Nokia might not be the favored vendor du jour of a Windows Phone 8 smartphone, but the Finnish cell-phone maker nonetheless issued a diplomatically worded statement in response to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's praise for HTC's 8X and 8S ...
Tags: Nokia, HTC, Windows Phone 8, smartphone
If you have not heard, there is a rumor going around that there might be some rain or something today if you live anywhere on the east cost of the US. I figured it was a great chance to take a quick look at some writing supplies that hold ...
Tags: water resistant pens, writing implements, Rain Notebooks
CBR talks to desktop GPU-cum-mobile 'system on a chip' maker NVidia about the major players in the mobile space, and what we can expect from the company in 2012. CBR talks to the maker of the Tegra 3 quad core system on a chip (SOC) ...
Tags: NVidia, chip'maker, Google Nexus 7 tablet, transition
There are no textural records on the formation time of Wanwan Tone. Related investigation reveals that Li Fanggui in Weinan ever compiled a collection of playscripts named "Ten Play Books" during the Qianlong Period of the Qing Dynasty ...
Tags: Wanwan Tone, Shanxi, operas
Originating from the Huihe people who were nomads around the E'erhun River during the Tang Dynasty (618-907), the Yugur ethnic group now has a population of about 15,000 and 90 percent of them live in the Su'nan Yugur Autonomous County, and ...
Tags: Huihe people, Yugur people, wedding ceremonies, wealth and stability
In ancient China, engagement was an important social rite where man and woman confirm marital ties, next only to official marriage in significance. Marital ties were made by following "parents' order and on the matchmaker's word". However, ...
Tags: engagement, social rite, marital ties, matchmaker's word
In Chinese, 'Yugur' means 'wealth and solidity'. With a population of 13,719 as at the 2000 census, approximately 90 percent of the Yugur people live in the four areas of Sunan Yugur Autonomous County, and the rest in the Yugur village of ...
Tags: The Yugur Nationality, Language, Character, Religion, Crafts, Food, Clothes
I was too young to recognize Lunar New Year as anything more than feasts of dumplings and sweet pastries and extra pocket money in red packets the last time I spent it in China. Lighting up fireworks and firecrackers was also just the ...
Tags: Chinese tradition, traditional activity, Chinese culture
DNA reported that the Central Bureau of Investigation special court has issued summons to former chief minister Mr BS Yeddyurappa and 12 others for allegedly favoring mining companies and accepting kickbacks. In its charge sheet filed in ...
Tags: Central Bureau of Investigation, iron ore mining mess, iron, Indian news
Glass panels that have fallen from the walls of two luxury estates have been diagnosed with "glass cancer", which is caused by an impurity common in tempered glass and which can be prevented only by stringent quality control. Expansion of ...
Tags: market view, glass
ATTIK added Rey Andrade to its staff as associate creative director (ACD). Rey joins ATTIK from his most recent position of ACD for agencytwofifteen (formerly T.A.G.), where he began in 2006 as an art director. There, his credits include ...
Tags: ATTIK, Rey Andrade, T.A.G., Three One Show Pencils