 After years of business as usual in the humdrum world of Web development, one Seattle area company is using Web sites to shape companies, redefine identities and revolutionize the way people interact. It might sound like a simple thing to take something like a Web site and turn it into an integrated workplace tool but few developers have the expertise that ITPWS.com has.READ MORE |
 YouTube Revolutionizes Websites from Marketing to Profitability
About five years ago our parent company tried without success to launch a video-based website. This was in the days when only Macs could do the editing with much success, and production quality equipment cost an easy $30,000, even for what could pass as passable on the web. Then the cost of hosting such a project was itself more than the revenue potential. Today, YouTube has changed all that, and a Christopher Walken impersonation challenge is proving just that...READ MORE |
 Taxis Take to the Air, a Real Propane in the Gas
If you traveled to Shanghai between 1997 and 2001, you undoubtedly noticed a real problem with the air quality around town. I even knew a teacher at the end of his six month contract who asked, “does the fog ever clear?” But the air quality wasn’t as much pollution as it was construction dust, but just the same the city took drastic steps to improve it anyhow they could, and if you’ll pardon the pun, the taxis suffered a real propane in the gas...READ MORE |
 Internet Addictions: An Alarming Trend
In America, the average Internet user spends 21 hours per week cyber-surfing with internet addiction reportedly affecting a mere 10% of the population. I say “mere” because I know only a few Americans who are not surfing their days (or nights) away. I believe people are people regardless of race and I find it difficult to believe that Asian races would have a higher proclivity for Internet addiction than other races. Therefore, if a survey conducted by a Shanghai-based cyber addiction rectification center on Shanghai teenagers stands true, the American statistic is much, much too low...READ MORE |
 High Tech to Preserve World Wonder
China’s Great Wall began its life during the Qin Dynasty (221 to 206 BC) and was 6300 kilometers strong. Portions of the great facade were destroyed and then later rebuilt during the Ming Dynasty (1368 to 1644 AD) when China wanted to protect its heartland from northern nomadic tribes. Now less than 2500 kilometers (1550 miles) of the original structure remains and now China is about to embark on the most extensive and thorough field survey of the Great Wall in an ambitious plan to protect its behemoth millennium-old fortification. The 2-year project will utilize laser range finders and global positioning systems...READ MORE |
 Microsoft to Open Research and Development Park in Shanghai
Bill Gates has recently announced that Microsoft has plans to build two new research and development parks in Beijing and Shanghai in order to expand business in China. The parks will help meet the growing research and development demand in China and will help to improve Microsoft's relationship with its clients and partners...READ MORE |
 GAPP Tackles Pornography in the Mobile Sector
As technologies advance the spreading of pornography and other unhealthy information is escalating worldwide and China's General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP) has a new front in its war against pornography and other illegal media content...READ MORE |
 Maglev Denied Shanghai-Hangzhou Run
China Business News has reported that an unnamed Chinese government official has rejected claims by the German transport minister that Siemens AG and ThyssenKrupp AG have been approved to build a maglev rail line running between Shanghai and Hangzhou...READ MORE |
 China Enters Aviation Market with New Jet
A new Chinese regional jet, the ARJ-21 (which stands for Advanced Regional Jet for the 21st Century), is being assembled at the Shanghai Aircraft Manufacturing Factory in Shanghai. The plane was developed by the China Aviation Industry Corporation I (AVIC I), and production began in 2002. It is expected to be finished by the end of the year. The ARJ-21 will give China a presence in the aviation market, which up until now has been dominated by foreign companies such as Boeing and Airbus...READ MORE |
 Animated Light Show on Subway Walls
Subway officials in Shanghai are looking into the feasibility of adding light strips to subway walls that would create flip-book style animations, allowing for advertisements and entertainment... READ MORE |
 Dell Markets PCs to Masses
Dell Computers has developed a new computer specifically for users in China, where more than 90 percent of the population does not own computers... READ MORE |
 Shanghai to Extend Maglev Train Line
Shanghai will be extending its maglev train line to the Hongqiao Airport, as part of a high-speed transport link between Shanghai and Hongqiao... READ MORE |
 Micron Opens New Facility in China
Micron Technology, Inc. has opened a new manufacturing facility in Xi’an, China, the company's first in China. Micron has another factory located in Singapore. The Xi'an will be used to test and package DRAM, NAND flash memory and image sensors... READ MORE |
 24-Hour Call Centre Created to Ease Lives of Expats Living in Shanghai
Shanghai is home to roughly 100,000 permanent foreign residents, and to help these residents with their day-to-day living, Shanghai’s municipal government has officially launched a free hotline for expats needing basic information about the city. The Shanghai Call Centre, which was set up by the Wenhui-Xinmin United Press Group, provides information in both English and Chinese about everything from tourist destinations to culture and sports to medical care, trade and other issues concerning daily living in Shanghai and is sponsored by the information and foreign affairs offices... READ MORE |
 Funds Assigned to Improve Quality of Life
Zhejiang Province has dedicated funds to train a million farmers in agricultural science and technology and improve their practical skills over the next five years in hopes that doing so will make smarter, more efficient farmers and improve the livelihood of its residents. Not only will they be providing education for their students, they also intend to improve healthcare and provide living subsidies to the poor and the elderly.... READ MORE |
