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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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Interaction Design Association (IxDA) 2010 Global Student Competition: THE FINALISTS
I recently took part on the jury of the first IxDA Global Student Design competition, which had over 40 entries, representing university programs in Australia, China, Columbia, Denmark, India, the Netherlands, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United States. Of those many entries, five have earned a full scholarship to Interaction10 conference [...]
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Gaming in China: online gaming exports exceeded 70 million US Dollars in 2008
In 2008, over 30 types of China's online games were exported to overseas markets, which covered over 20 countries and regions such as North America, Europe, Japan and Southeast Asia. The total value of online gaming exports reached 71.78 million USD, an increase of 30.5 percent year-on-year. Revenue from overseas markets has become a new profit growth point for China's online gaming enterprises, according to the Chinese Ministry of Culture [...]
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China’s Design Crisis
BusinessWeek's Bruce Nussbaum has an interesting article on the Chinese Design Industry [...]
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Autodesk Announces Vancouver as Third City of its Digital Cities Initiative
Autodesk announced that it has designated Vancouver as the third pilot city of its Digital Cities initiative. A Digital City provides a way for the public, city government, construction and business communities to combine mapping, building, civil engineering, and utility information into an accurate city model that can be used to simulate the future impact of decisions at a city-wide scale [...]
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Chinese People and Their Mobile Phones: Over 117 Million Mobile Internet Users in China
China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) recently released two reports on China’s mobile Internet, according to the reports, by the end of 2008, there were already over 640 million mobile phone users in China, and the number of users who access the Internet via mobile phone already exceeded 117.6 million, according to the Research Report on Behavior of Internet Access via Mobile Phone released by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) on February 18 in Beijing...
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Media in China: Chinese film and TV program exports break 300 million US dollars mark
In 2007, China's total export volume of film and TV programs broke 2.1 billion yuan mark (nearly 310 million US dollars), according to the information from the 2008 China International Film and TV Programs Exhibition held in Beijing recently. However, industry insiders also point out that the quantity of Chinese film and TV programs truly entering international markets is still limited. Zheng Xize, the international affairs director of South-Korea EBS, said 'only by producing interesting programs for audiences and adopting advanced marketing means can cultural products be exported and truly enter the international market.' [...]
Autodesk Announces Incheon, Korea as Second City of its Digital Cities Initiative
Autodesk today announced it is working with the Incheon Free Economic Zone (IFEZ) and the Incheon Urban Development Corporation (IUDC) to cooperate in the creation of Asia’s first Digital City for Incheon, Korea — the ‘Tomorrow City’ in Song-do City. Autodesk has designated Incheon as the second pilot city of its Digital City initiative, after [...]
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