voice so you don’t have to shout like the Hulk does!

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Google Launches Cantonese Voice Search for iPhone and Android

The Googley ones roll out voice search in Hong Kong.

Here’s a fun fact: Cantonese is the third most popular Chinese dialect for voice search after China Mandarin and Taiwanese Mandarin.

In a nutshell, Google launched a Cantonese Voice Search in Hong Kong and the feature will be available for all Android 2.2 and iPhone users.

The funniest thing about this is that as you’ll read below, it really is tailored for Hong Kong Cantonese – meaning Google has made special point to figure out the English words that Hong Kong people slide into sentences, transliteration, tones, noisy environments and the best thing to our readers who may have Cantonese as a second language (like us) – ACCENTS!

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