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Kingsoft Pushes Cloud Computing Further with Cloud Bridge Technology: Like cloud computing isnt vague enough, Kingsoft Kuaipan , the cloud storage arm of the software company announced launching a new cloud storage technology dubbed Cloud Bridge, which in a nutshell is something similar to Dropboxs integration with Windows Explorer. After installing the latest Kuaipan into your computer, it will automatically integrate with your folder. So to upload files to your Kuaipan online storage space, you just need to drag the file into a specified folder. Job done. Kuaipan now supports PC, Android and iOS devices, claiming more than 10 million users. China Telecom Invests $47.5M into E-Reading: China Telecom aimed to invest RMB 300 million (US$ 47.5 million) to curate its own reading platform for all kinds of terminals including smartphone, tablets, PC, TV and even its own ereader. The operator is also in talks with ISP out of china for potential partnership. China Mobile pulled in RMB 30 mil

Lose your love handles; call your Mom more often; get that promotion if youre like many of us, youre already thinking over some New Years resolutions that will make you a better you in 2012. But how are the tech industries thought leaders approaching the new year? We asked 12 of them for their resolutions, and willpublish one a day starting on December 27thand running until January 7th. Check back here to watch them unfold and get some advice from some of the tech industrys most well-known names. Stay nervous Scott McNealy, Chairman, WayIn December 28 Matt Mullenweg, Founder, WordPress/Automattic December 29 Philip Rosedale, Co-Founder, Coffee & Power December 30 Mary Lou Jepsen, Founder and CEO, Pixel Qi December 31 Dan Hesse, CEO, Sprint January 1 Padmasree Warrior, CTO, Cisco January 2 Dennis Crowley, CEO, Foursquare January 3 Caterina Fake, Entrepreneur January 4 Dave Morin, Co-Founder and CEO, Path January 5 Travis Kalanick, Co-Founder and CEO, Uber January 6 Max Levchin, Ser

Last month, we reported about Youa.com, a company spun off by Baidu that was originally created to compete with Taobao in the e-commerce space. After raising tens of millions USD in venture capital, Youa.com has created Leho.com , a social platform for local businesses to connect with consumers. Leho, aims to help businesses set up brand pages to allow merchants the ability to share their information, special deals and connect with customers. This new effort is a push into the increasingly popular online to offline model or O2O, which we wrote about recently. For consumers, the site is designed to allow people to share their offline consuming experience and bring it online through the posting of comments and images. Leho has also implemented at Timeline feature similar to Facebook, which records when, where and what you did, allowing you to share it with others. In a similar way to Dianping, people can rate the business to recommend others to go or not. Users can also interact with e

The passwords leaking incident is still going on with more websites involved including Tianya.cn, a popular BBS service aimed to go public in the coming years. As of now the websites got hacked include: CSDN (6 million account compromised), Duowan (8 million), 7k7k (20 million), 178 (10 million) and Tianya (9 million). Except for these confirmed ones, some big-name sites like Renren, NetEase, Baidu and Sina weibo are also rumored to be compromised with some user accounts being hacked. Sina Weibo has just denied the claim saying some accounts are in trouble only because they used the same compromised passwords on other websites. Archived files with all compromised accounts were already available all over the web, and free.And the hackers behind the Chinese websites year-end compromising show remain mysterious. Have You Been Hacked? To ease concerns and help people find out whether theyve got hacked, a number of handy services just sprang up overnight. Type in your account info (ema

According to statistics provided by the three major Chinese telecom operators China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom, the number of 3G users largely increased in November 2011, reaching a total of 110 million. China Unicom reported that the number of its newly increased 3G users was over three million for the first time in November 2011, which was also a new height since June this year. During November 2011, China Unicom's 2G users increased by 214,000 to a total of 159.439 million; while its 3G users increased by 3.384 million to 36.534 million. Meanwhile, China Unicom's newly increased 3G users in 2011 have reached 22.474 million. In addition, China Unicom previously announced its terminal strategy for 2012, stating that it will focus on the sales of phones with the prices between CNY1,000 and CNY2,000. The operator also signed an agreement with Xiaomi Tech Company, the Chinese smartphone maker created by Kingsoft's CEO Lei Jun, for the joint launch of a contracted

The hottest item that you probably couldnt get for Christmas this year was the Nest learning thermostat the smart gadget has been sold out for weeks and you cant get one until 2012. But I bought one a couple months ago for a Christmas present for my parents and the device finally showed up a couple days before the big day. Since I was planning to give it as a present, I didnt want to configure the device, but I did want to do a lil unboxing for yall so you can see what it looks like and what you get inside. The packaging does remind me of Apple products (the creators designed the iPod and the iPhone), but the real test will come when we try to install the thermostat. Im slightly worried about my parents tackling this project, but Ill let you know how they fare in a couple weeks. Watch this video for free on GigaOM Related research and analysis from GigaOM Pro: Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial . Connected world: the consumer technologyrevolution Cleantech, meet connect