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Today’s breaking news is… Mark Zuckerberg is in China! Yes, this is real. The founder/CEO of Facebook and Time Magazine’s newly crowned Person of the Year has just been spotted at the head offices of Baidu in Beijing. Robin Li (founder of Baidu) gave Mark and his girlfriend Priscilla Chan a tour of the building, and they even have lunch together in the canteen. While we are wondering what Robin and Mark were meeting about, here’s what Baidu’s International Communications Director Kaiser Kuo tells us.
Since the majority of Chinese computer users run unauthorized copies of softwares, it’s super-easy to find a store clerk willing to sell unlicensed copies of top-selling softwares in China electronic malls. So, CNN’s Eunice Yoon visits some stores in Beijing, to see how hard it is to find counterfeit software on stores shelves. She even brought along a MacBook Pro to test out the pirated Final Cut Pro. Amazing. Watch the video after the jump. (Sorry iPad users, it’s a flash video.)
A new high-speed railway was announced at a World Congress in Beijing yesterday, planning to bring China, Laos and Thailand together with this new route, the construction will begin next year and completion expects in late 2015. It will boost trade in the ASEAN free trade area, according to the congress.
Yesterday afternoon, Beijing customhouse destroyed more than 10 thousands knockoff phones, which involved brands like Nokia, Sony and Samsung. The destruction of the infringing products were mainly uncovered in 2009 from mails and baggages inspection.
Oooops, we almost missed this. Microsoft’s Tech·Ed (China) conference has arrived in Beijing and this annual event will take place on December 1-3, 2010 at Beijing’s National Convention Center and will bring together several thousand developers and IT professionals in the Microsoft community. There’s not much to see here, but we are still bringing you a wholesome of photos and a video! Enjoy!
The green object in the photo is a dwelling built by a 24 years old young man from Hunan province, but I think it looks like a grenade instead of an egg, do you think so? The house owner called “Dai Haifei (戴海飞)”, he built and placed his small house in a courtyard in Beijing. This design was nominated for the second annual China Architecture Media Awards, moreover, the entire process of making the house will be shown after the break.
Update: Spotted a video of the “egg house”!
This is insane. A man was playing a PC game on a LED screen that’s 820 feet long in the public, on the streets of Beijing. He used a wireless keyboard and mouse to play the game, while sitting on a lounging chair. Watch the videos after the break.
TThis is an artwork, Inflated Paper, produced by Chinese artist Li Hongjun, showed at the 5th China Beijing International Cultural & Creative Industry Expo at China International Exhibition Center in Beijing. A few more photos of the expo after the jump.
Here is a man in Beijing with a big ball in his hand and a pair of red wings on his back walking on the street to collect money from strangers in order to help out some impoverished students in China.
Over 30,000 Beijing Cabbies GPS data are being recorded by the Microsoft Research Asia group in order to improve their online maps. They can gain information of more short-cut and side streets to bypass traffic jams from taxi drivers.
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