Southeast Asia wares at CommunicAsia 2010

COMMUNICASIA, SINGAPORE--The Brunei pavillion's biggest booth was Infindo, a mobile app development company from the petroleum rich country.

The company sees the need for a unified app store for all mobile systems and is expanding its portfolio from mobile apps to mobile app marketplaces. However, it does not plan to manage an app store but to build marketplaces for telcos. A company representative told ZDNet Asia that if telcos pre-install marketplaces on the phones they sell, they can get extra revenue when users buy through their marketplaces.

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Infindo shows off the beta mobile app store for its customer b.mobile. Unlike phone-specific mobile app stores, Infindo can support all mobile OSes, well, except Apple's iOS.

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Infindo has developed a World Cup 2010 app for the Apple iPad, which is able to tell the user when the next match is on as well as the scores for matches.

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At the Indonesian pavillion, J.Spot demonstrates its augmented reality technology. The company representative's simple namecard projects an augmented reality image on the screen.

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By pointing the Web camera to a box on the newspaper, icons appear on the screen. When the finger swirls in the air, the icons reacts to the position of the finger.

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Also at the Indonesian pavilion is a small table of an online campaign by ICT Watch, called "Internet Sehat", which translates to "healthy Internet". The NGO promotes the safe use of Internet by providing safety tips to parents and users on its Web site.

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