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Project To Build Dual-Booting Linux, Android Tablet For $100. The Flawed Architect:Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy: Henry ... - Jussi M. Hanhimaki. Chinese Americans react to China-bashing. BOSTON — It is no secret that “China bashing” has featured prominently in this election, as both presidential candidates challenge each other to gauge who is tougher on China.

Trading blows, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has said he will label China a “currency manipulator on Day One” — something President Barack Obama has so far refused to do. Meanwhile, Obama frequently touts his efforts to bring jobs back to America, noting that it was Romney who outsourced them in the first place. Many China watchers abroad have dismissed the negative portayal of their country as political manuevering. But some point out that the tactic is likely to have repercussions and a potentially negative impact on relations between the world's two largest economies. And what about the more than 3 million Chinese-Americans in the United States? “If Romney gets elected everything will change," said Kris Nii, a 19-year-old Chinese-American engineering student at Boston University.

Dr. Inside the Mind of Angel Investor Xu Xiaoping. Chinese startups should all have heard of Xu Xiaoping; the New Oriental co-founder is one of China’s highest-profile angel investors.

Chinese Golf Sensation Guan Tianlong, 14, Set to Make Masters History - China Real Time Report. Inside Team Romney’s whale of an IT meltdown. It was supposed to be a "killer app," but a system deployed to volunteers by Mitt Romney's presidential campaign may have done more harm to Romney's chances on Election Day—largely because of a failure to follow basic best practices for IT projects.

Called "Orca," the effort was supposed to give the Romney campaign its own analytics on what was happening at polling places and to help the campaign direct get-out-the-vote efforts in the key battleground states of Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania, Iowa, and Colorado. Instead, volunteers couldn't get the system to work from the field in many states—in some cases because they had been given the wrong login information. The system crashed repeatedly. At one point, the network connection to the Romney campaign's headquarters went down because Internet provider Comcast reportedly thought the traffic was caused by a denial of service attack. Google Maps App is Lost in China, Loses Half Market Share in Q3 [CHART] It seems clear in which direction Google Maps is heading in China.

Down. New stats for Q3 2012 for mobile maps app market share in the country show Google Maps getting even more lost amidst strengthening local competition, losing nearly half its market share and slipping to sixth position – that’s down from second place in Q2. The fall of the Google Maps app sees it leapfrogged this quarter by Baidu Maps, Mapbar, Tiger Maps, and Sogou Maps. Google now has, in this data from Analysys International, 9 percent share of the mobile mapping market in China, down from 17.5 percent in the previous quarter. China communist party to probe Wen family wealth: SCMP. 3 Japanese perish in blizzard on China's Great Wall.

Chinese business, political elite flaunt their success with mistresses. The accusations against Bo Xilai are serious enough – massive corruption, abuse of power, helping to cover up a murder – that the fallen star of China’s Communist Party is likely going to jail for a long time.

But the official Xinhua newswire added one more titillating allegation to the list when it passed judgment on the disgraced Mr. Bo late last month: that he also had “improper sexual relationships with a number of women.” The Communist Party, in attacking Mr. Coming to America - By Alex Pasternack. Last November, Michelle Makori, a business reporter formerly of Bloomberg News, joined a small group of seasoned Western television journalists for a whirlwind tour of China.

The Obama Campaign's Technology Is a Force Multiplier. Carolyn Kaster/Associated PressPresident Barack Obama visits with volunteers in the call center of a Columbus, Ohio, campaign office Monday.

Technology doesn’t win political campaigns, but it certainly is a weapon — a force multiplier, in military terms. Both sides in the presidential contest mined click-stream data as never before to target messages to potential voters. But a real edge for the Obama campaign was in its use of online and mobile technology to support its much-praised ground game, finding potential supporters and urging them to vote, either in person or by phone, according to two senior members of the Obama technology team, Michael Slaby, chief integration and innovation officer for the Obama campaign, and Harper Reed, chief technology officer for the Obama campaign.

Coke Gets Hacked And Doesn’t Tell Anyone. FBI officials quietly approached executives at Coca-Cola Co.

(KO) on March 15, 2009, with some startling news. Hackers had broken into the company’s computer systems and were pilfering sensitive files about its attempted $2.4 billion acquisition of China Huiyuan Juice Group (1886), according to three people familiar with the situation and an internal company document detailing the cyber intrusion. The Huiyuan deal, which collapsed three days later, would have been the largest foreign takeover of a Chinese company at the time.