Survey Found Youths in Hong Kong Own Most Mobiles In Asia

By Herman Lai, posted August 5, 2010 at 1:58 PM, 186 views

According to a Survey released on Monday by market research firm Synovate, it shows Asia’s Youth that owned a personal mobile had increased from 60 percent in 2008 to 64 percent in 2010, while that of Hong Kong jumped from 82 percent to 87 percent of youth owning a mobile.

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19,000 Pornographic Websites Blocked in China

By Herman Lai, posted July 31, 2010 at 10:17 PM, 327 views

According to the Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), China has the largest online population which amounted to 420 million by the end of June. And, there were 19,000 websites in China found to contain pornographic content since it launched a crackdown in December last year.

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Meet Chinness, the knockoff of Guinness World Records

By Herman Lai, posted July 31, 2010 at 11:20 AM, 273 views

The word “Chinness” was derived from “Chinese” and “Guinness,” it has been officially approved by China’s State Administration of Industry and Commerce (SAIC). Apparently, Chinness is an archive of Chinese Amazing Records.

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Here Comes The Chinese Video Game Expo

By Herman Lai, posted July 30, 2010 at 9:10 AM, 427 views

Chinajoy is an annual gaming convention that’s supposed to be China’s version of E3. This event was started from yesterday, and it will be finished on the 1st of August. Here are pictures and video of the crowd inside, Showgirls and costumed Cosplay fans.

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Apple Taiwan Willing To Sell Mac Mini at Mistaken Price?

By Herman Lai, posted July 30, 2010 at 8:30 AM, 674 views

Last week, the Taiwan Apple’s online store mis-priced the Mac Mini with Snow Leopard Server with an upgraded 8GB of Ram, caused about 200,000 (Should be 41518) mistaken price orders received. Apple decided only amended the order amount for compensation. Apparently, a large number of Netizens can’t accept Apple’s solution to the incident.

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Google “Fully Blocked” in China was a Status Error

By Herman Lai, posted July 30, 2010 at 7:10 AM, 105 views

Yesterday, Google got fully blocked in Mainland China again, but this was just an status error. TechCrunch reported hearing back from Google, it was just a false alarm. Google is back to normal now.

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Taiwanese Mac Mini Pricing Errors

By Herman Lai, posted July 28, 2010 at 9:00 AM, 423 views

Last week, the Taiwan Apple’s online store for educational purchasers in that country had made a big mistake, they mis-priced the Mac Mini with Snow Leopard Server with an upgraded 8GB of Ram, priced around $19900 NT ($603 USD), as the original price of it is $47710 NT (around $1704 USD), even cheaper than the base model of Mac Mini, with no snow leopard server and only 2GB of RAM. For such error is absolutely not acceptable, this mistake caused a big ferment.

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Update: Apple Willing to Sell Mac Mini with Mistaken price?

Baidu got hacked, Register.com is in trouble

By Herman Lai, posted July 26, 2010 at 12:10 PM, 134 views

Baidu is a foremost Searching Engine in China, it’s a very important tool in China. But how come for such website got hacked? On July 23, 15:00 PM, a website “http://xiangcun.baidu.com/” was hacked, this site is belong to a competition that organized by Baidu. Therefore, hackers were able to upload and modify documents freely from Baidu Sever, they can inject Trojans, viruses and other malignant documents to Baidu Sever, which can directly affect the security of Baidu.

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