Posts Tagged china
Red China going green
Posted by max in Uncategorized, World News on June 25th, 2010
Interesting perspective on China’s foray into the green market, from the new publication Asia 360:
Forget the image of China the polluter. The world’s largest emitter, in absolute terms, of carbon dioxide, is apparently going green. A quiet state-led revolution has been taking place, and people are starting to take notice, even those who have berated China for its environmental record.
http://www.asia360news.com/_webapp_487892/Red_China_going_green
Can you stay on top of competition when you have a great product (such as the iPhone)?
Posted by max in World News on June 1st, 2009
Half of our office in Singapore is using currently an iPhone. This isnt just great marketing, its proof of a great product. The iPhone single-handledly carried Apple over the past year and a half and revolutionized the mobile phone industry: Motorola is on the brink of collapse, Sony-Ericsson and Nokia and relocalizing in China, etc. But in a technology-centric industry, no matter how great your product is, you always need to have another one ready to take over fast, or else competition will eventually catch up and eat you alive.
So what’s next for the iPhone? In China, numerous ODMs are making their own cheaper iPhones already, and whereas Apple can hold its audience captive thanks to its iTune, applications, etc, they will surely lose market share to the Chinese iphone very soon. Here is the latest on those newcomers:
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/pcworld/20090531/tc_pcworld/isthisthenextiphone
10,000 years of China technology: Celebrating Chinese invention
Posted by romain in World News on May 7th, 2009
Lets face it, in our break-neck, high-tech, don’t look back culture, China tends to get a lot of flack for being–ahem–under-innovative. The number of articles written about China’s IP infringement/piracy and massive shanzhai industry are too numerous to count.


