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Something's brewing from Nikon - Oct 8, 2009

Crave Illustrated picture of a Nikon-branded X1-like camera. Heads up, Nikon users! Rumors on the Web indicate that the Japanese imaging firm may be announcing new products soon. According to blog site ... Read story »

Google China chief quits, reasons unknown - Sep 6, 2009

Blogs Google Inc's China chief, Kai-Fu Lee, has resigned with--two days after his departure--no clear reason. The 49-year-old Taiwan-born, US-educated executive had been with Google ever since its official launch in China ... Read story »

Eight Web sites that'll help you understand China - Sep 6, 2009

Blogs Contemporary China can be difficult to understand or get a big picture on. News reportage by most TV media and newspapers doesn't quite get it right, in terms of hearing ordinary ... Read story »

A rundown on where to find weird China news - Aug 30, 2009

Blogs Aside from terrible traffic, row upon endless row of souless apartment blocks, and a rather brutal family planning system, China's massive population also assures that it's never short on bizarre news ... Read story »

Sinobytes--the CNET China tech blog--has landed - Sep 6, 2009

Blogs With some trepidation, I am proud to have been handed the reigns of CNET's China tech blog; and with a new blogger comes a new moniker: Sinobytes. The previous writer, Ryan ... Read story »

Michael Jackson memorial: Watch it online via Facebook/CNN, Ustream/CBS News and other sites - Jul 7, 2009

Blogs Sure, CNN and Facebook have teamed up before for the historic inauguration of US President Barack Obama, but as I previously blogged, the online coverage of the Michael Jackson memorial is ... Read story »

Why China's "Great Firewall" is so anti-social (networking)... - Sep 11, 2009

Blogs 2009 in China has turned out to be the year of heightened Web censorship, implemented by the nationwide filtering system known--not very affectionately--as "The Great Firewall".Many hoped that the Beijing Olympics ... Read story »

What was the first Web site you created? - Oct 29, 2009

Blogs Reading fellow CNET Asia blogger Lim Sheng Ming's requiem to GeoCities got me all nostalgic, because like I commented on his post, I created my very first Web site on GeoCities ... Read story »

What can you say about CNET Asia's new look? - May 4, 2009

Blogs I was a bit surprised to see that the Web site of CNET Asia is sporting a new look, particularly the changing of the colors. The title banner is now in black. And ... Read story »

Would you give your child a private personal computer? - Jul 30, 2009

Blogs When Geekonomics first wrote about how he had helped give a child a computer, my immediate thought was concern. What's wrong with giving the Encyclopedia Brittanica these days? I assume the ... Read story »

Google shows us the way to explain outages - Sep 2, 2009

Blogs Check this out: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/more-on-todays-gmail-issue.html Google explains in detail how Gmail died for about a hundred minutes. Patiently. My favorite excerpts: "We had slightly underestimated the load which some recent changes (ironically, ... Read story »

More Sony dSLRs leaked online - Jul 21, 2009

Crave Someone in Sony must be excited to get the company's new cameras out. Previously, we reported the TX1 and WX1, two upcoming superzoom compacts, were prematurely published on an online ... Read story »

Death of Michael Jackson downing Web? - Jun 26, 2009

Blogs My Twitter and Plurk timelines, as well as my social networks, are now filled with updates on the death of the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, who apparently suffered a cardiac ... Read story »

Manny Pacquiao wife gets support from Filipino Twitter users - Nov 19, 2009

Blogs Ironically, rumors of an affair with a sexy young actress may have done more to hurt boxing's pound for pound king Manny Pacquiao than tough erstwhile welterweight champion Miguel Cotto. A ... Read story »

Thailand tackles online censorship again - Nov 9, 2009

Blogs Prathet Thai, or land of the free, is what Thailand is called in the Thai language. Land of the free (and home of the brave) also defines the US. As the ... Read story »

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