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Adidas Punching Bag in Shanghai Subway Station [Video]

, Aug 9th 2011 Discuss [0]

It's a great day for those that like to blow off steam in public as Adidas has dropped several gigantic punching bags in the center of several Shanghai subway stations for all to fight with. Adidas is promoting the bags as "the first advertisement in history that you can kick, punch, and trample at will" [translated] and each bag is indeed available for the massacring by you and I in the stations as we speak. Reports of a general increase in concern over stress and fitness in China make this campaign a perfect fit. Will it change the world? Probably not. Will I kick it? Yes. Read The Full Story

Aliyun OS leans on the cloud for core services and runs Android apps

, Jul 28th 2011 Discuss [3]

I'm not sure the smartphone market needs a new OS, but in China, a new choice might go over better than it would elsewhere. A Chinese ecommerce company called Alibaba has announced that at the end of the month it will launch a new mobile OS called Aliyun. The new Os is the result of three years of work and 1,200 engineers according to the company. Read The Full Story

Chinese officials move to close fake Apple Stores in Kunming, China

, Jul 25th 2011 Discuss [1]

Last week I mentioned that a very convincing fake Apple Store had been spotted in China that looked almost just like the real thing. The store had workers wearing the sort of clothing most Apple Store workers wear and the store was apparently selling real Apple gear as well. BBC News reports that Chinese authorities have now moved to close down some of the fake Apple Stores that were operating in Kunming city, China. Read The Full Story

Chinese Baidu Browser launches in beta form

, Jul 20th 2011 Discuss [0]

China is the largest market for search and online ads in the world with its huge population going online in droves. Not too long ago I mentioned that Baidu and Microsoft were entering into a search deal that would see some Microsoft Bing search results integrated into the Baidu results in China. This was Microsoft's way to grow its Chinese reach without actually launching Bing in China. Read The Full Story

Complete Apple retail store faked quite convincingly in China

, Jul 20th 2011 Discuss [4]

We all know that the number of fake products in many countries is insane. One of the places you are very likely to find a number of fake products and counterfeits is in China. One reason for so many blatant rip offs to be offered in China is because it's very hard for the firms being ripped off to do anything about it. One of the companies that is more likely than others to have their products faked on the Chinese retail market is Apple. Read The Full Story

Baidu Bing, Baidu Bang: Bing and Baidu announce search deal

, Jul 6th 2011 Discuss [2]

China is notorious for censoring the internet within its boundaries to keep citizens from accessing things that might not meet the questionable moral code of the Chinese government. Google and China have a long running feud but things between Microsoft and China are seemingly smooth. Microsoft is making a big move to raise the awareness of its Bing search engine in the largest internet market with a new deal with the Chinese Baidu search engine. The deal sees no money change hands and Baidu will even keep the revenue generated by ads under the deal. Read The Full Story

Angry Birds To Invade China, 200 Merchandise Stores Over Next Three Years

, Jun 29th 2011 Discuss [2]

There's always new developments when it comes to the ridiculously popular Angry Birds game. Rovio, the developer, has just unleashed the game for the Windows Phone platform today and recently debuted the location-based Angry Birds Magic on the Nook Color. The popularity of the game certainly isn't restricted to the West, as now there's news that the company is set on opening over 200 Angry Birds merchandise stores throughout China. Read The Full Story

Milestone 3 XT883 from Motorola heads to China Telecom

, Jun 17th 2011 Discuss [1]

Motorola has announced that the Milestone 3 will be headed to China Telecom. The Milestone 3 is the latest version of the smartphone we know as the Droid 3 here in the states. That Droid 3 turned up a while back in a video tutorial and looked like an interesting device. We learned not long ago that the Milestone 3 (Droid 3 in other countries) will not be hitting the UK. The Milestone 3 is hitting China though with China Unicom. Read The Full Story

Fujitsu and Folli Follie team for launch of F-022 smelly phone in China

, Jun 17th 2011 Discuss [0]

There are undoubtedly some very strange gadgets in China. I have seen more than a few that offer smells or allow the user to spray scents on a special part of the device. Each time I see something that offers smells for the user, I wonder if it smells particularly bad in some areas of the world. The new phone is called the F-022 and Folli Follie is a popular brand in China for watches, jewelry and other accessories for women. Read The Full Story

Three Chinese Jailed For iPad 2 Design Leak

, Jun 15th 2011 Discuss [11]

Even in China, you don't want to mess with Apple when it comes to intellectual property. Back in April, it was reported that three ex-employees of Foxconn were arrested on charges of leaking the iPad 2 design. Today, the Shenzhen Bao'an People's Court has officially sentenced the three to prison for terms up to 18 months and fined up to 150,000 yuan. Read The Full Story

China denies government had anything to do with latest Gmail hack

, Jun 3rd 2011 Discuss [0]

Google's Gmail service has been hacked again with emails of Chinese activists and even some US government official's accounts being hacked. Google has again pointed the finger at China stating that the source of the attacks was an area of China where the government has operations. The Chinese government has fired back and says that allegation of hacking are unacceptable. Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hong Lei said, "Saying that the Chinese government supports hacking activity is entirely a fabrication." Read The Full Story

Prisoners in China forced into World of Warcraft gold farming

, May 26th 2011 Discuss [6]

Prison is a very bad place to wind up if you break the law in the US or the UK. Prison is an even worse place to wind up in some countries like China. Prisoners in Chinese labor camps are forced to do all sorts of things like break rocks in coalmines and dig trenches during the day. At night prisoners then spend their time playing World of Warcraft, gold farming for the "prison bosses" to sell for real world money. The revelation comes from a former prison guard named Liu Dali. Read The Full Story
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