China’s indigenous OS and the Windows 8 ban
How China’s ban on Windows 8 will boost the chances of linux-based Chinese operating systems…and how China hopes to dominate its mobile OS market.
Busted: The top 5 ways that Chinese students cheat on their undergraduate applications to American schools (and what schools can do about it)
I recently came across an excellent report on the systemic problems that exist in the process of Chinese applicants applying to American universities. I was glad that the authors included the topic of elite Chinese high schools preferring their students attend highly ranked Chinese universities rather than any foreign university.
Photos of Beijing’s polution
Beijing’s horrible pollution – of such toxicity that by some estimates that on that historically terrible day breathing in Beijing was equivalent to smoking 20+ cigarettes – made international news over the past weeks. This isn’t a bad thing…but consider that apart from the aforementioned terrible day, Beijing usually doesn’t have the worst air quality […]
From the “Avoiding Trademark Infringement” Dpt.
A Nokia N9 for Â¥1180? An iPhone 4S for just Â¥2080? Sign me up! Oh, wait. It’s a Nokla N9 and a Phone 4S. Maybe I’ll pass. To be fair, though, we saw these ads on Fengxing (风行网)…a program used pretty much exclusively to download pirated movies. Intellectual property rights probably aren’t super important to […]