Mark your diaries for YSL’s Fall 2009-2010 Manifesto scheduled for September 12, 2009.
YSL is hitting the streets again this Saturday, this time to launch their fall 09 Manifesto. 1500 custom cotton tote bag designed by Stefano Pilati will be handed out to passerbys. Keeping in the tradition of the YSL Manifestos, it will be distributed in the streets of the major fashion cities: Paris, New York, Milan, London, Tokyo, Seoul and Hong Kong. Head over to Queen’s Road (near Marks & Spencer) at around 12 noon to pick one up.
Apple fans get ready, our world will evolve again on Wednesday, September 5th with rumours of the next-generation iPod:
“The beat goes on” on September 5 in San Francisco, where Apple will hold a “special event” presumably to introduce new iPods.
As usual, Apple avoided directly stating what’s on tap, but the use of the Cover Flow album artwork and Apple’s latest iPod ads rather heavily suggests that we’re in store for an iPod/iTunes-related event. Ars Technica reported last week that Apple was planning an event for the 5th, and several reports have surfaced in recent weeks implying that Apple’s about to refresh its iPod lineup.
We’ve read rumors for wireless iPods, the touch screen iPod; like the iPhone but without the phone and all kinds of other crazy goodies but we’ll wait till next week to cover the reality of it. Until them watch this fan-made video of what the new iPod might look like:
PCCW revenues surge in part to climbing broadband TV subs.
It’s just happens to be NowTV week here at Butterboom, since PCCW just released their interim results for 2007. So to not bore you through that, we picked out the cooler nuggets of interest for you:
Now TV’s Installed Base as of June 2007 is 818,000, up 35% from last year. Thanks to a little football action.
Of those, there are 560,000 people actually paying for the content and interactive services. The question is what do the other 258,00 people do with the box? Doorstop?
Netvigator broadband service is still the Hong Kong market leader which has risen 18% from last year to a total of 1,176,000 subscribers at the end of June 2007. I guess hanging out in front of every MTR station in town will help!
There are 3,000 PCCW Wi-Fi hotspots across Hong Kong. Usage has since tripled since it was launched in January of this year.
There are 119,000 3G mobile subscribers, which is double what it was last year and there are 957,000 2G mobile subscribers.
Of course take all their numbers with a grain of salt but this should be a pretty close snapshot of what PCCW is doing in the Hong Kong market right now. We can only see more growth in NowTV subscribers and 3G users throughout the year and as long as PCCW keeps innovating and giving this techhead town what it wants in terms of flexible ways to do business from a coffeeshop or cha chan teng then more power to them.
First, Hong Kong had movies inside a place we call “cinemas” then we have the new “Drive-In” movies where you can watch a movie from the comfort of your car – and now Open Air has decided we don’t need any kind of roof over our head while watching a movie and is launching a daily film festival outdoors at the Cyberport Plaza.
Tickets are on sale NOW from HK Ticketing for a different movie every night from October 9-20th and kicks of off with Chariots of Fire and includes Butterboom.com favorites like Wall Street, Dodgeball, Something About Mary and what could be the best outdoor-screened movie of all time: Braveheart!
Sit on a beanbag or on the grass, either way tickets are going to cost HK$200 but you can chow down on food from Cafe Deco and booze from The Dublin Jack. Watch the trailer below and I’m sure you’ll agree you probably don’t want to be outside in a closed off area, above ground level, with a bunch of people who could be intoxicated after watching this:
Get all the details from the Moonlight Movies website here.
Our friends at Akihabara News are reporting that Sony has unleased their new “iMac Killer” computer the VAIO LT-19U. Some interesting sounding specs as well, the key one being a built-in Blu-Ray disc burner:
* 22-inch widescreen LCD (1,680×1,050)
* 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 CPU
* 2GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM
* 500GB 7,200 rpm hard drive
* 256MB Nvidia GeForce 8400 GT graphics chip
* Windows Vista Ultimate
* 802.11n wireless networking
* Built-in ATSC and NTSC TV tuner
* Built-in 1.3 megapixel Web cam
* 3 watt stereo speakers, and built in 5 watt subwoofer
* various USB, Ethernet, removable media, and audio
We just recently indulged in the new iMac (this post is being typed on the brand new keyboard) and we have to say, like some commenter’s at Akihabara News, its not so much the casing that makes the Apple product so good, its actually their operating system and in this case the futuristic/Minority Report-ish feeling OS X. It is just amazing and we challenge casual PC users to go to an Apple shop in Hong Kong (3 shops on the 11th floor of Windsor House in Causeway Bay) and test it out. It is a multimedia maniacs dream come true. And we’ll be putting these new found capabilities to the test on Butterboom.com in the near future!
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