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Steve Ballmer recently made a trip to China and gives a talk at Peking University (the most prestigious Chinese university) in Beijing today. While we were expecting to see something outrageous from him, Ballmer actually gave an inspirational advice to the Chinese students while talking about Windows 8.
Evernote, the popular notetaking software, has launched a dedicated service for Chinese users last week, which will run completely separate of Evernote and its existing Chinese-language offering. Ordinarily, Evernote was adding around 4,500 new users per day to its 1.1 million user base in China, but following the launch, downloads here have rocketed. Based on the first week, daily new user numbers in China have been greater than its two biggest markets — Japan and the US — combined …
Xiaomi is a legend. The company had already sold 1.8 million units in the past 9 months and they still sees surge in demand. In the following, we are going to take you a tour into Xiaomi’s production chain to see how they keep up with massive orders.
During these few days, the blind dissident lawyer Chen Guangcheng has become the heart of a diplomatic crisis between China and the United States. The activist has just escaped house arrest and made his way to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, seeking a protection for his safety. He left for medical treatment in a hospital after staying in the embassy for several days. His cell phone had stopped working during the hospital’s stay, suspect to be cut-off by the authorities. U.S. official went to the hospital to visit him, and gave him Nokia phone to stay in-touch with outside world …
A 55 years old Chinese farmer in Beijing has spent 10,000 yuan (US$1,585) to build his own high-speed wind-powered electric car. It took him three months time to design and manufacture, and the speed of the DIY automobile can reach up to 140km/h (87 Miles per hour), pretty fast and amazing ! After the demo video has been uploaded online, it has been viewed for 770k times with more than 2,600 comments, praising the old man for his creative work. The old man is planning to modify the electric car with solar panel, in order to combine wind and sunlight as the main power source to raise the speed up to 200km/h. We are wondering why Chinese farmer can be so geeky and talented…Update: There is some misleading on the title of the original story, the electric car can be traveled a total distance of 140km per charged, not top speed …
Building on recent report which indicated the number of iOS and Android activations in the country surpassed those coming from device owners in the U.S, a research company estimated as of the end of 2011, more than 21 million iPhones and iPads are now in service in China. The figure was generated by using a combination of data from sources like Flurry Mobile and Umeng.
We were surprised when Tim Cook appeared at the Apple Store in Beijing and met Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang. Certainly, he still has more business to do in China. Yesterday, Tim Cook has visited Foxconn plant at Zhengzhou ! This is the main manufacturing plant for iPhone production line, which has employed 120,000 workers. And this morning, he will be meeting China Telecom. More info after the break.
John Chambers, chairman and chief executive officer of Cisco Systems Inc, has met some Chinese officer yesterday in Beijing. Looks like all the famous tech CEOs are gathering in China right now. First we have Tim Cook from Apple, later Mark Zuckerberg, Nokia CEO StephenElop all having some business to do in China within these few days …
‘Chicken Without A Sex Life’, ‘Tofu Made By Woman With Freckles’ and ‘Red Burned Lion Head’, these Chinglish dish names might disappear from Beijing restaurants in the near future. The Beijing authorities have published a book entitled “The English Translation of Chinese Gourmet Dishes” (PDF download) to give the official English translations for 2,158 Chinese dishes. This could mean an end to the unintentionally humorous renderings of the mistranslates names to be found on Chinese menus which have amused tourists for years …
Fu Chunli, a citizen of Qingdao, downloaded the 25 billionth app from Apple’s App Store early this month, pushing the mobile software store to a new milestone. The young lady downloaded a free version of Disney’s popular mobile game ‘Where’s my water ?’ As the winner, she will receive an iTunes gift card worth 10,000 US dollars. Last week Apple has invited her to Beijing Apple store to collect her prize. Apple has given the lucky girl a warm reception. This might be just another shrewd PR by Apple, but it’s also tell us that Apple undrstand the importance of Chinese consumer market …
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