Results tagged “personal”

We've all seen those fancy-shmancy bidet/toilet combos from Japanese-brand Toto. Heck, we have even enjoyed using one every once in a while (that seat-warming feature is really nice on a cold winter's morn). We believe Kelly Chen, the Hong Kong starlet who informed us (via danwei.org) that she trusts her private washing to Toto's premium bidet technology. But we have always felt that something has been missing from Toto's tech. After pondering long hours in the library (bathroom), unable to get our thoughts (feces) out, we realised just what it is that Toto lacks.

Skype has teamed up with a service called Language Line to add real-time translation services to its SkypeOut product, we and more than 13,500 people have read on Skype's Developer Zone blog:

Shanghaiist recently heard that Shanghai Telecom was introducing a new "all you can listen" package, where by paying 6 yuan a month you no longer pay for any incoming calls coming from Shanghai, no matter what kind of phone it is -- which means mobile phones, land lines, and the "Personal Handy Phone System (小灵通)" phones. Well, it turns out that in response to this, Shanghai Mobile has come out with a basically identical package. The Chinese article we read is here. It seems you can sign up just about anywhere. Has anyone out there tried it?

They pretty much roll like your average rap star. The Hurun Report surveyed 600 of Mainland China's wealthiest, those with at least RMB 10 million in the bank or under their mattresses. The results aren't really too surprising, but Shanghai's rich search the Internet with Google, while the rest of the country prefers Baidu. And Shanghai's wealthy like to travel to Europe, while Beijing's like to jet to the United States. We have reproduced the Shanghai survey findings below. For the other lists, follow these links: Nationwide, Beijing, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shanxi, Northeast, Shandong, Sichuan/Chongqing. There is also a China Daily story about the list.

For those of you who have been dying to converse with the Chinese world around you but find it difficult to learn the language when you are unable to separate yourself from your iPod earbuds, the solution to your problem may have finally arrived in the form of ChinesePod.