Tag Archives: Technology

Gates, can you speak Chinese?

Gates and Jobs Comic in Chinese

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If you remember the meme from a few years ago that came out of the Bill Gates and Steve Jobs interview at the All Things D conference in 2007 then you should find this funny, and if not then there’s … Continue reading

Skype

Microsoft Buys Skype for $8.5bn – Mini Chinese Lesson

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Hopefully Microsoft can do a better job with Skype than Ebay did, especially after the less than warm welcome the new version of Skype for Mac received. The following news bite is taken from a recent article on BBC News. … Continue reading

Google Human Flesh Search Engine

Human Flesh Search and related words – Mini Chinese Lesson

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A phenomenon that has become increasingly prevalent in China and Taiwan is the use of 人肉搜索(rén ròu sōu suǒ), or “Human Flesh Search”, so called because of it’s human powered nature and utilisation of the collective power of Internet users … Continue reading

Hacking News Keywords

25 useful words for reading Hacking News in Chinese

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We got some great feedback from the last in this series about Chinese keywords for reading technology news, so decided to follow up with hacking keywords and examples. Hacking has become a hot topic in the news recently, from hacking … Continue reading

Engadget Chinese

16 words to get you started reading technology news in Chinese

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As we’ve mentioned in the past, one of the most common benchmarks of language ability is being able to read and understand news. So over the next few weeks we’ll look at all the major news categories and pick out … Continue reading

Android Sales

Android sales overtake iOS – Chinese Keywords

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Android becomes US sales champion of the last six months Which is the most popular mobile phone operating system? Symbian? you’re dreaming! Blackberry? That’s already history! iOS? looks like it’s already topped out! Now the most popular is Android. According … Continue reading

Taiwanese Tech Podcast

Get your tech fix and practice Chinese at the same time!

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The lack of Chinese language tech podcasts means I’m crying myself to sleep most nights, well maybe not that extreme, but I am disappointed In the past there was Shuo3 (說3) from China, and also Push Reporter (你推我報) from Taiwan, … Continue reading

iPod Wristwatch

Turn your iPod nano into a wristwatch

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People who are used to listening to music while exercising probably all have this problem; if you hang the MP3 player around your neck when you start moving the continual swinging of the player looks awful and sometimes will even … Continue reading

Techno-food

Techno-Food at Taiwan Design Week

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Does this packaging look familiar? Of course! It’s the cute packaging that makes everyone want some sweets! At this years Design Week in Taiwan, I came across this series of designs at the Asus booth that will trick your mouth … Continue reading

iPhone 4 Taiwan

iPhone 4 is coming to Taiwan, telecoms open registration

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Iphone 4 is really coming, the three big carriers have received notification from Apple that (iPhone 4) will be released in Taiwan soon. iPhone 4真的要來了,電信三雄已經收到蘋果通知,將於近期來台上市。 中華電信、台灣大哥大、遠傳等三家電信業者,都在這兩天簡訊或電子郵件的方式,告知媒體此一最新消息,並宣布可提前登記。不過,三家業者都還無法告知確切的上市日期,原因是仍須等待蘋果審核iPhone 4資費方案,也就是說,實際上市日期仍是掌握在蘋果手裡。 iPhone 4 zhēn de yào lái le, diàn xìn sān xióng yǐ jīng … Continue reading