In order to protect Indonesian market from fraud by unregulated e-commerce sites, Indonesia’s Ministry of Communications and Informatics will force e-commerce companies to register to the ministry. One of the non-optional condition to do so, is to force e-commerce sites to use a .id...

Elven Games (previously known as Elventales) releases its newest game, Garuda Riders. This game is a part of the Adventures of Wanara project, a project which parallelly produces novel, interactive comic, game and animation series. While Mechanimotion works on the rest of the porject’s...

If you are bored with the hackathons held in the last months, you may start paying attention to this one. This event is interesting, because developers are not required to work on a commercial apps. In this event, developers are asked to give a solution for a problem faced by the world’s...

Government Regulations on Implementation of Electronic System and Transaction has been officially signed by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on October 12. Thus, the regulation which was mandated by the 2008 law number 11 on Electronic Information and Transactions (UU ITE), becomes...

MNC Group plans to dive further into the digital world by developing a search engine. The potential Google competitor will see efforts towards its creation to begin in 2013. The plan was revealed by the CEO of MNC Group, Harry Tanoesoedibjo following the opening of Rakuten Expo 2012 in Jakarta...

From the 13 teams registered at the Sparxup 2012 Hackathon, there were 10 teams that presented their apps at the demo day. The first six teams had been published earlier. The following are the next four teams that presented their apps during the demo day on Thursday, before the judges, fellow...

After 15 hours of overnight coding, developers who went through the Sparxup 2012 Hackathon finally got the chance to show their creations in front of judges, other developers, as well as others who attended the demo day on Thursday. Each participant were given 15 minutes to present their apps....

J.P. Morgan, a leading investment company, continues to invest in Rocket Internet’s startups by investing in Zalora. This investment is the umpteenth time because previously, J.P. Morgan has invested in other Rocket Internet’s startups such as Zalando in Europe, Dafiti (Brazil), Lamoda...

At the UN General Assembly in New York on Monday, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) published an annual report titled State of Broadband 2012. The report aims to inform the 170 countries in the world on the benefits of broadband Internet.  The United Nations and each member...

Research In Motion (RIM) in cooperation with Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), has established BlackBerry Innovation Center to encourage ITB students in developing innovative mobile apps. One form of the program is through the provision of scholarship to students of master and doctoral...

After focusing on featured phone market, Blaast app platform will be available for Android in the fourth quarter of 2012. For its user, the presence of Blaast for Android will bring access to more than 100 mobile apps including social games and news apps. This may not be such a big news for...

From 1 September, the government of Jakarta will provide free Internet access to the public along TransJakarta routes. This policy at a  glance seems to be a positive move, but honestly I can’t see this as being the right thing to do. TransJakarta bus shelters are nothing more than...

Asia E-Commerce Conferece 2012 offers many interesting agendas that would be of interest to people in the e-commerce field. Among them, the conference will discuss the best practices in e-commerce pricing strategy. The session which will be held on the second day, will present Suraj Mishra,...

Starting this weekend, passengers of TransJakarta buses ail be able to enjoy free wireless Internet access on several TransJakarta bus stops. Previously this was only available on Harmoni and Dukuh Atas stops but from September 1, the service will be available on stops from Bundaran HI to...

Hoot Suite recognises Indonesia’s prominence in the social media world as one of the most active countries and to commemorate the country’s anniversary of the Declaration of Independence as well as marking the end of Eid, Hoot Suite has released its dashboard and mobile...

Taman Impian Jaya Ancol, develop a special microsite to promote games from “Coding on the Beach” competition. In Ancol Games microsite at www.ancolgames.com, there are 10 games that can be downloaded and played later. Player can get some prizes by playing these games. By achiving some...