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China, has proposed a new design of a bus that will eventually drive over a car or bike and need not wait behind the car during traffic.

The Shenzhen Huashi Future Parking Equipment company proposed this designed naming it as  “3D Express Coach” (also known as a “three-dimensional fast bus”).

If the design is successful, then the bus will look like this.

According to China Hush, the 6-meter-wide 3D Express Coach will be powered by a combination of electricity and solar energy, and will be able to travel up to 60 kilometers per hour carrying some 1200 to 1400 passengers.

If you look into the image above, you will find that the cars is actually under a Bus. Looks great, but i reckon this will not be easy to work with.

Agreed that this bus will not stop traffic, a car can easily pass through it . But what about other vehicles like the Buses,trucks which is used now?

What do you reckon?

Apple has decided to get into the Chinese market by starting a new Apple store in Shanghai. Apple had its presence in china for over 2 years, but finally it decided to enter the Chinese market.

China to get 25 new Apple Stores

Apple gave a preview of its new retail store to reporters on Thursday. The large outlet in Shanghai is set to be open to the public from Saturday.  This is the first store of the 25 stores that Apple has planned on opening in China. But they do not want to reveal their other locations yet.

This store has got something from Fifth Avenue store in New York. Yes, its the same 40-foot Box with Apple Logo inside it.

Apple is giving free t-shirts to the first 5000 visitors that walk into its store on Saturday. Looks like they want to make the store a hit on the very first day. But for some reason they didn’t reveal how much visitors they are expecting on the opening day. Apple with all its mysteries, sheeez.

Apple has only one store in China, its in Beijing. It was opened in 2008.

Though Apple is not going to launch iPhone 4G and iPad in china yet. Its just hoping its new line of stores will hope boost its iPhone 3gs phones.

Analyst Richard Doherty of market research firm Envisioneering Group said the move into the Chinese market is a good one. “China is the largest PC market in the world,” Doherty said.

police handcuff bull

In a bizarre incident in China, Police hand-cuffed a runaway bull that was causing chaos through city center streets.

The Bull caused traffic chaos in Liuzhou, in southern china’s Gauangzi province.

Pedestrians ran for their lives as the wildered animal charged through shopping ares.

After more than two hours of chasing the terrified animal around the city, police manged to catch it.

With the help of passersby, they managed to restrain the animal and cuff uts front legs to prevent it from hurting itself.

“It kept struggling to get away again. So we had to cuff it to stop it struggling”, said a police spokesperson.

There are some very interesting numbers in Apple’s third-quarter press release. Apple has also disclosed more numbers in its conference call which is still in progress. Some highlights:

3.05 million Macs sold this quarter, up 17 percent from a year ago. The overall PC market is expected to grow just 2 percent in the third quarter. That means Apple is taking market share from Windows still. But average selling prices per Mac are down. Sales outside the U.S. were stronger than sales inside the U.S.

10.2 million iPods sold this quarter, down 8 percent from 11 million a year ago. The iPod Touch sales were up 100 percent year-over-year.

7.4 million iPhones sold in the quarter, up 7 percent from a year ago. That’s a new record. iPhone sell through in the quarter was up 38 percent over a year ago.

$9.87 billion in third quarter revenues, up 25 percent ; analysts expected $9.2 billion.

$1.82 a share in earnings per share, up 47 percent; analysts expected $1.42 a share.

273 Apple stores now open, up 15. Apple is spending $400 million a year on stores. It remodeled 72 of them and opened 26 new stores in the quarter. That means some Apple stores closed in the quarter.

45.9 million visitors to Apple stores in the quarter, up from 42.7 million a year ago. Average revenue per store is $7.1 million per quarter, down from $7.6 million a year ago.

Apple has $23.4 billion in cash and short-term investments. With long-term investments included, Apple has $34 billion in current assets, up from $31 billion last quarter.

Expected fourth quarter revenue: $11.3 billion to $11.6 billion Earnings per share in fourth quarter are expected to be $1.70 a share to $1.78 a share.

2.4 million iPhones are in the inventory channel, up 500,000 from a quarter before.

China and Korea are expected to roll iPhones out in fourth quarter. Canada and UK are expected to add a second iPhone carrier.

this post credit goes to   venturebeat.com

This August has brought about great news to all the People in the world who are looking with a grim hope of getting employed.

Yeah, its glad to say that Hong Kong economy is risen this month. The data recorded during April to June of this year 2009 shows that the nation has brought a rise of 3.3% growth in their economy.

This is really a good moment, cause only 2 days back did France and Germany officially announced that they are out of recession

Earlier HongKong revealed that their economy will down at 5.5% to 6.5% But now they have revised it to be 3.5% down. This is encouraging.

Economic growth is measured by gross domestic product (GDP).

“The GDP data was much better than we expected, partly because the exports were better and partly because of a pick-up in private consumption,” said Paul Tang, chief economist at Bank of East Asia.

A person browsing Online

The title Sounds funny , but the message it  provides  is more than funny. It is found out that the number of  Web Pages available Online  crosses  the total population of the earth. To say, the ratio between the Population and the web pages will be  1 : 150.

This  shows that there are about more than 1 trillion web pages available online. A notable fact is , the world population as recently updated is 6.7 billion. It  indicates,  for every person alive in this Earth , he has about 150 web pages to competitive him.

The  findings of the total web page available online was actually done by Microsoft’s  Bing.com  for their search engine updation. During this crawling process, the data that  Bing.com got from various websites crossed 1 trillion. Few weeks ago, Google announced the  crowding traffic  of web pages available and also claimed the presence of more than 1 trillion pages online which is now proved by Bing.com

“An average person would need six hundred thousand decades of nonstop reading to read through the information,” News.com.au quoted Bing as saying.

Mark Higginson, director of analytics for Nielsen Online, said that the global online population had jumped 16 per cent since last year.

“Approximately 1.46 billion people worldwide now use the internet which represents a solid 16 per cent increase from the previous year’s estimate (1.26 billion in 2007),” he said.

The largest Internet population belongs to China, with 338 million users online, which is more than there were people in the US.

However InternetWorldStats.com (IWS), a website that combines multiple data sources, has claimed that China’s online population is more like 298 million.

“With the rates of India and China still quite low, there is ample room for growth in the coming decade,” said Higginson.

According to IWS, the top 5 countries with the most internet users are:

1 – China (298,000,000 users, or 22.4 percent of their population)

2 – US (227,190,989, or 74.7 percent)

3 – Japan (94,000,000, or 73.8 percent)

4 – India (81,000,000, or 7.1 percent)

5 – Brazil (67,510,400, or 34.4% percent)

China,a country  which follows  strict measures on punishments  has now  decided to limit the number of executions that the country does.

Its been found out that, China is the only country that has a maximum number of executions when compared to other countries for any year.The limit in execution  step  is taken by the government considering the social activist continues objection and on humanitarian grounds, reports from china.

To find out the number of executions that the country does, the Chinese government gave the Supreme People’s Court (SPC)  power to check the death sentence issued by the lower court and review it. The SPC  which gained the power 2 years ago has  worked on each death punishments and suspended the death sentence for many of the cases. It reports that nearly 1700 people were executed in the year 2008 which is 72% of the world’s total execution done.

SPC  vice president Mr Zhang, quoted in the state-run China Daily, said legislation would be improved to reduce the number of death sentences, and that the SPC would tighten restrictions on the use of capital punishment.

He said: “As it is impossible for the country to abolish capital punishment under current realities and social security conditions, it is an important effort to strictly control the application of the penalty by judicial organs.”

Mr.Zhang  added further that , SPC  had been working to ensure that the death sentence was imposed only on those who had committed extremely serious or heinous crimes that led to grave social consequences.