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Dell Streak Pro D43 Details and Hands On Video
Dell have delved in to the smartphone market in China with their new Dell Streak Pro D43 smartphone, but unlike other manufacturers Dell have gone full Chinese by adopting a Chinese developed OS.
E-commerce sites offering ‘rent-a-boyfriend’ from $2 in China
Chinese E-commerce sites such as the ever popular Taobao, offer almost everything the home shopper could ever possibly want to purchase, but now and again a few surprises turn up.
Sina Weibo Reports 250 million users (again!) but is anyone really using it?
We have already reported on Sina reaching the staggering figure of 250 million registered users, but Sina must have thought the news was worth releasing again as they announced the figure at their quarterly earnings call earlier today. Charles Chao, Sina’s CEO had some interesting things to say about Weibo such as 86 million messages [...]
Beijing Is Getting Free Wi-Fi But Citizens Are Not Convinced!
If I heard that Qingdao was getting a 60% coverage of free Wi-fi across the city I would be over the moon! Instead I’m sat here tethered to my iPhone running up my already high bill. But the lucky folks living in China’s capital will be able to make use of a free Wi-Fi service, [...]
AlphaOutlook Brings Social Media Tracking to China
Although the big names like Twitter and Facebook don’t have much over a following in China (at least officially) there are plenty of Chinese alternatives for the 485 million Chinese ‘netizens’ to choose from! To keep track of what is happening in Chinese social circles, social media monitoring company Alphaoutlook have brought their social media [...]
TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon Beijing
TechCrunch’s first Disrupt Hackathon outside of the U.S kicked off earlier today in Beijing. Then event aimed at tech enthusiasts and Chinese based starts-ups will play host to a weekend long ‘Hackathon’ and will end with a two day Disrupt conference taking place this Monday and Tuesday. We’ll bring you the latest news from the [...]
UCWeb Vs. Tencent Mobile Browser Wars
Many of you will be quite familiar with Tencent and their famous penguin mascot for the company’s extremely popular IM service QQ. Well this week the Tencent sent out an email to users of their mobile browser claiming that, “Tencent Mobile Browser Eclipsed Its Competitors to Became No.1” However the reality may not be so [...]
Sina Weibo Reaches 250 Million Users!
Sina’s Weibo is hitting headlines again for reaching record numbers! The spectacular hurdle the popular Chinese micro blogging platform has reached now is managing to attract a record breaking 250 million registered users! According to Sina’s official report Weibo officially reached over 250 million users sometime in October and now registers more than 90 million [...]
Chinese Cloud Storage Service KanBox Raises $20 Million
KanBox, founded in January last year, is a cloud based storage solution for Chinese web users. The start-up has managed to gain a lot of popularity in China, receiving over 1.5 million users in it’s first 3 months on line. The popularity is growing too, and it is estimated that KanBox our currently storing 2 [...]
Alipay looking to take a chunk of Paypal’s monopoly!
If you want to send money using the Internet, buy a product, pay for a service or even donate to a charity online, there are more than likely only 2 ways to do it. Via credit card or through Paypal! Now China’s Alipay is planning to march across the globe to offer online shoppers a [...]
Sina Weibo Gets Live Search
Sina’s Weibo service, often unfairly referred to as China’s Twitter, has been given the added function of a live search bar. The live search will allow users, of the popular micro-blogging platform, to search for posts, users, events, groups, votes and apps, but most importantly the search will be live, updating automatically as more results [...]
Retrotastic Browser Based Gameboy Color Emulator
If you have a few hours to whittle away being nostalgic for a simpler time, we can’t think of a better way to spend it than playing some old school Gameboy Color games via this Javascript browser based emulator found here. There are plenty of games to choose from, from Mega man to Pokemon, [...]
Apple Publishes Steve Jobs Tribute
Since the untimely death of Steve Jobs just over 2 weeks ago, Apple have been collecting messages from Apple fans and Steve Jobs admires through the email rememberingsteve@apple.com. Apple have now created a scrolling tribute to Steve Jobs where visitors can read the moving and heart warming messages from people around the world. The page [...]
Android M6 Android TV Set Top Box
The fusion of Android operating system and TV is slowly but surely taking off in China, with many local companies either producing TV’s with Android built in or a set top box which allows Android apps to run on your current TV. The AndroidBox M6 is one of the latter devices, and much like [...]
Android Market Back Up and Running in China
Android users around China, well those of them lucky enough to have the official Android market on their devices, were set off in panic yesterday when the ‘Great Firewall’ blocked there avenue to app mecca! Thankfully the Android app store is back up and running in China today!
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