Archive for September, 2010
Oh Dear Things Are A Bit Strange At Gizchina
Tweet Regular readers may have noticed that Gizchina is acting… well… kind of srewed up! Post’s dissapearing and the site being offline for example. This is all due to us change servers and having a few technical difficulties. Everything seems to be working ok now and with any luck all those melt-downs are behind us. [...]
Cyberworm Attack
Tweet Chinese business were warned on Sunday of a highly sophisticated cyber weapon know as Stuxnet. The cyber worm has been designed to infiltrate Siemens supervisory control and data (SCADA) systems which are commonly used to monitor and control industrial facilities ranging from traffic lights to nuclear power plants. Personal computers are apparently safe. Stuxnet [...]
China Has More Than 1 Billion Phone Users
Tweet If I had $1 for every phone subscriber in China I would have $1.13 Billion ! China now not only boasts the fastest growing auto industry but now the fastest growing phone industry and the largest cell phone provider (based on users) China Mobile! The majority of subscribers are mobile phone users at around [...]
Tienanmen Fountain Laser Show
Tweet A 10 meter high fountain at the center of Tienanmen has been outfitted with some swanky laser technology in preparation for the October National Day Holiday. The laser show will run from the 1st of October to the middle of the month so if you fancy popping along to Beijing and checking it our [...]
Apple Vs China Unicom iPhone 4 Sales
Tweet China Unicom and Apple have been partners ever since the iPhone 3G launched in China in March 2009, however they now seem to be in a head to head battle for iPhone 4 sales in China. The iPhone 4 officially launched on Saturday (25th September) and is available from either China Unicom Stores or [...]
China Launching Chang’e 2 Lunar Probe
Tweet With the national holiday fast approaching China is planning a number of spectacular ways to celebrate the week long vacation, but this has to be the most awesome of all. Instead of a firework show, as well as a high-tech laser fountain show and just over a week after the Moon Cake munching Mid [...]
Microsoft China Opening Cloud Innovation Center
Tweet Finally some Microsoft news! Microsoft China currently have 400 programmers and scientist tapping away at computer terminals in Minhang District, Shanghai, in preparation for the end of the year. Why what happens at the end of the year? Mircosoft will open it’s first Cloud Innovation Center! The Microsoft Center is one of many Cloud [...]
Lenovo Opening Apple Style Stores Throughout China
Tweet Lenovo are planning to set up ‘Lenovo Experience’ stores all over to rival those of Apple. The stores or ‘Exhibition Centers’ as Lenovo has called them will fully promote a hands on experience offering consumers a chance to have a good play with mobile phones, laptops and desk tops before handing over their hard [...]
Give Your New Nano Some iLoveHandles
Tweet Why this is called the iLoveHandle rather than the iWatch strap or similar I don’t know. What I do know is this watch conversion strap looks a hell of a lot better than most I’ve seen, which tend just to be a regular watch strap clipped to the back of the Nano. The iLoveHandles [...]
Tablet Stands
Tweet Tablet computers are great little devices. Ultra portable, light and easy to use, but often a bit cumbersome to hold while typing especially if your tab has a rounded back (like the iPad). Luckily for us there are plenty of aftermarket solutions out there to make typing a little easier. Omax First up is [...]
iPad USB and SD Combined Connection Kit
Tweet This is one of those little add ons which really makes you think ‘Why wasn’t it done like that in the first place?’. As you can see from the picture 130 Yuan ($19) will get you a big ugly chunk of plastic which will allow you to plug in both SD cards and USB [...]
HTC Desire Clone
Tweet Whirring away at 533Mhz and churning along to the hum of Windows Mobile 6.5 sounds like an utter nightmare in an age of 1Ghz G4’s, Android 2.2 and Humming Bird, but this HTC Desire clone has some nice features up it’s sleeve which may warrant a second look. That’s correct despite it’s outward appearance [...]
Chinese Bullet Trains Heading For California
Tweet The Ministry of Railways and California’s Bay Area Council have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for investing in California’s future high-speed rail network. The MOU was signed by Govonor Schwarzengger as he visited Shanghai this past week where he met with government officials. The plan is for China to build bullet trains for the [...]
4880 Yuan iPhone 4 on China Unicom
Tweet Today is the day that Unicom and Apple release pricing details of the iPhone 4 for the Chinese market, but have we already learned the real prices? According to news reports a now deleted forum post at China Unicom claimed the 16Gb and 32Gb iPhone 4 would go on sale 20th September costing 4880 [...]
Confirmed: iPad Comes To China 17th Sept. 10
Tweet After months of speculation we’ve finally recieved confirmation that the iPad will be officially avaiable here in China and from the 17th Sept 10. For those of you who signed up for notification emails from Apple there should be one in your inbox n Pricing has finally been confirmed too at 3988 Yuan for [...]
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