Hey, I'm Rick Martin. I live in Tokyo where I mostly write about technology for TechInAsia.com, The Japan Times, CNNgo, and other publications. I cover sports sometimes too. You can browse my work or my reading list, follow me on Twitter or my blog, or send me an email if you'd just like to chat.
What I'm Writing
Asia Pacific Overtakes Europe as Apple’s Second Largest Revenue Source
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After Apple released it's second quarter financials for Q2 2012, I took a look back through some of their previous reports to dig up regional breakdown of revenue. It turns out that the last quarter marked the first time that Asia accounted for more revenue than Europe, most powered by strong sales in China. You can the shift represented in my chart below.
Japan’s Docomo Hits 60 Million Mobile Subscribers | TechInAsia.com
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As Japan’s NTT Docomo reached 60 million subscribers, I jumped into a fairly large data set of the country’s mobile subscribers since 1996 to see how things progressed over time. I wrote about this in two blog posts (here and here, with the data visualized first as a timeline, and also as an animated bar braph. Both are below.
50 ultimate travel apps ... so far | CNNgo.com
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There is of course one smartphone app no true traveler could ever do without. We’re going to skip over obvious ones like Twitter, Facebook, Skype, Gowalla, Foursquare, Instagram, Google Earth/Maps, as worthy as they are, for ones you may have overlooked, but shouldn’t.
China Internet Penetration Map 2012 | TechInAsia.com
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So, you may have noticed that we like maps and charts and stuff… And after CNNIC released its recent report on internet use in China, one of the key datasets that I was eager to look at was internet penetration by province. I thought I’d put it on a map and see how it looked
The State of the Internet in Asia [MAP] | TechInAsia.com
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Data taken from Akamai's State of the Internet report about internet speeds in Asia, mapped and charted with Google Fusion Tables and the Google Charts API
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