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DEFINITION: Shanzai [San-zai -alt. sp.Shanzhai] 1. mountain fortress/bandit 2. a vendor, who operates a business without observing the traditional rules or practices often resulting in innovative and unusual products or business models.

Goog-zilla to speed up the Web
Articles - Guides
Written by Li Ming   
Wednesday, 10 February 2010 00:00
google, mid, shanzhai, goog-zilla, google chrome, google to speed up the web, chrome os, google http server, google spdy, google site performance

“Let’s make the Web faster”. That’s not a flamboyant punch line from a new ad, but the name of a Web community launched by Google for Web developers to provide tips, tutorials and tools. Google is planning to revolutionize the Web completely and make it lightning fast as is evident from the mission statement in this official Google blog, “To optimize the speed of Web applications and make browsing the Web as fast as turning the pages of a magazine”. Google-zilla has been busy already.

 
Acer launchs Android smartphone in India – ‘Liquid’
Gadget Types - Phones
Written by Kiran   
Wednesday, 10 February 2010 00:00

acer liquid

Acer has unveiled its new Android based smartphone series ‘Liquid’ in the Indian market. The smartphone is claimed to be the first smartphone in the world to use the Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. The uncool thing about the Acer Liquid is that it’s running on Android 1.6 (Donut) instead of Android 2.1!

 
BlackBerry Curve 8900 gets shanzhaied by Indian manufacturer
Gadget Types - Phones
Written by Kiran   
Wednesday, 10 February 2010 00:00
Blackberry Curve 8900, intex, smartphone, QWERTY keyboard  

An Indian company, Intex Technologies, which is known for manufacturing computer peripherals, has launched a QWERTY smartphone, which has a close resemblance to the BlackBerry Curve 8900.

 
MediaTek announce Windows platform - plays nice with Microsoft
Articles - News
Written by Song Jiang   
Tuesday, 09 February 2010 19:56
ballmer-android
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer wants a peice of the shanzhai pie.

MediaTek today issued a press release in conjunction with Microsoft. It talks about how together the two companies are ready to break open emerging markets with affordable smartphone devices that going to fuel market growth throughout the next twelve months. I guess there come a time when you know you've arrived on the scene. For MediaTek, that could well be day that the Microsoft PR engine came a knock, knock knocking on their door.

 
Bargain Bin Deals
Deals - Deals
Written by Jen Yu   
Wednesday, 10 February 2010 00:00
Netbooks -

ASUS Eee PC Seashell 1005PE-PU17-BK 10.1-Inch Black Netbook - Up to 14 Hours of Battery Lifealt

 Toshiba Mini NB205-N230 (NB200 series) 10.1-Inch Black Onyx Netbook - 9 Hours of Battery Life (Windows 7 Starter)alt

Samsung NC10-13GB 10.1-Inch Blue Netbook - Up to 6 Hours of Battery Lifealt

HP Mini 110-1050NR 10.1-Inch Netbook
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And something to use with them!

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-Amazon

 
Smartphone sales with Android will rise in SEA
Articles - News
Written by Li Ming   
Tuesday, 09 February 2010 00:00
IDC,smartphones, India, Indonesia, southeast asia, chinese phones

Improving mobile data rates, growing sophistication in mobile applications, and a closer collaboration between mobile phone vendors and mobile carriers, will fuel a rise in sales of smartphones in 2010 in Southeast Asia.

 
CNY Predictions: Panda Pad & Tablet Tiger
Articles - Op-Ed
Written by Tai-Pan   
Monday, 08 February 2010 19:50
tiger
Taming the YEAR OF THE TIGER shanzhai style!

Because we cover quite a bit of China tech news we feel entitled to make Chinese New Year predictions on top of our Western New Year predictions we made earlier in December when we declared 2010 the year of the tablet.. until Apple renames it. Which they did… 2010 is now the year of the iPad, and everybody’s getting on board, and the Chinese will be no exception as we pointed out in our CHiPAD article.

Now in preperation for the venerable upcoming CNY holiday we take our predictions a step further.

 
Vigood U220 netbook sports steely good looks
Gadget Types - Notebooks & Netbooks
Written by Song Jiang   
Monday, 08 February 2010 17:38
vigood-u220-2
Introducing the Core Grid Vigood U220....a netbook made of metal. Yes that's right, a steely netbook that is designed for Ironmen everywhere, this baby is designed to take hard knocks in its stride and sells for around 350 bucks.

 
China Buzz: Avatar is no match for Confucius
Articles - China Buzz
Written by Peking Man   
Friday, 05 February 2010 17:11
Confucius Say: “Navi my students, you can be dismissed”
A few weeks ago, all major cinemas in China received a notice from the government to stop showing Avatar 2D version on the big screen.
The government claims that the Avatar 3D version will still be showing, only the 2D version will be removed, and since that Avatar 3D contributes 90% of the total income, it will have minimal impact towards the audiences.
Although the government won’t admit, but everyone knows that this was an act to protect the upcoming domestic Chinese movie “Confucius”.
This news was widely discussed in popular BBS forums such as Douban (豆瓣: www.douban.com) and Tianya (天涯: www.tianya.cn). Furthermore, many users even initiated the “Anti-Confucius movement” on these forums and got over 10,000 post feedbacks.
No matter how legitimate the reason was to remove Avatar 2D off the big screen, the accumulated anger of Chinese audience is on the verge of burst.
And because of the earlier dismiss of Avatar 2D movie, the audience shifted their anger towards Confucius and only gave an overall rating of 3 out of 10. Way below in domestic movie standard.
In my opinion, I think Confucius is a movie that is worth to watch, since he was a famous man and his thinking influenced the Chinese people for over 2 thousand years. But using such a obvious way to wipe out movie competitor shows no confident and quite below the belt.
This is such a pity.
Avatar07
Confucius Say: “Navi my students, you can be dismissed” 

A few weeks ago, all major cinemas in China received a notice from the government to stop showing Avatar 2D version on the big screen. 
The government claims that the Avatar 3D version will still be showing, only the 2D version will be removed, and since that Avatar 3D contributes 90% of the total income, it will have minimal impact towards the audiences. 

Although the government won’t admit it, but everyone knows that this was an act to protect the upcoming domestic Chinese movie “Confucius”. 

 
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