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Are you a woman? Are you sick of seeing all those manly USB sticks around you every day?

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Buffalo announces “women-only” USB sticks

PayPal has seen the future, and apparently it lies out East. The eBay company has just announced plans to double its presence in the Asian-Pacific region by the end of 2010, and made a couple of other, separate announcements to underscore its focus on Asia.

At PayPal’s new international headquarters in Suntec City, Singapore’s technology hub in the middle of the nation’s central business district, the company said that it plans to double the number of employees in Asia Pacific from 1,000 currently to more than 2,000 by the end of the year. The company plans to add more than 100 new jobs at its international headquarters in Singapore alone, as it represents all of the company’s business outside of the United States.

New jobs will be located at all seven offices in the region including Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Singapore and Taiwan. For its Singapore business headquarters and development center, PayPal will be recruiting Singapore-based professionals with expertise in technology, product development, infrastructure design, risk and engineering.

PayPal says it has processed more than $6 billion of total payment volume (at spot rate) in Asia Pacific in 2009, an increase of 38 percent from 2008. Since its establishment in the region in 2006, the company has struck dozens of partnerships with Asian companies including this morning’s announcements today with DBS, Singapore’s largest bank, and China UnionPay, China’s bankcard association.

As part of PayPal’s plans to help grow the e-commerce ecosystem across Asia Pacific, the company also announced that the PayPal mobile payment software development kit (SDK) will be made available to developers in the region. That way, developers can add a checkout button to accept mobile payments without the need to collect financial information from customers with just a few lines of code.

The mobile SDK, which will initially support iPhone app development, will be available in the second quarter of 2010 to developers in the region.

This is not my beautiful 3D television: How gaming will change the 3D equation AirStash: Wireless portable storage Rilakkuma: Ultra-mobile, ultra-cute tablet PC Video: Mini fuel cell powering a robot fish First look: InFocus SP8602 home theater projector

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Daily Crunch: 3D Tank Edition

Last month, we reported that according to some rumors in the industry, Sony is seriously considering relaunching their portable gaming device, the PSP Go, with a price cut and marketing campaign.  And today, Tokyo-based research firm Media Create released [JP] the latest hardware sales numbers for Japan, one of the biggest video game markets in the world. And these numbers indicate that sales-wise, the PSP Go is poised to go down as the biggest failure in recent video gaming history: According to Media Create, a mere 1,275 units were sold all over Japan between March 1 and 7. By way of comparison: The Nintendo DS Lite (not the DSi or the XL) found 4,316 buyers in the same time frame.

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17,618: That’s how many PSP Go Sony sold in Japan in 2010

Researchers would be wasting their time, and their patrons’ money, scanning my brain.

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Brains, brains, scanning brains

Fuel cells are on their way into the mainstream, even though the commercially available models are still pretty pricey . But there are companies like Kyoto-based Aquafairy [JP], for example, preparing affordable fuel cells, too

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Aquafairy FC Stick: Efficient mini fuel cell for gadget fans (video)

IBM’s Open Collaborative Research is working on ways to get mobile Internet to the aged and illiterate all over the world. The initial research is happening in Japan and India and will be used to plan future endeavors including open source platforms for information sharing.

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IBM researching ways to help the aged, illiterate

Just yesterday, we reported about Panasonic’s sales plans for their 3D devices in the US ( Samsung is ready , too). And today, Sony has announced [JP] prices and release dates for eight 3D BRAVIA TVs for the Japanese market. The company wants to sell a total of 25 million LCD TVs next fiscal year (a whopping 67% increase from its forecast for the current fiscal year that ends this month), with 3D TVs accounting for 10% of that number

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Sony 3D TVs go on sale in Japan (and probably the US) in June (video)

As everybody knows, 3D TVs are all the rage at the moment, with Panasonic being one of the most active electronics companies in that area .

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Panasonic and Best Buy to bring 3D TVs to the US this Wednesday

Do you remember the ringtone for dogs a Japanese company started offering two years ago?

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Japanese company offers anti-pollen allergy ringtone