Gong-drum song (taibao shu) used to be called "Taibao song". "Taibao" derived from "Taibu" (imperial divination), a ceremony for the blessing of peace in suburban counties and rural areas of Shanghai. Because the performer sang stories ...
The symbol of the dragon represents spiraling DNA, the path to greater enlightenment. The Celestial Chinese Dragon is comparable as the symbol of the Chinese race itself. Chinese around the world, proudly proclaim themselves "Lung Tik ...
Tags: dragon, Chinese Dragons, Chinese Symbol, ultimate symbol
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
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has received Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certifications for its green buidlings. Digitimes recently sat down with Arthur Chuang, director of TSMC's New Fab Planning ...
Tags: Green Buildings, Arthur Chuang
The Australian Road Transport Industrial Organisation has welcomed the opportunity provided by the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal to respond to its first draft annual work program,which was released earlier this month. ARTIO ...
Tags: Artio, Road Safety Remuneration
At a time when cyberattacks on America's critical infrastructure have increased 17-fold(between 2009 and 2011),the need for highly trained cybersecurity professionals is acute.However,83%of federal hiring managers in a recent survey said it ...
GaN-on-Si is a new technology that has the potential to replace sapphire substrates in the LED supply chain. Erwin Ysewijn, vice president of sales and marketing at Azzurro Semiconductors, a Germany-based GaN-on-Si supplier, recently ...
Tags: led
Last year I visited Switch Lighting, a small Silicon Valley company that claimed to have built something revolutionary. Switch's product: a light bulb that produced the same warm, comforting glow that we associate with Edison's enduring ...
Tags: LED bulb
Microsoft and Motorola Mobility will face off in court on Tuesday for the start of a patent trial that could help establish how royalty rates are calculated for standards-essential patents. Microsoft sued Motorola's smartphone division, ...
Tags: Microsoft, Google, Motorola, standards-essential patents, smartphone
UK-South London-based technical production specialist Presentational Rentals(PR)supplied all technical elements for the recent London launch of rock legends'LED Zeppelin's Celebration Day movie-featuring their one-off 2007 reunion concert ...
BT has announced a trial with Dolby intended to improve sound quality on its conference tools. BT's MeetMe conferencing service offers a voice-over-IP(VoIP)platform as part of the BT One unified communications portfolio.It provides audio ...
Tags: BT Teams, IP platform, video capabilities, Audio conferencing
Someday, we'll look back at the office furniture we used at the turn of the century and it will seem, well, like furniture we used at the turn of the century — old, obsolete, sepia-toned, and kind of funny. "Can you believe it?" ...
Tags: Office Furniture
Mercedes owners love to brag about how comfortable their cars are. "It's like driving around in a couch," said one friend of ours, who refuses to give us his car so that we can experience it for ourselves, on a full-time basis. (Jerk.) ...
Tags: Office Furniture
Anglian Water has started a phased roll-out of a SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Edition intranet portal to improve the flow of information around the business. Implemented by Infosys, the portal, called Hawk, is integral to the strategic ...
Tags: Anglian Water, SharePoint, Enterprise Edition, Infosys
And we continue through the events of the NoHo Design District and begin at The Standard Hotel East Villagea... Geodes by Elyse Graham Hotel California Sight Unseen knocked it out of the park with Hotel California (cue song), an ...