Monthly Archives: January 2009

3G in China

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In the beginning of Year 2009,China government released three 3G licenses to main mobile operators-China Mobile,China Unicom and China Telecom.

The battles among the main mobile operators

China Unicom will give out its 3G network with WCDMA technology which is a mature and popular technology widely used in Europe.Nokia,Sony Ericsson and Samsung have a very entire production line and so many Chinese people could get WCDMA cell phones in local shops.Thus,China Unicom has quite a number of potential users and that is a very good advantage.Except that,I think WCDMA cell phones will have most choices in the market and this will attract a lot of youngsters.Therefore,China Unicom surely has no excuse to lose this battle.

China Telecom is a new guy in mobile communication industry.It’s got the property of CDMA network from China Unicom and so the 3G network(CDMA2000) will upgrade from it.The technology is adopted in Japan,Korea and USA.Lesser mobile phone manufactories make it lesser competitive to WCDMA network.However,not like others buying and setting up new devices,China Telecom will only need to upgrade its current network so that it will be quite economical and could expand its network much faster.Therefore,China Telecom will stay in between the battle and get a balance most probably.

China Mobile,finally,can’t be so optimistic.It uses China-local-developed TD-SCDMA technology.Till now,I still heard it is not as stable as those two I mentioned just now.Unfortunately,there’s no foreign mobile giant jumping into the product market yet.This bad situation will certainly reduce the buying demands from consumers because of lack of choices of products.Some more,if the network really doesn’t perform well,that will be a dead end in the battle.Then it will lose the position of leadership in current market too.

The three operators will totally spend RMB 40 billion of investments (US$5.88 billion) in 3 years.China Mobile will send out a bill of RMB 5.88 billion(US$ 0.86 billion) before the end of this year in order to build up 60,000 base stations with 70% coverage of main cities over the country whereas China Unicom and China Telecom will spend RMB 3 billion(US$ 0.44 billion) each to run their 3G networks.

Of course,all things are quite hard to predict and here a right strategy will turn the winning rates among the three gamers.Only one thing known is that the battle will be extremely drastic.

I’m looking forward to seeing a wonderful competition in the near future.

A stop of downloading of Windows 7 beta

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Microsoft spoke out recently that they will stop the general availability of downloading Windows 7 beta on February 10th,2009.The shutdown will take place into 3 phrases over the next few weeks:

  • Starting January 27th, the Windows 7 page will be updated with a warning that time is running out on downloading the Windows 7 Beta and that we will be limiting downloads shortly. People will be encouraged to register and start the download of the Windows 7 Beta sooner rather than later.
  • February 10th, new downloads of the Windows 7 Beta will no longer be available. People who have already started their Windows 7 Beta download and have not yet finished will still be able to finish their download and are encouraged to do so.
  • February 12th, people will no longer be able to complete their download of the Windows 7 Beta. Anyone who hasn’t finished downloading the Windows 7 Beta will be unable to do so.

However,product key will be able to get even after February 12th,2009.In addition,MSDN and TechNet Subscribers are not bound to the above information.

Thus,if you still want to try the fresh tech,you’d hurry up to download it the sooner the better.

Sudoku

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Sudoku is not a new game,but recently I begin to play it frequently with no reason.Perhaps I want to get a higher IQ.  :D

With a reference of Wiki,Sudoku,in short,is a logic-based number-placement puzzle.The objective is to fill a 9×9 grid so that each column, each row, and each of the nine 3×3 boxes (also called blocks or regions) contains the digits from 1 to 9 only one time each. The puzzle setter provides a partially completed grid.

SudokuI always visit WebSudoku playing online.In that website,you could choose your preferred difficulty levels of games to fit your demands-a challenge or only a relaxation.

During the long holidays,if you feel bored,just go to play it.It will definitely help to remove your depressed mood and probably let you be smarter with no cost.Isn’t it perfect?

The 2008 TIME 100

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TIME pronounces “The 2008 TIME 100” which lists the world’s 100 most influential people.Actually before this,Newsweek had gave out its unique list called “The 50 most powerful people in the world 2008”.Compared with it,you may find some names are so familiar and some others are of byways.You should know that back of the final lists,certainly different recourses,systems and references are used so that gaining different conclusions.

TIME100 2008

A popular name may only mean that the person is a worldwide hotspot;in adverse,a cold name may only mean that the influential people is ignored by some kinds of reasons,not saying he/she is nobody in comparison with vibrant people.In fact,I don’t think rankings here and there are so important.Treating them as simple,casual and fashionable reports,perhaps,are good enough.

The nice thing for this list is that people are classified by 5 groups-Revolutionaries,Heroes & Pioneers,Scientists & Thinkers,Artists & Entertainers and Builders & Titans.Thus,this detailed classification could let you know the trend of the world roughly by knowing about these people only.

Interested?Look further then. :)

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