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Being in the unlucky position of being a Westener I have a mobile phone from the West. A BlackBerry to be exact. But how do I get this device to display Chinese Characters? How to install a Chinese Input method on my BlackBerry. Some short hacking will bring great rewards.

You know counterfeiting has gotten out of hand when "Don't Be Evil" Google starts lifting things from other companies. Check out Ya, I Yee's post for full details.

This tool converts pinyin and tone numbers into pinyin with tone marks above the correct vowels. It's fully written in Javascript, so it's very fast and doesn't require page loads.

It is rather interesting to see Google following the acts of Baidu in China as if Google is the Yahoo/MSN within the US. Google cannot seem to get out there in front and actually do anything new without either changing Google’s MO, copying Sohu, or just being late to the market (eg: Google had no Chinese name in 2005).

Google continues to lose ground to China's own home grown number one search engine, Baidu.com.

Still, Google Inc. has no plans on doing the eBay Inc. or Yahoo! Inc thing, playing second fiddle to a Chinese partner.

This tool is used to display the phoenetic pronunciation (i.e. pinyin) when you hold the mouse over a Chinese Character. It also displays a neato HELP question mark, as well as a dotted line underneath the text to tell the readers that there’s a little something else waiting for them.

Google enters the mobile payments field competing against China's SmartPay

From the NY Times, a ten page piece about Google in China.

This well-done post from Sinosplice should have you salivating before you can say ??????! John does well at explaining his well-coined "windows of deliciousness" concept, whereby every food has a window of time in which it is best consumed. He also makes a bold statement that this might be the final blow in the Western vs. Chinese cuisine.