There are now millions of people around the world who play Valve’s highly successful Massive Online Battle Arena, Dota 2. Although most of them play just for fun, there are also some who play it competitively and actually make a living from this game. A large portion of these players live in China, a country that has been at the forefront of ...
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Apple University going to China
Apple University is a program that Steve Jobs developed and was launched in 2008. It is a school that shares the Apple culture and history, so that people can learn the timeline and history of various Apple products, including the iPhone, iPad, iPod and Mac computers. The Apple University wants to help executives learn how to think like Steve Jobs ...
Read More »Oppo R5 vs Gionee Elife S5.1 – which thinnest is more worth it
Oppo has just launched the Oppo R5 which has been officially named the thinnest smartphone in the world, dethroning the previous champion, the Gionee Elife S5.1. The Oppo R5 was launched alongside the new Oppo N3, a smartphone with a rotating camera that has a 16 MP sensor and a motorized bed. While the Oppo R5 has become the talk ...
Read More »Tim Cook talks about Apple Pay and Apple Watch in China
Tim Cook had briefly visited China and the Foxconn factory where the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus units were made. While he didn’t stay very long in the country, he did find the time to speak about what Apple is planning for the country in terms of Apple Pay. At the same time, Tim Cook also gave a little speech ...
Read More »Philips qHD smartphone released
Philips has just released its first qHD smartphone, the I966 Aurora in China. While Philips smartphones aren’t popular outside of China, the new Philips I966 Aurora is definitely worth some attention. The new smartphone is the first from the company with a 1440*2560 resolution display. The Philips phone has a 5.5 inch display, which puts the handset into the phablet ...
Read More »iCloud users get security warning from Apple
iCloud is Apple’s own cloud storage service which has recently been in the news because of a massive leak of celebrity nudes and photos. While Apple denied that iCloud was at fault for the leak of the image, it seems that the company is taking responsibility for the breach. Apple issued a security warning to iCloud users, informing them that ...
Read More »iPhone 6 launches in 36 more countries this month including China and India
The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are already available in a number of countries, but Apple has announced earlier today that many more are underway. 36 more to be precise. The devices will arrive in all these countries by the end of the month and will start rolling out first in China, India and Monaco this Friday, October 17th. ...
Read More »HTC One M8 Eye is China-exclusive
The Double Exposure event HTC held a few days ago in New York unveiled the HTC Desire Eye and Re camera, the company’s photography-focused new gadgets, but failed to mention anything about the HTC One M8 Eye, which had been rumored around as being the selfie-version with a different camera of the original HTC One M8 Eye. We had thought ...
Read More »PS4 to launch in China by December and sell 200k units on a yearly basis
For the last 14 years gaming consoles have been banned in China which means that gamers in the country had to contend with only playing on the PC. This changed last month however as Microsoft launched the Xbox One in China, thus being the first company to launch a console there in over a decade. Sony also wants to see its ...
Read More »iPhone 6 is more popular than the iPhone 6 Plus
Apple has just launched its new smartphone line, including the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus last month, to enormous success and demand. The company has reportedly had issues with meeting demand of the iPhone 6 Plus, since the cumulative number of iPhone 6 devices sold in their first week after launch was around 10 million units. Most of them ...
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