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Giang V

Amazon Android tablet to cost 'hundreds less' than iPad | PC Retail Industry | PCR - 0 views

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Amazon Android tablet cost 'hundreds less' than iPad

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  • Amazon Android tablet to cost 'hundreds less' than iPad
  • TouchPad suggests consumers ready for cheap tablets
  • HP's discontinued TouchPad triggered a stampede of customer interest for the $99 tablet, Garett Sloane of the NY Post said "the market is hungry for tablets outside of the Apple's iPad - if the price is right."
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  • following in the footsteps of the firm's successful Kindle e-reader and the Android tablets would be a natural extension of the firm's already-launched Amazon App Store.
  • tantalising
  • take on the all-conquering iPad head on.
  • Amazon may also sell the device at a loss, as it does the Kindle e-reader, recouping costs through selling applications, books and services.
  • with the Wi-Fi only Kindle already retailing at $139.
  • $200 full-featured Android tablet with Amazon's marketing muscle behind it may well give Apple the competition it has so far not had to endure.
unchan ki

Yao lauded for impact on NBA after early retirement - USATODAY.com - 0 views

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shared by unchan ki on 11 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Yao Ming'
  • era is over
  • Chinese superstar has left a legacy
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  • helping
  • 7-6, 310 pounds,
  • true giant
  • Yao averaged 19.0 points (9,247 total)
  • NBA into a global brand
  • 9.2 rebounds (4,494)
  • 1.9 blocked shots (920)
  • in seven full seasons
  • leg injuries led him to retire in July
  • Yao, 31 next month
  • Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
  • contributor
  • As a player entry
  • Yao is not eligible for induction until 2017.
  • elected as coaches
  • Three hundred million Chinese play basketball.
  • five games last season,
  • 51 networks in China was up 11%.
  • Yao is "a transformational player,
  • eight-time All-Star
  • Yao's jersey is the 36th most popular.
  • here were 4.7 billion page views on the NBA's website from China this past season
  • 43% increase
Giang V

What HP's TouchPad fire sale tells iPad rivals - Telegraph - 0 views

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HP TouchPad fire sale tells iPad rivals Amazon Kindle

shared by Giang V on 25 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • What HP's TouchPad fire sale tells iPad rivals For a short time this week, the TouchPad was the world’s most wanted gadget. Now with stocks sold out, HP is left to wonder what might have been.
  • Hundreds of thousands of TouchPads have been sold in days, after HP announced it would stop manufacturing its would-be iPad competitor.
  • The sudden desirability of the device was of course due to heavy discounting. Currys and PC World were selling their stocks off for just £89, down from the original RRP of £399.
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  • each of the gadgets cost HP at least £180 just to build, so selling the Touchpad for £89 would never have been considered until the firm decided to abandon it.
  • others hoping to loosen Apple’s stranglehold on the tablet computing market.
  • The main Google Android tablets, made by Samsung and Motorola, are pitched at around the same £400-ish price point as the iPad. But, put together with all the other Android tablets, it’s estimated they are outsold by Apple’s devices eight to one.
  • Amazon, which is rumoured to be preparing to release an Android tablet this autumn. Like Apple with the iPad, it has built and dominated a market for itself with the Kindle, its hugely successful e-reader.
  • Kindle’s success is its relatively low price of £111
Ronald Trinh

Despite China's growth, its workers endure a fundamental evil | Hsiao-Hung Pai | Commen... - 0 views

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hum8 aow events

shared by Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Migrants who toil in the cities still face a decades-old system of segregation and exploitation. But many are now demanding fairness
  • Schools for children of migrant workers in China are being closed down.
  • "We live under the same sky, why are we not entitled to the same rights?"
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  • migrant workers – who build the capital's offices and mansions, clean its streets and guard its security – have been shut down,
  • Tens of thousands of migrant children are left without schools
  • rural origin – a third of the city's 19 million population
  • day-to-day inju
  • stices
  • hukou (household registration), set up in 1958
  • control rural-to-urban migration
  • Peasants' role was to produce and feed the cities and support the modernisation process of their motherland.
  • as shown on their ID – no matter what they might choose to do. "Wo shi nongmin [I am a peasant],"
  • Deng Xiao Ping's gaige kaifang (economic reforms and opening up), in the late 1970s.
  • Agricultural production increased in the early stage of the reforms in "releasing the productive forces",
  • half of the 400 million rural working population have been pushed off the land, seeking a livelihood away from their villages.
  • As rural residents came to the cities, they immediately faced discrimination and exclusion.
  • They spoke their own dialects instead of "proper" Mandarin. Many faced verbal abuse as soon as they arrived.
  • the strict requirement for the unaffordable temporary residency permit, and the random street search by police.
  • The criteria for applying for a hukou remain harsh, and unreachable for most migrants, and many work for years without any status.
  • Without hukou,
  • healthcare, education and housing.
  • urban dwellers pay a minimal cost for medical care, many migrants have to return home for treatment.
  • "These children aren't treated as everyone else. They're called the mobile students, who can't go to state schools. Their parents have for years sent their children to privately run schools without proper facilities or curriculum."
  • hundreds such private schools were set up.
  • government-funded National Development and Reform Commission
  • admits it is an "institutional barrier"
  • government has shown no wish to listen to migrant workers' demands.
  • voice their discontent is by petitioning the local authorities
  • Little happens as a result.
  • Some suspect that migrant children's schools are being closed as a disincentive to future migration.
  • protests, road blockages, sit-ins and spontaneous strikes.
  • Hsiao-Hung Pai, Beijing
  • Migrants who toil in the cities still face a decades-old system of segregation and exploitation. But many are now demanding fairness
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      Migrant workers should have tell the police earlier so they won't be treated so violent. 
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      Why does the chinese people have to segregated themself, they're from the same country! 
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      Why do they have to treat people like that? They're all from the same country!
  • Beijing "a city of violence"
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      it reflects the conflict of the urban dwellers and the migrant workers.
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      I think maybe the urban dwellers pay the government to be on their side and act ruthlessly to the migrant workers.
  • Beijing's migrant worker slums
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      which means that the migrant workers cannot move to other city or quit their job, they have to work there and got treat badly, ruthlessly.
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      "I've had migrant workers tell me about their class origin, as if it were a stamp on your body for life. It was impossible for peasants to move their hukou to the cities."   http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/sep/20/china-migrant-workers
  • are ruthlessly segregated from the urban dwellers, economically, socially and culturally
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      the government is not fair!
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      why dont the government get involve earlier if they already knew what's going on?
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      they have to speak their own language?  not Mandarin? 
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      Once the rural residents came to the cities, they immediately faced discrimination and exclusion??? that's so not fair and segregated.
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      Migrants children are called the mobile students, who can't go to state schools.
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      Urban childrens have free primary education while migrants children aren't be able to go to school because their parents cannot afford it. It costs 2/3 of their parents wages.
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      IT'S NOT FAIR
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      Migrants workers continue to be burdened with the hukou system. So they won't be able to access any services in the cities like: helthcare, education or housing. While urban dwellers pay a minimal cost for medical care, many migrants have to return home for treatment.
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      "Even the government-funded National Development and Reform Commission admits it is an "institutional barrier" and believes it should be scrapped. However, these institutions aren't in the position to change things. "Protection of migrant workers' rights" is a rhetorical statement of state organisations, but the government has shown no wish to listen to migrant workers' demands."
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      What? the government has shown no wish to listen to migrant workers demands? Why? They think they're rich so they don't care about other people? These governments should be in jail!
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      "Some suspect that migrant children's schools are being closed as a disincentive to future migration. "   What??? There's no reason why they hate the migrants workers and childrens! They're all from the same root! They don't have a right to do this?
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      "In recent years, migrants have raised their demands through protests, road blockages, sit-ins and spontaneous strikes. Although these have not always proved effective, workers have become more aware of their collective strength. In the past year they have won some improvements in wages and working conditions. Many migrant workers, now better informed, are far less willing to accept the status quo. As they grow in confidence, the regime will find it increasingly difficult to ignore their demands. China's rulers should realise now that it is in their long-term interests to listen." YES, they really should do this to show the government that they have a right to complain about what's right or wrong! If you're rich still doesn't mean that you have all the rights to do anything you want.
  • Chozen Takei on 22 Sep 11
     
    In China, poor migrants who earn a living by working low calss jobs in Beijing is treated unfairly. The chinese public schools, especialy nursery schools, would not let the migrant's children be enrolled. Yet, migrants are treated differently than Beijing citizens, and they can't have a normal life. 
  • Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
     
    Despite China's growth, its workers endure a fundamental evil
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