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• 07.08.08 Living in China: Study finds obesity may be a growing problem among kids in Shanghai
  
  "Researchers are concerned that obesity may become a bigger problem among children in Shanghai after completing a study that found kids here have almost the same average height and weight as those in the United States, Shanghai News Times reported. The research team, under the leadership of Jiang Yifang, dean of children nutrition at the Children Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, found that boys aged 10 to 15 were slightly taller and heavier on average than those in the US..."  read on
  
  posted in health, united states, living, shanghai, china, trends
• 06.26.08 Internet in China: majority of world’s malware originates from China
  
  "Stopbadware.org has released its latest findings on the prevalence of what it refers to as "badware," and the upward trend is not surprising. What is a bit startling, however, is how much of it flows from just one nation. Using data from Google's Safe Browsing initiative, StopBadware.org analyzed over 200,000 websites found to engage in badware behavior. The analysis found that over half of the sites were based on Chinese network blocks, with a small number of blocks accounting for most of the infected sites in that country. Compared to last year, the total number of sites was much higher, likely due both to increased scanning efforts by Google and to increased use of websites as a vector of malware infection."  read on
  
  posted in united states, korea, china, information technology, trends, internet
• 06.15.08 Internet in China: Google banks on Chinese market
  
  "Google expects its position as the world's most popular online search site and sales from fast-growing Asian markets, including China, to help the company weather any United States recession. "One of the very good sources for Google is the very rapid growth in Asia," said Eric Schmidt, chief executive officer of Google, which gets almost all its revenue from advertising next to search results. Historically, people tend to shift their money to the most "highly measured" advertiser when there are "economic difficulties," he said recent at a briefing in Beijing."  read on
  
  posted in united states, market, baidu, google, china, trends, information technology, internet
• 05.24.08 Living in China: GDP could be 2.5 times that of the US by 2030
  
  "China's economy could be 2.5 times that of the US by 2030, based on Japan's experience and the yuan's appreciation against the greenback, a senior Chinese economist says in Harvard Business Review's Chinese edition. The forecast by Justin Lin Yifu, head of Peking University's China Center for Economic Research and recently appointed chief economist of the World Bank, in the May issue of the magazine published on Thursday is one of the most ambitious for China's economic growth..."  read on
  
  posted in agriculture, united states, japan, beijing, china, consumer behavior, trends, economics
• 05.11.08 Investing in China: Most of world’s top companies invest in China
  
  "Almost 480 of the Fortune 500 companies have invested in China during the past 30 years, said Du Ying, deputy minister in charge of China's National Development and Reform Commission. From 1978 to 2007, China's total use of foreign investment exceeded 760 billion U.S. dollars, the largest amount among developing countries and the second largest worldwide, said Du at a national economic conference recently..."  read on
  
  posted in united states, finance, trade, china, socialism, trends, economics
• 05.11.08 Autodesk sponsors project to develop Open Source GIS tools for kids
  
  "KidsGIS is a cool project from a group of professionals and educators out in Oregon (USA), who have been using MapGuide Open Source tools to create an open source geospatial portal as a tool for educating kids about environmental issues and about using open source software and open data standards. The project has an impressive group of sponsors, including the Open Source Geospatial Foundation, Autodesk, the San Diego Visualization and Supercomputer Centers, URISA, local governments and schools, and private companies such as Spatial Integrators and SPATIALinfo..."  read on
  
  posted in united states, geospatial, autodesk, software, education, information technology, environment
• 03.31.08 “User Interface Design in an Agile Environment”: Jeff White and Josh Unger’s talk at IxDA | Interaction ‘08 Conference
  
  "As interaction designers working within agile teams, Jeff White and Josh Unger have used a design studio approach to user interface design on five separate occasions over the past year in order to establish design direction during early development cycles and provide the design vision for multiple sprints. In their talk at IxDA | Interaction ‘08 Conference, they describe their experience with the merger of user centered design into agile (team) development practice as manifest in a one day design studio..."  read on
  
  posted in united states, creativity, ixda, research, software, information technology, interaction, innovation, design
• 03.31.08 Look Into the Future with Autodesk Labs: Multi touch wall (Part II)
  
  "Doug Look from Autodesk Labs experiments with Autodesk's design software on a Multi-Touch Wall device, produced by Perceptive Pixel and invented by researcher and (TED conference luminary) Jeff Han. multi-touch human-computer interfaces may dramatically change how products, infrastructure, and buildings are designed. The video allows you to imagine new ways to interact with large displays and multi-touch interfaces and inspires a discussion on what might, in the not-so-distant future, dramatically change how products, infrastructure, and buildings are designed..."  read on
  
  posted in autodesk, united states, creativity, software, innovation, trends, interaction, design
• 03.22.08 Autodesk featured in the Top 50 World’s Most Innovative Companies
  
  "Autodesk has been recently featured in Fast Company's ranking of the world's most innovative companies. From visionary upstarts to storied stalwarts, the list highlights companies that dazzle with new ideas -- and prove beyond a doubt how business is a force for change: Since 1982, designers, engineers, and architects have made Autodesk's 2-D AutoCAD drafting programs the default choice for creating anything from buildings to sailboards. Now Autodesk is targeting the latest growth area in product design: 3-D virtual prototyping that eliminates the need for building physical models."  read on
  
  posted in software, autodesk, united states, innovation, interaction, culture, design, information technology, environment
• 03.19.08 Look Into the Future with Autodesk Labs: Multi touch wall
  
  "Doug Look from Autodesk Labs experiments with Autodesk's design software on a Multi-Touch Wall device, produced by Perceptive Pixel and invented by researcher and (TED conference luminary) Jeff Han. As you view the demo, imagine that you and your team of designers stand before a huge screen that acts like an intelligent whiteboard..."  read on
  
  posted in united states, creativity, autodesk, research, interaction, innovation, design

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