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HP has released software emulators for their classic calcs on the iPhone. Go retro!

In other news: the iPhone is still not available in China (largest mobile market in the World).

In a country in which every movie can be watched essentially for free it may seem making money from movies is impossible. It's not. As this report about Transformers opening weekend from the LA Times proves.

It was the No. 1 movie in all 58 countries where it opened, with particularly impressive ticket sales in Russia, Australia, South Korea and China, where it opened to $21.9 million, the biggest-ever debut for an English-language movie.

Nope. No way through there.

I do a lot of walking around Shanghai. I want to walk on the pavement but frequently it's impossible because bikes/boxes/scaffolding/cars/tables/chairs...

We don't see much graffiti in Shanghai. This is a protest about the knocking down of old buildings. It's on Fuxing Lu near Baoqing Lu. It has been painted over three times. Keeps coming back.