Catshanghai

Advice for Students: 10 Steps Toward Better Research - lifehack.org
Very useful, common sense GTD hints for IB and IGCSE students who have big research papers or projects to write.
(tags: research education GTD)

Lenovo moves to the country | The Register
“The world’s third largest PC maker announced today it will vend computers for as low as $200 [...]

I just found this logo in a taxi and it scares me to think there is another Catshanghai in this city, albeit with a different logo. Where can it come from?

China should be an obvious beneficiary of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Scheme, which seeks to provide robust $100 portable Internet computers to children in developing countries. Behind the headlines of double digit growth and urban prosperity, two thirds of Chinese still live in the countryside and two hundred million people earn less than [...]

Wired Blogs: Gadget Lab
It makes your life more complicated,It’s horribly expensive,It enslaves you to a one-sided contract,It makes you perpetually available,It is boring,It must constantly be recharged ,It knows where you are,It encourages stupid people to become a public mena
(tags: technology mobile)

Music From Independent Labels to Be Sold via Cellphones - New York Times
EMusic, the [...]

Copy killers | Technology | Guardian Unlimited
“You can’t stop people from copying files on a computer. But you can still get rich - just sell the same stuff, without the DRM. We’re the same customers, and we’d buy just as many DVDs if there was no anti-copying magic on them.”
(tags: DRM