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  • Going It Alone: How to Make Your Stuff In China

    Going It Alone: How to Make Your Stuff In China

    Posted on April 10, 2010 | No Comments
    Adam Hocherman, 34, is an entrepreneur and founder of the consumer electronics company American Innovative in Boston, MA. Adam founded the company in 2003 with the help of the US Government’s SBA loan program and is currently the 100% owner. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA, both from Cornell [...]

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  • Sorry, China’s 3D TVs are no less expensive

    Sorry, China’s 3D TVs are no less expensive

    Posted on April 2, 2010 | No Comments
    Incoming, Chinese 3D TVs! A couple of Chinese manufacturers have announced details of their very own 3D TVs. There's really nothing too crazy, so I don't even know why I'm mentioning it. Oh, yes: trying to avoid talking about that... thing.

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  • The $65 Creation Tech netbook. You know it’s going to be great!

    The $65 Creation Tech netbook. You know it’s going to be great!

    Posted on March 25, 2010 | No Comments
    I'm not sure how useful this will be, but it sounds interesting. Chinese manufacturer Creation Tech is selling a 7 inch ultra mobile PC for $65. The specs aren't very impressive, but for that kind of money what do you expect?

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  • China has every right to be upset with Google right now

    China has every right to be upset with Google right now

    Posted on March 23, 2010 | No Comments
    Here's a story I simply do not understand. Yes, we all know that Google has pulled out of mainland China, choosing to redirect all Chinese traffic through its uncensored Hong Kong hub. What I don't understand is, what gives Google the right to flout a country's laws, no matter how "bad" they may seem? China doesn't want its citizens to read up on Tienanmen Square—and? I really don't think it's the place outsiders to tell China how to run itself. You wouldn't want Big China Corporation to build a factory in the middle of Texas, then demand that the state of Texas bend to its whims, would you?

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  • Even more cheap Android tablet computers

    Even more cheap Android tablet computers

    Posted on March 1, 2010 | No Comments
    Today seems to be the day of cheap Android tablets, and while I doubt we'll ever see any of these in the U.S. they are worth mentioning. These particular tablets are produced in China by HiVision, a company not exactly known around the world. That could change however, because these little (7-inch) tablets look to be selling for around $100 each.

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  • Shanzaistudios.com: The next big thing in China is “socialist” production

    Shanzaistudios.com: The next big thing in China is “socialist” production

    Posted on February 28, 2010 | No Comments
    The guys behind Shanzai.com - a blog covering the very best in China and Indian shanzai products - are taking the world of shanzai online with a new crowdsourcing site called Shanzaistudios.com Basically, its your standard crowdsourcing model or better yet "Social Production" - the site puts up a product they can manufacture in China and everyone visiting the site gets to help form the final design that gets made and sold. While the first product is very interesting to tablet fans (a tablet bag 'natch) its how deep they plan to go that is exciting. While in Hong Kong, I was able to chat with one of the founders and they were telling me that ultimately this is the way to get a more personalized cellphone or a tablet device, but starting smaller and building it up is their initial goal.

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  • U.S. authorities identify Chinese hacker partly responsible for Google attacks

    U.S. authorities identify Chinese hacker partly responsible for Google attacks

    Posted on February 22, 2010 | No Comments
    The Chinese hacker saga continues, with some pretty huge news having emerged in the past few hours. U.S. authorities have identified, so they think, the sole person responsible for the underlying code used on attacks on Google and others. He's a "freelance security consultant" in his 30s, and he was able to take down almighty Google by exploiting a previously unknown hole in Internet Explorer. Being an Internet Explorer public relations guy must be pretty difficult.

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  • Trying to track down those Chinese hackers

    Trying to track down those Chinese hackers

    Posted on February 19, 2010 | No Comments
    More news from that China hacking deal. Investigators have tracked the attacks that befell Google and other victims to two schools in China, one of which has ties to the Chinese military. Whether or not this was an officially sanctioned series of attacks, or merely a couple of comp-sci students testing out their skills, clearly nobody knows. That's the beauty of these hacks: there's not a chance in hell there's going to be a "smoking gun," giving the hosts of The Today Show a three minute segment on Chinese hacking.

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  • Panasonic No. 1 in global patent applications in 2009, US takes top spot in country ranking

    Panasonic No. 1 in global patent applications in 2009, US takes top spot in country ranking

    Posted on February 9, 2010 | No Comments
    It lost the top spot in 2008, but in 2009, Panasonic submitted the most international patent applications (according to a preliminary report released by the World Intellectual Property Organization on Monday). Panasonic filed a total of 1,891 applications, topping the 1,847 of major Chinese telecommunications equipment producer Huawei Technologies (which was the No. 1 in 2008).

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  • Corning invests heavily into China’s LCD market

    Corning invests heavily into China’s LCD market

    Posted on February 5, 2010 | No Comments
    Corning Inc. is betting that big that LCD's popularity will exploded over in China. It recently announced plans to build a $400 million to $700 million glass-melting plant within China under the forecast that the country will see a 70% growth in the LCD TV market. Corning probably knows what its doing, too. After all, the company is responsible for 60% of the world's LCD glass.

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  • Cell phone has built in cigarette lighter. In other news, I have officially seen it all.

    Cell phone has built in cigarette lighter. In other news, I have officially seen it all.

    Posted on February 4, 2010 | No Comments
    Straight out of China comes “The Machismo!” – billed as “the world’s hottest cigarette lighter mobile phone.” Does that mean there’s more than one? Like, are there other, lesser, not-as-hot cell phones with built-in cigarette lighters? Nothing would surprise me after seeing this.

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  • How Apple kills hardware innovation

    How Apple kills hardware innovation

    Posted on February 1, 2010 | No Comments
    If there are two things you can count on its Death and the propensity of Asian electronics manufacturers to capitalize on a rising trend. In short, what we buy Asia makes and Asia is very happy about the iPad. And this chain of events, in turn, destroys hardware innovation. First we have this AP report about accessories makers. We haven't posted very many iPad accessories since the launch but trust me, we've been inundated. Every accessory and app company worth its salt has tasked its befuddled PR flacks to send us emails with subjects like "Supertech creates first iPad holster for cowboys" complete with rendered images of ridiculous accessories. Why do they do this? Because all they really have to do is make a call to a factory in Shenzhen and have a planeload made in a few weeks. It's that easy. This ties up resources, however, discouraging other manufacturers to try to make accessories for other devices.

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  • UFC signs online pay-per-view deal in China. Say goodbye to your streams?

    UFC signs online pay-per-view deal in China. Say goodbye to your streams?

    Posted on January 28, 2010 | No Comments
    One of the arguments "in favor" of illegal UFC streaming just became a little bit harder to defend. The company signed a deal with China's sohu.com to broadcast events online there. The first event to be streamed will be UFC 109: Relentless, headlined by Randy Couture v. Mark Coleman. No prices were announced.

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  • Sharp to bring solar-powered cell phone to China (and possibly elsewhere, too)

    Sharp to bring solar-powered cell phone to China (and possibly elsewhere, too)

    Posted on January 27, 2010 | No Comments
    Sharp, the biggest (in terms of market share) of all eight major Japanese cell phone makers, has been talking about internationalizing its phone business for quite some time now. It makes sense, as the domestic market is shrinking and as Sharp only sold 20% of all their cell phones outside Japan (1.6 million units) last fiscal.

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  • Yeah, Google, good luck trying to boss China around

    Yeah, Google, good luck trying to boss China around

    Posted on January 20, 2010 | No Comments
    What more can be said of this Google-China feud? Google wants to run its local search engine, google.cn, there without having to deal with Chinese censorship. China is like, really? Why should we give a damn what you want, Google? Google phones have been delayed, bitter words have been exchanged, and now Google's other, non-search activities in China may be threatened by its saber-rattling, to use a metaphor that's not really relevant. Here's a new one: Google v. China could be seen as yet another chapter in the expected United States of America v. China feud, one that could determine which country will be the top dog this century.

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