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Chinese high school students hooked up to IV drips so they will stay alert as they cram for the Chinese College Entrance Examination, an exam in China that may determine a student’s entire future. Some 9.5 milion students will take the two-day exam in June to compete for some 6.5 places in Chinese colleges. The competition is most intense for the elite universities like Beijing’s Peking University and Tsinghua University …
Shanda Group, the famous Chinese operator of online games and e-book publisher, is set to launch its long awaited Android-based smartphone on June 6. This will be the third hardware venture after the company rolled out its PC entertainment center Shanda Box and its Bambook e-books and e-readers, which were launched in 2010. The Shanda smartphone is powered by a 1GHz dual core microchips and Mali-400 GPU, it also equips with a 4.3 inch qHD display produced by Sharp. Local media reports said the price tag could be set as low as 1,199 yuan (US$190). The smartphone will use the Bambook brand which has become a familiar name for Shanda customers …
US-based gaming developer PopCap was one of the early movers that set up branch in China during 2008 to tap into the Chinese mobile gaming market. The company’s products like Plants vs Zombies, Zuma and Bejeweled already enjoy immense popularity with Chinese gamers. The US company has partnered with Chinese Internet giant Tencent to launch the new Plants vs Zombies Great Wall edition. The new edition will not take place in the backyard of a westerner’s house, but rather on the Great Wall of China. The zombies in the game will be Chinese zombies wearing ancient official robes …
According to a report from Apple Insider, the iPhone 3GS, which first released in 2009, may stay in production for Apple to sell contract-free in developing markets, where prepaid smartphones are popular. Apple has inked an agreement with a leading distributor that new partnership is intended to push the iPhone 3GS in prepaid markets around the world. With the iPhone 4 replacing the iPhone 3GS as Apple’s entry-level smartphone, some might expect that the iPhone 3GS would be an end-of-life product. But Apple may have other plans to expand iPhone sales in markets like China where cheap Android-based smartphones are dominating …
We believe Ferrari is getting more and more politically sensitive in China. In March, a crash involving a Ferrari in Beijing led to widespread speculation over the identity of the driver and the blocking of the keyword “Ferrari” on Chinese social networks. The driver was suspected to be a high-ranking official’s son. Now another similar accident had happened in Singapore. A tragic three-vehicle accident caused by a speeding Ferrari driven by a young and fabulously rich mainland Chinese immigrant killed three people, including himself. The Ferrari collided into a taxi, which subsequently hit a motorcycle. Rumors are swirling that the dead Ferrari driver is the son of Secretary-General of the State Council from China …
A Chinese multi-channel digital satellite TV and IPTV channel service based in Hong Kong have chosen a strange way to promo the upcoming UEFA Euro 2012 tournament. They have made a Cantonese song MTV with animation, showing the London Big Ben is crashing down and being bombed, the Eiffel Tower in Paris is falling to the ground, Rome’s Colosseum in flames and there are soldiers firing live rounds on the pitch, not to mention helicopters ! Plus the World War II imagery of countries invading Poland and the Ukraine. Click in to watch the ridiculous video before it will be taken down by youtube.
There are so much news from China that passes by that we couldn’t possibly cover it all. Here are the Chinese tech news that have left behind last week because we are just too busy or too lazy to post. There are stories on 300 million weibo user, Nvidia virtual GPU computing, Lenovo carbon ultrabook and so on, check them out after the break. Video for this week: could China rival Silicon Valley … Hope everyone have a fresh start to your week.
Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng and his family have arrived in the US from Beijing after a month long diplomatic stand-off. The 40-year-old self-taught lawyer, who is blind, was allowed to travel to the U.S. following negotiations between the two countries. Chen and his wife, and their two young children were greeted with cheers on arrival at the New York University apartment block in Manhattan that now becomes their new home. He expressed gratitude to the American embassy for ushering him to a new, free life in the United States. He said: “I hope everybody works with me to promote justice and fairness in China” …
The facebook CEO and his longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan (ethnic Chinese) are married, only a day after he became one of the richest men on the planet. And because it is a wedding ceremony, Zuckerberg was wearing a suit ! No jeans and hoodie for such an memorable moment. Zuckerberg just updated his facebook status to “married”. The ceremony took place in Palo Alto, Calif over at Zuckerberg’s backyard with fewer than 100 guests, who all thought they were there to celebrate Chan’s graduation …
According to Microsoft, Windows Phone has already picked up a market share of 7 percent in the China market, after making its debut among Chinese consumers just two months ago. That’s a tad higher than the 6 percent share owned by Apple’s iPhone. Microsoft currently employs around 2,500 people in its R&D department in China, and the company will invest more heavily in the country. Android currently dominates China with a market share of around 69 percent. Microsoft admitted Windows Phone is still far behind in the app arena compared with Google. What we know so far, the Chinese are quite excited about the Nokia Lumia phones, but the sales figure should still consider not big enough to outsell the iPhone. Lets wait for some authoritative data before we take Microsoft’s word …
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