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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-21

The Myth of DPI: The size of an image in a website layout is important. From proper alignment to getting j… http://tinyurl.com/ybt88yb # The Myth of DPI: The size of an image in a website layout is important. From proper alignment to getting just t.. http://tinyurl.com/ybt88yb # Chinese Holidays are over: what's the point of [...]
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China, Technology and the Environment: power consumption up nearly 6% in 2009

China's power consumption in 2009 rose 5.96 percent to 3,643 billion kilowatt hours, the National Energy Administration (NEA) announced recently [...]
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-14

Chinese People and their Mobile Phones: 2.1 billion short messages sent per day in 2009 http://tinyurl.com/yku9jtd # http://twitpic.com/12wv2j – Moving out to Century Park: Chinese New Year is coming, so our building's fountain is finally on! # Listen to Adrienne Massanari’s “Personas and politics: The Discursive Construction of The User” talk at IA Summ.. http://tinyurl.com/yl6aeen # The Internet [...]
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Chinese People and their Mobile Phones: 2.1 billion short messages sent per day in 2009

Short messages (SMS) sent by Chinese people in 2009 rose 8.4 percent year-on-year to 784.04 billion, or 2.1 billion per day on average, the Beijing Times reported recently citing a source with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology [...]
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Living in China: 2.54 billion journeys will be made during Spring Festival

China began its annual mass passenger transportation for the traditional Lunar New Year, with an expected 2.54 billion journeys in the coming 40 days [...]
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Internet in China: Internet population hit 384 million in 2009

China's population of Internet users jumped by nearly a third to 384 million at the end of 2009, an official report showed recently, just a few days after Google threatened to retreat from the expanding market [...]
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-07

http://twitpic.com/11v98v – Living in China: Nothing more fashionable in Shanghai than shopping for beer in pajamas # http://twitpic.com/11ut8t – Chinglish: "Heart Commodities Exquisitely Carved"? # Gaming in China: Sales of online gaming industry hit 4 billion US dollars in 2009 http://tinyurl.com/ydbog53 # Watch Tim Brown urge designers to think big at TED http://tinyurl.com/y8hbaqw # Bottom-Up Innovation: Insights, Ideas and [...]
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Gaming in China: Sales of online gaming industry hit 4 billion US dollars in 2009

The pace of growth of China's online gaming industry slowed in 2009, growing 30.2 percent to 27.1 billion yuan ($3.97 billion) over the previous year, according to data from research firm iResearch [...]
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China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: Shanghai’s sky-high priced luxurious house unveiled

Tomson Group has built a top luxurious housing block in Pudong, Shanghai. Tomson cooperated with Versace Home to built a luxurious show house of more than 900 square meters, with the name "Versace Home at Tomson Riviera" [...]
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Media in China: 174 Million Cable TV Subscribers In 2009

China had 174 million cable TV subscribers at the end of 2009, up by 10 million, or 6.1%, from the end of 2008, according to China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television [...]
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