China Blocks acces to LinkIn

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/02/25/china.blocks.linedin.fastco/index.html

I found this link interesting because earlier in the semester, we read various articles talking about the democratization effect of the Internet. But this article eludes the the ideology that the Internet websites will have to conform to the government in order to ensure profitability.

Drought threatens Taiwan tech firms

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/1871039.stm

This article is about severe drought that occurred in Hsinchu Science Based Industrial Park in 2002. It is interesting to read about the involvement of national air force to make rain and Hsinchu's mayor and science park officials taking part in a televised rain-making ceremony , at which pigs, ducks and chickens were sacrificed.

Debate over mobile phones and health continues

The article talks about an ongoing debate of whether cell phones have negative health impacts. researchers found that healthy research subjects had increased metabolism of glucose in brain regions closest to the cell phone antenna. Whether or not this brain activity is harmful is yet to be seen.

http://asia.cnet.com/reviews/mobilephones/0,39050603,62206987,00.htm

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2011/02/18/sosa.clicked.in.tech.education.cnn

This link discusses how textbooks in the future could all be electronically exported. Reminded me of google's strive to digitalize books.

'Poisoned' Chinese workers turn to Apple for help

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12550429


In short n-hexane is a chemical that Wintek used to clean electronic equipment in the manufacturing process. It caused health issues in the workers and the workers want more compensation for the exposure.

Some short info on the chemical they used
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-hexane


These are unrelated to the above but they are factory tours presented by/ products of dell , seagate, Gigabyte. It should be interesting to note how each video is presented.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECwdccBTOJc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX-AyZpLvRE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4qBl8x3tC0&feature=related

South Korea aims to have Even Faster Internet Connection

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/22/technology/22iht-broadband22.html?ref=technology

Just as our speaker last Thursday described about South Korea's Internet speed and connectivity.

Microsoft to Add Staff in China

Relevant to the reading for Tuesday. More R&D jobs in China.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703529004576160013344234354.html?mod=WSJ_Tech_LEFTTopNews