Monthly Archives: March 2011

Gaming in China: Internet game users up 37% in 2010

Internet game players in China exceeded 120 million in 2010, up 37 percent year on year, according to a report released recently by the Chinese Ministry of Culture [...]

China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: luxury market grows 23% in 2010

Luxury market grows 23 percent in 2010 from 68 billion yuan (US$10.2 billion) in 2009, with the younger generation driving sales [...]

Watch “Mr. McCluskey’s Method” Autodesk Film Preview

In this short viral film that parodies Dead Poet’s Society and other films, join the students at Huntley Boarding School as they meet their new teacher, Mr. McCluskey, and enjoy his unorthodox teaching methods while delivering important Autodesk messages [...]

Health in China: Breast cancer hits earlier

Over a third of Chinese women with breast cancer start to suffer the disease at their 40s and their average age is 48, 10 years earlier than Western women [...]

Internet in Brazil: Revenues from e-commerce up 40% in 2010 and closes at US$ 7.4 billion

The Brazilian e-commerce earned a total of $ 14.8 billion in 2010 (US$ 7.2 Billion), a figure which represents a nominal growth of 40% compared to R$ 10.6 billion (US$ 5.3 billion) recorded a year earlier, according to a report by e-bit consultoria [...]

China, Technology and the Environment: more energy efficient in 2010

China’s energy efficiency improved by a bigger margin in 2010 partly because local governments shut down some industrial capacity to meet year-end targets [...]

White House releases fact sheet on The United States-Brazil Strategic Energy Dialogue

The White House has disclosed the details on the US-Brazil Strategic Energy Dialog during Obama’s recent trip to Brazil [...]

“Ancient Chinese Art” from The New York Times’ Video Library

Maxwell Hearn, the new head of Asian Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, demonstrates the ancient art of understanding and appreciating Chinese scroll paintings [...]

Watch Richard Buchanan’s Keynote on IxDA | Interaction ‘11 Conference

Richard Buchanan is Professor of Design, Management, and Information Systems at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. Before joining the Weatherhead faculty in 2008, he served as Head of the School of Design from 1992 until 2002 and from 2002 until 2008 as Director of Doctoral Studies. While at Carnegie Mellon, he inaugurated Interaction Design programs at the Masters and doctoral level [...]

Watch Michael Pawlyn’s “Using nature’s genius in architecture” talk at TED

How can architects build a new world of sustainable beauty? By learning from nature. At TEDSalon in London, Michael Pawlyn describes three habits of nature that could transform architecture and society: radical resource efficiency, closed loops, and drawing energy from the sun [...]