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Robert Herbold: China vs. America: Which Is the Developing Country? – WSJ.com

greader — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 10:38:45 +0000

Writing in The Wall Street Journal, Robert Herbold says that China is surging ahead of the U.S. with a winning approach that features everything from new roads to wise leadership, sound financials and five-year plans.

Shanghai now more expensive than New York | CNNGo.com

greader — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 02:54:55 +0000

Among other findings from the EIU's latest Worldwide Cost of Living report: bread in Moscow is three times costlier than in London.

NBA Doppelgangers

greader — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:58:50 +0000

Shared by Frank Funny stuff, courtesy of Huan

The NBA and their doppelgangers. For more, check @nbadoppelganger

The Nike Experiment: How the Shoe Giant Unleashed the Power of Personal Metrics

greader — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 02:54:43 +0000

Read about the latest medical technology, pharmaceuticals and biotech trends including diets, drugs, genetics, stem cells, medicine, health, and cloning from Wired.com.

Johnnie Walker China Bottle Design

greader — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:51:08 +0000

Illustrator employs a traditional decorative Chinese-style white and blue technique to tell the story of Johnnie Walker whisky’s epic journey from Scotland to China over a hundred years ago.

Cute, Clean Image Shift For American Apparel

greader — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:30:57 +0000

A new American Apparel ad breaks from their traditional waifish model to feature some awesome little break-dancers.

Regrets of the Dying

fbfeed — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 12:21:43 +0000

Regrets of the Dying

Source: www.inspirationandch...

For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives.

Shanghai’s 15 best al fresco drinking spots – CNNGo.com

greader — Sun, 15 May 2011 22:18:37 +0000

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Shanghai's 15 best al fresco drinking spots
CNNGo.com
This perennial Shanghai favorite is particularly popular when the sun comes out and the leafy garden terrace comes into its own. Al fresco fact: The expansive outdoor terrace at Cotton's in Anting Lu once formed the gardens of a colonial mansion that ...

NVIDIA acquiring wireless chip manufacturer Icera, doubling-down on the post-PC era

Tim Stevens — Mon, 09 May 2011 14:14:00 +0000

NVIDIA, a company once focused entirely on giant graphics cards for home computers, has already quite successfully re-positioned itself as a player in the mobile graphics world. Now it's poised to really shake things up, announcing the acquisition of Icera. The UK-based company you've probably never heard of has a line of 3G and 4G baseband processors used in wireless devices and USB modems -- chips that are said to be smaller, more flexible, and more efficient than the competition from Qualcomm and ST-Ericsson. Icera seems to have been focused heavily on LTE of late, which puts NVIDIA in a good place to not only manage what happens to the data when its inside your next-gen phone or tablet, but to also control just how it gets there in the first place. A future Tegra SoC that handles wireless data too? Color us intrigued.

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CSR provides GPS chip for Samsung Galaxy S II

Dave Rubert — Mon, 09 May 2011 01:49:56 +0000

CSR just announced that their SiRFstarIV GPS receiver chip is providing location capabilities for Samsung’s latest Galaxy S II smartphone. What’s most interesting with CSR’s technology in this architecture is that the designer anticipated that the receiver would be operating very close to other smartphones and various other devices emitting radio frequency. So SiRFstarIV includes CSR’s jammer removal technology that detects, tracks and blocks up to 8 separate sources of interference in the GPS frequency band that could inhibit GPS signals. Some of the other features of SiRFstarIV GSD4t – which is the model used in Galaxy S II includes -160 dBm tracking sensitivity, 8 mW in 1-Hz TricklePower mode, cost effective 42 ball, 0.4 mm design that occupies less than 20 square millimeters and more. Brought to you by your GPS navigation site NaviGadget. CSR provides GPS chip for Samsung Galaxy S II