Ni Hao, Zuckerberg, in Chinese…
Here’s some “inspiration” to those in China still struggling with English: You don’t really have to learn English; Mark Zuckerberg’s ready to speak Chinese to those in the Middle Kingdom. True, the “shock effect”...
Monthly Archive: October 2014
Apple Pay and China
The recent concerns of Apple Pay helping itself to more than one payment of a user’s registered card could be a big issue for China, where “money con men” are serious issues. Too often...
Rebuilding techblog86
To some of you, techblog86 remains that site that is on one day, off the next; there one year, gone the other. It’s no secret your publisher has been busy since 2008: he has...
Chinese Gov Weibo: Some Interaction, (Nearly) All Officialspeak
There are only two ways to look at the recent People’s Daily Weibo ranking of Chinese official Weibo accounts (in simplified Chinese):— Progress (minor!) has been made (mostly self-congratulatory) There remains a tonne of...
Apple Sells 138+ iPhone 6 Units Per Second in China
Those figures are just the first six hours alone in the country. China has predictably gone completely crazy over Apple’s newest version of its smartphone — in a country madly obsessed by consumerism and...
Chinese Courts: Malignant Edit-Retweeting May Be Illegal
The Chinese supreme court, the Supreme People’s Court, issued on 09 October 2014 a new regulation which enters into effect on 10 October 2014. In it, the court has ruled has ruled (contents in...
iDelayed: Rethinking the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Launch Bugs
Apple’s launch of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus was a disaster. It never made it any better for Cupertino that this failed release was aggravated by no launch date for mainland China (until...
