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- China's Inland Frontier Beckons –Smaller "third-tier" cities represent the new economic frontier in China, Wall Street Journal, March 14, 2007
- In China, New Year Gives a Big Boost to Text Messaging –Chinese send 15.2 billion text messages during New Year, 46% increase over previous year, part of "thumb economy" worth $5 billion to China Mobile and China Unicom in 2006, Wall Street Journal, March 3, 2007
- Mobile phone advertising: will datamatrix codes work? –Ogilvey Shanghai talks up a Chinese verison of Japan's QR codes for mobile marketing, Danwei, February 5, 2007
- Internet Boom in China is Built on Virtual Fun –Profile of Pony Ma, founder of Tencent, China's biggest entertainment company built on internet entertainment including QQ IM service and mobile phone services, New York Times, February 5, 2007
- China Mobile Subscribers Top US population –China's largest phone operator tops 300 million customers, with high rates of growth for low cost headsets in many emerging markets, InfoWorld, January 22, 2007
- Top websites for 2006 –List of top portals (Sina, Netease, Tencent), blog sites (Sina, Qzone, MSN), search, video sharing, maps and more, Virtual China blog, January 11, 2007
- Baidu's most popular questions of 2006 –Top questions Chinese internet users asked Baidu Knows (China's version of YahooAnswers) last year, Virtual China blog, January 9, 2007
- For eBay, It's about Political Connections in China –Analysis of why eBay closed its China site and became a minority partner with TOM Online, a seller of sms and mms mobile telphone services, New York Times, December 22, 2006
- Baidu to Raise Web-Search Stakes with Japan Entry –China's top search engine expands to Japan with plans to launch Japanese-language search in 2007, San Jose Mercury News, December 4, 2006
- Asia is Increasingly Finding its Financing in the Middle East –Middle East capital increasingly flows to Asia creating "east-east transactions" as alternative to investments in Europe and United States, New York Times, December 1, 2006
- China's African Adventure –Sunday magazine feature contrasting China and United States' approaches to aid and investment in Africa. See comment and except on Danwei blog, New York Times, November 19, 2006
- The Korean Upstart in MySpace's Face –Korea's Cyworld is tailoring its social network site for markets including the United States and Japan, Business Week, November 13, 2006
- In China's Net Cafes, Intel Pours it On –Intel designs hardware and service for China's 11 million PC in 110,000 internet cafes, Business Week, November 6, 2006
- Wireless: Mobile marketing in an ink blot –Japanese and South Koreans use camera phones to receive mobile information, offering new wireless advertising platform, International Hearld Tribute, October 17, 2006
- Japan's New Phones Flatter the Face, Track the Kids, Function in the Shower – Until recently, technology was enough to excite most cellphone users, Wall Street Journal, August 17, 2006
- For Sponsors, China's 2008 Olympics have Already Begun – "One beer cannot cover all China," says Liu Jun, deputy director of marketin gof the Beijing Organizing Committee, or Bocog, Wall Street Journal, August 8, 2006
- In China, Griping about Mom and Dad Gets an Official OK – Young Communists' blogs tap vein of resentment; tale of 20-pound backpack, Wall Street Journal, July 12, 2006
- So Many People, So Hard to Reach – Companies feel they have no choice: They have to be in China. But it isn't easy, Wall Street Journal, July 10, 2006
- Capitalist Roaders – State subsidies keep the price of gas down, currently just above $2 a gallon. Meanwhile, state-run Sinopec will soon be teaming up with McDonald's to build drive-through restaurants at filling stations., New York Times Sunday Magazine, July 2, 2006
- With a Cellphone as My Guide – GPS mobile phone provides point- and-know location and direction services in Japan, New York Times, June 28, 2006
- A Six-Minute Tirade On a Hong Kong Bus Rides Into Vernacular – Teenagers and adults here sprinkle their conversations with phrases borrowed from Bus Uncle's rant, such as "I've got pressure!" and "It's not over!", Wall Street Journal, June 7, 2006
- Online Throngs Impose a Stern Morality in China – China BBS becomes platform for mobilization against suspected adulterer, New York Times, June 3, 2006
- Chinese Internet stars and Mu Mu molls – Rising commercial success of China's internet celeberities, Danwei.org, June 1, 2006
- PC's That Are a Lot Smaller Than a Breadbox – Half pound PCs from OQO and others, New York Times, June 1, 2006
- China Begins Effort to Curb Piracy of Computer Software – New regulations take aim at 90% software piracy rate, New York Times, May 30, 2006
- The Shorter, Faster, Cruder, Tinier TV Show – MTV creates new content for small portable screens, New York Times, May 28, 2006
- China Mobile Nears $5.3 Billion Deal for Millicom – Beijing's biggest purchase overseas would intensify push into emerging markets, Wall Street Journal, May 25, 2006
- China's Online Ad Boom – The growth of the Net, especially among kids, is powering an overnight shift in spending, Business Week, May 15, 2006
- Climb in, Log on, Drop out – Tokyo's internet cafes are media-immersion pods, New York Times, May 14, 2006
- China's 'Oprah' is Part Gossip, Part Glamour – Hung Huang, chief executive of China Interactive Media Group, oversees three lifestyle magazines, one satellite-television program and a blog, Wall Street Journal, May 12, 2006
- Disney Phone Service Has Parents in Mind – About creating phones that parents will want to purchase for kids, New York Times, April 4, 2006
- China's telecom equipment makers pick up share – ZTE and Huawei are expanding from developing markets to high-end Western markets, Shanghai Daily, April 4, 2006
- Japan's Direct Investment in China Rises – About record-breaking $6.53 billion investment, a 19.8% rise, in spite of political tensions, Associated Press, April 3, 2006
- Chinese blogs — a list of favorites by Joel Martinsen and Jeremy Goldkorn - Danwei bloggers list their favorite Chinese blogs and BBS sites, Danwei, March 30, 2006
- Lucent-Alcatel deal not enough in tough market – Alacatel, Lucent and CISCO are losing business to Huawei and ZTE, Reuters, March 27, 2006
- China's Censors Target Teen Behavior – Beijing Sets Limits on TV Shows, Online Games as It Tries to Temper Web's Influence on Kids, Wall Street Journal, March 23, 2006
- In Korea, Bureaucrats Lead the Technology Charge – Government bureaucrats nurture next-generation technologies, New York Times, March 16, 2006
- Low Costs, Plentiful Talent Make China a Global Magnet for R&D – Foreign companies expand Chinese R&D operations to develop products for the global market, Wall Street Journal, March 13, 2006
- The Wild Web of China; 110 Million Surfers Can Buy Sex and Drugs, but Reform Is Still Illicit - China's internet growth has "created too many sites to patrol", New York Times, March 8, 2006
- How Much Profit is Lurking in that Cellphone? - "In some ways, wireless is the new China. Both are huge, largely untapped markets for news and entertainment media companies", New York Times, March 5, 2006
- Chinese Consumers Overwhelm Retailers with Team Tactics - Chinese consumers meeet online at sites like 51tuangou.com (in Chinese, the names sounds like "I want to team buy") to bargain together for lower in-store retail prices, Wall Street Journal, February 28, 2006
- China Is Set to Spend Billions on Wireless Upgrade - China will invest billions to upgrade mobile phone services, creating world's biggest 3G wireless network and attracting top global and national telcos competing as vendors, Wall Street Journal, February 27, 2006
- Hutong Karma – Peter Hessler's article about changing streetlife in Beijing, New Yorker, online commentary, February 13 & 20, 2006
- Primping for the Cameras In the Name of Research – Cosmetic companies conduct research on global beauty, New York Times, February 7, 2006
- China Approves a 3G Standard, Setting Stage to Issue Licenses - Approval of TD-SCDMA standard removes an important obstacle to the start of third- generation, or 3G, service in the world's biggest wireless market, Wall Street Journal, January 23, 2006
- Chinese government: It's OK to be gay, just don't make a fuss – One step forward, one step back, Danwei.org, December 28, 2005
- Ogre to Slay? Outsource It To Chinese – Affluent gamers pay young Chinese to complete early rounds of video games, New York Times, December 9, 2005
- Upstart from Chinese Province Masters the Art of TV Titillation – Story about the Mongolian Cow Sour Yogurt Super Girl Contest, an American Idol-like contest in China decided by text message voting, New York Times, November 28, 2005
- Nokia sales skyrocket in China – 23 million headsets sold in first nine months of 2005, The Age, November 28, 2005
- A Party Girls Leads China’s Online Revolution – About Chinese blogs and freedom of expression, New York Times, November 23, 2005
- China has most mobile subscribers – China leads world in number of mobile users, The Age, November 7, 2005
- California in China – California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger visits China, San Francisco Chronicle, November 13, 2005
- Parents Fret that Dialing Up Interferes with Growing Up – Pew study about digital kids, New York Times, October 23, 2005
- Report from User Friendly 2005 – Discussion of annual UPA China conference, held in Shanghai in December 2005
- Articles by Dr Mizuko Ito, Anthropologist at University of Southern California and Docomo-Keio mobile telephone research project. Site has excellent downloadable articles about mobile design in Japan.
- Blogs. Good or Evil? – Chinese teens blog about family pressure for single children, Shanghai Evening Post, August 13, 2005 (in English)
- Blogs. Good or Evil? – Chinese teens blog about family pressure for single children, Shanghai Evening Post, August 13, 2005 (in Chinese)
- Blogger Nation: A proliferation of voices is slowly dismantling the status quo in China – Blogs and freedom of expression, Newsweek, February 27, 2006
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Research Centers
- Microsoft Research Asia – Advanced research lab
- Digital Youth Research Project, UC-Berkeley, School of Information Management Systems
- Incubator for Critical Inquiry into Technology and Ethnography (Incite), University of Surrey, UK
- Human Technology Program, Hanze University in Groningen, the Netherlands
- Xerox Parc, Palo Alto Research Center
- Digital Youth Research Project, UC-Berkeley, School of Information Management Systems
- Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing
- Beijing Case: High Speed Urbanism, Goethe Institut-Peking 2005
- Dynamic City Foundation, investigating the rapidly changing urban environment of China
Books
- Mobile Media Bibliography – Extensive social science bibliography by Nalini Kotamraju, University of California at Berkeley
- Modern China Bibliography – Extensive social science bibliography by Genevieve Bell PhD, Director, Domestic Designs and Technologies Research, Intel
- Jun Jing (ed), Feeding China's Little Emperors: Food, Children, and Social Change
- Mizuko Ito et al (eds), Personal, Portable, Pedestrian : Mobile Phones in Japanese Life
- Peter Hessler , Oracle Bones : A Journey Between China's Past and Present
- Rachel DeWoskin, Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China
- Mike Kuniavsky, Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research
