Michael Kan - Author - Good Gear Guide

Stories by Michael Kan

Article | 11/10/2011 Close to half the iPads sold in China are from the gray market

While Apple's iPad reigns as the top-selling tablet in China, half of the sales for the iconic device have come from unauthorized resellers, according...

Article | 30/09/2011 Dell launches new ultrathin laptop first in China

Dell launched a new ultrathin laptop in China on Friday called the XPS 14z, which is slated to arrive in other markets later this year to take advanta...

Article | 29/09/2011 ZTE releasing new tablets, one with Nvidia Tegra 3 chip

ZTE, one of China's largest network and phone suppliers, is working on several new tablets, including one built with Nvidia's newest quad-core Tegra 3...

Article | 29/09/2011 Fruit Ninja aims to slice into China

The maker of Fruit Ninja has big hopes for China, and aims for the hit game to reach an additional 70 million downloads in the country over the next s...

Article | 28/09/2011 Fire at Foxconn facility in China, no injuries

Foxconn, the maker of electronics equipment including Apple's iPhone, said a fire broke out on Tuesday at one of the company's facilities in China, th...

Article | 27/09/2011 How Microsoft Research helped Craig Mundie speak Chinese

Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, doesn't speak Chinese. But on Tuesday he did, via a life-like virtual avatar shown at t...

Article | 27/09/2011 Lenovo forms JV with Compal to build new PC factory

PC vendor Lenovo has formed a joint venture with laptop contract manufacturer Compal Electronics to build and operate a new factory in China, as part ...

Article | 26/09/2011 Apple held talks with Chinese environmental groups

Apple held talks with Chinese environmental groups earlier this month after the US tech giant was criticized for using manufacturers accused of pollut...

Article | 26/09/2011 Huawei unveils new Honor smartphone with long battery life

Chinese mobile phone manufacturer Huawei announced a new Android smartphone that the company says has a battery life of up to three days on a single c...

Article | 23/09/2011 ZTE launches first smartphone in the US through Cricket

Mobile carrier Cricket announced on Thursday it will start selling the ZTE Score, the first smartphone from Chinese telecommunications equipment suppl...

Article | 23/09/2011 Apple opens new store in Shanghai

Apple is opening this week stores in Shanghai and Hong Kong, taking the total number of its stores in China to six.

Article | 21/09/2011 Huawei's MediaPad to arrive in US by year's end

Huawei's 7-inch tablet will be launched in the U.S. during this year's fourth quarter, according to a company spokeswoman.

Article | 17/09/2011 Pledge asks Chinese hackers to reject cybertheft

Two prominent Chinese hackers have released a convention calling for the rejection of cybertheft and are asking their peers to support it, as China is...

Article | 15/09/2011 Match.com buys stake in Chinese dating site

Match.com announced on Wednesday it had acquired a 20 percent stake in a company behind one of China's largest online dating sites.

Article | 15/09/2011 Blocked from China, Twitter goes after overseas Chinese

Twitter plans to offer a Chinese-language user interface <a href="http://blog.twitter.com/2011/09/one-hundred-million-voices.html">in the coming weeks...