First, people wanted to smell like brand-new Apple products. Now it appears brand-new Apple products smell like fruit. The Chinese Internet is ripe with reports of iPhone headphone jacks smelling like mangoes, pineapples and apples while charging.
Google might not exist today had dominant rivals like Facebook existed when Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin created the search powerhouse, says Brin.
Five people in southern China have been charged for taking a 17-year-old boy’s kidney in exchange for an iPad and an iPhone.
In what will hopefully one day become a TV movie, a little boy in China was rescued from a well with the help of an iPhone.
The China Quality Certification Center has given the green light for Apple to sell the Wi-Fi version of its new iPad.
Let’s play a game! It’s called “spot the CEO traveling abroad, then speculate about what it means.” In this instance, we’re talking Apple CEO Tim Cook, reportedly spied by a blogger who snapped a casual picture of Cook as he strolled through an Apple Store in Xidan, Beijing last Friday.
What to do when the strict system of Internet censorship around you briefly breaks down? Take your grievances directly to the most powerful man in the world. A quick visit to Barack Obama’s Google+ page reveals a flood of comments written in Chinese.
The timing couldn’t be worse: Amidst stories that Chinese officials are pulling Apple’s iPad from select stores over trademark infringement, Apple’s iPad unexpectedly vanished from Amazon China earlier this week.
First, the good news: Apple shares briefly hit $500 Monday morning for the first time in its history — an impressive milestone and psychological threshold that underscores the incredible success of America’s largest technology company. Now, the bad news: Apple’s headaches in China continue, as authorities in the northern city of Shijiazhuang have reportedly confiscated dozens of iPads due to an escalating copyright dispute.
The truth is that consumers don’t really have a good option when it comes to buying “ethical” smartphones and tablets. Why is that? Why is there Fair Trade coffee but no Fair Trade electronics?
Officially, the RedPad is available to all Chinese citizens, although its 9,999 yuan (US$1,600) price tag has many of the country’s microbloggers speculating that the Android-based tablet is primarily meant as a tax-subsidized tool for party officials.
