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Wednesday, 17 March 2010 16:49 |
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Never mind the quality, feel the width....
The World ePaper Fair in Shenzhen may well be one of the lesser known global trade exhibitions happening in China this week, but it turns out to be an excellent place to catch a glimpse of forthcoming tablet and ipad-like products that are set to besiege the Mainland in the coming months. The above pic is a new image of the ten inch TESO pad, or EPad if you prefer. More images after the break.....
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Written by Li Ming
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Wednesday, 17 March 2010 10:31 |
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It appears that the model of Shanzai Studios has been shznahied by Nokia ... I'm sure it's just a coincidence! Almost a month after the launch of Shanzai Studios by our very own Tai Pan, the Nokia community has launched a new project, which is dubbed "Design by Community". Like in Shanzai Studios, where anyone can design their own customized tablet bag under operation TBD (Tablet Bag Design), the Nokia community has laid out the welcome mat for anyone to design a smartphone concept phone.
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Written by Song Jiang
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 20:04 |
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Ever thought of setting up your own mom and pop style PC vending business? You know, micro-retailing your own brand of netbooks to your local neighborhood consumer base? Well, that dream is now more accessible than ever thanks to a new business model from a company called Guo Bang who are offering DIY netbook kits to shanzhai aspirants in rural China.
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 18:00 |
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You might be forgiven for thinking the entire world is upside-down as Motorola Android based phones in China will be offering Microsoft’s Bing search engine as the default option, along with a customized search widget and a pre-loaded Bing bookmark. Sounds like users will have a hard time avoiding Bing on their Motorola phones.
Surprisingly Motorola has not done this deal with Baidu, the dominant player in the Chinese search market.
CNet is also reporting that the Chinese government is warning Google service partners to start looking for other options as still other sources are reporting that it looks to be 99.9% certain that Google will close its search service in China.
If Google did shut down those services, business partners such asSina.com.cn and Ganji.com that offer a Google-powered search box would have to either direct searchers to the main Google.com search page instead of the Chinese-specific Google.cn page; find a different partner; or filter the search results themselves to comply with Chinese regulations. Using the Google.com site isn't an easy workaround, since China and other governments can block access and indeed have done so with YouTube, Flickr, and other Web sites.-Source
Google is still censoring such results in China but is preparing an action plan for pulling its search services out of China but still maintaining a smaller sales force… presumably for Chinese companies that want to advertise to western audiences outside the great firewall of China.
Its looking increasingly inevitable that Google will pull its google.cn site which likely would be quickly followed by the Chinese government blocking the main google.com domain.
You might be forgiven for thinking the entire world is upside-down as Motorola Android based phones in China will be offering Microsoft’s Bing search engine as the default option, along with a customized search widget and a pre-loaded Bing bookmark. Sounds like users will have a hard time avoiding Bing on their Motorola phones.
Surprisingly Motorola has not done this deal with Baidu, the dominant player in the Chinese search market.
CNet is also reporting that the Chinese government is warning Google service partners to start looking for other options as still other sources are reporting that it looks to be 99.9% certain that Google will close its search service in China.
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 16:34 |
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Late last week, police raided a factory making fake cell phones and seized more than 1,000 counterfeit devices, as well as a large number of mobile phone accessories and packaging material. Based in manufacturing hotspot, Shenzhen, the factory employed around 130 people and ran three production lines with a monthly production capacity of 20,000 units.
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Written by Jacky
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 00:00 |
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You may have many stories about giant IT companies suing shanzhai manufactures for copying their products, but this time, in a very interesting way, hundreds of Chinese consumers have filed an official complaint against Hewlett-Packard over faulty and malfunctioning laptops.
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Monday, 15 March 2010 18:48 |
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News today has emerged that places MediaTek as the second biggest supplier of handheld cellular base-band chips - the chips that power our mobile phones. In global terms for the third quarter of 2009, MediaTek managed to garner 18% of the market by revenue, leaving Qualcomm the only mobile phone chip vendor to maintain a lead ahead of MediaTek whose global shipments reached 415 million handsets and over a billion in revenue for Q3 2009.
MediaTek has built its business on feeding the demand for mobile phone platforms in China, and are most notably credited as fueling the rise of the shanzhai manufacturers in the last year or so. It is this business in China that has allowed the Taiwan-based company to become one of the most significant industry players, out-competing massive companies like Texas Instruments, Freescale and Broadcom and evidently making a fair few bob along the way.
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Friday, 12 March 2010 17:41 |
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We reported yesterday that Amazon was making its Kindle app available for Android was going to help kill its own eBook reader hardware (and other brands too), its already available on the iPhone, and now we’re also seeing reports of Barnes & Noble prepping a “Nook” branded app for the iPad. Nook sales are weak and this would seem a smart move even if it diminishes the importance of their own hardware. Well timed also as the iPad goes on “pre-sale” Friday.
So how long until we see a Nook app for android too? Not long I’d guess. With the fiery comet-like emergence of the iPad and iPad-like devices this year eBook readers could very possibly go the way of the dinosaurs, dodo, palm pilots, and be relegated to the scrap heap of technologies that never fully quite took flight.
eBook readers getting caught underfoot?
We reported yesterday that Amazon was making its Kindle app available for Android was going to help kill its own eBook reader hardware (and other brands too), its already available on the iPhone, and now we’re also seeing reports of Barnes & Noble prepping a “Nook” branded app for the iPad. Nook sales are weak and this would seem a smart move even if it diminishes the importance of their own hardware. Well timed also as the iPad goes on “pre-sale” Friday.
So how long until we see a Nook app for android too? Not long I’d guess. With the fiery comet-like emergence of the iPad and iPad-like devices this year eBook readers could very possibly go the way of the dinosaurs, dodo, palm pilots, and be relegated to the scrap heap of technologies that never fully quite took flight.
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Friday, 12 March 2010 10:08 |
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On 09/03/2010 Shanzai.com featured two mobile phones, the L488 and the ETS 50+, which are both designed specifically for the average aged pensioner ... failing eyesight and/or poor dexterity. Now IBM has initiated a programme where in the company will run two years of research in developing mobile phones that would be targeted to the elderly and the lesser literate population.
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Friday, 12 March 2010 00:00 |
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While private telcos and the Indian government are going through a rough time trying to spread 3G services across the country, with the auction of the 3G spectrum yet to happen, chip maker Qualcomm is planning to introduce Long-Term Evolution (LTE) technology based services ... aka 4G ... in India by next year.
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Fujitsu's latest netbook offering was released in Hong Kong yesterday, causing wide spread head shaking and cries of incredulity with it's 690 USD price tag. Known as the Lifebook MH380, this Pinetrai...
In Greek mythology Eros was the god of love and beauty – more specifically, erotic love. I don’t know if the shanzhai manufacturers had this in mind when they came up with the name for this 10-inch to...
There was a time when Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) were the only and best medium for inbuilt storage in notebooks. Although HDDs used in notebooks are smaller in size than normal HDDs, they still contribut...
Model handles A-Wang
Here’s a look at the interestingly named A Wang E98N. A lot shorter and slightly wider than most phones, the Wang has a polished black finish and a slide open keyboard design t...
Based on Linux, the GP2X Wiz (nice name!) is a completely open multi-functional handheld entertainment device. The makers, GamePark Holding from Korea, say it’s different than other shanzhai video gam...
Well that wasn't biased lol!!
throw ur mobile in kengeri gattar....